Gillian Slovo: 'I think the 2011 riots sparked something in me'
The author of new political thriller Ten Days on the failings of capitalism, the lure of Isis and finally adjusting to her home in EnglandGillian Slovo is a South African-born novelist and playwright. She is the daughter of leading anti-apartheid activists, Ruth First, who was assassinated by the South African secret services in 1982, and Joe Slovo, leader of the South African communist party and a key figure in the …