This was a fascinating work of historical fiction that takes the reader right into the terrifying and often times comically surreal actions of a brutal African dictator. The entire novel is a first person account told through the eyes of Nick Garrigan, Idi Amin's fictional personal physician. Ami...
Mid 5. The seige and defence of Ladysmith was of momentous import to the preservation of the ideals which underpinned the British Empire, amidst a conflict which brutally exposed the outdated approach of the Crown's forces. Set in 1899, this novel brilliantly evokes the suffering of the beseiged ...
Foden is better known for novels like The Last King of Scotland and Zanzibar, but this book shows that he is equally adept at non-fiction. The Mimi and Toutou of the title were a pair of British motor launches sent to gain control of Lake Tanganyika during the First World War. The commanding offi...