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75My favourite authors
I still regard a book as a minor miracle - the amount of information and entertainment contained between the covers of a book is really amazing when you think about it.
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74Sewing Circles and war – a review of Christina Lamb's Afghanistan memoir
A review of Christina Lamb's wonderful memoir of her times in Afghanistan. A look at the more personal issues that are often swamped in the competing rhetorics of politics and religion that continue to ravage the country.
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82Ghazis, mujahideen and taliban - a review of "Butcher and Bolt" by David Loyn
For 200 years policy in Afganistan ws determined more by factors outside of the country than within it. And this policy, right up to the present, has been an expensive failure. Butcher and Bolt (Hutchinson,...
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87“Begging to be Black” – a review of the book by Antjie Krog
Antjie Krog's latest book strips the choices facing white South Africans to the bare bones. She faces the choices with honesty and and eloquence, making for a deeply absorbing, though not always easy, read. A must for anyone wanting to understand South Africa today.
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