MAGDA  My Journey by Magda Wierzycka This powerful and inspirational memoir reminds one of the saying “If you stand for a reason be prepared to stand alone like a tree, and if you fall on the ground, fall like a seed that grows back to fight again.”  For this is what...

FOOTPRINTS ALONG THE WAY by David Hilton-Barber This is a fascinating memoir that not only includes personal recollections of growing up, the influence and mentorships of people along the way, but also going back in history when his forbearers of 1820 Settler stock...

Chasing Lions by Amanda Marks This is a memoir of a young girl, only five foot two and a quarter when she stood up very straight, lacking confidence and very shy, who followed her dream and drove adventure-hungry folk in a sixteen-ton truck through the Middle East and...

THE LION, the DUNG BEETLE and the VELD TOOL BOX  20 Bush Tales from Southern Africa by David Bristow The fourth of David Bristow’s books on travel and the environment in Africa is as informative and entertaining as the previous ones.  Well known South African natural...

ULENDO: WALKING WHERE VULTURES FLY by Iain Macdonald An absorbing memoir that spans decades, Ulendo is also a historical record of walking safaris in Zambia, and Tanzania.  The author’s first safari was at the age of 4 years old, when fine dining was eating baked...

A HOME ON VORSTER STREET by Razina Theba. Razina Theba writes with joy, compassion and pride in her culture and family, whilst telling of a time in South Africa's history when it was considered everyone was not equal. An honest, often amusing, at times heartbreaking,...

KAROO STORIES by Theron Crawford The Karoo is a place of mystery, vast plains and mountains with unique flora and fauna, disused tracks where pioneers ventured and once-frontier towns with their own distinctive architecture and history. It is against this backdrop...