Blogs in January 2024

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years 6th January 2024

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...

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Mating Birds 23rd March 2021

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,...

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The Last Rhinos: The Powerful Story of One Man’s Battle to Save a Species 28th April 2020

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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An Elephant in My Kitchen: What the Herd Taught Me about Love, Courage and Survival 28th April 2020

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...

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The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants 28th April 2020

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...

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