Recent reading

Nonfiction

6-Jan-2008
Turok, Ben. 2003. Nothing but the truth: behind the ANC's struggle
politics. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball.

29-Jan-2008
Lewis, Donald M. (ed). 2004. Christianity reborn: the global
expansion of evangelicalism in the twentieth century.
Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans.
Includes essays by Robert Eric Frykenberg, Inus Daneel.

8-Feb-2008
Papathanasiou, Athanasios N. 2005. Future, the background of
history: essays on Church mission in an age of
globalization. Montr‚al: Alexander .

25-Feb-2008
Chaney, Lisa. 2005. Hide-and-seek with angels: a life of J.M.
Barrie. London: Arrow.
Born in 1860, the son of a poor weaver in the Scottish
town of Kirriemuir, James Matthew Barrie first tried
journalism, and gradually advanced to writing novels,
and then plays, of which his Peter Pan, first staged in
1904, is the best known. He married an actress, Mary
Ansell, but was closest to the family of Arthur and
Sylvia Llewelyn Davis, with their five sons George,
Jack, Peter, Michael and Nico, to whom he became
guardian when their parents died. .

11-Mar-2008
Burridge, Kenelm. 1991. In the Way: a study of Christian
missionary endeavours. Vancouver: UBC Press.
A rather tugid and abstract study of Christian mission
and missionaries, almost entirely western. Speaks of
difference between individual and person. Speaks of
stereotypes of missionaries in colonial society, and
examines the validity of the stereotype. .

31-Mar-2008
Baroja, Julio Caro. 1964. The world of the witches. London:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
A history of European witchcraft and sorcery, with
special reference to the Basque region.

28-Apr-2008
White, Edmund. 2004. Genet. London: Vintage.
Blogged about it at:
http://khanya.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/recent-reading-jean-genet/

Fiction

15-Mar-2008
Beckett, Simon. 2007. The chemistry of death. London: Bantam.
David Hunter goes to practise as a doctor in a small
Norfolk village after his wife and daughter are killed
in a car accident, abandoning his career as a forensic
anthropologist. But when the body of a woman is
discovered near the village the police ask him to help.

22-Mar-2008
Rimington, Stella. 2007. Secret asset. London: Arrow.
While her colleagues are investigating a suspected
terrorist plot, MI5 agent Liz Carlyle is asked to look
for a mole within the department. .

25-Mar-2008
Bruen, Ken. 2007. Priest. London: Corgi.
Jack Taylor, a private investigator in Galway, Ireland,
is released from a mental hospital, gains an unwanted
assistant, three unwanted cases. The typography is
confusing, meaning that one is constantly rereading bits
to see what was said. .

5-Apr-2008
Reichs, Kathy. 2005. Grave secrets. London: Arrow.
Temerance Brennan, forensic anthropologist, is in
Guatemala on a team investigating massacres that took
place in a civil war 25 years earlier, trying to
identify victims, when a colleague is killed and another
wounded in a shooting that the police claim is a robbery
attempt, but they suspect is intended to prvent them
from discovering the culprits. Then she is asked to help
the police in a case of four missing girls in Guatemala
city.

24-Apr-2008
Follett, Ken. 2007 [1989] The pillars of the earth. London: Pan.
The building of a cathedral in 12th-century England, in
a troubled time of famine and civil war. .



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