Justin Fox Books in Order

Fox travels around South Africa’s edges while his father, architect Revel Fox, faces cancer at home. The journey’s landscapes and encounters become a reflection on family, belonging, and a country whose conflicting histories emerge through its less familiar places.

In South Africa’s Cederberg mountains, the elusive Cape Mountain Leopard faces threats created by generations of human persecution. Fox examines the animal’s precarious survival and the work of conservationists trying to preserve its future in the rocky landscape.

Rejecting the familiar safari checklist, Fox sets out to find five of Africa’s most elusive animals. His search for creatures including the aardvark, pangolin, and riverine rabbit becomes a journey through unusual landscapes and encounters with equally memorable people.

After surviving the sinking of his ship at Dunkirk, young naval officer Jack Pembroke is sent to South Africa. Commanding an inexperienced minesweeping flotilla, he must prepare his reluctant sailors to face German raiders threatening the South Atlantic.

Jack Pembroke has little time to prepare his South African flotilla for German submarines targeting a vital convoy route. With a Nazi agent ashore and enemy boats waiting at sea, escorting supplies to Durban becomes an increasingly dangerous assignment.

Sent from South Africa to the Mediterranean, Jack Pembroke escorts supply ships to besieged Tobruk. Enemy submarines and bombers threaten his small vessel, while memories of Dunkirk complicate his struggle to protect his crew and escape a collapsing port.

In 1942, Jack Pembroke joins a secret convoy attempting to reach besieged Malta, then faces a raid on an enemy radar installation. Naval combat, a troubled romance, and memories of Dunkirk test him as the Mediterranean campaign intensifies.

A childhood journey from Cape Town through Europe introduces a young traveler to unfamiliar cities, people, and landscapes. Drawing on his own early experiences, Fox presents the excitement of discovering the wider world through an illustrated account of travel.

Researching a documentary on the East African coast, South African writer Paul Waterson becomes obsessed with finding a traditional Somali sailing vessel. Persuading a dhow captain to enter Somali waters takes him toward dangers neither traveler fully anticipates.