Mukiwa opens with Peter Godwin, six years old, describing the murder of his neighbor by African guerillas, in 1964, pre-war Rhodesia. Godwin's parents are liberal whites, his mother a governement-employed doctor, his father an engineer. Through his innocent, young eyes, the story of the beginning of the end of white rule in Africa unfolds. The memoir follows Godwin's personal journey from the eve of war in Rhodesia to his experience fighting in the civil war that he detests to his...

Award-winning author and journalist Peter Godwin writes with pathos and intimacy about Zimbabwe's spiral into chaos—and, along with it, his family's steady collapse—in this unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present.After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on ...

From award-winning author Peter Godwin, an “eloquent” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir about his evolving relationships with the women and places that shaped his life.Peter Godwin’s mother is dying.Born in England, and having spent most of her adult life as a doctor in Zimbabwe, she now lies on a hospital bed in the partitioned living room of his sister’s London home.Peter has spent his life missing his Zimbabwean childhood, a long...

A gripping insider's account of the final decade of white minority rule in Rhodesia, chronicling a society's struggle against the tide of history.In Rhodesians Never Die, Peter Godwin and Ian Hancock offer a nuanced and critical look at the white community's response to the escalating guerrilla war and immense political pressure that defined the 1970s. The authors explore the profound impact of the conflict on Rhodesian society, examining the internal divi...

After his father’s heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe’s dramatic spiral downwards into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in t...

Rhodesia, 1964: a small boy witnesses the death of his neighbor, murdered by guerrillas—it is the beginning of the end of white rule in Africa. In Mukiwa, Peter Godwin, the witness to that murder, has written "a classic of its genre" (Sunday Telegraph), a vivid and moving account of growing up in a colony rapidly collapsing into chaos.In unforgettable tales of innocence lost under African skies, we follow Godwin's awakening to the often savage struggle between whi...

There are guides to every aspect and every angle of parenthood-from prenatal to post-college-yet none tells us what couples really and truly feel once confronted with the awesome power of Nature's Course. The Three of Us does.Seasoned travelers, successful professionals, Joanna Coles and Peter Godwin arrived in Manhattan ready to make it their oyster-she to be the New York correspondent for a major British newspaper, he to pursue his prize-winning career as a writer and jou...

Hurricane Irma forced Joshua from the comfort of his new home. This category five hurricane completely demolished the house. However, he made his escape just in time. Desperate to find a safer place to ride out the storm, he sought shelter with his Landlady.Although he was comfortable living with his brother when he moved to the British Virgin Islands to seek employment, he desired his own space. The tiny wooden house just across the street from where he lived with his brother; loo...

William Godwin (1756–1836) was one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. He was not only a radical philosopher but a pioneer in libertarian education, a founder of communist economics, and an acute and powerful novelist whose literary family included his partner, pioneering feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft, and his daughter Mary Godwin (later Mary Shelley), who would go on to write Frankenstein and marry the poet Percy Bysshe Shel...

Holmes and Watson are at the perpetrator's will, while the accomplice is setting the Abbey alight. They are in a desperate and futile situation. But Holmes has an ace up his sleeve.

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 9: Throughout many years, Dr. John H. Watson accompanied his friend and companion Sherlock Holmes in solving countless mysteries and crimes. Beginning in the 1880s and into the 20th century, Holmes consistently held his status as the world’s most brilliant and successful detective. His accomplishments were painstakingly chronicled by Watson in notes that relate the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Many of his accounts have been published and are...

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 5: Throughout many years, Dr. John H. Watson accompanied his friend and companion Sherlock Holmes in solving countless mysteries and crimes. Beginning in the 1880s and into the 20th century, Holmes consistently held his status as the world’s most brilliant and successful detective. His accomplishments were painstakingly chronicled by Watson in notes that relate the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Many of his accounts have been published and are...