Books by christopher hope

Once it seemed to Kathleen Healy that Africa was empty and all of it belonged to her. An aviator, big game hunter and knitting devotee, who once ... More

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A dragon and a little girl, both outcasts, become friends and help bring people and dragons together at a time when both need each other.

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In 1987, after a twelve year absence, Chistopher Hope returned to South Africa to report on the run up to that year's whites-only election. The ... More

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Once it seemed to Kathleen Healey that Africa was empty and all of it belonged to her. An aviator, big-game hunter and knitting devotee, who once ... More

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Bella is a teenage chocolate junkie - fashion-mad and God-haunted - who lives in the lakeside village of La Frisette in France with her aristocratic ... More

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Winner of the 1985 Whitbread Prize for Fiction: "Kruger's Alp" moves from pulpit to black township, from Johannesburg's fortress prison to the ... More

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To a time-locked Johannesburg suburb comes Nathan J. Swirsky to open his pharmacy. With his stories of exotic places and his gleaming bottles and ... More

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BROTHERS UNDER THE SKIN is an impassioned reflection by prize winning author, Christopher Hope, on the all too familiar traits of tyranny. From ... More

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"Shooting Angels" is Christopher Hope's first novel since "My Mother's Lovers" and builds on this startling return to form. 'There is everything you ... More

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Max Montfalcon lay in bed and tried to remember how many people he had killed...Old Max, the genial giant of Serenity House, north London's 'Premier ...

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Young Harry Moto has problems with fallen arches, crinkly hair that won't flatten down, a plump chest and, for a white man, unusually dark skin. ... More

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A South African bushman is sent on a mission to visit the Queen of England to remind her of her grandmother Victoria's pledge to protect his people ... More

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This is an unforgettable, highly acclaimed novel of African childhood by a prize winning author. In the jacaranda leafed garden of his Johannesburg ... More

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The Hottentot Room, an exclusive club for African exiles in Earl's Court, is ruled over by the eccentric and beautiful Frau Katie, a refugee from ... More

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"The Garden of Bad Dreams" is a seductive collection of short stories from Christopher Hope: a conjurer of strange places and displaced people.From ... More

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Begninning in 1949 with Afrikaner hopes dashed by the outcome of the war, this novel reveals the character and concerns of the people of South Africa ... More

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In this book the author provides a funny and thought-provoking personal response to Moscow. He found the city similar to South Africa - a world on ... More

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An account of life in a remote village in rural France. Life is hard, the climate is tough and the area is not a rural idyll at all. Instead ... More

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Hope's dispatches from the French Front - from the villages, cafes, bars and junk shops of Languedoc - do not describe rural idyll but a world of ... More

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This collection of short stories provides a vision of both sides of life in South Africa, and lays bare the absurdities of apartheid in a series of ... More

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