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Gill Shaddick
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The Hong Kong Letters: A Travel Memoir
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The Lion Behind the Anthill
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| I loved Jill's candor and sincerity in this beautifully written book about living in Barotseland in Zambia. I have just published my own memoir of my time in Zambia where I met my husband who was working in Barotseland, so I loveed its authenticity. ...more | |
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| I was brought up holidaying at a remote croft with no electricity or running water. My heart stays there still and I have often wondered what it would be like to live it. I bought one of Ghillie Basan's cookbooks and thought it was so good I sent her ...more | |
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| I have just reread treaty or Treason. I bought it as I grew up in Belfast until I was eleven and I enjoyed this snapshot of early 20th Century Irish politics and I followed up on many of the real cast of players threaded through the narrative. The ta ...more | |
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| I did not know. Now I do. I have lived briefly in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe. This whole terrible chapter passed me by. The bravery humbled me. The writing is so good. I almost did not want to finish, but of course, I had to. | |
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“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
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“You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.”
― Wild Geese
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“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
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“Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.”
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“You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it. ”
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Four of my favourites are: "Autobiography of a Yogi"; "Advice to a Young Wife from an Old Mistress" (as told to Michael Drury); "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz and "Two Lipsticks and a Lover" by Helena Frith Powell. X