Sometimes when I finish a really good book I just can’t wait to dash off to the computer and write my review – I want to tell everyone about it. That’s the way I feel about A Blade of Grass by South African/Canadian author Lewis Desoto, which was longlisted for the Booker in 2004. It’s a story ...
In that brief suspension between the blank state of sleep and full consciousness, I was free, just a normal man wakening on an ordinary day. And I would feel hope, the eternally renewed hope with which human beings rise each morning to engage life. But then I would hear a distant cry from the dar...
England was where the news, fashions, ideas, culture, and sometimes even the food, originated. Important decisions were made there. It was the centre of the British Empire. In most people’s minds, Canada was just a colony, and Victoria a very remote part of that colony. England was the homeland. ...