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The north of Namibia is a land of dust, stone, and ancient silence — a place where desert elephant walk old hidden routes, black rhino vanish into thorn, and the wrong men can disappear without a trace. Set against this vast beauty of Namibia, Kunene Fire is a gripping adventure of loyalty, courage, redemption, and sacrifice — perfect for readers who love high-stakes African thrillers with heart, depth, and unforgettable landscapes. It is here that Izan Bloem returns after the death of his wife, hoping to walk his grief through under an honest sky. What he finds instead is a brutal ...

The Franschhoek Promise Book Three of The African Horizons Series After loss, danger, and the hard-won building of a life in the Limpopo valley, the van As family enters a new season. The beloved headmaster of the valley school has died, and the whole community gathers to honour a man whose life changed the future of its children. Into the life of the school steps Marinette, a gifted teacher and counsellor whose strength, warmth, and intelligence soon make her indispensable — and bring her steadily closer to Ty. At the same time, Liesl has grown into a painter of rare power. Her ...

The Dust and the English Rose A Sweeping African Saga of Love, Loss and Second Chances He lost the land that shaped his life. She discovered a continent that would change hers forever. When Zimbabwe farmer Flip van As is forced from the family farm his ancestors built, he begins again in the wild landscapes of southern Africa. Along the remote rivers and valleys of the continent he rebuilds his life — guided by honour, hard work, and a deep respect for the land and the people who call it home. During a safari expedition in the Zambezi Valley, fate intervenes when he rescues Charlotte ...

The world ended long ago. But its secrets did not. Millions of years after life on Earth has vanished, a team of alien archaeologists lands on a dead and silent planet beneath a dying sun. What they expect to find are the broken remains of a lost civilization. What they uncover is far stranger. Buried beneath red dust and stone lie endless rows of tiny wire chambers, vast processing halls, sealed military vaults, medical archives, fuel reserves, launch records, and the fossilized remains of millions upon millions of birds. At first, the evidence suggests a planet once ruled by these small ...

The Elephant Road Book Four of The Namib Frontiers Series After the devastating loss at Kazungula, Elbereth cannot yet return to Swakopmund. Instead she finds a fragile refuge in Nata, near the shimmering vastness of the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans, where flamingos, game, silence, and distance become the first landscape large enough to hold her grief. There, in a small and out-of-the-way B&B run by Anne-Marie and Barry, she begins the slow, unwilling work of continuing. A book left quietly on her table by John Young becomes the first sign that grief may be shared without being spoken over. As ...

Life has been good to Flip and Charlotte van As. The river keeps giving diamonds, the community is thriving, and the school they helped build has become the pride of the Limpopo valley. Then the peace is broken. When Flip discovers a butchered rhinoceros and its orphaned calf near the family homestead, he knows at once that poachers have entered the valley. But this is no isolated crime. An international syndicate is moving through the once war-torn bush of southern Africa, using fear, money, and local coercion to hunt wildlife and threaten everything the valley has built. As danger spreads...

The White Lady Road Book Two of The Namib Frontiers Series After exposing a criminal line hidden beneath the silence of Etosha, Simon Shield and Elbereth are drawn into an even older and more dangerous struggle in Namibia’s north-west. A younger retired lawyer, John Young, asks for help from his discreet luxury camp in the koppies beyond the ordinary tourist roads. A guide has disappeared. Men with ministry language and contractor boots are taking an interest in old tracks they once ignored. And the route beneath Brandberg — the road most people know only through the legend of the White...

The Silence of Etosha Book One of The Namib Frontiers Series Simon Shield has spent his life reading stone, silence, and distance. A geologist and prospector working across Namibia, he knows how quickly beauty can be turned into value — and how often remoteness becomes a cover for power. When a field assignment near Etosha begins to expose hidden transport routes, frightened workers, and evidence that something far darker than geology is moving through the concession margins, Simon is drawn into a conflict that reaches far beyond mining. Beside him stands Elbereth: a compulsive reader, a ...

The Copper of Itenge Book Five of The Namib Frontiers Series The final novel in the acclaimed Namib Frontiers Series, The Copper of Itenge is the story of Michael Stent — explorer, adventurer, road man, and the next great moral force in southern Africa. When Elbereth and John Young discover a file among Simon Shield’s final records in Swakop, they uncover satellite images suggesting rich untapped copper deposits north of Kazungula Crossing. Simon’s note is clear: this is not one country’s problem, but a dangerous frontier where four sovereignties, old forgotten history, and living ...

The Kazungula Crossing Book Three of The Namib Frontiers Series While Elbereth is in Freetown, Sierra Leone, helping communities threatened by a failing dam and worsening water crisis, Simon Shield, Wynand, and John Young travel east for a tiger fish expedition near Kazungula, gathering provisions through Katima Mulilo, a place heavy with old army memory and unfinished roads. There, by chance, old bonds deepen and new ones begin. Ty van As and Daniel du Toit cross their path, and a young cyclist named Michael Stent, riding alone from Cape Town to Lilongwe, is drawn into their camp and their...

A thought-provoking look into the brilliant mind of a person diagnosed with Schizophrenia as he slips in and out of reality.

Where is my tickey? Isn’t it strange that I had to get to the end of the road to be able to see the start? A road that never ends and where a stop is only made when it is too late and I travel sick...A road shared with many. I had to turn 54 before I could read the road ahead. The road up to 54 was interesting. The road after 54 an experience...Not all the people who travelled with me up to 54 could always keep up. Not everybody travels the same road; there are turn-offs and stalls.

Bleed for the Queen is in part the story of Kobus Cronje, a pathologist from South Africa in Northern Ireland and his attempt to come to terms with the philosophical and psychological consequences of the brutal murder of his sister-in-law and her five month old baby. Bleed for the Queen is also the story of the city Londonderry. A 400-year old city that he felt he had to defend no matter what the cost. Kobus Cronje, the main character, losing touch with reality more and more....

It was a hard battle and it took time to sink in that it was finally behind us. The medical and surgical teams from the Neurology department at the University of Chicago must have been totally drained working in an unique environment once the go ahead was received for their high impact life-saving intervention.

It started during one of those boring never-ending commuting journeys shared with my publishing agent and lifelong friend Jan. Jan suggested an easy-to-listen on-the-go detective lose-hanging piece to kill start-stop commuting time. Maybe a bit of light-hearted investigator reading fun that one could start and then put down with your train timetable and front door key just to be picked up again tomorrow morning.

Who said love belongs to youth? An email, two songs, three silly short rumbles, and 22 poems, but not necessarily in that order. Plus, a wedding! An old fashioned love story. Boy meets girl, boy marries girl.

Tog snaaks dat ek eers aan die einde van die reis moes kom om die begin te kon sien. 'n Pad wat nooit eindig nie en waar daar net gestop is as dit reeds te laat was en ek klaar, karsiek, opgegooi het. 'n Pad gedeel met baie. Ek moes eers vyftig word voordat ek die pad vorentoe kon lees. Die pad tot op vyftig was interessant. Die pad na vyftig 'n ondervinding en ervaring. Altwee paaie was en is grondpad; ek is bly. Oud-Suidwester ken van grondpad ry. Die mense wat tot op vyftig saam met my gery het, kon nie altyd by hou nie. Almal ry nie dieselfde pad nie.