Landeg White

“The novel is a rich, informative, sometimes alarming and often moving account…generous and perceptive …post-post colonial in the ironies and sympathies it has available for almost all its characters. A novel of confidence and subtlety….” Read More

“It was felt by Bridget O’Toole, with a little burst of girlish optimism. For the first time in seventeen years, after bearing him nine children, she felt the earth move as her husband climbed on board her ample body. Then the rattling of the crockery on the dresser brought her to her senses. . . ” Read More

“Two people have been murdered in Sierra Leone in what appear to be acts of ritual cannibalism. They are the nephew of the Minister for Natural Resources, and a girl with the American Peace Corps. To his horror, Detective Inspector-Eustace Tucker, a Freetown Creole addicted to Jane Austen, is put in charge of the case. . . . . ” Read More