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An Elephant in My Kitchen: What the Herd Taught Me about Love, Courage and Survival

An Elephant in My Kitchen: What the Herd Taught Me about Love, Courage and Survival
  • Author(s): Françoise Malby-Anthony
  • Location(s): KwaZulu-Natal (Natal), South Africa
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Françoise Malby-Anthony never expected to find herself responsible for a herd of elephants with a troubled past. A chic Parisienne, her life changed forever when she fell in love with South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony. Together they founded a...

Agents of the State

Agents of the State
  • Author(s): Mike Nicol
  • Location(s): KwaZulu-Natal (Natal), Berlin, Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

BERLIN. Agent Vicki Kahn is on her first foreign mission for the South African government, on the trail of an international child-trafficker. A complication she doesn’t need is that the President’s son is somewhere in the mix. When Vicki...

Blood Orange

Blood Orange
  • Author(s): Troy Blacklaws
  • Location(s): Cape Town, KwaZulu-Natal (Natal)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s/1980s

Gecko’s childhood is one of sheltered, almost magical innocence on a farm in Natal. He spends his days taking barefoot expeditions with his dogs and his nights listening to Springbok Radio, unaware of the cruel force in his life...

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
  • Author(s): Shubnum Khan
  • Location(s): Durban
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern / 20th Century

Sana and Meena will never meet. They share little beyond Akbar Manzil, the sprawling mansion high on a clifftop above Durban that they both call home. When Meena fell in love with the owner of the house it was...

African Ways

African Ways
  • Author(s): Valerie Poore
  • Location(s): KwaZulu-Natal (Natal)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s

This is the story of a young woman’s first encounters with rural South Africa. Coming from the all-mod-cons society of Britain at the beginning of the 1980s, the author is literally transplanted to a farm in the foothills of...

Mating Birds

Mating Birds
  • Author(s): Lewis Nkosi
  • Location(s): Durban
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The story of a young South African black man obsessed with an English girl whom he encounters on the segregated Durban beachfront is told from the narrator’s prison cell in this classic African novel. Although no words are exchanged,...

The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants

The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants
  • Author(s): Lawrence Anthony
  • Location(s): South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal (Natal)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of ‘rogue’ elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand, his common sense told him to refuse. But he was the herd’s last chance of survival...

The Last Rhinos: The Powerful Story of One Man’s Battle to Save a Species

The Last Rhinos: The Powerful Story of One Man’s Battle to Save a Species
  • Author(s): Lawrence Anthony
  • Location(s): South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal (Natal)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lawrence Anthony’s South African game reserve is home to many animals he has saved, from a remarkable herd of elephants to a badly behaved bushbaby called George. Described as ‘the Indiana Jones of conservation’, when one of his rhinos...

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