Patrick Marnham
Patrick Marnham is the author of Fantastic Invasion: Dispatches from Africa and So Far from God: A Journey Through Central America. He writes regularly for the Spectator.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
In Search of Amin
Patrick Marnham
‘In Chicago and London the men who had never been to Amin’s Uganda already knew what they thought. An eye-witness account only served to confuse them.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Holy Week
Patrick Marnham
‘They carried the life-size wooden figure lying in the glass case out of the main doors of the church and into the churchyard.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
The Border
Patrick Marnham
‘This impression was supplied simply by the knowledge that I was in El Salvador. This was not Mexico or Panama.’