★Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Non-Fiction Prize (2024)
★Longlisted for the SALA Creative Non-Fiction Award (2024)
★This 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.

In this gripping travelogue, Justin Fox goes on a one-of-a-kind journey: Marrying his love for travel and writing, he visits places he'd only read about in 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 Mathee's Garden Route, and finally the sandstone crags of Stephen Watson's Cederberg, he brings to life the vistas we've only seen through characters' eyes. PLACE is a moving love letter to South Africa, merging literature and landscape, and taking the reader on a breathtaking journey – straight into the heart of both South Africa's spectacular landscape and the secret inner-worlds of its most celebrated authors.

Novelist, travel writer, poet and photographer, Justin Fox is the author of twenty books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Fox was longlisted for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for Non-fiction, the Olive Schreiner Prize for Literature, and his debut novel, WHOEVER FEARS THE SEA, was shortlisted for Africa's richest literary award, the Etisalat Prize. Fox is the author of the best-selling Jack Pembroke series of WWII naval adventure novels – THE CAPE RAIDER; THE WOLF HUNT; and HELL RUN TOBRUK (Sapere Books WEL, Jonathan Ball Publishers SA).