272pp., illus., maps, hardback, d.w., Pietermaritzburg, 2016
John Conyngham's memoir about his family's sugar farm in KwaZulu-Natal, where he grew up. It was sold in 1977, when he was twenty-two.
Journalist John Conyngham was born in Durban in 1954. His novel, "The Arrowing of the Cane", won the Olive Schriener Prize and was joint winner of the AA Mutual-Ad Donker Vita Award. He was editor of The Witness newspaper from 1994 to 2010, and lives in Hilton.