This is a story about wholeness and holes. The ones inside us and the ones that give us refuge; about the intersection of two lives from different backgrounds and circumstances, pulled together by the pain of loss.

Emanuel is a young refugee from Congo, surviving alone on the streets of Durban after being separated from his mother while escaping the turmoil of conflict. Winter is a reclusive writer whose life has come to a standstill after the loss of her young son, whose disappearance has never been solved.

As their fatelines cross, it is not immediately apparent what the nature of the pull between them is. Emanuel in particular is resistant to Winter's overtures.

It is when she takes him with her to the Antbear Cabin, her writing refuge, that the bond between them slowly begins to form. Painful realisations surface as each recognises in the other a reflection of what they have lost. There, in the cabin of peace overlooking the steep valley of storms, the stories of Winter and Emanuel begin, finally, to reveal themselves. Each must take the difficult journey back through the heart of the wound in order to heal and learn to love - and live - again.

Chelsea has never considered herself a racist. But when her mother unexpectedly remarries, to a black man called Chester Khumalo, she is forced to confront deep-seated prejudices that she didn't know she had. However, it is not Chester, but his son, the maddeningly arrogant Nkululeko, who upsets her ordered world and brings the new South Africa firmly into her living room.

This moving and unusual story brings together the voices of two South African women, different in background, connected in spirit. It challenges conventional categories of biography and testimony. Weaving together disparate narrative styles and strands mythic, political and anecdotal Kalahari RainSong reflects the complex reality of the Khomani Bushman community. Through the telling of her own personal journey, Belinda Kruiper evokes the traces of a divided past in the continuing struggles for survival of the Bushmen people of today.

After discovering a terrible secret about her father, Gerry Aarons begins a troubled self-destructive path in this novel of spiritual awakening and self-discovery. Locked in a damaging war of wills with her mother, Gerry finds guidance from a visiting monk from Sri Lanka, who helps her view her life in a different light. A tale about the pain of secrets and the way they can result in alienation, this thought-provoking journey weaves through the politics of being human.

The stories in this collection span a time period from 2003 to almost 2023. They are offered as my witness to the planetary moment I've been part of, the continent of Africa I was born on, and the difficult country that formed me.

In their multi-faceted variation, they reflect the changing times, the contexts and the concerns that have engrossed and troubled me. Some are speculative, some are serious, some are playful, some are, as the title suggests, Not For Sensitive Viewers.

The golden thread that binds their disparate voices and themes together is my own lifelong wrestling with the deep questions of our bipolar journey on a wobbling planet through a universe of mysteries, spiritual challenge, and wonderment.

Without giving himself time to think about it, Danny plunged into the middle of the frosty stream. The cold of it took his breath away. He shrieked and yelled and giggled idiotically. He splashed and wriggled and bucked about like seal, like an otter, like a porpoise. The sensation of that icy, running water bubbling against his baked body was truly delicious. He ducked his head underneath, and let it tingle through his scalp. It was so clear that, with his eyes open underwater, he could se right into the heart of that liquid world'. For the moment Danny, the Warrior of Wilderness, has not care in the world. But soon the timid boy will once again be reminded of his quest: to save his friends, the creatures of Wilderness, the beautiful wild animals which are being threatened by evil Shadow. Gripping and moving, Warrior of Wilderness extols the beauty of the wild animals of Africa, and warns us that we humans are constantly threatening their survival.