Lois
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Tim Butcher:
Tim, as a Librarian, I am still recommending your book "The Trigger.." and just had someone come back and say she loved it! I am anxiously awaiting your next book. When will it be published?
Tim Butcher
Tim, as a Librarian, I am still recommending your book "The Trigger.." and just had someone come back and say she loved it! I am anxiously awaiting your next book. When will it be published?
In Africa we have a tradition of `praise singers’, those who walk before warming up the crowd and telling them of the virtues of the person about to appear. It tends to be for chiefs and such luminaries but this author will gratefully accept your `praise singing’. Thank you for the support.
I am wrestling with my current book, a personal account of nationhood and an exploration of patriotism and chauvinism. The League of Nations is about to mark its centenary and that date has inspired me to unravel how the nation came to dominate our thinking space, our political discourse, our whole sense of identity.
I have two other books already published which you might mention to your inquirer: Blood River and Chasing the Devil.
With thanks and best wishes, TimB
In Africa we have a tradition of `praise singers’, those who walk before warming up the crowd and telling them of the virtues of the person about to appear. It tends to be for chiefs and such luminaries but this author will gratefully accept your `praise singing’. Thank you for the support.
I am wrestling with my current book, a personal account of nationhood and an exploration of patriotism and chauvinism. The League of Nations is about to mark its centenary and that date has inspired me to unravel how the nation came to dominate our thinking space, our political discourse, our whole sense of identity.
I have two other books already published which you might mention to your inquirer: Blood River and Chasing the Devil.
With thanks and best wishes, TimB
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Brad Patton
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Tim Butcher:
Where can I get a kindle of Chasing the Devil? Have searched high and low. Assume there is some contractual problems with them. Greene's book on Liberia / Sierra Leone is frankly terrible-- I stopped reading it when he adds a laundry list from social columns in a local paper. It was God awful for numerous reasons...he must have been learning to write as I like some of the later works. Read your Sarajevo book ..
Julie
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Tim Butcher:
Tim, wanted to thank you for your book Chasing the Devil. I've been to Liberia twice in the past 2 years. Our church has been involved with the work at Ganta Hospital for >10 years, so I've been able to make some solid connections there. Reading your book took me right back to this land I've come to love. Any plans to return there? Or are any of your other books set in West Africa?
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