Search for your favourite author or book

Iron Love

About the Author
Marguerite Poland has successfully and eloquently mastered writing for both children and adults. Her landmark 1979 book  The Mantis And The Moon  is credited with establishing a market for indigenous children’s books in English in South Africa. Poetic, sensitively-layered and lucid, Poland’s novels for adults have won several prestigious awards. A meticulous researcher, she has also written a number of academic papers and reports.
 
Fluent in Xhosa and isiZulu, much of Poland’s work reflects her interest in African culture with some of her childrens stories in particular inspired by African oral traditions. Her keen understanding and appreciation of the South African landscape, its fauna and flora, as well as its peoples, is colourfully evident in her writing.
 
Married with two daughters, Marguerite Poland spends her time between Grahamstown and Durban.

Others also viewed

Trail Blazer: My Life as an Ultra-distance Trail Runner
Sandes, Ryan
Ian: 'You’re going to run how far?' Ryan: '250 kilometres. But it's over...
Read More
Making Finn
Newham-Blake, Susan
Susan's childhood dream of becoming a mother has not diminished with the revelation, alarming...
Read More
Tim Noakes: The Quiet Maverick
Ilbury, Daryl
On 5 February 2014, world-renowned scientist Tim Noakes fired off a tweet allegedly dispensing...
Read More
e - Pocket Guide Mammals of Southern Africa
Easy-to-use and compact, this is the perfect pocket ID guide to mammals of the region. It covers...
Read More