Innocent In Africa

Travel

Willoughby, Annette

Africa

New Generation Publishing

Book Reviews. Belfast Telegraph, Saturday 9 Jan 99. PALL OF SMOKE HANGS OVER THE MEMORY.  By Grainia McFadden.  No one in Northern Ireland needs reminding of many of the events in the province during the bloodiest years of the troubles.  In 1971, the then Home Secretary for Northern Ireland, Reginald Maudling said he could foresee a time when IRA violence could be reduced to an "acceptable level." People weren't quite sure what he meant.  We know now of course and have lived with an acceptable level of violence for more than twenty years.  Alex Ashe has chosen to tell the story of this "acceptable level of violence" through the events of that fateful afternoon when a bomb ripped apart the Abercorn Inn in March 1972.  Ashe has created a series of well rounded characters, who inhabit the distinctive world of the 70s, with it's new-fangled decimalisation, chic suede fringed waistcoats, bus tokens, platformed heels and blue eyeshadow.  Other hallmarks of that era -tarring and feathering, for example, crop up again and again, bringing a first hand feel to this compelling novel.  It is these small details which help make the larger events ring true -and Ashe trawls right through the horror of the 70s, sparing us nothing; a thumbnail description of a night out at the La Mon hotel; Lennie Murphy's psychopathic leasure pursuits; the Loyalist strike that closed down the Province entirely.  Ashe's debut novel hangs over the memory like a pall of smoke. It's no surprise to learn that the author is writing under a pen name and wants to keep her real identity hidden.

An Acceptable Level of Violence

Ashe, Alex

Literature & Fiction

This is a story about a journey within a journey: an inner journey and an outer journey, both set in the context of urban mission. The inner journey provides the meat of the narrative, whilst the outer journey provides colour, excitement, intrigue and drama. The stimulus for the outer journey arises from the author's experiences in living out her Christian faith in the inner city of Birmingham UK, as part of a church-based community project; this has raised issues and dilemmas that she needs to resolve, especially the Church's reponse to women in leadership. She decides to visit other women involved in urban mission, across the world, to see their work and to talk to them about their experiences of male oppression within the Church. In addition to women's leadership, she examines the issues of personal poverty (and indeed, the 'double poverty' of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity); the true nature of forgiveness and whether it can occur without confronting, and gaining acknowledgement of, in inherent injustice in a situation; and, the challenge of the 'Three Degrees of Humility' in urban situations. The issues are uncovered prayerfully during times of meditation during the inner journey, which starts in a prologue to the outer journey, in the first four chapters of the book, and continues throughout the outer journey to Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, Australia, Thailand and India. These travels provide a stark contrast to the inner meditatory journey. The women she meets during the outer travels include Jackie Pullinger-To, Veronica Silva, Dorothy McRae-McMahon, Mother Teresa and others; her discussions with them and some of the intriguing situations she finds herself in, as she travels alone, help to bring some answers to the dilemmas of her own urban ministry. These women speak their own stories, as do the poor amd marginalized people that she meets in thye streets and byways of the cities she visits; the homeless and destitute, heroin addicts, prostitutes, women who are victims of domestic violence and military rape, street children, families in poverty, lepers, beggars and orphans. Their stories become bound up with her own. Much of the inner journey is brought to a focus during a silent prayer retreat in Manila. here, in a wonderful picture of horses galloping freely across a valley, without rein or harness, the Lord provides an affirmation of the author's free spirit and comissions her to further urban ministry for him. The book is written mainly for women, especially those who feel called to urban mission, but is of interest to both sexes, especially the wider political issues arising from her journey: global warming, the effects of globalisation on the poor, Christian involvement in sociopolitical issues.

