From H G Wells’ The Time Machine to Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl, stories about time travel have always been well-loved by readers of all ages. We're publishing a thrilling local time-travel series by Sam Roth and the first book, Time Twisters: Cape of Slaves (for readers aged 8+), hits the shelves this month!
Sarah, Toby and Bones are three ordinary teenagers from Johannesburg – until they each come into contact with the green dust that turns them into time twisters. This astonishing ability allows them to twirl through pictures and travel back in time. But Sarah, Toby and Bones don’t have any time to adjust to their new skill – a girl has gone missing at the Cape of Slaves Exhibition and the three time twisters know how. Determined to rescue her, they risk their lives and enter a painting from 1825, to the time of slavery at the Cape.
What follows is a whirlwind of adventure as the three teenagers try to blend in and survive in a South Africa so unlike the country they call home.
They say time flies when you’re having fun and readers will feel that way about this book. A fast-paced, exhilarating and supremely entertaining read, Time Twisters: Cape of Slaves paints a captivating picture of nineteenth-century Cape Town, and young readers will revel in the escapades of Sarah, Toby and Bones.