Christopher Hope

• Nov-1981
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Harry Moto must pass as a "coloured" on the underside of society, following a sexual escapade with the rich which forces to live as a fugitive. This is the first novel of Christopher Hope, who is better known for his poetry and as a winner of the Cho...

• May-1985
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Winner of the 1985 Whitbread Prize for Fiction: "Kruger's Alp" moves from pulpit to black township, from Johannesburg's fortress prison to the underworld of Soho as we follow renegade priest Theodore Blanchaille in his search for the legendary gold s...

• Sep-1985
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• Jun-1987
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Caleb Looper, a reporter exiled from South Africa, begins an affair with Biddy Hogan, a member of an African liberation group, while secretly engaged to Rose, daughter of the owner of the Hottentot Club...

• Oct-1987
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• Sep-1992
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Max Montfalcon lay in bed and tried to remember how many people he had killed...Old Max, the genial giant of Serenity House, north London's 'Premier Eventide Refuge', might have been left to die in peace. But his son-in-law Albert, an MP with a speci...

• Jan-1994
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Set in the early 1950s in Badminton, a suburb suspended in time somewhere outside Johannesburg. To this time-locked place comes Swirsky, to open his pharmacy. With his talk of exotic places and gleaming bottles and jars, the children think of him as ...

• Sep-1996
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David Mungo Booi is a descendant of the Bushmen who once lived in the distant African Karoo. Chosen by a conclave of elders, travelling on funds raised by public subscription, sponsored by the Society for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts...

• Sep-1997
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Begninning in 1949 with Afrikaner hopes dashed by the outcome of the war, this novel reveals the character and concerns of the people of South Africa and how the 20th century almost passes them by. It ends with a celebration of the first year of demo...

• Feb-2004
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In the jacaranda leafed garden of his Johannesburg home, six year old Martin Donally is king of a small and perfect world. It is 1948 and life is full of buoyant childish rhymes and his colourful, Irish extended family. There's exuberant Grandpa who ...

• Sep-2006
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�"Kick off your shoes, pour yourself a stiff drink and take your hat off to the elder statesman of southern African words--he’s done it again.” --Alexandra Fuller�"Vivid and powerful. Highly recommended.” --Library Journal (starred review)The a...

• Aug-2011
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From an extremely distinguished and wildly imaginative novelist, thisstory goes right to the broken heart of his home country, South Africa, as a man returns to the city after decades in hiding to find out what happened to the woman he loved

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• Aug-2012
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A brilliant examination of Robert Mugabe dictatorship and the nature of modern tyranny, written by an award winning novelist and journalist.Christopher Hope met his first dictator when he was 6 years old. Dr Henrik Verwoerd was a neighbour of the Hop...

• Jun-2016
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From one of South Africa's finest novelists comes a glittering and vivid fable of politics and power. In the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, SA, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. The Sergeant, whose jo...