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  Author(s): Marita van der Vyver, translated from Afrikaans by Annelize Visser  Title:      Forget-Me-Not Blues  ISBN:  978 0 624 05644 7  Publisher/place:  Tafelberg, Cape Town  This Edition: first English translation  Year of Publication: 2012  First Published: 2012  Binding: paperback Number of pages:  346  Weight: 380g  Condition:   Very good  -has previous owner’s name written inside      

About the product Cover title reads:'Im kampf um Süd-Afrika. Der kampf in der Kapkolonie'. 8vo; original light brown cloth, attractively blocked in darker brown and green to spine and upper cover, with pictorial onlay to upper cover; pp. viii + 293 + publisher's catalogue; plates; line drawings in text. Backstrip slightly crumpled at head and tail; signatures working loose but holding. Good condition. German text. (Spohr&Poller 479; SABIB 2, p. 66) Sympathetic account of the Boer guerillas'activities in the Cape, particularly during the latter stages of the South African War. A. De Wet, with H. van Doornik and G. T. du Plessis: Die Buren in der Kapkolonie im Kriege mit England

Paperback. English. Harvill Secker. 2007. In fair/good condition.The most important things are hardest to find words for, her father once said. That's why people make music. When Ana returns to the ramshackle cottage of her youth in the seaside village of Noordhoek, near Cape Town, she does so with the intention of sorting out her father's affairs. It soon becomes clear that more is at stake. After a decade in London, where she has failed to find work as a musician, her return to South Africa puts further distance into an already strained marriage, not only because she is out of reach, but because Michael, her husband, has lost faith in the country. Quick to welcome her is her neighbour, Franz van der Veer, an architect searching for redemption. This is further complicated by the arrival of his eccentric brother, Daniel. Against a tangle of childhood memories, scarred histories and renewed hope, Ana finally starts to confront the death of Sam, her Irish luthier father, and with it, questions of guilt and belonging. Lyrical and beautifully told, 'Quarter Tones' is a story about music and love and loss.

About the product Edited by L. A. Hewson and F. G. van der Riet. 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper maps; pp. (iv) + 106, incl. index; 2 plates. Merest trace of foxing to edges. Near-fine condition.'The Rev. John Ayliff, 1820 Settler and one of the pioneer missionaries of the Eastern Cape, left among his papers an unfinished manuscript, here published in full for the first time under the title The Journal of Harry Hastings, Albany Settler. It consists of a narrative mostly in diary form of the experiences of a young British settler of 1820 whom the writer calls"Harry Hastings": the four-month voyage from London to Algoa Bay, the trek to the settlement near Bathurst and the difficult months that followed. Harry Hastings is to be regarded not only as an alter ego of John Ayliff, but also as a typical British settler, a"rooinek"transplanted from Whitechapel to the Zuurveld. The narrative offers a lively and entertaining account of settler life, and a unique fund of information about the first years of the Albany Settlement.'