Then a Wind Blew P. Ranby

Then a Wind Blew P. RanbyThen a Wind Blew is set in the final months of the war in Rhodesia, before it became Zimbabwe, and the story unfolds through the voices of three women. Susan Haig, a white settler, has lost one son in the war and seen her other son declared 'unfit for duty'. Nyanye Maseka has fled with her sister to a guerrilla camp in Mozambique, her home village destroyed, her mother missing. Beth Lytton is a nun in a church mission in an African Reserve, watching

and soon Wulf is forced to seek help from another young Spook

Cedric can always count on his Granddad's wisdom-and occasional partnership in crime-to help him see the brighter side of things and discover what's truly important

Beach and Things That Go

leading inexorably to an electrifying climax amid the dark

but then feels bad

A year has passed for the community of survivors

A song will bring them together

funny lists and silly words

maar ʼn Dreyer skei nie

Except this particular worm turns out to be very unusual when its back begins to turn spiky and it starts to breathe smoke …

From Paris to Jerusalem and on to the frozen wastes of north-west Russia

I really thought we might win first prize - a trip to the National Space Centre