Dance With A Poor Man's Daughter
10 best books like Dance With A Poor Man's Daughter (Pamela Jooste): Dubliners, Amsterdam, Cry, the Beloved Country, The Horla, Fantastic Mr. Fox, I Am David, Spies, George's Marvellous Medicine, Liar's Bench, A Father’s Betrayal
| Author | James Joyce |
| ISBN | 0192839993 |
Life is full of missed opportunities and hard decisions. Sometimes it’s difficult to know what to actually do. Dubliners creates an image of an ever movie city, of an ever moving exchange of people who experience the reality of life. And that’s the whole point: realism. Not everything goes well,...
| Author | Ian McEwan |
| ISBN | 0385494246 |
On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer,...
Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.
Cry, the beloved country, for the...
| Author | Guy de Maupassant |
| ISBN | 0976140748 |
Our woe is upon us.
This chilling tale of one man’s descent into madness was published shortly before the author was institutionalized for insanity, and so The Horla has inevitably been seen as informed by Guy de Maupassant’s mental illness. While such speculation is murky, it is clear...
| Author | Roald Dahl |
| ISBN | 0375822070 |
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GREG!!! YOU ARE OLD!!!! EVEN OLDER THAN LAST YEAR!
greg's birthday is today, so i am floating this now to remind you that you still have time to shower him with presents!
it is greg's birthday!!! and as a treat for him, i am going to create a book review in which i use plenty...
| Author | Anne Holm |
| ISBN | 0152051600 |
David's entire twelve-year life has been spent in a grisly prison camp in Eastern Europe. He knows nothing of the outside world. But when he is given the chance to escape, he seizes it. With his vengeful enemies hot on his heels, David struggles to cope in this strange new world, where his only resources...
| Author | Michael Frayn |
| ISBN | 0571212964 |
Another from the 2002 Booker longlist, this one is a quiet revelation and a masterly piece of storytelling.
The action is narrated by an old man revisiting the scene and remembering his childhood adventures in suburban England during the Second World War. The story is narrated from the childhood...
George's Marvellous Medicine
| Author | Roald Dahl |
| ISBN | 0224064908 |
George's Grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish old woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered up mouth like a dog's bottom. Four times a day she takes a large spoonful of medicine, but it doesn't seem to do her any good. She's always just as poisonous after she's taken it as she was before. When George...
| Author | Kim Michele Richardson |
In 1972, on Mudas Summers' seventeenth birthday, her beloved Mama, Ella, is found hanging from the rafters of their home. Most people in Peckinpaw, Kentucky, assume that Ella's no-good husband did the deed. Others think Ella grew tired of his abuse and did it herself. Muddy is determined to find out...
| Author | Gabriella Gillespie |
A Fathers Betrayal is the heart wrenching true story of Muna, who along with her sisters are taken back to her father's home country and subjected to years of physical and mental abuse.
Even though Muna's father was quite strict, especially with their mother, overall their time in England was...
