Author: Christopher Hope

Cites

• John Bunyan (1)
  • IN: Kruger's Alp (1984) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Pray, did you never hear what happened to a man some time ago of this town (whose name was Christian) that went on a Pilgrimage up towards the higher regions?
    FROM: Pilgrim's Progress, (1678), NULL, UK
• William Plomer (1)
  • IN: Kruger's Alp (1984) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: They took the hill (Whose hill? What for?) But what a climb they left to do! Out of that bungled, unwise war An alp of unforgiveness grew.
    FROM: The Boer War, (1960), NULL, South-Africa
• A. Herzen (1)
  • IN: Kruger's Alp (1984) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: We knew nothing of the theatrical element which is part of all revolutionary movements in France, and we believed sincerely in all we heard.
    FROM: Childhood, Youth and Exile, (1980), NULL, Russia
• NULL (2)
  • IN: The Garden of Bad Dreams (2008) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
    FROM: Old English proverb, (None), Proverb, UK
  • IN: My Mother's Lovers (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Wapiganapo tembo nyasi huumia.' 'When elephants fight the grass gets hurt.'
    FROM: Swahili Proverb, (None), Proverb, Swahili
• Ernest Hemingway (1)
  • IN: My Mother's Lovers (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon.
    FROM: True At First Light, (1999), Book, US
• Herman Charles Bosman (1)
  • IN: My Mother's Lovers (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: They are trying to make Johannesburg respectable ... to make us lose our sense of pride that our forbears were a lot of roughnecks who knew nothing about culture and who came here to look for gold.
    FROM: The Cask of Jerepigo, (1957), Novel, South Africa
• D. H. Lawrence (1)
  • IN: My Mother's Lovers (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Strange he is, my son, whom I have awaited like a lover. Strange to me like a captive in a foreign country ...
    FROM: Monologue of a Mother, (1916), Poem, UK
• Bror Blixen (1)
  • IN: My Mother's Lovers (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Life is life and fun is fun but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Sweden
• Beryl Markham (1)
  • IN: My Mother's Lovers (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I am not defenceless; I have a Lüger in my locker.
    FROM: West with the Night, (1942), Book, England/Kenya
• William Hughes Mearnes (1)
  • IN: Shooting Angels (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today. Oh, how I wish he'd go away.
    FROM: Antigonish, (1922), Poem, US

Cited by

• Christopher Radmann (1)
  • IN: Held Up (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It is always yesterday in South Africa.
    FROM: White Boy Running, (1988), Book, South Africa