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Introducing "Glimpses of Another World" by Guy Hallowes, an enthralling collection of anecdotes spanning forty years of the author's life and work in Africa. From the exhilarating experiences of growing up on a farm in Kenya, to being charged by an elephant, and encountering dangerous situations on remote roads in Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Angola, and Mozambique, this book takes readers on a fascinating journey through the continent. "...

Winds of Change Trilogy No Happy Valley As the Lawrence family struggles to establish a farm in Kenya's 'White Highlands' against a backdrop of great social and pollical upheaval in Kenya, Peter Lawrence falls in love with Rafiki, a black woman. Forced confront the horrors of the Mau-Mau insurrection, the Lawrences struggle to deal with the forced acquisition of their land although Peter and Rafiki are doomed to be on opposite sides in the c...

Privileged and entitled, David Phillips, realised he had to mend his ways when he faced, not one, not two, but three, crossroad moments in his life. First, he suffered under the guilt of shouldering the blame for losing a crucial rugby game. Second he has to deal with the shame of a drunken episode with a woman who steals him blind during the night, and third, when he is confronted with the very real possibility of losing his place at Oxford u...

A story of struggle, conflict and passion set in 1950's Kenya during the Mau Mau insurrection. Peter Lawrence battles to build a place of his own in the raw African bush, but the Kikuyu men who work for him are secret members of the Mau-Mau determined to take back their country. When Peter's wife Jenny dies in an accident he falls in love with Rafiki, a beautiful Kikuyu woman, and finds himself ostracised by his own people. The author, Guy Hal...

An exciting adventure story set in South Africa in the mid-nineteenth century at the time of the discovery of diamonds… Why are the white invaders 'gathering like ants in a rainstorm' seeking little white stones 'that cannot be eaten and cannot have children?' Mpande, King of the Zulus, sends tribesman Mapitha and two companions to the Kimberley diamond diggings to find out. After three years, many adventures and clashes with the invaders, ...

Smart beautiful, sometimes uncouth Tanya is now the leader of The Settlement, following the death of her father-in law and mentor David. Tanya's leadership is tested by: Other surviving enclaves taking advantage of the leadership change to attack The Settlement. Dealing with her serially unfaithful husband Mark. Contending with the ambitions of brother-in-law General Jonathan Bower, head of the Australian military, wanting The Settlement to ...

What The Crocodiles Don't Eat...is a sequel to 'No Happy Valley' in the 'Winds of Change' trilogy. The reality of Uhuru, for which Peter and Rafiki fought so bravely, hits them hard when they discover a number of corrupt practices within Government and the Police. From temperate Nairobi, to the inhospitable forests of the Aberdares, the steamy shores of Lake Victoria and the tropical ports of Dar-es-Salaam and Mombasa, the story takes reader...

The Ross Ice Shelf in the antarctic, a lump of Ice about the size of France is forecast to collapse into the sea creating a fifteen metre tsunami that will race around the globe destroying much of the world as we know it. This dire prediction, made by the British Antarctic Survey, New Zealand Scientists, and the Pentagon is ignored by most of the world's population: but not by beautiful, smart Tanya who has worked her way up from poverty to t...

The third book in the 'Winds of Change' trilogy features Kamau, the Nusu-Nusu (Half/Half) son of Peter and Rafiki. The novel takes us through Kamau's first uncertain steps at a now non-racial primary school in Nairobi. It gives a detailed description of his initiation into adulthood as a Kikuyu tribesman and how he unwittingly exploits that. He follows his half-brother and attends Oxford University and is selected for the England rugby side. ...

Young JOE WACHEERA lives on a small idyllic plot in rural Kenya with his loving parents. The area, however, is fraught with violence, and his father is gruesomely murdered before his eyes. Joe and his mother flee for their lives to Kibera, a large Nairobi slum, where his mother is forced into prostitution by an apparent pillar of the church, REVEREND MWELELI.Determined to escape this horrifying situation, Joe does whatever he can to improve th...

The third book in the 'Winds of Change' trilogy features Kamau, the Nusu-Nusu (Half/Half) son of Peter and Rafiki. The novel takes us through Kamau's first uncertain steps at a now non-racial primary school in Nairobi. It gives a detailed description of his initiation into adulthood as a Kikuyu tribesman and how he unwittingly exploits that. He follows his half-brother and attends Oxford University and is selected for the England rugby side. T...

An exciting adventure story set in South Africa in the mid-nineteenth century at the time of the discovery of diamonds... Why are the white invaders 'gathering like ants in a rainstorm' seeking little white stones 'that cannot be eaten and cannot have children?' Mpande, King of the Zulus, sends tribesman Mapitha and two companions to the Kimberley diamond diggings to find out. After three years, many adventures and clashes with the invaders, p...

A story of intrigue, corruption and violence in newly independent Kenya, during the 1960's. Peter Lawrence and Rafiki, happy and hopeful, play leading roles in establishing their fledgling country. A growing culture of greed and corruption within the Government and the Police undermines their efforts and they find themselves dragged into a dangerous underworld. Guy Hallowes, the Kenya born author, understands well the pressures of tribalism an...