"Caroline Jane Knight is the last of the Austen Knight family to grow up at Chawton House, the sixteenth-century English manor house on the ancestral estate where Jane Austen lived and wrote. Caroline ate at the same dining table, read in the same library, explored the same country lanes and shared the same dreams of independence as Jane Austen did. But when she was seventeen, Caroline and her family were forced to leave the home her famil ...
Malika Ndlovu takes us right into the heart of her grief – the loss of her third child, who was stillborn. The book breaks the silence around stillbirth, often seen as a non-event, something women are expected to «get over» as soon as possible, Invisible Earthquake is placed in the wider South African context by Sue Fawcus, who writes tenderly and expertly about stillbirth from the point of view of an obstetrician, and by Zubeida Bassadien and M ...
In 1963 Mukwahepo left her home in Namibia and followed her fiance across the border into Angola. They survived hunger and war and eventually made their way to Tanzania. There, Mukwahepo became the first woman to undergo military training with SWAPO. For nine years she was the only woman in SWAPO's Kongwa camp. She was then thrust into a more traditional women's role – taking care of children in the SWAPO camps in Zambia and Angola. At ...
Life at boarding school is not all diets, dresses and dances, as Trinity Luhabe discovers when her parents move overseas for a term. She has hardly settled into Sisulu House when she finds herself caught up in the most unexpected love triangle of her life. Zach is the school sports hero, while James is different to anyone shes ever met. One of them wants to control her the other holds the key to an old secret that has been buried for a very long ...
Судьба Н.И. Столяровой (1912, Генуя – 1984, Москва), полная необычных обстоятельств и драматизма, похожа на увлекательный роман и связана с важнейшими событиями XX в.: революцией, двумя мировыми войнами, сталинским террором. Круг знакомств Н.И. был безгранично широк – от Бориса Савинкова до Ива Монтана. Никакие обстоятельства не смогли сломить её бесстрашия, уничтожить в ней чувство собственного достоинства. Трижды удавалось ей провести за нос в ...
