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Author: Jenny Hobbs Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa ISBN: 1415204063 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 558
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1985. In a mountain village in Lesotho, a father rages as a mother weeps. Shot dead: their only daughter Rose, a teacher, and her husband Jake, an activist and poet. South Africa’s laws forced them into exile, while hooded gunmen took their lives. Amid the sorrow and commotion of funeral preparations, Rose and her parents’ evolving understanding of their turbulent country and of each other unfolds, always intimately connected with the lives of the women who worked for them. But all has not been lost: there was a survivor of the shooting. Hope. Thoughts in a Makeshift Mortuary, Jenny Hobbs’s rich, powerful fi rst novel, is a story about ordinary living in extraordinary times and a moving tribute to those who worked to raise a South Africa driven to its knees.
Author: Jenny Hobbs Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa ISBN: 1415204063 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 558
Book Description
1985. In a mountain village in Lesotho, a father rages as a mother weeps. Shot dead: their only daughter Rose, a teacher, and her husband Jake, an activist and poet. South Africa’s laws forced them into exile, while hooded gunmen took their lives. Amid the sorrow and commotion of funeral preparations, Rose and her parents’ evolving understanding of their turbulent country and of each other unfolds, always intimately connected with the lives of the women who worked for them. But all has not been lost: there was a survivor of the shooting. Hope. Thoughts in a Makeshift Mortuary, Jenny Hobbs’s rich, powerful fi rst novel, is a story about ordinary living in extraordinary times and a moving tribute to those who worked to raise a South Africa driven to its knees.
Author: Jenny Hobbs Publisher: African Books Collective ISBN: 1991240406 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 268
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Jenny’s compelling South African memoir chronicles her journey from childhood during World War Two to a busy freelance career as a journalist and novelist. With humour, tenderness and love for her family and country, she reflects on the many facets of her life as an author, giving fascinating insights into the writing process. Among Jenny’s lasting legacies are her decades-long drive to promote reading as the essential skill for a good education, and her role as one of the co-founders of the Franschhoek Literary Festival, of which she was Director for four years.
Author: Paul Prater Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0359965415 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 125
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Downtown Argenta, is a bustling, close knit art community which is on the move. However, it has a long and dark history. It was directly on the path of the Trail of Tears. For many years, Argenta was a lawless place, filled with itinerants, gamblers, murderers and prostitutes. People have seen a woman's spirit walk slowly into the Arkansas River never to be seen again. People insist that they have seen a werewolf in Argenta. There was undoubtedly a serial killer who was operating in Argenta. A deadly mob killed an innocent man in cold blood on the street. A ghostly apparition may be the spirit of a young prostitute who was murdered by her admirer. You can read all of these stories and more in Haunted Argenta. This book examines the history of the town based on review of primary sources from the earliest history through the present. You will read not only about the history but about the stories, myths and legends of the ghostly residents who chose to never leave Argenta.
Author: Tony Booth Publisher: Casemate Publishers ISBN: 1844689573 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 314
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On 1 June 1939 His Majestys Submarine Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay while on her diving trials. Her loss is still the worst peacetime submarine disaster the Royal Navy has yet faced when ninety-nine men drowned or slowly suffocated during their last fifty hours of life.The disaster became an international media event, mainly because the trapped souls aboard were so near to being saved after they managed to raise her stern about 18 ft above sea level. Still the Royal Navy-led rescue operation failed to find the submarine for many hours, only to rescue four of all those trapped. Very little is known about what actually happened, as the only comprehensive book written on the subject was published in 1958.Many years have now passed since the Thetis and her men died, for which no one was held to be ultimately accountable. However, a great deal of unpublished information has come to light in archives throughout the United Kingdom and beyond. After four years of painstaking research Thetis; The Slow Death of a Submarine explores in minute detail a more rounded picture of what really happened before, during and after her tragic loss. In doing so Tony Booths book also takes a fresh look at culpability and explores some of the alleged conspiracy theories that surrounded her demise.The result is the first definitive account what happened to HMS Thetis and her men a fitting tribute, as the seventieth anniversary of her loss will be on 1 June 2009.
Author: M. Hove Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137340339 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 197
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Strategies of Representation in Auto/biography investigates how selves are represented and reconstructed in selected auto/biographical readings from African literary discourse. It examines how such representations confirm, validate, interrogate and pervade conversations with issues of identity, nation and history. In addition to providing an overview of the multidimensionality of auto/biography, the book also introduces readers to various ways of reading and analysing auto/biographical writings and develops specific perspectives on the genre and views inherently expressed through the re-imagined, re-membered and re-constructed self that speaks through the pages of autobiographical scripting. The focus on auto/biographical writings from southern Africa, specifically South Africa and Zimbabwe, offers a fresh reading of the work of significant figures in the political, economic and sociological spheres of these nation states. This collection shows that auto/biography may be more than simply the representation of an individual life, and that the socio-cultural memory of a people is a core aspect influencing individual self-representation.
Author: Ann-Marie Foster Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192872028 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 240
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Across the twentieth century, the families of people who died in war and disaster were left to make sense of their sudden loss and navigate newfound grief. This book focuses the families of people who died in the First World War and in mining disasters in the early twentieth-century. These bereaved families were often denied access to bodies and choice over burial rights, all while dealing with the increased bureaucracy of death.Families created domestic memorials, which took on additional meaning because of this lack of memorial agency elsewhere. Although the ways that these families were bereaved each took place in different circumstances, the ways that families grieved were recognizable to one another: they drew on common memorial practices, augmented to take on special meaning after sudden death.This memorial material provided a vehicle for families to navigate their loss, but also to communicate the memory of the dead both externally, through donation to museums, and linearly, through ancestral lines. Drawing on a nuanced reading of a wide range of sources - from ephemera to administrative museum paperwork - this book explores family reactions to mass death events in early twentieth-century Britain. The result is a comparative and domestic perspective on mourning at the turn of the century that makes important contributions to the growing field of death studies, and will be of interest to those working on the First World War, interwar Britain, the history of work, the social history of the family, and the history of memorialization. 6 b&w illustrations
Author: Drew D. Gray Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1847252427 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 290
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In 1888 London was the capital of the greatest empire the world had ever known. In the West End the glittering lamps illuminated the homes of the rich and the emporiums that displayed the countless luxuries that they enjoyed. This was a city that reflected the wealth of the Victorian age, but there was also a dark side to Victorian London: vice and crime, degradation, poverty and despair. When an unknown killer began murdering prostitutes in Whitechapel the horrors of the East End were brought out of the shadows. In 1888 London was the capital of the most powerful empire the world had ever known and the largest city in Europe. In the West End a new city was growing, populated by the middle classes, the epitome of 'Victorian values'. Across the city the situation was very different. The East End of London had long been considered a nether world, a dark and dangerous place, and it embodied many of the fears of respectable Victorians. Using the Whitechapel murders of Jack the Ripper as a focal point, London's Shadows explores prostitution and poverty, revolutionary politics and Irish terrorism, immigration, the criminal underclass and the developing role of the Metropolitan Police. It also considers how the sensationalist New Journalism took the news of the Ripper murders to the furthest corners of the Empire. This is a new and fresh portrait of London at the height of Victoria's reign, revealing the dark underbelly of the city's history.
Author: Mike Nicholson Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445635070 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 284
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An examination of the Hillsborough disaster, drawing on eyewitness accounts and interviews with those who were there and those most affected.
Author: Jenny Hobbs
Author: Jenny Hobbs
Author: Jenny Hobbs
Author: Jenny Hobbs
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