Author: Daphne Rooke

First published in 1952, Mittee was an international bestseller. Set in late nineteenth-century Transvaal, it dramatizes the intense, ambiguous lov...

It is Zululand in the 1870s; a Zulu king is embroiled in bitter war with the English. Witches dwell in every cave and wizards are abroad in every v...

Set in the cane fields of Natal, Ratoons is a portrait of a beautiful but dangerous land. The narrator Helen Angus, like her friends Leela and late...