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SPORT FlCTlON Kissing The Pink Jane Holland (Sceptre £10) it it
'She’s got the balls -— now all she needs is a decent break', plods the ciunkrng cover line in a fair warning of the type of cliches lurking Within. This book is supposed to offer a rare peek into the world of women's snooker as it follows the struggles of an aspiring champ and gutsy single mother as she tries to juggle the diametrically opposed demands of the green barze and her children.
Admirable as the protagonrst’s arms are, they don’t make for great fit tron Will Zoe achieve a higher ranking this tournament or Will she lack it in and clean the oven? Who actually cares.7 The basic premise rs dull enough but even the descriptions of the matches themselves, the real core of any novel about sport, are bereft of any real tension. This rs the written equivalent of a kitchen sink drama wrthout the drama. (1T)
RWANDAN STORIES
I We Wish To Inform You
That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
Philip Gourevitch (Picador £16.99) * fir **
The chilling title of this book comes from a desperate letter one Tutsi community sent to their Hutu church
leader in the midst of 800,000 machete massacres in less than 100 days.
A year after the Rwandan government called on the Hutu majority to extct-rrnrnate the lutsi rnrnorrty, Journalist Philip (mare/itch went to the republic to (irsc over -.'.~.".‘,/ two groups of people, who had lived together for centuries, beciar‘. to hate each other so feroc iouslv
Tales from those ac (used of inciting the slaughter are told aloiit;s»cle stories from survrri'or‘s, narratives of such elegrac folk-telling cartracrty, that it's cLsturbrnc; to find prose so poetic created out of sor'riethinri l)llj’.i1
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From the bestselling author of The Orion Mystery and The Mayan Prophecies
:\ii astounding work that blows away the mists ul‘iime and legend to reveal the \lHH‘lsillg reality behind the myth ni‘lxing "\rtlmr. llle pruduet all“! years ', nt‘ ri-sc-areln Hu- Iliily Kingduni will b
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