Hold My Hand

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By instinct, I'm a “cause” writer — whether it's whales, zoos or South Africa — I would like to send a message or enlighten people.

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 an LL.B. degree. Called to the Bar, he was appointed public prosecutor during the troubled years leading up to Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence, before becoming Crown Counsel in Hong Kong.

 

Gordon Davis writes the kind of books which have earned him the title of ‘popular novelist’, a. phrase often used as a sneer. Cheerfully rolling yet another skinny cigarette, he says: ‘I don’t mind that. I want to be a popular novelist. By instinct, I’m a “cause” writer — whether it’s whales, zoos or South Africa — I would like to send a message or enlighten people. But I have to be cautious; most people want to read a yarn. I’m in the entertainment business, and that involves telling a good tale.’
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 successful novels followed.

David Hilton-Barber

Pioneering people, interesting places and significant events – these are the themes of David Hilton-Barber’s non-fiction historical books. Highly readable and entertaining, his stories are told through the eyes of the characters living at the time.

The author identifies with the genre of writers such as TV Bulpin and AP Cartwright who popularised travel and history. He subscribes to the notion that was first expressed by George Cory, the eminent historian whose name is embodied at the Cory Collection at the Rhodes University Library:

 

It is no more than the grateful duty of a succeeding generation to revere the memory of those who bore the heat and burden of the days long gone. But better than merely holding in one’s memories of departed heroes is the placing on permanent record the account of their lives and works.
Hilton-Barber is a fourth generation South African. He was born in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape and holds a BA Honours degree from Rhodes University. He then trained as a journalist, following in the footsteps of his maternal great-grandfather Frederick York St Leger, founder and first editor of the Cape Times.

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Weight 0.300 kg
Dimensions 22.8 × 15.0 × 0.6 cm
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PublisherFootprint Press Publication Date06/11/2018

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