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Author : Jenny Hobbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780586208403
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (84 download)
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Author : Jenny Hobbs
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1415204063
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Thoughts in a Makeshift Mortuary written by Jenny Hobbs and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1985. In a mountain village in Lesotho, a father rages as a mother weeps. Shot dead: their only daughter Rose, a teacher, and her husband Jake, an activist and poet. South Africa’s laws forced them into exile, while hooded gunmen took their lives. Amid the sorrow and commotion of funeral preparations, Rose and her parents’ evolving understanding of their turbulent country and of each other unfolds, always intimately connected with the lives of the women who worked for them. But all has not been lost: there was a survivor of the shooting. Hope. Thoughts in a Makeshift Mortuary, Jenny Hobbs’s rich, powerful fi rst novel, is a story about ordinary living in extraordinary times and a moving tribute to those who worked to raise a South Africa driven to its knees.
Author : Jenny Hobbs
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1991240333
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Through a dragonfly eye written by Jenny Hobbs and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2024-05-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenny’s compelling South African memoir chronicles her journey from childhood during World War Two to a busy freelance career as a journalist and novelist. With humour, tenderness and love for her family and country, she reflects on the many facets of her life as an author, giving fascinating insights into the writing process. Among Jenny’s lasting legacies are her decades-long drive to promote reading as the essential skill for a good education, and her role as one of the co-founders of the Franschhoek Literary Festival, of which she was Director for four years.
Author : Gareth Cornwell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231130465
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945 written by Gareth Cornwell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the outset, South Africa's history has been marked by division and conflict along racial and ethnic lines. From 1948 until 1994, this division was formalized in the National Party's policy of apartheid. Because apartheid intruded on every aspect of private and public life, South African literature was preoccupied with the politics of race and social engineering. Since the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990, South Africa has been a new nation-in-the-making, inspired by a nonracial idealism yet beset by poverty and violence. South African writers have responded in various ways to Njabulo Ndebele's call to "rediscover the ordinary." The result has been a kaleidoscope of texts in which evolving cultural forms and modes of identity are rearticulated and explored. An invaluable guide for general readers as well as scholars of African literary history, this comprehensive text celebrates the multiple traditions and exciting future of the South African voice. Although the South African Constitution of 1994 recognizes no fewer than eleven official languages, English has remained the country's literary lingua franca. This book offers a narrative overview of South African literary production in English from 1945 to the postapartheid present. An introduction identifies the most interesting and noteworthy writing from the period. Alphabetical entries provide accurate and objective information on genres and writers. An appendix lists essential authors published before 1945.
Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521597685
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Writing South Africa written by Derek Attridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's relation to politics and ethics. Writing South Africa offers a window on the literary activity of this extraordinary period that conveys its range (going well beyond a handful of world-renowned names) and its significance for anyone interested in the impact of decolonisation and democratisation on the cultural sphere. It brings together for the first time discussions by some of the most distinguished South African novelists, poets, and dramatists, with those of leading commentators based in South Africa, Britain and North America.
Author : Jenny Hobbs
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1415203407
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Kitchen Boy written by Jenny Hobbs and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luck matters. Life is chancy. Springbok legend, war hero, thriving businessman - that was JJ Kitchen, known to all as Kitchen Boy. His was a life as large as a sports stadium, as thrilling as baling out of a burning war plane. Now he lies dead in his coffin in a Durban cathedral and his life is relived as funeral goers remember a glowing Natal childhood, the thunder of the rugby field, the joy and sorrows of family. But at the core of the man remained, to the end, the memory of WWII and how it could reduce even the bravest of men. The funeral draws to a close, but in the hearts of one of the pall-bearers, Kitchen Boy's shameful secret lives on.
Author : Jenny Hobbs
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1415205388
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Napoleon Bones written by Jenny Hobbs and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Napoleon Bones police dog, gourmet, Cape Town crime fighter. Not your average pavement special. Aside from being a culinary expert and a thinking woman’s companion, he’s one half of an all-rescues K9 unit tasked to help track down the notorious Blackjacks gang. Their search takes Bones and his partner, the ginger-haired cycling enthusiast Rusty Gordon, from the streets of the Bo Kaap to the trails of Table Mountains and the backyards of the Cape Flats, all the while investigating perlemoen poaching and dog fights, rescuing terrified people from dangerous situations, and saving many a damsel (and doe-eyed bitch) in distress. Jenny Hobbs’s hilarious crime-thriller spoof is a smorgasbord of delectable characters. This is a Cape Town you won’t find in any tourist book.
Author : Jenny Hobbs
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 141520456X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)
Download or read book The Miracle of Crocodile Flats written by Jenny Hobbs and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Godforsaken Crocodile Flats is the last place on earth where you'd expect any marvel, so when Sweetness Moloi believes she saw the Virgin Mary there - all nice and brown like real people - who's going to believe her? But lo, the good news spreads like wildfire, and soon all hell breaks loose. Every sect and faction want in on the action, there is fierce competition for the elusive glory, and hordes of journalists, pilgrims, and the just plain curious flock to the troublesome village. In this small corner of the Rainbow Nation, so desperately in need of a miracle, jealousy tumbles over hypocrisy to end up – miraculously – in a state of grace.
