Love in a Lost Land
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Foreign Correspondent Richard Brady arrives in Africa to report on a nationalist insurgency that has gripped a once-beautiful country. An innocent newcomer, he struggles to stay neutral in a bitter war waged with terror and atrocity by both sides.
He is soon drawn to Patience, a young township teacher with a fast tongue and a sharp wit. Their affair is tested when Brady discovers that his lover is recruiting her students to join the guerrillas and helping smuggle them across the border.
Lost in love, torn between the nationalist cause and an embattled white regime and with the war closing in on all sides, Richard faces the ultimate challenge. Can he keep the woman he loves in a world at war?
James MacManus is the managing director of the Times Literary Supplement. After studying at St Andrews University, he began his career in journalism at The Daily Express in Manchester. Joining The Guardian as a reporter in the 70s, James went on to become a foreign correspondent in France, Africa and Middle East. James's first book, Ocean Devil: The Life and Legend of George Hogg, was made into a film starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers. He has published several books since then to great acclaim, including On the Broken Shore, Black Venus, Sleep in Peace Tonight, and Midnight in Berlin. James has three children and lives in Dulwich, London. Love in a Lost Land is his eighth book.