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Returning from the First World War, Mark Anders finds his estate ruined and begins a struggle over South African land and justice.

Literary fiction

Nineteenth-century southern Africa provides the setting for the opening struggles and ambitions of Wilbur Smith's sweeping family saga.

Literary fiction

Family ambitions unfold in nineteenth-century southern Africa, where opportunity and conflict shape the fortunes of Wilbur Smith's continuing saga.

Literary fiction

Politics, romance and adventure carry a family through the 1930s and beyond the Second World War in a changing South Africa.

Literary fiction

A family saga moves from the Second World War into South Africa's political upheavals, where private fortunes meet national conflict.

Literary fiction

A family saga follows Rhodesia into the conflicts of 1977, bringing inherited ambitions into collision with a country's changing future.

Nonfiction

During the First World War, a young French widow journeys to South Africa and enters the unfamiliar world of her husband's family.

Literary fiction

An expedition searches for a lost African city, linking the dangers of archaeological discovery with the mysteries of an ancient past.

Literary fiction

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