This book recounts the experiences of a British ICS officer on the Indian subcontinent during the last seven years before independence and the first eighteen months after the birth of Pakistan. It provides an invaluable record of British administration in Sindh and includes interesting information about the social activities of British officers and their families living on the subcontinent during the Raj.

Once a Happy Valley: Memoirs of an ICS Officer in Sindh, 1938-1948

Biographies & Memoirs

Pearce, Roger

Historical

Oxford University Press

For centuries the story of South Africa could not be told without reference to race, along with its two cousins of tribe and class. The colonial history of our nation, followed in 1948 by Apartheid as a system of ordering society, ensured that racism is a foundational fault-line in the nation. To use biblical language, racism became our national idolatry. Much pain and suffering went into the Struggle to dismantle race as a basis for ordering our national life. The father of the South African nation, Nelson Mandela, is a symbol of how much sacrifice South Africans had to make to end racism. In focussing the search light of Scripture on the foundational sin of our nation, Roger deploys one of the most powerful weapons available to the Christian world to a rather stubborn demon in our national life. There are no slogans, philosophical arguments or worn-out rhetoric in the book. For that, one must look elsewhere. This is rather a book about ordinary folk wrestling before a holy God with the sin of their nation and putting their lives on the line. In this way they have become witnesses, not in words only, but in their daily lives, of the efficacy of the Christian faith to save and redeem us from the tragedy of racism.

Better Together: Crossing the divide in South Africa

History

Africa

Roger Pearce

Agent of the State: A groundbreaking new thriller by the former commander of special branch

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Corona

The Extremist

Coronet

A gripping political thriller set over two weeks in the aftermath of Brexit, Javelin will not disappoint fans of Detective Chief Inspector John Kerr. Two explosions in Victoria mark the beginning of a bombing campaign against banking institutions in London. The attacks bear the hallmarks of Irish republican dissidents but are disowned by IRA volunteers and politicians in Belfast. Kerr believes the bombs are the work of the extremist group Anti-Capitalist Insurrection, with attacks in London the first stage of a devastatingly deadly campaign across Europe...can Kerr stop them in time?

Javelin

Urbane Publications

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