Category: Blog/Gallery

Caleb has recently been published on the Lulu eBook platform and is available for world-wide distribution, bringing this story to a much wider audience, and with a new cover which conforms to my latest work. The revival goes further. Many readers of the original book, published in 2011, asked for a sequel. I steered clear…

Interlude. A pause between activities. A pause in the restrictions placed for Covid. I know, fancy word to use for a fortnight in the Mediterranean. We spent a week in Corfu with our London family, and then a week in Malta. Corfu was about family and comradeship. Malta was about history. The opening picture is…

This picture was taken on September 28, 1967 and published in the Eastern Province Herald. It’s a bunch of young people sharing a table at the Walmer Hotel in Port Elizabeth. Included are people who worked at the newspaper, and they probably motivated the get-together. Three of them were young reporters in the newsroom: myself,…

It’s taken me a while to subject myself to the challenges of the new Nikon mirrorless cameras. Cost, advanced technology and the need to use my older lenses with an adaptor were my main concerns. I should not have worried. The Z6 is great. Look at the way it handled direct sun in this panoramic…

Zane Grey wrote romantic western novels, the emphasis on romantic. So this picture would have found favour with him: a pretty girl in front of a western scene, Bryce Canyon in Utah. When I am not writing I do photo albums. Zane Grey Country contains photographs and commentary of a road trip Cathy and I…

We last visited Kruger on my 60th birthday, two weeks short of 17 years ago. Our journey started in the north, the Pafuri region, home to the Makuleke Conservancy. Home also to Baobabs and  Fever Trees, elephants and the best bird viewing in the park. The Makuleke people were removed in 1968, and only returned 30…

In September 2013 Cathy and I did our second road trip to Namibia, once more including a visit to the main view site of the Fish River Canyon, the second biggest canyon in the world. On that occasion we stayed at the Canyon Roadhouse, the interior of which provided the photograph that was used for…

Bushman’s Nek has a special relevance for my wife and I. We went there initially to do research for my book For the Love of Frances, the skirmish at the top of Bushman’s Nek Pass between the escaping AmaHlubi people and the small expeditionary forces led by Anthony Durnford the purpose of the visit. Since then we…

My latest book, Others Will Have Their Say is going through the final stages before publication. The picture above is a candidate for the cover if the book is self-published. It was taken at Madisa Camp, Namibia, one of the locations in the novel. What follows is the Preface, Chapter One and a part of…