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

Previous owners

Whenever I buy a second-hand book in which the previous owner has written his or her name, I reflect for a while on the unknown person who shares or shared some aspect of my taste in books.   Usually the name is all there is, but sometimes there is a date or a...

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Delville Wood 100 years ago

It is 100 years this month since the Battle of Delville Wood, which features in my novel JOURNEYS TO THE END OF THE WORLD.  First published in 2007, an ebook edition was made available to mark the centenary of the Great War.

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