I Will Lift Up My Eyes

Parkinson, Christine

Biographies & Memoirs

The Habit

This fast moving financial thriller based around City dealing rooms, bars and clubs, takes you on a hunt for a serial rapist who attacks his prey in a London Taxi.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Armour, Richard

Thrillers & Suspense

This book examines Britain's war memorials, commencing with the white marble statuary erected in Britain's cathedrals in the 19th century to commemorate great commanders, through to the utilisation of bronze casting techniques in the 19th century to commemorate significant military figures and regiments. The British memorialisation process would be given added impetus by the magnitude of the nation's losses in the Great War. Immediately after that war, memorials would be erected by the Imperial War Graves Commission, schools, universities, businesses, clubs, municipal authorities, regiments or formations of the armed forces, or in some exceptional cases by the nation to commemorate a particular individual. Some communities erected no memorial at all. As will be seen in this study, the forms employed were limited only by the ingenuity of the individuals and organising committees concerned. They would include: literal statuary in stone and bronze, memorial chapels, ornamental fountains, plaques, Celtic crosses, Crosses of Sacrifice, obelisks, screen walls, clock towers, brasses, steam locomotives, musical instruments, cottage hospitals, retirement homes, rolls of honour and books of remembrance. The forms employed after the Second World War would include: bombed out churches, aircraft, boulders and that curious phenomenon, the war memorial bus stop. There are some 70,000 war memorials in the UK alone and the process goes on to the present day, with memorials still being erected to the fallen of a number of conflicts. Through a representative range of examples, this study explores the background, politics, financing, policy issues, organisations and personalities associated with the memorialisation process.

British War Memorials

History

Quinlan, Mark

Military

".and then the moon disappeared behind a cloud and Steven became conscious of a shape coming towards the windows, vast and empty - a black void. As he watched it, with mounting terror, a fleeting memory came to him. He remembered standing in Rita's room and feeling that echoing sensation of deadness - but now the void was here." The Moon Temple follows a man's fate as he becomes ensnared in an occult web of murder, strange practices, passion and insane political ambition. Steven Downs knows nothing about witchcraft - after all, this is 2001, not the Middle Ages. However, when he arrives in Exmoor to take up a legacy, he is assailed by malevolent powers determined to destroy him. After a frightening incident, in a valley near Porlock, he is befriended by a young woman who has unusual beliefs and who uses practices that have their origins in the ancient past. She guides him into the world of spirit and, with her friend, a psychic medium, she comes to Steven's aid. Together they seek to uncover the mystery lying behind the psychic attacks. But, the inexorable laws of karma wield their own terrible power leading Steven into a desperate and tragic struggle and to a growing awareness of his own karmic destiny - a destiny touched by a potentially dangerous enigma.

The Moon Temple

Mayo, Eric

Genre Fiction

Divided Loyalties

Children's Books

Upham, Linda

A collection of over 600 recipes of a passionate cook using all the ingredients of a Mediterranean diet. Extra virgin olive oil is used very successfully even in the making of pastry, bechamel sauce, cakes, brioche and madeleines. There are also many quick recipes.

My 600 Recipes

Chaplin, Lynette

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Anna: Collected Writings of a Russian Prostitute in Korea is a work of fiction, but is written in a form which could immediately relate to life. A collection of letters, diary-pages, scribbles, etc. Anna's hopeful vision of the future and of Russia is explored in her correspondence with Olga, who also lives in Russia, leading to an understanding of their economic predicament. They decide to work abroad, Anna in Korea and Olga in America. But what lies ahead for them is deception, fraud and even violence. Anna writes letters and keeps a diary, at first she writes about the feeling of refreshment and attachment as she begins a new life in Korea. However, one incident after another in Korea leads to problems and she feels suffocation and demoralised, until Anna (together with Olga in America) becomes entangled in tragic violence.

Anna - Collected Writings of a Russian Prostitute in Korea

Choi, Kyeong-Seop

Contemporary

Commencing with Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, this book consists of single pages of biography of 398 figures, all of whom, have at some point played a role in Britain's naval history. This study highlights the means by which they are remembered. Great Britain's landscape offers all manner of memorials and the forms touched on include: literal statuary in marble and bronze, portrait busts, church bells, locomotives, stained glass windows, obelisks, plaques, an enormous number of geographical features, schools, wildlife, public houses and even a number of craters on the moon. The explorers James Cook, Sir Edward Parry, George Vancouver, Matthew Flinders and George Henry Richards named most of the features they charted after naval figures, friends, family, colleagues, patrons and leading figures at the Admiralty. The use of the majority of these names endures to the present day. Whilst this book is populated overwhelmingly by admirals and great captains, the story also includes a number of civilians, a woman, an African slave and two Merchant Navy captains.

British Naval Personalties

Leaders & Notable People

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