Great African Reads discussion

Have you checked out Upturned Earth? Set in Namaqualand during the winter of 1886, it’s a gripping story of a mining community.

‘A remarkable and moving book. Evocative of an era of raw possibility; unflinching as it traces the veins of violence that run through South Africa’s bedrock to this day.’ – Henrietta Rose-Innes

‘Drawing from real events in the distant and recent past, Jennings takes the reader on a journey, digging up and exposing persistent fault lines of power.’ – Jen Thorpe in the South African Sunday Times

You can read an excerpt, William Hull arrives in Port Nolloth, on this page https://www.hollandparkpress.co.uk/bo...