0005 | Survival in the Killing Fields – Haing Ngor
REVIEW: Chilling, engaging, honest and tragic from beginning to end. Haing Ngor’s life couldn’t have been imagined and written as fiction if someone had sat down and tried to make…
0004 | Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
I actually downloaded a copy of this and listened to it over 4 hours. Beautifully read by Jerry Farmer in a great American drawl. REVIEW: The characters were magical and…
0003 | Cancer Ward – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
REVIEW I started this wondering where the novel was going to come from. Then it crept up and hit me with such force that I was left reeling for the…
0002 | Staying On – Paul Scott
Read this while travelling around SE Asia. Made me want to take off back to India. Also made me wonder at the life my grandmother had prior to leaving India…
0001 | Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee
Read this with Sheena while travelling around SE Asia. Never read a book about S. Africa so it was an insight simply from that point of view. A S. African…