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POSTMARK AFRICA
HALF A CENTURY AS A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
Eye-witness reports over 50 years on the state of sub-Saharan Africa, written for the Financial Times and other media, by the FT's former Africa Editor, providing rare insights into the continent's post-independence successes and set-back. Revealing, relevant and highly readable. Alexander McCall Smith says: "Profound observations on virtually very page."
FROM BEDALES TO THE BOCHE
THE IRONIES OF AN EDWARDIAN CHILDHOOD
No one expected that a generation that had befriended Germany in the 1900s would be eagerly fighting against it in the 1910s. In this extraordinary memoir, one of Britain's most important industrial designers tracks his career from the progressive idealism of his school days at Bedales to his passionate enlistment into the Royal Flying Corps, after two years in the ASC.
A ROAD TO EXTINCTION
CAN PALAEOLITHIC AFRICANS SURVIVE IN THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS?
The Jarawa tribe wants nothing to do with modern civilisation, but modern civilisation doesn't care. Convoys of tourists travel each day along the Andaman Trunk Road in the hope of seeing these naked pygmy hunters in what is now India's human safari park. Jonathan Lawley goes back to the colony his grandfather used to run to see how bad things are.
A SIN OF OMISSION
The latest novel by the acclaimed South African writer and linguist.
THE HOPEFUL TRAVELLER
Short stories set in the 1950s and 60s, narrated by single women, in their middle years, as they travel the world, rekindling old friendships and seeking new ones. They speak of a world now lost, of a European culture—cosmopolitanism, self-confident and well-heeled but displaced and adrift, trying to find its anchor.
MUSTARD SEED ITINERARY
A first novel by the author of Call of the Camino.
