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NOW LEAD ME HOME by Roy Holland

UK price: £12.09     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. 

Book Description

The only job Jonty can get after graduating is in a women’s Domestic Science College where the students are training to become teachers – a job for which he is quite unsuited and in which he has no experience. He finds the atmosphere suffocating, and his colleagues overwhelmingly stuffy. He seduces one of the students with whom he falls completely in love. Her sanity and verve are life-giving. She falls pregnant, and a daughter is born to them. The experience gives him meaning and purpose. His Jewish friend – for whom he has great admiration – turns up with proposals that give him joy.

This is the third 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:

                                     

	THE NOWHERE MAN 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: 978-0-9559741-0-6 Published: July-2008

 

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