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Wednesday,Apr 04,2007
Amazing Grace
I went to see Amazing Grace the other day & thoroughly enjoyed it. As an African, I thoug....
By Irene Ngowi
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Saturday,Jul 29,2006
Help Promote Scholarship in Africa! Give a Journal to an Institution in Africa
Help Promote Scholarship in Africa: Subscribe to African Renaissance or AJBER for an institution in Africa For....
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Tuesday,May 02,2006
Kwame Nkrumah: Still Remembered 34 Years On
Most of us come to this world and go without anyone remembering us after a few years, save a few close relatives an....
By Issaka K. Souaré
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Friday,Mar 03,2006
RHETORICS OF VIOLENCE IN ALEX LA GUMA’S NOVELS
Introduction In literature, violence has not always been portrayed physically or starkly especially in classic....
By Dr Blessing Diala-Ogamba
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Thursday,Dec 29,2005
Book Presentation: twentytwelve (fiction)
The year is 2012. The global conflict that first manifested itself in the attack on the twin towers and broadened a....
By Andrew keogh
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Saturday,Dec 24,2005
Book Preview: A Tale of Two Africas: Nigeria and South Africa as Contrasting Visions
Nigeria and South Africa provide the socioeconomic and political contrasts in the African condition. Some of these ....
By Ali Mazrui (edited by James Karioki)
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Sunday,Dec 18,2005
Book Review: Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past by David R. Roediger
David Roediger's most recent book, Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past, is a gem. This collection of ....
By Reviewer: Seth Sandronsky
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Monday,Oct 17,2005
An American Goes Back to Africa: Richard Wright’s Journey of Discovery
Far, far the way we have trodFrom heathen kraal and jungle denTo freedmen, freeman, sons of God,Americans and citiz....
By Reviewer: Rudolph Lewis
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Sunday,Aug 21,2005
Dick Tiger: The Life and Times of a Boxing Immortal
Excerpt from Chapter 6, 'Not a Visiting Apprentice.On May 22nd, with bags and trunks packed, Tiger and Abigail took....
By Adeyinka Makinde
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Thursday,Jul 28,2005
Chinua Achebe - Pure and Simple: An Oral Biography
Chinua Achebe: Pure and Simple approaches the famous writer – who has been dubbed “the father of Africa....
By Phanuel Akubueze Egejuru (Reviewer: Anne Serafin)
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Book Presentation: twentytwelve (fiction)
By:
Andrew keogh
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Andrew Keogh was born in Leeds and lives in south London with his wife and two children.
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The year is 2012. The global conflict that first manifested itself in the attack on the twin towers and broadened and deepened with the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq has continued through the first decade of the new millennium and beyond, bringing with it ever increasing hatred and misery. A broken backed Britain battered by global economic collapse and seemingly endless terrorist outrages, has succumbed to fascism and barbarism.
Charlie Gilbert, a south London schoolteacher, is not a particularly brave man yet he will need all his resources of bravery and ingenuity as events close in on him. Charlie has a secret. He has a young mixed race daughter, Natalie, hidden away in the country with his elderly mother. If caught by the authorities, Natalie and anyone helping her would meet a brutal end. Charlie decides that their only hope lies in escape to Ireland, which remains a democracy. He sets out to collect Natalie with only the haziest idea of how to effect their escape.
Charlie, Natalie, his elderly mother and a disagreeable family cat called Catesby set out west, heading for Wales and thence to Ireland and safety. En route, they experience capture, incarceration in a slave labour camp, escape and recapture, collecting on the way Billy, an elderly Jamaican. Their story is both a fast moving adventure story and a warning as to the future of a troubled world.
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About the author
Andrew Keogh was born in Leeds and lives in south London with his wife and two children. He is a practising barrister specialising in criminal law. When not engaged in the law or writing or reading fiction, he enjoys cookery, a wide range of popular music, being a cricket anorak and following the misadventures of Leeds United Football Club. This is his first novel.
Category: Novel
Publishers: Adonis & Abbey Publishers,London
Pre-Publication copies: November 2006
ISBN: 1-905068-12-3
Price: £12.99/US$18.50CONTINUE ON PAGE
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