BESSIE HEAD: THUNDER BEHIND HER EARS, her life and writing

374 pp., illus., paperback, Revised Edition, Johannesburg, (1995) 2007

A biography about Bessie Head, based on interviews with many of her friends and professional contacts and her extensive correspondence, archived at the Khama Memorial Museun in Serowe. This new edition includes previously unpublished photographs and a new chapter on Bessie Head's childhood.

Writer and academic Gillian Stead Eilersen lectured in the Department of English at Odense Universiry, Denmark, until 1995.