A TREE FOR THE BIRDS

333pp., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 2018

Novel set in the Congo.

Chrisnelt, a young boy, is a gardener of unusual genius who learns from birds, insects and weeds, counts raindrops, and dreams of growing a wondrous tree in the poor soil on the street where he lives.

Architect Vernon R.L. Head was born in Cape Town in 1967. He is the author of The Search for the Rarest Bird in the World and The Laughing Dove and other poems.