As a British 19-year-old, Treive Nicholas spent a year in the Transkei, then a “homeland” under the apartheid system – and the place Nelson Mandela came from. In A Nun and the Pig: Tales from South Africa (Amberley Publishing), Nicholas looks back 40 years later on that extraordinary year, in which he coached a paraplegic sports team, hitchhiked to Zambia, smuggled liberation literature into South Africa, and developed an unlikely friendship with a feisty American nun. Nicholas describes the writing of the book as “a searching trip down memory lane”.
