Driven – Vijay Lokapally

What makes Virat Kohli the undisputed monarch of the cricket world today is not his iconic status in the sports hierarchy but that the highest praise comes from the opposition camp and past greats. However his family didnt always have it good. No stranger to loss Kohlis biggest support both on and off the field – his father succumbed to a cerebral stroke when he was very young. In a fitting tribute that wouldve made his old man proud Kohli returned to continue an innings just a few hours after his father passed away. international cricketer of the Year as well as the ICCs Jennifer Eberhardt gives us the opportunity to talk about race in new ways ultimately transforming our thinking about ourselves and the world we want to create. MICHELLE ALEXANDER author of The New Jim Crow This is an exciting book which needs to be read by so many educators. DR VICTORIA SHOWUNMI UCL History . . . is seldom able to convey the essence of being human Frank McAllister has become wealthy in England where he has lived for thirty years. He has a house in Notting Hill a house in the New Forest and a house near Cape Town. But more and more he feels alienated in England. As the book opens he is preparing to go to South Africa with his lover Nellie. He is also waiting anxiously for his daughter Lucinda to arrive from California where she has been in rehab. Frank is a descendant of the Boer leader Piet Retief who was murdered by the Zulu king Dingane along with all his followers in 1838. He has been an icon of Afrikaners ever since. Franks Afrikaner cousin Jaco has become moderately famous on YouTube for having faced down a huge white shark. He is now in America where he has joined the Scientologists. His chaotic and violent life spills over on to Frank. He is drawn into a world of violence and delusion that is to threaten the family. Justin Cartwright possesses that rarest of novelists skills – the ability to create fiction which is intensely serious but which also vividly encompasses the absurdity and comedy of life. Up Against the Night is a subtle brilliant novel about South Africa its beautiful superbly evoked landscape its violent past and its uncertain present. Justin Cartwright is a descendant of Piet Retief.