What I’m Reading: Terry Morris
By Kate Sidley for the Sunday Times:
Terry Morris is managing director of Pan Macmillan South Africa
As usual I am immersed in about six books – some for work and others purely for entertainment. I’ve just finished Boomerang by Michael Lewis, a wickedly funny, but ultimately devastating, view of the financial crisis across Europe.
I’ve been motoring through a number of phenomenal manuscripts for publication in 2012 by authors such as Nadine Gordimer, Frank Chikane and Lawrence Anthony. I was intrigued by all the hype surrounding Teju Cole’s novel Open City and so far I am definitely not disappointed.
Following her recent trip to South Africa, I picked up a copy of Michela Wrong’s In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, and it is a sharply researched and eye-opening account of the Mobutu Sese Seko era in Zaire.
In between all of this, I am reliving my childhood, reading an array of wonderful picture books to my twins: Again! by Emily Gravett, The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler and I Am Not Sleepy and I Will Not Go to Bed by Lauren Child.
Book details
- Open City by Teju Cole
EAN: 9780571279425
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- In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo by Michela Wrong
EAN: 9781841154220
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