It was in 1991 that Betriek’s grandmother was murdered upstairs in her bedroom while Betriek played directly below, covering her ears when she heard the screams; thirty years
Black hands scrub white floor tiles and dust the framed photographs, portraits of a white upper-class Capetown family for whom Mavis has served many years. Her own son
“All of this happened, more or less.” Published in 1969 when the author was forty-six years old, Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death was the
In only thirty years the world has changed, the recreation of dinosaurs on Isla Nublar an ambitious experiment which could not be controlled, the long-extinct animals now free
Ambition is shaped by circumstance; it is easier for one who grew up around boats and enjoyed the independence that wealth brings to set their sights on circumnavigating
The slum districts of Chicago, 1987, Angie Pittarelli trying to make ends meet and support both herself and nephew David by working as a stripper at Revealers, harassed
North Denver, 1978; school is hell for Finney Shaw, targeted by a gang of bullies for whom taunts and cruel behaviour are less satisfying than physical violence, nor