To clients' specific needs and requirements, I research, compile, write, edit and project-manage memoirs, biographies and family histories, often in conjunction with award-winning designers Triple M Design. Our offering ranges from high-end hardcover dust-jacketed volumes lavishly designed and illustrated, to more cost-effective soft-cover books, telling the stories of dynasties across time and space, or individual family members doing remarkable things in certain phases of life. These include Trading Places: The Story of Kenneth Nolan and his Family (about the adventurous family who began Frasers Trading in Lesotho), Tom's War (a South African serviceman's first-person account of his part in the Second World War) and A Dream Believed, A Dream Achieved (the remarkable and uniquely South African life story of Judge Thekiso Musi). Our biography of the artist John Meyer won the Elza Miles Award in the 2015 SA Independent Publishers Awards, and was described by the organiser as 'a truly beautiful book'.
I edited Jacquie Gauthier's two volume memoir, The Gift of an Elephant: A Story about Life, Love and Africa and Twenty-eight Elephants and Other Everyday Miracles; Dave Young's Young and Bulletproof: Half a Lifetime of Service with the British South African Police (1962-1983); and Fiona Mullany's Two Years in Fiji: A Family Adventure. I co-wrote Richard Wood's Life on a Permanent Wave: Hair-raising Stories from a Shipboard Stylist.
My biography of swimmer Natalie du Toit, Tumble-Turn, was longlisted for the Alan Paton Award in 2007.
I edited Jacquie Gauthier's two volume memoir, The Gift of an Elephant: A Story about Life, Love and Africa and Twenty-eight Elephants and Other Everyday Miracles; Dave Young's Young and Bulletproof: Half a Lifetime of Service with the British South African Police (1962-1983); and Fiona Mullany's Two Years in Fiji: A Family Adventure. I co-wrote Richard Wood's Life on a Permanent Wave: Hair-raising Stories from a Shipboard Stylist.
My biography of swimmer Natalie du Toit, Tumble-Turn, was longlisted for the Alan Paton Award in 2007.