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Oct 28, 20211 min read
912. Graham Greene - The Human Factor
One of my favourite of his books, despite my copy having been in the bath some years ago. Thematically, very John le Carré – set possibly...
Dec 9, 20171 min read
556. Graham Greene - The Human Factor
This is the book I meant to read, a domestic spy story, but very good. Maurice Castle is a minor functionary in the security services in...
Nov 28, 20151 min read
358. Justin Cartwright - Up Against The Night
A wonderful book and change from Zola by a writer I had never heard of. Cartwright writes about modern South Africa from a liberal...
Feb 22, 20151 min read
284. André Brink - A Dry White Season
The author died recently, and I heard about this on a Radio 4 obituary programme. I believe he was a white Afrikaan who became...
Feb 23, 20141 min read
185. Mike Nicol - Of Cops & Robbers
Heard the author interviewed on the radio and he sounded like a nice guy. White (I assume) South African crime writer. You need to follow...
Jun 17, 20131 min read
119. Henning Mankell - The White Lioness
A strange Wallander book that begins with an apparent Swedish domestic and expands into an attempt by the African white supremacists to...