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Review: Wild Orchids by Gillian Slovo
- 9 Hours ago
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Gillian Slovo's new novel begins in Ceylon in 1946. Evelyn, a beautiful, white English girl, is festering among the expats there and dreading the idea of leaving a country she regards as home. She falls
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Review: The Hugo Young Papers by Hugo Young
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Everyone remembers Hugo Young as a peerless columnist. For me, he was first a tremendous reporter. Curiosity, he understood, is the essential ingredient of the best journalism. The only way to understand
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Book review: The Sonnets: A Novel
- 10 Hours ago
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THE SONNETS: A NOVEL Warwick CollinsHarper Collins, �£15PEGGY HUGHES IT'S 1592 and Shakespeare is but an 'upstart crow'. The theatres are shut due to plague and he is forced to fall upon the patronage
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Book review: Plan C
- 2 Hours ago
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Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak oil and Climate Change Pat Murphy New Society 2008 Pat Murphy is the Executive Director of Community Solutions who produced the seminal film â??The Power
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Book Review: The missionary proposition
- 7 Hours ago
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There is no easy way to categorize this story of a Christian missionarys linguistic adventures in the Amazon forest. Its a little as if Paul Therouxs The Mosquito Coast had been rewritten by Steve Pinker,
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Book Review: Oyebiyis compedium of Ibadan royal lineage
- 8 Hours ago
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For the young George Leventis whose forebear was being honoured, his countenance when presenting his speech exhibited surprise as he was now apparently in terms with the reality of the source of his forebears
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