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A Street Cat Named Bob (DVD)
Luke Treadaway, Ruta Gedmintas, Joanne Froggatt, Anthony Head, Beth Goddard, …
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Roger Spottiswoode directs this feature film based on the true story that was adapted into the international bestselling autobiographical novel by James Bowen.
Luke Treadaway stars as James, a homeless man struggling with drug addiction and busking to get by on the streets of London. When James comes across an injured stray cat he nurses him back to health and names him Bob. They become inseparable and make for an unusual street music act. Bob's companionship inspires James to overcome his drug addiction and share his story.
The cast also includes Joanne Froggatt, Anthony Head and Ruta Gedmintas.
From the bestselling author of The Search for the Rarest Bird in the World comes On That Wave of Gulls. An audacious novel, the tale is told by three characters – an architect, a Khoisan vagrant and a seagull, all of whom recount their lives in Cape Town.
Hieronymus Vos is an overweight, white architect, recently fallen on hard times, and married to a beautiful, black British-Caribbean woman. Although he hates the ocean, his practice has, until recently, been doing very well by designing glitzy millionaires’ mansions on the Atlantic Seaboard. Pooi is a homeless man, recently arrived from the Kalahari, with a patchy grip on reality. He thinks he is the moon and wants to teach himself to swim so that he can reach Robben Island and fulfil a promise. The third narrator is Calypso, a female seagull who needs to find a mate and lay an egg to pass on her legacy and her identity.
On That Wave of Gulls is a shrewd and lyrical tour de force by a natural storyteller. By times heartbreaking and thrilling, this unforgettable novel propels the author into the lives of the novel’s three main characters, throwing light on living and being in Cape Town – a Cape Town that is part wilderness, part glamorous high-rise developments, part ocean. Their interactions are at times fleeting, at times profound, and behind them lies the joy, pain and tragedy of living at the southern tip of Africa.
This remarkable collection of birding stories, written by some of
our most intrepid bird observers, will convert a new generation of
South African ornithologists and watchers of wilderness. Birds and
their names sing from the pages; owls, Shoebills, sandgrouse,
Hooded Pittas, Rhinoceros Hornbills, Brown Kiwis, Rock Doves, Cape
Eagle Owls, Greater Flameback woodpeckers, Inaccessible Island
Rail, Superb and Beautiful Sunbird, Violet Turaco and the African
Crowned Eagle. Contributors include: David Allan, Mark D. Anderson,
Mark Brown, Callan Cohen, Susie Cunningham, W. Richard J. Dean,
Morne du Plessis, Vernon RL Head, Alan Kemp, David Letsoalo, Rob
Little, John Maytham, Adam Riley, Peter Ryan, Claire Spottiswoode,
Peter Steyn, Peter Sullivan, Warwick Tarboton, Mel Tripp and Ross
Wanless. All author royalties will be donated to the FitzPatrick
Institute of African Ornithology to support ongoing ornithological
research.
When Rain Clouds Gather
Escaping South Africa and his troubled past, Makehaya crosses the border to Botswana, in the hope of leading a peaceful, purposeful life. In the village of Golema Mmidi he meets Gilbert, a charismatic Englishman who is trying to modernise farming methods to benefit the community. The two outsiders join forces, but their task is fraught with hazards: opposition from the corrupt chief, the pressures of tradition, and the unrelenting climate ever threaten to bring tragedy.
Maru
Margaret, an orphan from a despised tribe, has lived her life under the loving protection of a missionary's wife. She has only to open her mouth to cause confusion, for her education and English accent do not fit her looks. When she accepts her first teaching post, in a remote village, Margaret is befriended by Dikeledi, sister of
Maru the chief-in-waiting. Despite making influential friends, Margaret faces prejudice even from the children she teaches, and her presence causes Maru and his best friend - also Dikeledi's lover - to become sworn enemies.
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