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

The Chain of Time

The Chain of Time

My new novel now available on Amazon at these links: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00YUUVNBG www.amazon.com/dp/B00YUUVNBG   [amazon asin=<B00YUUVNBG>&text=<Amazon UK>]

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And Quiet Flows the Don

And Quiet Flows the Don

I first read Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak, soon after it was published in English in 1958, and since then it has topped my list of great novels. In the 1970s I discovered Alexander Solzhenitsyn and placed his August 1914 near the top of my list, where Tolstoy's...

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