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Risk was nominated for a South African Literary Award in the Best Young Author category, [2] and revolves around a group of hedonistic university students who create the ultimate dare game, which culminates in them attempting to trigger a modern-day revolution.
The BBC adapted the book for television and The Story of Tracy Beaker ran for five series on CBBC from 8 January 2002 to 9 December 2005, featuring Dani Harmer as Tracy Beaker. [6] In 2009, a sequel series to The Story of Tracy Beaker was announced, titled Beaker's Back but eventually retitled Tracy Beaker Returns .
One of the most influential and popular gamebook series was the Fighting Fantasy series, which started in 1980 when a Puffin Books representative saw a hall full of 5,000 people playing Dungeons & Dragons and asked Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson to make a book about role-playing games. They instead offered the idea of a book which simulated ...
Games of dare are depicted in fiction. In the movie A Christmas Story (1983), set in 1940 America, a scene portraying escalating dares results in negative outcomes. [6] The game is portrayed in the English children's novel The Dare Game, the second episode of the first series of the TV adaptation of The Story of Tracy Beaker, and in the French film Love Me If You Dare.
The book is told from the point of view of Tracy Beaker, a troubled ten-year-old girl. Tracy is often unhappy and has problems with her behaviour because she is lonely, frustrated and feels unloved. Tracy is often unhappy and has problems with her behaviour because she is lonely, frustrated and feels unloved.
Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years is a book by Nelson Mandela and Mandla Langa describing Mandela's term as President of South Africa.It was published in 2017, four years after Mandela's death, and is based on an unfinished memoir that Mandela had worked on after his term as president, as well as archive material and interviews, and has a prologue by Graça Machel.
The following is a list of notable works of fiction which are set in South Africa: Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee; Karoo Boy by Troy Blacklaws; Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer; The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer; Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful by Alan Paton; Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton; Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton ...
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