SON OF A PREACHER MAN

224pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Jacana, Johannesburg, 2025

ISBN: 9781431435685

Gavin Evans on his fraught relationship with his father, Anglican Bishop Bruce Evans, an evangelical Christian with passion for social justice who could also be violent. 

Journalist and author Gavin Evans was born in London but lived in South Africa for 30 years and was involved in several anti-apartheid organisations and in the ANC. He currently lives in London and lectures at Birkbeck, University of London. His books include White Supremacy, a brief history of hatred; Black Brain, White Brain: Is intelligence skin-deep?; Mapreaders & Multitaskers: Men, women, nature, nurture; Skin Deep: Dispelling the science of race, and a memoir, Dancing Shoes is Dead: A tale of fighting men in South Africa.