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RESULTSSearching enCompass books for 'Christopher Hope'... We found 5 matches.
Christopher Hope
Brothers Under the Skin The reflections on the character of modern tyranny, as examplified in the person of Robert Mugabe, and as experienced by Christopher Hope through a life-time of encounters with tyrants and their regimes. Through a mixture of memoir, interview, reportage and analysis, Hope reveals the tragic, yet entirely typical, absurdity of one man's lust for power.
Macmillan 2003 hbk £17.99 ISBN 1-4050-0555-6
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Christopher Hope
Darkest England A South African bushman is sent on a mission to visit the Queen of England to remind her of her grandmother Victoria's pledge to protect his people from harm - a perilous journey indeed among the hostile, uncivilized natives in this cold, sodden land. David Mungo Booi is a descendant of the Bushmen who once lived in the distant African Karoo. Chosen by a conclave of elders, traveling on funds raised by public subscription, sponsored by the Society for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of England, Booi embarks on a mission never before attempted by a civilized man: to explore England as a site suitable for settlement and to assess if the natives are friendly and capable... He sets out to answer ancient questions about this strange island race: why do they believe there will always be an England? Did they build Atlantic Books 2009 pbk £9.99 ISBN 978-1848871656
Christopher Hope
The Garden of Bad Dreams The Garden of Bad Dreams is a seductive collection of short stories from Christopher Hope: a conjurer of strange places and displaced people. From the story of the entertainer who is compelled to collect small people, to the monk who pushes away a mountain from his monastery, we are confronted with characters who could have been plucked from a fairy tale and yet are very much part of our own world. Transporting us from the Malaysian highlands to an Ex-Servicemen's Estate in Badminton, from a zoo in the midst of a civil war to a forested hillside in central Serbia, The Garden of Bad Dreams is a constantly surprising, highly addictive mixture of the absurd and the darkly familiar. It is a masterful collection.
Atlantic Books 2008 hbk £12.99 ISBN 978-1843547723
Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth50
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/may/10/fiction2
Christopher Hope
Heaven Forbid In his Johannesburg home, Martin Donnally is king of a small and perfect world. An imaginative six-year-old, he is too happy and too young to notice the world of apartheid that surrounds him. But, as the outside world changes, so does Martin's homelife, and he is forced to change too.
Macmillan 2002 hbk £14.99 ISBN 0-333-72465-8
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Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth50
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,658521,00.html http://www.panmacmillan.com/meettheauthors/authorPage.html?authorId=4714 http://www.suntimes.co.za/2002/03/24/lifestyle/life03.asp http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/story.jsp?story=118988
Christopher Hope
My Mother's Lovers My Mother's Lovers draws on the memories of a son who recalls and immortalises his mother - a glamorous safari pilot and the daughter of a prodigious family, part Irish, part English, part African. The men she brings into the house refract the story of the whites in South Africa, whose sorry history runs from the Boer War, through both World Wars, to the loss of power in the 1990s. My Mother's Lovers is Hope's most ambitious work, yet and the novel he has been waiting to write for many years. Peopled with unforgettable characters who endure the most incredible and appalling events, it is an epic tragicomedy, as dark as the European romancing of Africa.
Atlantic 2006 pbk £6.99 ISBN 1843543826
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Author details available at http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth50
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1927311,00.html
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