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“christopher hope”

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  • Jimfish

    by Christopher Hope ...
    A South African odyssey through a world on the brink.In 1980s South Africa, Jimfish, a boy of uncertain origin, defies racial classification. His journey begins in Port Pallid and extends across a turbulent world, witnessing pivotal moments in the 20th century's dying days.Part fable, part fierce commentary, Jimfish explores the politics of power with originality and range. Follow Jimfish as he ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • White Boy Running

    by Christopher Hope ...
    In the run up to the 1987 election, Christopher Hope returned to his native South Africa after a 12-year absence. The nature of that year's whites-only election and the bitter defeat of the liberals led him to write this satirical, evocative portrait of what it looked and felt like growing up in a country gripped by an absurd, racist insanity. Full of exquisite and despairing descriptions, Hope ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cafe de Move-on Blues

    In Search of the New South Africa

    by Christopher Hope ...
    A darkly comic journey through post-apartheid South Africa, exploring the legacy of colonialism and the complexities of race.Christopher Hope embarks on a road trip to uncover the realities of today's South Africa, beyond the dashed hopes of Mandela's vision. He encounters a nation still grappling with deep racial divides and a ruling party focused on self-interest. As historical figures are ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brothers Under The Skin

    Travels in Tyranny

    by Christopher Hope ...
    A brilliant examination of Robert Mugabe dictatorship and the nature of modern tyranny, written by an award winning novelist and journalist.Christopher Hope met his first dictator when he was 6 years old. Dr Henrik Verwoerd was a neighbour of the Hope family and went on to become the architect of apartheid. He was the first, but not the last. In this remarkable book, Christopher Hope searches out ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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    Writers on Walks: A BBC Radio 3 Collection

    30 Reflections from Exploring on Foot

    by Robert Macfarlane, Deborah Levy, Jenn Ashworth, Kamila Shamsie, Michael Donkor, Michèle Roberts, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Ross Raisin, Owen Sheers, Nicholas Shakespeare, Nat Segnit, Sophie Coulombeau, Christopher Hope, Scarlett Thomas, Erica Wagner, Nicola Barker, Ian Samson, Kirsty Gunn, Philip Hoare ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 48 min

    22 writers talk about their memorable excursions and the act of walking, and share their creative observationsIn these six series, taken from BBC Radio 3's The Essay, an array of novelists, poets, journalists and biographers chart the varied and inspiring walks they have taken around Britain and elsewhere. Here are treks taken at daybreak and after dark; in winter and in spring; in the footsteps ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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    Jimfish

    by Christopher Hope ...
    Narrated by Saul Reichlin ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 22 min

    In the 1980s, a man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, South Africa, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. So begins the odyssey of Jimfish, who defies the usual classification of race that defines the rainbow nation. His journey through the last years of Apartheid will extend beyond South Africa to the wider world, where he will be an unlikely witness to the dying days of ... Read more

    $21.51 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Mieux qu’un thriller exceptionnel, un piège paranoïaque et jubilatoire.Écoutez-le, vous comprendrez pourquoi.Rachel prend le train deux fois par jour pour aller à Londres. Chaque jour, elle observe, lors d’un arrêt, une jolie maison en contrebas de la voie ferrée. Elle a même donné un nom à ses occupants, qu’elle voit derrière la vitre : Jason et Jess.Un couple qu’elle imagine parfait, heureux, ... Read more

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  • Long Walk to Freedom

    The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

    by Nelson Mandela ...
    "Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history – and then go out and change it." –President Barack ObamaNelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. After his triumphant release in 1990 ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Harry's Last Stand

    How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it

    by Harry Leslie Smith ...
    'A kind of epic poem, one that moves in circular fashion from passionate denunciation to intense autobiographical reflection ... should be required reading for every MP, peer, councillor, civil servant and commentator. The fury and sense of powerlessness that so many people feel at government policy beam out of every page.' The Guardian'It is not enough to read Harry's record of the struggles and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My First Coup d'Etat

    And Other True Stories from the Lost Decades of Africa

    by John Dramani Mahama ...
    MY FIRST COUP D'ETAT is a literary nonfiction account that charts the coming of age of John Dramani Mahama in Ghana during the dismal post-independence "lost decades" of Africa. He was seven years old when rumors of that first coup reached his boarding school in Accra. His father was suddenly missing. "It is sometimes incorrectly referred to in texts as a bloodless coup, yet it was anything but," ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • My Traitor's Heart

    A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience

    by Rian Malan ...
    An Afrikaner crime reporter returns home to face the evil and complex legacy of South African apartheid in " a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage" (Michael Kerr).Rian Malan's classic work of reportage, My Traitor's Heart is at once beautiful, horrifying, and profound in ways that earned him comparisons to Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuściński, and inspired the London Times to call him "South ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Fork in the Road

    by André Brink ...
    This is André Brink's story of a life lived in tumultuous times. He describes with searing honesty his conflicting experiences of growing up in a world where innocence was always surrounded by violence and storytelling was a means of reconciling the stark contrasts of his world.His time spent in Paris in the 1960s confirmed in him the desire to become a writer but his opposition to the apartheid ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD