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"If I stood you in front of a man, pressed the cold metal of a gun into your palm and told you to squeeze the trigger, would you do it?"
"No, Sir."
"Are you sure?"
"Of course, Sir. No ways!"
"What if I then told you we'd gone back in time and his name was Adolf Hitler? Would you do it then? Would you? Would you?"
- Out of Shadows
"A unanimous winner... A stunning debut novel without a false note. Accomplished and powerful, it changes the way you think." - Costa winner, 2010
Zimbabwe, 1980s... The war is over, independence has been won and Robert Mugabe has come to power offering hope, land and freedom to black Africans. It is the end of the Old Way and the start of a promising new era.
For Robert Jacklin, it's all new: new continent, new country, new school. And very quickly he is forced to understand a new way of thinking, because for some of his classmates the sound of guns is still loud, and their battles rage on… white boys who want their old country back, not this new black African government.
Boys like Ivan. Clever, cunning, wicked Ivan. For him, there is still one last battle to fight, and he's taking it right to the very top…
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Some Link HereAfter the publication of Out of Shadows, I rather naively and foolishly believed that all I had to do was mark a page with a blot ink and I'd get published again, but this couldn’t have been further from the truth. Ideas came, but the two novels I spent my time writing were – to put it bluntly – rubbish.
Cue sound of frustrated author going back to the drawing board, wondering: What is it people want to read?
That’s when I remembered this story about something that actually happened just an hour’s drive from where I used to live in Zimbabwe. The result? A book called Encounters. And for me – despite having once thought that I’d never do better than Out of Shadows – it is the best thing I’ve ever written.
You can find out more about Encounters here, or watch the trailer below.
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