Skindeep
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The January cover of BfK features an illustration from No More Television!, the latest title from Philippe Dupasquier who is the subject of this month's Authorgraph. The book is published by Andersen Press and we're grateful to them for their help in using this on our front cover.
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Skindeep
Personalise an issue and it achieves greater power to persuade. Apartheid is an emotive subject and through Toeckey Jones' creation of the relationship between Rhonda and Dave strikes a chord of commonality with the reader. The sting in the tail is that Rhonda is white but Dave is Pass-White: a pale-skinned coloured. Rhonda's reaction to this discovery is conditioned by her upbringing: she and Dave polarise race and attitude in South Africa. The book edges towards a movingly unexpected conclusion which shifts from the personal to the global with convincing clarity. This would be an ideal text for GCSE Open Study.
