“By tracking down the key figures in Mugabe’s life, Heidi Holland has come closer than anyone else to discovering what makes the old dictator tick”
– Mugabe biographer David Blair in the Daily Telegraph

“The most intimate portrait yet produced of Zimbabwe’s clever but brutal leader. Heidi Holland gets under the skin of a troubled man who turned from nationalist hero to international pariah, all but destroying his country in the process”
– Adam Roberts, The Economist.

The making of a monster, March19th 2008, from The Economist print edition.

"In thinking and writing about her interviewees Holland gives us Robert Mugabe with all his fatal flaws, foibles, vices - and virtues. For that reason Dinner with Mugabe is the best picture of the man that has ever been published.....Dinner with Mugabe is without doubt a brilliant achievement." - Percy Zvomuya, the Mail and Guardian, March 2008.

Percy Zvomuya reviews Heidi Holland's Dinner with Mugabe, a book that the Zimbabwean leader's acolytes won't like. - Unmasking the man behind the stunts - the Mail and Guardian.

"Securing an interview with Robert Mugabe was almost as demanding as researching and writing Dinner with Mugabe, her psychological study of the man, " Heidi Holland tells Percy Zvomuya - Mad Bob: man or monster? - the Mail and Guardian.

"Heidi Holland's interview with Mugabe reveals a boastful, isolated leader unwilling to recognize Zimbabwe's economic collapse or accept blame." Craig Timberg - In His Own World of Denial -The Washington Post.

Face to face with a lonely tyrant bent on vengeance - It took 18 months to set up the interview with Mugabe -The result was a revealing encounter - Alex Duval Smith in Cape Town The Observer, Sunday March 23 2008

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"Mugabe, Once a Bookish Boy, Drags Zimbabwe to the Abyss"

Review by Karl Maier in Bloomberg, June 24 2008 .

“Young Mugabe: The making of a despot”
– An edited abstract, 24 June 2008 in the Independent UK.

“Mugabe: From Carpenter's Son To Dictator”
Wednesday April 02 , an extract from Dinner with Mugabe on the Sky News web site.

Mugabe 'was once a decent guy' Author recalls meeting leader 32 yeas ago after he was released from 11 years in detention - Oakland Ross in the TORONTO STAR, Tuesday April 08 2008 .

Story in DAGENS NYHETER, Sweden's leading morning newspaper with a daily circulation of some 350 000 copies. Download a pdf version of the article here.

AFRICAN UPDATE

Dinner with Mugabe: The Man Behind the Monster. Read this book review by Greg Houle at africanupdate.com

A Swiss article in NZZ, download a pdf, page 1 or page 2.

A Swiss article in DIE WELTWOCHE, download a pdf.

THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN

An article in THE WEEKENDAUSTRALIAN, download a pdf.

RADIO NETHERLANDS WORLDWIDE

'What happened to Robert Mugabe' Braam Posthumus on RADIO NETHERLANDS WORLDWIDE, Monday May 19 2008 .