Patrick Marnham’s books include Fantastic Invasion: Dispatches from Africa, So Far From God: A Journey to Central America (winner of the 1985 Thomas Cook Prize) and Trail of Havoc: In the Steps of Lord Lucan. He has been a reporter for Private Eye and literary editor of the Spectator. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Paris.
Patrick Marnham’s books include Fantastic Invasion: Dispatches from Africa, So Far From God: A Journey to Central America (winner of the 1985 Thomas Cook Prize) and Trail of Havoc: In the Steps of Lord Lucan. He has been a reporter for Private Eye and literary editor of the Spectator. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Paris.
FANTASTIC INVASION
‘I find Fantastic Invasion one of those rare things, an important book on independent Africa today. It exposes a disastrous situation, arising from ignorance, sometimes hypocrisy, and sometimes greed. I would describe it as “uncommon-sense”. ’
-Graham Greene
‘An absolutely horrifying chronicle which, better than any book I know, explains Africa and finds a pattern in what has baffled every other observer up to now. It is a courageous and brilliant effort.’
-Paul Theroux
SO FAR FROM GOD
‘A marvellous - and trustworthy - book: Marnham travels through beautiful countries full of death and fear, their people religious, courteous and violent, befriending and observing across political and racial divisions... Vivid and acute... Highly recommended.’
-Sunday Times
‘One of the most powerful pieces of political reporting I have ever read.’
-Colin Wilson
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‘To those who imagine that the novelist's trade is a trade like any other... I would like to show them that it is, on the contrary, a vocation, a renunciation or even a sickness and a curse.’
- Georges Simenon
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