Three steps to a darker side
Three new books at the library that will take you three steps closer to the darker side:
Fearless Fighter by Vera Chirwa
Vera Chirwa’s story is one of betrayal, imprisonment, torture and exile. Yet it is also a story of hope, inspiration and extraordinary bravery.
Chirwa talks about her past with immense courage and humour. She married a political campaigner and together they fought for independence, angered by the institutional racism and discrimination in the country. She suffered twelve years of detention without a fair trial. trial. After her husband Orton died in custody under suspicious circumstances, Vera became a leading voice campaigning for human right rights.
A Hell of a Woman An anthology of Female Noir by Megan Abbott
Two-dozen stellar stories starring a wide variety of unforgettable female protagonists. The women at the centre of these fictions are extraordinary. You wouldn’t want most of them in your town, but must be granted some sort of respect for their smarts and their guts.
Dark tales of lonely housewives, diner waitresses yearning for more, schoolgirls with dangerous ambitions, hustlers looking for one last score, factory girls with big plans, secretaries with hidden talents, school teachers with secrets to burn……And every one of them, a hell of a woman.
The Killing Ground by Jack Higgins (Audio book)
For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, it begins with a routine passport check. But the events it will lead to will be as bloody as any he has ever known.
The man he stops at Heathrow Airport is Caspar Rashid, born and bred in England but with family ties to a Bedouin tribe fiercly wedded to the old ways. His thirteen-year-old daughter, Sara, has been kidnapped by Rashid’s own father and taken to Iraq to be married to a man known as the Hammer of God, one of the Middle East’s most feared terrorists. When Rashid begs Dillon for help, he sees a chance to settle co some old scores-but he has no idea of the terrible chain of events he is about to unleash.
