Events

Follow Me to Africa events 2025

Tuesday, 25 February 2025 at the amphitheatre at Mainstream Mall in Hout Bay at 17h30 for 18h00 with Gail Gilbride. RSVP houtbay@wordsworth.co.za

Thursday, 26 February 2025 at Kelvin Grove Club in Claremont with Pippa Smith of The Book Revue at 18h00 for 18h30. RSVP pippa@thebookrevue.co.za

Tuesday, 4 March 2025 at Liberty Books, Peregrine Farmstall in Grabouw with Christy Weyer at 17h30 for 18h00. RSVP Christy@libertybooks.co.za

Wednesday, 26 March 2025 at the Hermanus Library, Hermanus with Susan Booyens at 18h00. RSVP hermanuslibrary@overstrand.gov.za

Wednesday, 9 April 2025 at Oude Leeskamer, Stellenbosch with Eva Mazza at 10h30. RSVP events@oudeleeskamer.org

Wednesday, 16 April 2025 at Exclusive Books Constantia with Nancy Richards at 17h30 for 18h00. RSVP here

Friday, 16 May to Sunday, 18 May 2025, Franschhoek Literary Festival in Franschhoek. You’ll find the event programme here https://www.flf.co.za/

Saturday, 24 May 2025, Kingsmead Book Fair, Rosebank, Johannesburg. You’ll find the event programme here. 

Launching The Woman at the Wheel 2023

October 2023. The international launch of The Woman at the Wheel was celebrated on 3 October at an online event hosted by Swamp Fox Bookstore in Iowa, USA where I was interviewed by one of my favourite authors, Terah Shelton Harris. What a joy it was!

Three in-person events are planned near Cape Town. If you’re able, please join me at one of the launches.

I’ll be talking to Nancy Richards at Wordsworth Books in Longbeach Mall in Noordhoek on Thursday 12 October (17h00 for 17h30). Please RSVP by emailing longbeach@wordsworth.co.za.

On Thursday 19 October (17h30 for 18h00), I’ll be at Exclusive Books Constantia, where Pippa Hudson will interview me. Please RSVP events@exclusivebooks.co.za.

Later in the month (Tuesday 31 October, 18h00 for 18h30), I’ll be talking to Christy Weyer at Liberty Books in Grabouw. RSVP Christy@libertybooks.co.za.

Launching Miss Cust

January and February 2023. It was a great pleasure to hold South African launches for The Invincible Miss Cust at Liberty Books in Grabouw and Exclusive Books in Cavendish Square, Claremont. Photographed is author of Cat Therapy and Under the African Sun, Gail Gilbride interviewing me at the Cavendish event.

Award winner

September 2022. The Wilderness Between Us was named winner of the 2022 Women’s Fiction Writers Association STAR Award in the general category. The announcement was made at the WFWA Gala Event in New Mexico in the US and award was couriered to South Africa.

School visit

November 2019. What a pleasure it was to chat to grade five learners of Hillcrest Primary School in KwaZulu-Natal who had Nicko, The Tale of a Vervet Monkey on an African Farm as a set work book in 2019.