Since I was little, I've had a cast of characters living inside my head, an over-active imagination & the urge to be a massive
... Picture the scene
- an idyllic resort on the island of Réunion.
Martial & Liane Bellion are enjoying the perfect
How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.
As the daughter of white settlers in war-torn 1970s Rhodesia, Alexandra Fuller remembers a time when a schoolgirl was as likely to carry a shotgun as a satchel. This is her story
- of a civil war, of a quixotic battle with nature & loss, & of a familys unbreakable bond with the continent that came to define, scar & heal them.
Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award in 2002, Alexandra Fullers classic memoir of an African childhood is suffused with laughter & warmth even amid disaster. Unsentimental & unflinching, but always enchanting, Dont Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight is the story of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.