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Clive Algar
Biography
Clive Algar was born in Cape Town in 1942 and has also lived in Johannesburg, Namibia and London. He was a group executive in an international mining company and started writing fiction when he retired and returned to South Africa.
His first novel, Journeys to the End of the World, was published in 2007, and his second, Flowers in the Sand, in 2011. His third novel, Comets, was published as an eBook in 2013. He was invited to contribute a short story to a new Afrikaans anthology of Boer War stories (Boereoorlogstories 2) which was published by Tafelberg in 2012. His story "The Twins" appears in translation.
Clive and his wife Sue divide their time between their mountain home near Wolseley, Western Cape Province, and their lock-up-and-go in Cape Town.
His first novel, Journeys to the End of the World, was published in 2007, and his second, Flowers in the Sand, in 2011. His third novel, Comets, was published as an eBook in 2013. He was invited to contribute a short story to a new Afrikaans anthology of Boer War stories (Boereoorlogstories 2) which was published by Tafelberg in 2012. His story "The Twins" appears in translation.
Clive and his wife Sue divide their time between their mountain home near Wolseley, Western Cape Province, and their lock-up-and-go in Cape Town.
Where to find Clive Algar online
Website: http://www.clivealgar.co.za
Books
The Chain of Time
by Clive Algar
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 97,750.
Language:
English.
Published: June 4, 2015
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Categories:
Fiction » Historical » General, Fiction » Literature » Literary
Based on the diary of Major William Hawthorne, a young veteran of the Napoleonic Wars who is sent to the Cape of Good Hope to manage the security of a mysterious VIP. Amazed at the man's true identity, his plan to protect him from assassins leads to a surprising ending and changes William's life forever.
Journeys to the End of the World
by Clive Algar
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 108,510.
Language:
English.
Published: May 6, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Historical » General, Fiction » Literature » Literary
Vicky searches for the truth about her great-grandfather, Dan, who returned from WW1 with shell-shock. Like archaeologists in the Letterbox Cave, the novel brushes through the past, revealing Dan's story of war, guilt and love and reaching back to the foundations of South African society. The cave connects the lives of the characters and is where Vicky experiences her own life-altering crisis.
Flowers in the Sand
by Clive Algar
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 64,500.
Language:
English.
Published: January 20, 2014
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Categories:
Fiction » Historical » General, Fiction » Adventure » War & military adventure
Trapped by tragic circumstances in a dusty Namaqualand mining town during the Anglo-Boer War, Emma Richardson must degrade herself in order to survive. Then the town is besieged by Boer fighters and Emma is faced with a fateful choice. With her vision of the ephemeral desert flowers in her mind, she sets out alone on foot by night on a desperate mission to create a new future for herself.
Comets
by Clive Algar
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 66,620.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: January 5, 2014
by
Clive Algar.
Categories:
Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Historical » General
Set in the rich and fascinating milieu of Cape Town in the 1830s, Comets tells the story of James and Isabelle Forster whose lives are changed irrevocably not only by the appearance of Halley's Comet but by "human comets"; their upper middle-class existence threatens to spin out of control as they confront moral crises they seem unable to resolve.