About the Author

David and Marie Philip, South Africans of many generations, were both born and schooled in Cape Town. David, after a short spell in the army at the end of WWII, went on to Magdalen College, Oxford, in those heady post-war years of material shortages but amongst students of many different ages and backgrounds. He loved all of it - C S Lewis as his tutor in English, cricket on soft green fields, long summer evenings - but his plan and desire was always to get into publishing back in South Africa.