Author takes Africa by the horns

KNYSNA NEWS - Author Jill Baker is currently in South Africa to promote her book The Horns, book one of the Zambezi Trilogy (Porcupine Press).

The book is broad in scope and is part memoir/historical fiction set in the then Southern Rhodesia. Baker has conducted meticulous research, scanning original diary entries from the likes of Cecil John Rhodes, gold diggers, "native commissioner" reports and government archival documents. She has peppered these vignettes throughout the text which makes the book come alive.

You will laugh out loud, pull out your hair in utter despair and learn a lot.

Baker will be on an author tour in South Africa in August, making her way to Knysna on Thursday 23 August at Belvidere Manor from 14:30 to 16:30.

About the book
Four friends meet as children and the eventual paths that their lives take could not be more divergent. Carol is the daughter of a school headmaster; Jabulani, son of a Matebele chief; Prune, an adopted child of the Scottish nurse of a bush clinic, with guardianship of the African Orderly; and Themba, son of the district assistant.

A must-read for anyone who has fallen in love with the precious land between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers.