Alexandra Fuller’s debut novel

It was my awakening to the colonisation of self by patriarchy of all forms. ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH, THINGS FALL APART The Chinua Achebe quartet For those of us raised on white voices. Achebe was my introduction to the alternative. I felt angry that this is what we’d suppressed. THIS SAME SKY Naomi Shihab Nye

Her poetry — I always, always have something of hers in my head.

RUNNING IN THE

FAMILY

Michael Ondaatje

I met Michael a few years ago. I am so awed by him. He is, I think, the finest craftsperson in the language alive today. CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY

Alan Paton