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THE NOWHERE MAN by Roy Holland

UK price: £9.89     US price: $17.95 Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS Format: Paperback: Perfect binding , cream interior Size : 6 x 9 (US trade) Pages: 262 ISBN: 978-0-9559741-0-6 Published: July-2008

 

Book Description

This is an entertaining story about a picaresque young man of the early nineteen-sixties. While he disbelieves almost everybody and habitually escapes his circumstances through comic fantasies, he tries to discover his identity, his niche, and his girl, in an authoritarian world he resents. He tries to escape his working-class milieu by reaching a university.

This is the first part of a trilogy where the main themes are the frailty of love (and of loyalty), and the durability of betrayal. Or to express it differently – the mortality of love and the immortality of betrayal. In the face of the gigantic and intricate mystery of the Universe, the last great act of celebration is to believe, and the last great act of belief is to celebrate.

About the author

Roy Holland was born in Birmingham. He went to Africa in 1966 to teach in the universities of the Boleswa countries. In 1971 he went to Greece for three years. He and his family lived on the island of Levkas for six months, the Gulf of Corinth for a similar period, and in Corfu for a little over two years. He wrote full-time until 1974, when he returned to the U.K. and worked on a research project until returning to Africa in 1977. Thereafter he lived in Southern Africa and worked in universities in Zimbabwe, Lebowa and Venda. He was Professor of English at the University of the North, the University of Venda, as well as Dean of the Faculty of Arts in the later 80's. He retired early to write full-time, and now lives in Ledbury, Herefordshire.

Other works by Roy Holland:

                                     

JOURNEY TOWARDS HIMSELF             by Roy Holland

UK price: £8.99     US price: $17.95 Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS Format: Paperback: Perfect binding , cream interior Size : 6 x 9 (US trade) Pages: 262 ISBN: 978-0-9559741-1-3 Published: July-2008

 

A hilarious evocation of life as a student at Cambridge University in the sixties, shortly after the time of such notable figures as F. R. Leavis, C.S. Lewis and E.M. Forster.

NOW LEAD ME HOME by Roy Holland

UK price: £10.99     US price: $21.95 Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS Format: Paperback: Perfect binding , cream interior Size : 6 x 9 (US trade) Pages: 262 ISBN: 978-0-9559741-2-0 Published: July-2008

 

In this third book of the ‘Jonathan Three’, the experiences conveyed by the protagonist’s stream-of-consciousness place the reader in the mind of the young man who eventually finds real love and meaning in a fulfilling relationship.

THE WAKING & MAKING OF PAUL GAUGUIN         A Play for Voices by Roy Holland

UK price: £6.99     US price: $15.02 Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS Format: Paperback: Perfect binding , cream interior Size : 6 x 9 (US trade) Pages: 98 ISBN: 978-0-9559741-3-7 Published: July-2008

 

It was during his illness, in 1887, when Gauguin was 39 years old, that the battle dramatised in this play – a battle imagined in his body, and in his mind, and in his moral nature – could have taken place

 

ALAN PATON SPEAKING    The Lintrose Conversations: Interview with Alan Paton   by Roy Holland edited by Charles Muller

UK price: £14.60     US price: $28.95 Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS Format: Paperback: Perfect binding , cream interior Size : 6 x 9 (US trade) Pages: 114 ISBN: 978-0-9559741-4-4 Published: August-2008

 

This interview with Alan Paton by Roy Holland has never, until now, been published. The interview took place on June 19 and June 20, 1973, when Holland was a guest in Paton’s home, Lintrose, at Bothas Hill, Kloof, Natal. It provides many insights into Paton’s life, his political involvement as the founder of the Liberal party in South Africa, and his writings.

Contact the author by email:  roy@royholland.fsnet.co.uk

Roy Holland