Scribbling the Cat, by Alexandra Fuller (used)

‘Look back too much and you are wiped out by the tree in front of you,’ Alexandra Fuller's dad told her. She ignored him, and Scribbling the Cat is the result–a mesmerizing account of her journey from Zambia through Zimbabwe and Mozambique in the company of K, a white, battle-scarred veteran of the Rhodesian war, a born-again Christian with blood on his hands. Alexandra and K revisit the scenes of the war, and on their travels meet other veterans who will never be able to leave it behind. Scribbling the Cat is a remarkable glimpse of men who have killed, tortured and scrambled to survive in a land haunted by strife, told in a prose marked by a fierce beauty and a commitment to telling some difficult truths.

‘[Fuller’s] refusal to flinch from the truth, both about herself and her subject, is part of what makes this tale so gripping. You’d be hard pressed to find another author who wrote more evocatively about the smells and sights of Africa’ – Herald

‘K and a cast of crazed former hunter-killers give us a dark, often hilarious, ultimately unforgiving moral travelogue’ – Guardian

‘Wonderfully well written, often hootingly funny’ – Sunday Times

Condition: fair, cracks in spine