Katrijn van der Caab, freed slave and wigmaker’s apprentice, travels with her eccentric employer from Cape Town to Vogelzang, a remote farm where a hairless girl needs their services. The year is 1794, it is the age of enlightenment, and on Vogelza...
<p>‘In the end, you could choose to say no more than this: that in the high summer of 1938, in a courtroom in the town of Gower in the Union of South Africa, a case of arson came to an abrupt and irregular end, confounding those who had follo...
"Gilly Freeborn is possibly the most screamingly funny teenage character ever written." Will Davis, Guardian
At last this much-loved novel is back in print
Tormented teenagers always make for a good read, but Claire Robertson has cr...
In 1857 a young Englishwoman arrives in Port Natal from India to make a new life for her family among settlers, homesteaders, and sugar-cane farmers. She is with her daughter and the child’s ayah, and has been travelling for eleven months to join h...
A one-of-a-kind book that celebrates families of EVERY kind! Meet Anna, Chiara, Henry, Izzy and Jack. Their families might not look like your family, but that's okay ... they're perfect, just the way they are! From bestselling author Jessica Shirving...