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 In researching the first volume of the authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher, Charles Moore conducted extensive...
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I shed my clothes across...
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Ek word in intensiewe sorg geplaas, maar my toestand versleg steeds. Die glukosevlak in die serebrospinale vog (SSV)...
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 Jackie Cameron is one of the most exciting chefs working in South Africa today. Under her leadership the Hartford House...
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 Dr Wei started also, his deep, bossed gong laugh. "I say this to say that I admire the culture, your culture, its...
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The hearse pulled onto a scrubby track, traveled several hundred feet, and stopped. The passenger door opened,...
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Chapter One
I may have found a solution to the Wife Problem. As with so
many scientific c...
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The first decade of the 20th century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St Louis,...
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After a killer day at the office, nothing smoothed those raw edges like happy hour. On the...
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Among the Unreal People
In the hot flat bush in far northeast Namibia I crossed a...
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Through the chilly curtain of sleet, in the intermittent wash of the great light on the...
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 The intrusion had been coated with a dreamlike, almost hallucinogenic veneer. Now that the sun was up it seemed as...
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 They came at dusk, three of them knocking at the front door. She first saw them through the glass panel in the wooden...
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 Whitehall Palace, London, March 1543
There has been a late snowfall and the covered turrets of ...
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 If there is no dignity in death, then there is even less dignity in deciding who should be apportioned the most amount...
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An afternoon meeting with Colin Beswick. Afterwards Henry walked with Nellie in the garden. At the back of the...
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After beth left, Al got up, closed the door, and leaned her back against it, rolling her bottom lip between her...
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 I was born in Africa with a wind in my head . . . a wind which held in its breath the knowledge of all life since the...
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 A killer wind hurled bitter November air, toothy little knives to gnaw at the bones.She’d forgotten her gloves,...
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The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend....
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