18-01-2015, 11:14 AM
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Re: What books are you reading now?
I have just finished Missus by Ruth Park and am now reading A Harp in the South which is the first of the novels set in Surry Hills and I have A Poor Man's Orange the final novel in the trilogy. (Missus was written after the other two but should be read first as it explains how the parents get together in the NSW country town of Trafalgar)The poverty and drabness of their lives in the big city is quite startling but it is saved by the humour in the novels. I am not entirely sure that the characters are very likeable overall, the father is a drunk for example but I still can't put it down.
18-01-2015, 04:29 PM
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Re: What books are you reading now?
I've recently started "When the Crocodile Eats the Sun" by Peter Godwin. It is a well written account of developments in Zimbabwe under Mugabe from a personal point of view. Fascinating insight into Africa and the difficulties faced and an added twist which has made it more personal for me is that I found that his father was in the same Polish regiment as my father in the last war.
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