★Place is a moving love letter to South Africa, merging literature and landscape, and taking the reader on a breath-taking journey – into the heart of South Africa’s spectacular landscape and the inner-worlds of its most celebrated authors.

“Let us, then, set off together on a series of journeys around South Africa with an old kitbag full of books instead of maps to guide us. Let us follow meandering paths through the landscapes of literature, and celebrate how local authors, characters and readers are shaped and inspired by place …”

In this gripping travelogue, Justin Fox goes on a one-of-a-kind journey. Marrying his love for travel and writing, he sets off to explore the places of his favourite books. From the mountainous eastern Karoo of Olive Schreiner to the big-game lowveld of Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, from Deneys Reitz’s wide-open Cape interior to the bushveld of Eugène Marais’s Waterberg, Fox reveals the majestic power of place. Through the savannah of Herman Charles Bosman’s Marico, the dusty plains of JM Coetzee’s Moordenaars Karoo, the forests of Dalene Matthee’s Garden Route, the subtropical hamlets of Zakes Mda’s Wild Coast, and finally the sandstone crags of Stephen Watson’s Cederberg, he brings to life the settings we’ve only seen through characters’ eyes.

Justin Fox is a novelist, travel writer, poet and photographer, the former editor of GETAWAY magazine. He received his doctorate in English at Oxford,and was a research fellow at the University of Cape Town, where he has taught part time for two decades. He is the author of twenty books, and hiswriting and photographs have been published worldwide. Fox has been longlisted for the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction and the Olive SchreinerPrize for Literature. His debut novel, WHOEVER FEARS THE SEA, was in the running for Africa’s richest literary award at the time, the Etisalat Prize.Fox's first WWII naval adventure, THE CAPE RAIDER, was published in South Africa and the UK in 2021.