TO BRAVE MEN

288pp., illus., paperback, No Place, 2024

Novel set in the early 1890s, based on a true story. Three young men - Fred, the son of an American preacher raised on a Sioux Indian Reservation; Allan, an apprentice banker in Scotland, and Mjaan, a family man and Matabele warrior - meet on the battlefield at the Shangani River during the first Matabele War.

Alan Landau was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) in 1959. He emigrated to Australia in 2001 and lives in Brisbane. He is the author of the Langbourne series of novels.