1. How the Imp got its name
2. The Merry-go-round
3. The death of the Consul
4. The wandering Jew
5. Fifteen
6. The Cruel Month
7. Red Naphtali
8. Coping with Commissars
9. On her knees
10. Trench Warfare
11. The Rains Came
12. Captain K
13. Bootee
14. Scorpions
15. A Third Scandal
16. The flames of Akasul
17. The mystery Englishman
18. The Mamba
19. The Straw blond Brigade
20. Dry Lands
21. The motorbike
22. War – never again!
23. Out of the Water
24. The Ishe Kwandu
25. Missis Stook-took
26. That man should be shot
27. Not laughing any more

Odds and Ends

28. The Wrong Horse
29. The Long Shadow
30. Broken Glass
31. The Crown and the Clippie
32. The Schnorrer
33. Gabitz 92
34. Klose
35. Aziza
36. Julius
37. That great future behind me
38. The Refugees
39. Growing Pains
40. Among the Teetotallers
41. Broken Glass
42. The Tree
43. Bar Bozo, Mopti
44. Berta
45. The Cut-throat and the Poet
46. Accra Bar Number Two
47. White Girl’s White Lie
48. Couvaras
49. The Swanzy Gold
50. Whitley’s Challenge
51. Teacher’s Pet
52. Bleeding
53. Weeping
54. Jackson’s Death
55. Mutiny
56. Just a bit of wood
57. Tryst with Destiny
58. Secret Messages
59. Into the Void
6o. Christmas Tour
61. A Place of Slaughter
62. The Reverend
63. Margot
64. Pollock
65. La guerisseuse
66. Was Opa kidnapped?
67. Rick
68. Place of Slaughter
69. Ice Flowers
70. Inanimate Objects
71. Howling
72. Uncle George
73. Winston Phiri’s troubles
74. A matter of weight
75. I shall do such things
76. Voice from the coffin
77. Champagne for my horse – A bucketful
78. What if
79. Kinderheim Witkowsky
80. Mister Teacher
81. Capricorn
82. Yerushalayim
83. Aunt Friederike
84. Addicted to danger
85. TV? What’s all the fuss about?
86. The Amber Ring
87. Lettuce to Tigers
88. Thanks Before I Go
89. Dark Entrance
90. Sweetcorn fritters
91. A swarm of bloody foreigners!
92. It never rained at Marienbad.
93. The Peasouper
94. The Union Jack
95. Blidi
96. Kru or Crew
97. Punish him, oh Lord
98. “Knee-high to a Grasshopper
99. The Pasha from Upper Silesia
100. General Orders
101. Badly Handled
102. Red Riding Hood
103. Tarmac Tilly
104. I Turned Blackmailer
105. Taking tea with the KGB
106. Estaria escribienda esto en espaniol…
107. Dawn Patrol
108. Dining Out
109. Grit in my hair
110. South Park
111. Rogues
112. The Locusts came
113. Glogau
114. The Letter
115. Spitoon
116. Bow Legged Pete
117. Last Summers at Marienbad
118. Brothel melodies
119. The Runner
120. Pain in the neck
121. The tide at Grand Cess
122. Clara – mad, quite mad
123. Cold Place
124. Say it woth Flowers
125. First sights of France.
126. The Qualities of the British (part 2)
127. Antagonists.
128. Port and Lemonade
129. Khetu
130. The Greeting
131. In Praise of Brits
132. What makes a bestseller
133. Brideshead UNvisited
134. Opa’s Telephone
135. The Dattler
136. Freut Euch des Lebens
137. The Flood
138. Mosley’s Finger
139. Storks
140. Grandmother’s Rembrandt
142. Miss Raebe
143. Sophie’s life’s work.
144. Spa towns
145. The Kettle
146. Dark Cliffs
147. The Alteration Hand
148. Ronnie at auctions
149. On not losing my heart
150. The Mendies
151. Walter
152. The Market
153. All those Ghosts
154. The Dance Class
155. Male Birth Pains
156. Chalimbana
157. The Chicken
158. Sybil
159. One-arm Willy
160. Noticing
161. But he’s Alive
162. Mr Phillips
163. The Mongol onslaught of 1241
164. Rustication
165. Trying
166. Volvic
167. Cold War profiteers
168. Aunt Kaethe
169. Tubby and Son
170. Poor Bernard
171. Navigating
172. “I’ll bash your head in”.

 

 

 

 

 

Merran Fraenkel’s Liberia Letters

Letters written to Peter (in London) from Liberia in 1958. The earlier ones were written before Peter followed Merran to Liberia; the later ones after his return from two months with her. The private love-talk has been deleted.  Landing at Monrovia Merran had an accident: She had jumped from the ship’s gangway and wrecked her foot.

Liberian Letters 1
Liberian Letters 2
Liberian Letters 3
Liberian Letters 4
Liberian Letters 5
Liberian Letters 6
Liberian Letters 7
Liberian Letters 8