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To prosecute charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, one fact has to be established: are the bodies those of ordinary people, rather than combatants? It is the role of forensic anthropologists to answer this question by proving information on precisely who the victims were, and how they were killed. Their investigations into age, sex, ethnicity, and other characteristics return individual identities to lifeless remains. In 1996, Clea Koff was a 23-year-old graduate student studying prehistoric skeletons in California. She was sent to Rwanda by the UN to work with a small team exhuming victims of the 1994 genocide. Her job was to unearth evidence which would later be used to prosecute those responsible for the crimes. Over the next four years, Clea’s gruelling investigations into these and other murderous events transformed her from an idealistic student into a veteran war crimes expert. Clea Koff’s unflinching account of those years - what she found in the Rwandan hills and near Srebrenica; how it affected her; and who went to trial based on evidence she collected - makes mesmerizing reading, alternately riveting, frightening, and miraculously hopeful. Even as she recounts the hellish working conditions, the stifling UN bureaucracy and the agony of survivors, Clea Koff retains her passionate belief in humanity and justice. *Awards and accolades for The Bone Woman:* Jenny Crwys Williams named The Bone Woman her Book of the Year 2004 In the UK, Orange and Whitbread prize-winner Andrea Levy picked this book as one of the Books of the Year in the Guardian: "challenging but unforgettable". Clive James picked it as one of the International Books of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement: "the most impressive book about politics that I read this year." In the US, Discover named it one of the 20 Top Science Books of the Year, and Black Issues Book Review awarded it winner of Best Original Subjects, nonfiction in 2004. *Click here or on the book cover to purchase your copy of The Bone Woman* from kalahari.net**	The Bone Woman Clea Koff R110.00 ISBN: 1843541394 Published: March 2005 Atlantic Books Format: Paperback
How would you make sense of your life if you thought it would end tomorrow? In prose that is exquisite in its precision, Vesna tells the story of herself, her family and her lost country. Although purportedly an account of forty years in the life of a passionate woman, Chernobyl Strawberries traffics in the births and deaths of whole worlds. Vesna Goldsworthy’s captivating memoir about exile, love and motherhood marks the emergence of a stunning new literary talent. About the author: Vesna Goldsworthy left Yugoslavia in 1986 to marry an Englishman she had met at the Karl Marx Institute in Bulgaria two years earlier. Since arriving in England she has worked in publishing and for the BBC World Service. Her first book, Inventing Ruritania, a study of the "Wild East" of Europe in literature and film was published to broad critical acclaim. She currently teaches English at Kingston University and is Director of Kingston's Centre for Suburban Studies, which she founded in 2004. She lives in West London with her husband and young son *Click here or on the book cover to purchase your copy of Chernobyl Strawberries: A Memoir* from kalahari.net**	Chernobyl Strawberries: A Memoir Vesna Goldsworthy R170.00 ISBN: 1843544148 Published: April 2005 Atlantic Format: Hardback
With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at The Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that has made him invisible, and is locked in a struggle to discover the antidote. Forced from the village, and driven to murder, he seeks the aid of an old friend, Kemp. The horror of his fate has affected his mind, however - and when Kemp refuse to help, he resolves to wreak his revenge. About the author: Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, England, on September 21, 1866. He began to sell articles and short stories regularly in 1893. In 1895, his immediately successful novel The Time Machine rescued him from a life of penury on a schoolteacher's salary. His other "scientific romances":The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), The First Men in the Moon (1901), and The War in the Air (1908) won him distinction as the father of science fiction. Living until 1946, Wells witnessed a world more terrible than any of his imaginative visions, and he bitterly observed: "Reality has taken a leaf from my book and set itself to supercede me." *Click here to purchase your copy of The Invisible Man* from kalahari.net**	The Invisible Man HG Wells R85.00 ISBN: 014143998X Re-released April 2005 Penguin UK Format: Paperback
“Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity - 1950s New England, pre-co-ed Cambridge, pre-mass tourism Benidorm, where she and Hughes honeymooned, the birth of her son Nicholas in Devon in 1962. These and other passages are so graphic that you look up from the page surprised to find yourself back in the here and now . . . The struggle of self with self makes the Journals compelling and unique.” John Carey, Sunday Times About the author: Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. *Click here to find out more about The Journals of Sylvia Plath* from Penguin South Africa**	The Journals of Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath R140.00 ISBN: 0571225985 Time Warner April 2005 Format: Paperback
One unforgettable night in 1785, in a theatre in Drury Lane, the alchemy of love and murder suddenly fuses the lives of a Venetian actress and the prince of London’s medical underworld. Dangerous secrets and elaborate lies soon send the lovers spinning in different directions, desperate for the truth not just about one another but also their own pasts. It’s a time of astonishing remedies – peacock dung and millipedes are thought to be be as efficacious as gold dust and crushed serpents – and the lovers seek a balsamik, a sovereign cure to palliate evry human ill, every wound of love. Their quest takes them from the dank environs of London’s Bankside to the enigmatic city of Venice: her playhouse and brothels, apothecaries and quack doctors, spies and noblemen, her convents and crypts. The Remedy has been Longlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. About the author: Michelle Lovric is the author of two historical novels. She is the editor of Venice: Tales of the City and The Virago Book of Christmas. She lives in London and Venice. *Click here to purchase your copy of The Remedy* from kalahari.net**	The Remedy Michelle Lovric R140.00 ISBN: 1844081354 Published: April 2005 Time Warner Format: Trade Paperback

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LitNet: 14 March 2005

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