South African Historical Novelist

Clive Algar was born in Cape Town in 1942 and has also lived in Johannesburg, Namibia and London. He was a group executive in an international mining company and started writing fiction when he retired and returned to South Africa.

His first novel, Journeys to the End of the World, was published in 2007, and his second, Flowers in the Sand, in 2011. His third novel, Comets, was published as an eBook in 2013. He was invited to contribute a short story to a new Afrikaans anthology of Boer War stories (Boereoorlogstories 2) which was published by Tafelberg in 2012. His story “The Twins” appears in translation.

Talking about Books

Baviaanspoort — a Love Story

In 2004 my widowed cousin Beryl died. She had no children so, as her closest relative, it was my responsibility to clear her house. Among her possessions I found a small brown leather suitcase stuffed with old letters, diaries and photos. I put the case in our loft...

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A philosopher and raconteur of the trout streams

Recently-retired veterinary surgeon Tod Collins is a natural storyteller. The author of several books of stories about his years as a country vet, as well as an award-winning novel, Dr. Collins has now published "The Art of Being ... An Awful Angler". Tod grew up in...

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