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JOURNEY TOWARDS
HIMSELF
by Roy Holland |
UK price:
£10.44
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
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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.
Book Description
On a bursary,
at Cambridge, Jonty loses
the girl he had found,
continues his search for
himself amongst academics
and students, and finding
them less admirable and more
comical than expected, he
learns to discern their
qualities, while, without
finding his niche, also
learns to see virtues in his
own roots.
“Some of the
scenes are quite hilarious.
This is a graphic and
entertaining evocation of
university life at Cambridge
following the years when the
author was a student there,
with the august presence of
notable figures like F.R.
Leavis, C.S. Lewis, and E. M
Forster; at the same time
the protagonist’s stream of
consciousness enhances the
experience. The book is
every bit as entertaining as
Kingsley Amis’s ‘Lucky
Jim’.” – Charles Muller,
Diadem Books.
This is the
second 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.
Available from the
following on-line
bookstores:
Other
works by Roy Holland:
 
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THE
NOWHERE MAN
by Roy Holland
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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:
978-0-9559741-0-6
Published: July-2008
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A young man
in
Birmingham,
in the
sixties,
escapes the
humdrum
mundanity of
life through
fantasies,
tries to
find
himself, and
finally
escapes his
dead-end
lifestyle by
gaining a
place at a
university.
NOW LEAD
ME HOME
by Roy
Holland
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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
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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
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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
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