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  • Location: South Africa, Eastern Cape, Mvezo, Robben Island

Long Walk to Freedom

1918 – 1993 :  “Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another”

  • Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

Journey to Jo’burg

1940s – 1990s:  This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa’s apartheid.

  • Location: Marrakech

A Street in Marrakech

1970s: An insightful account of life in Marrakech’s Medina

  • Location: Egypt, The Nile

Herring on the Nile (Elsie & Ethelred 4)

2000s:  What author would resist a research trip on the Nile? But what would they do if they actually come across a murder?

  • Location: Burkina Faso

All Aboard for the Bobo Road

It’s amazing what you see as you trundle along the Bobo Road in Bukina Faso on a bus!

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Dark Island

2000s: Midwinter in Orkney. Six hours of daylight. A race against time to catch a killer.

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