Blogs in September 2020

Infidel 8th September 2020

One of today’s most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened that she would be next. She made headlines again when she...

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Knots 8th September 2020

From the internationally revered author of Links comes “a beautiful, hopeful novel about one woman’s return to war-ravaged Mogadishu” (“Time”) Called “one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction” (“The New York Review of Books”), Nuruddin Farah is...

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Desert Flower 8th September 2020

Waris Dirie (the name means desert flower) lives a double life – by day she is a famous model and UN spokeswoman on women’s rights in Africa, at night she dreams of her native Somalia. Waris, one of 12...

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Hiding in Plain Sight 8th September 2020

When Bella learns of the murder of her beloved half brother by political extremists in Somalia, she s in Rome. The two had different fathers but shared a Somali mother, from whom Bella s inherited her freewheeling ways. An...

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Culture Shock and Canapes: Adventures of a Diplomatic Wife in Africa 22nd January 2020

A young Australian working girl from London struggles to adapt to diplomatic life among the royal courtiers of Swaziland, in post-independence Zimbabwe and in Angola amid the gunfire of the civil war. She accompanies her husband, the striding KJ,...

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