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tinged with dry humour
and from Edinburgh to London
In Gallows Gecko the author spans the centuries in a way that is wonderfully old fashioned
Koos de la Rey
Stormwrack 20th centrury tinged with dry humourThis historical novel evokes, from a distance, the growing tensions caused by the uitlander question and the Jameson Raid in the Transvaal, and their culmination in the Anglo Boer War. It is a sympathetic, insider's portrayal of the anguish of South Africa's 'civil war' from the perspective of a rural village in the Cape Colony where English and Dutch speaking subjects of Alexandrina Victoria had for decades lived in harmony. The incursion of Boer
