THE BOYS FROM UMGAZANA

334pp., map, paperback, Reach Publishers, Wandsbeck, 2025.

ISBN: 9781776369720

A historical novel set in the Eastern Cape in the 18th century about two boys -  Jack, an orphaned English castaway, and Temba, the grandson of an Mpondo chief and an Englishwoman - who grow up as brothers and whose lives are changed forever by the arrival of a Dutch trader.

Software strategist Frank Collier lives in Redhouse, Gqeberha. The Boys from Umgazana is his debut novel.