Maybe it’s because he makes the rationalizations we know were made at that time. Maybe it’s because he’s so familiar to us.
In that magic moment, the two boys are worried about nothing more than impressing their fellow villagers. Everyone traps the leopard using a goat, but they want to keep their goat. At the start of the novel, he and his friend Temba are trying to kill a leopard for their warrior training but they want to go a step further. Because of this stigma and craving his stepfather’s approval, Madu goes above and beyond.
Unknown to anyone at the time of their marriage, she’s pregnant with Madu. Madu’s mother was a Sumba woman captured in battle and married to a warrior in the tribe. Madu’s portion of the story line has a tone reminiscent of the master of African Literature, Chinua Achebe. Nobody’s Slave is based on true historical events. When the tables are turned will Tom and Madu be able to form a friendship which will have them survive? Madu is confused and frightened when he is taken as a prisoner to the slave ship. Two tribes are at war, as the tribe opposing Madu’s makes a deal with the English to give their prisoners into the slave trade. Tom is a young English boy on a slave ship that has gone hunting for their next human cargo. The first two books in the series, A Game of Proof and A Fatal Verdict, were each awarded a B.R.A.G Medallion for being outstanding independent novels.Madu is a young African warrior-in-training who craves the approval of his stepfather. Tim has also written a series of four legal thrillers about a tough British barrister, Sarah Newby, which readers have compared to the works of John Grisham and Scott Turow.
Cat and Mouse, The Blood Upon the Rose, and The Monmouth Summer all feature women involved in dramatic struggles based on real carefully researched historical events. Nobody’s Slave, a novel about the Elizabethan slave trade, won first prize in the young adult category of the Kindle Book awards 2014. His four full-length historical novels have also won praise. He wrote several textbooks for Norwegian schools, and many short books for foreign learners of English, several of which won awards from the Extensive Reading Foundation. He has recently retired, but worked for many years as a lecturer at the University of York, where he was paid good money to teach Norwegian students about life in Britain, which – coming from one of the richest countries on earth – they found curious, quaint and fascinating. He has a wife, two children, two grandchildren, two horses, and a hyperactive springer spaniel – all of which conspire to keep him active, and stop him from sitting around as much as he would like. Tim Vicary lives in the English countryside near York, in the north of England.
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