Hold My Hand I'm Dying edition by John Gordon Davis Literature Fiction eBooks
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A stirring and compelling story, full of adventure, set against the background of the move to freedom in Africa. In the face of opposition, hatred, violence and death, the gentler human feelings of friendship and love are nonetheless maintained. Joseph Mahoney is the last Colonial Commissioner in the Kariba Gorge, faced with easing the transition to new rule. To complicate matters, his servant Samson has been accused of murder, and he is drifting apart from Suzie, whom he loves very deeply. Yet personal matters apart, he must deal with the simmering undercurrent of violence and revenge that might envelope the countryside at any moment.
The Author John Gordon Davis was born in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and educated in South Africa. He earned a BA in Political Science, paying his way through university by working as a deckhand on British merchant ships and on the Dutch whaling fleet at the Antarctic. He went on to take a Bachelor of Laws degree whilst serving as a judge´s clerk in Rhodesia.
Called to the Bar, he was appointed an assistant public prosecutor in the Magistrate´s Courts during the troubled years leading up to Rhodesia´s Unilateral Declaration of Independence, before becoming Crown Counsel in the Attorney General´s Chambers. He was later appointed to the same position in Hong Kong.
He quit this post to become a full-time writer when his first book, “Hold My Hand I´m Dying” became an instant best-seller. Other bestselling novels followed.
A veteran seaman; he and his Australian born wife, Rosemary, sailed round most of the world in a succession of yachts. Upon retirement, they travelled widely and from their home in a lovely old Spanish farmhouse in Andalucia, Spain, he also ran highly successful writing courses for both aspiring and published authors.
John Gordon Davis sadly died in 2014 leaving behind a rich literary heritage, including several unpublished novels he had worked on even as he supposedly slowed the pace.
Hold My Hand I'm Dying edition by John Gordon Davis Literature Fiction eBooks
Reread for the umpteenth timesA marvellous story of life and love in the final stages of white Rhodesia.
A very skilled writer John Gordon Davis was
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Hold My Hand I'm Dying edition by John Gordon Davis Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This is perhaps my most favorite book. It deals with life in Southern Rhodesia before and after independence from Britain. It's a very accurate, albeit fictional, account of the lifestyles of the 'white africans'. This is also a passionate and moving love story set in the turbulence of those unsettled times. I feel the author has accurately portrayed the ambivalence of white settlers in Africa - benevolent autocracy yet patronising towards the blacks and their aspirations. If I were to write a book, I hope I could convey the emotions of this book. Given the instabilty of the current black government in Zimbabwe and their attitude towards aids, civil rule of law, the author could quite easily say" I told you so!"
Absolute best-seller. I lived there during the last few years of Rhodesia and the first 4 years of Zimbabwe.
The book has everything. The way of life in those days, politics and a love affair that ended very sad.
Hold my hand, I am dying were also the words of my Rhodesian husband when he died.
I reread the book a few times as it takes me back to the time of laughter and sadness.
I enjoyed it very much, took me back
Got a bit repetitious and boring. The constant references to his relationship with his lover was actually annoying. Overall disappointing
On of the best books on Southern Africa I have read.
This book will keep your interest. I found it somewhat disjointed however. First book however, and in later books he seems to have this smoothed out.
Interesting to me as I am from Rhodesia although this was set at a time before I served my years in th ed bsap
Reread for the umpteenth times
A marvellous story of life and love in the final stages of white Rhodesia.
A very skilled writer John Gordon Davis was
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