Search results for ""author liz mcgregor""
Jonathan Ball Publishers SA Unforgiven: Face to Face with my Father’s Killer
'This is a shocking story told by a searingly honest writer ready to look her country - and herself - squarely in the eye. It offers no false cheer, but something far more valuable and compelling: the often painful truth.' JONATHAN FREEDLAND, Author, The Escape Artist'A heart-wrenching and illuminating memoir of a daughter's quest for answers and the ever-elusive "closure"' KERRY DAYNES, Author, The Dark Side of the Mind and What Lies BuriedA searing, intimate memoir tracing the author's attempt to find out the truth about her father's murder.Robin McGregor, an older man who has recently moved into a small town outside Cape Town, is brutally murdered in his home. Cecil Thomas is convicted for the crime, but his trial leaves more questions than answers. As much as his daughter Liz McGregor tries to move beyond her grief - she finds new work, she even discovers love - she still wants answers. What drove Thomas to torture and kill a complete stranger?The author meets the murderer's family and discovers that he comes from a loving, comfortable home. He is educated and skilled, there is no apparent reason for his descent into delinquency. After protracted obstruction from the prison authorities, she finally gets to confront him but not without putting herself in danger. She finds answers, but not the answers she is looking for.Unforgiven tells a story seldom told: what happens to a family when one of their own is murdered? In a country where, year upon year, tens of thousands of people lose a loved one to violence. Where restorative justice is preached but not practiced. Where prisons are universities of crime. What would it take to achieve redemption? For the victim, the perpetrator and the country?
£16.99
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Khabzela: The life and times of a South African
"Khabzela" by Liz McGregor, concerns the brief life and perplexing death of Fana Khaba, a.k.a. Khabzela, a youth icon whose brief life mirrors that of the first generation to reach adulthood after liberation. Born and brought up in dire poverty in Soweto, he managed against all the odds to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a DJ. No sooner had he achieved this, than he fell ill with AIDS. The central question of this timely and astonishing book is: why didn't he take anti- retrovirals and save his own life? Liz McGregor's search for an answer takes the reader on a journey through modern South Africa; the taxi wars and the birth of the kwaito generation, the negotiation of sexual relations in a world where sex can mean death and the flourishing of a new industry of miracle-peddlers feeding off the AIDS epidemic. Edwin Cameron, author of "Witness to Aids", comments: "Liz McGregor's account of the choices and circumstances that caused this talented and visionary young man to die, when he could have had life, is riveting and deeply moving".
£10.79