Author : Jenny Hobbs
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 141520652X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)
Download or read book True Blue Superglue written by Jenny Hobbs and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fifties it was important to please your man. As the twentieth century wore on, it became more important to please yourself ... Anne Perceval thinks she has it all: the dreamboat husband, children, a happy household, and the ideal job. For the twenty-nine years of their marriage Doug is her safety net as she becomes a successful lifestyle journalist and agony aunt in London, writing popular columns for a women’s magazine. But as Doug’s career falters and a return home to South Africa holds an uncertain future, Anne faces new challenges that will test her resolve. When Doug falls ill, the consequences threaten everything she believes and has lived for. True Blue Superglue follows their lives from big-dreaming students to strung-out parents to a couple at the end of their tether. It is a love story with a sting in its tale that moves from South Africa to swinging London and back home again. Witty and poignant, Jenny Hobbs’s novel is also a tribute to a life lived as a woman in changing times.
Author : P R Adams
Publisher : Promethean Tales
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Domino Effect written by P R Adams and published by Promethean Tales. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unexplained death. A controversial hero. A world coming apart. All Benji ever wanted was the chance to be who she used to be. Now she can’t outrun the lies and manipulation anymore. Desperate for the next big job, she returns to the planet that nearly killed her to solve the mysterious death of a military hero in a war against an unknown enemy. With time running out, the pressure is on to produce a satisfactory resolution. But nothing is as it seems, and no one can be trusted. Grab the final chapter of this thrilling space opera series to understand the surprising Domino Effect.
Author : Sarah Watling
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0593319672
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Tomorrow Perhaps the Future written by Sarah Watling and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary account of the women artists and activists whose determination to live—and to create—with courage and conviction took them as far as the Spanish Civil War “Now, as certainly as never before, we are determined or compelled, to take sides.” —Nancy Cunard An attempted insurrection, a country divided, a democracy threatened. It was the Spanish Civil War of 1936, surprisingly, that Sarah Watling found herself drawn to when confounded by the tumultuous politics of our present day. This was a conflict that galvanized tens of thousands of volunteers from around the world to join the fight. For them, the choice seemed clear: either you were for fascism or you were against it. Seeking to understand how they knew that the moment to act had arrived, Watling sifts through archives for lost journals, letters, and manifestos, discovering a trove of work by writers and outsiders who had often been relegated to the shadows of famous men like Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell. She encounters the rookie journalist Martha Gellhorn coming into her own in Spain and the radical writer Josephine Herbst questioning her political allegiances. She finds the novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner embracing a freedom in Barcelona that was impossible for queer women back at home in England and, by contrast, Virginia Woolf struggling to keep the war out of her life, honing her intellectual position as she did so. She tracks down the stories of Gerda Taro, a Jewish photographer whose work had long been misattributed, and Salaria Kea, a nurse from Harlem who saw the war as a chance to combat the prejudice she experienced as a woman of color. Here were individuals seizing an opportunity to oppose the forces that frightened them. From a variety of backgrounds and beliefs, these women saw history coming, and they went out to meet it. Yet the reality was far from simple. When does tolerance become apathy? Where is the line between solidarity and appropriation? Is writing about the revolution the same as actively participating in it? With profound, personal insight, Watling reveals that their answers are as relevant today as they were then.
Author : Mike Nicholson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445635070
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The Hillsborough Disaster written by Mike Nicholson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the Hillsborough disaster, drawing on eyewitness accounts and interviews with those who were there and those most affected.
Author : Robert Young
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0992640431
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Parapsychology: Ghosts and Hauntings written by Robert Young and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Parapsychology: Ghosts and Hauntings, Dr Robert Young provides an accessible and informative introduction to the science of Parapsychology, drawing on years of study and first-hand experience as an investigator of paranormal phenomena. For the first time, this book makes public the case files of The Office of Parapsychological Studies"--Back cover.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
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Author : Jeff Yocum
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532073631
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Passover written by Jeff Yocum and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, at the selection ramp of Auschwitz, Dr. Joseph Mengele selects four-year-old Jakob Bauer and his sisters for his notorious experiments. Mengele takes keen interest in Jakob’s intelligence and Nordic features, resulting in a paternal-like relationship that shelters Jakob from many of the concentration camp’s cruelties, and he survives the Holocaust. In 2019, Dr. Chris Malone investigates seventy-five mysterious deaths for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. All deaths occurred within a twelve-hour period in three remotely located communities spread across the country. Peculiarities from Malone’s investigation lead her to Tudos Pharmaceuticals, a drug manufacturer known for innovation and egalitarianism. The founder is Jakob Bauer, seventy years removed from his liberation from the death camp. Jakob has recently been demoted after falling out of favor with the stockholders for his role in creating an anti-addiction drug available to millions, in turn destroying profits. Despite his reputation for social conscientiousness, evidence keeps pointing Malone to Jakob’s involvement with the mysterious deaths. What Malone eventually uncovers defies comprehension and leads her on the trail of a pathogen as old as mankind.
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Total Pages : 692 pages
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