Despite the Darkness

Despite the Darkness In his debut novel David Maughan Brown takes a look back to the dark days of the South African Apartheid regime. Times which he lived through himself. 

It's 1985, a State of Emergency has been declared in South Africa as the country is becoming more and more ungovernable.

Cameron Beaumont is a history lecturer who, in common with many people like him at the time, was under constant surveillance by the South African security services. He is also subjected to death threats because some people just didn't like his views.

His is undergoing something of an existential crisis. What should he do? Keep his head down and do nothing? Or continue to play his part in the anti-apartheid movement? But if he does continue in the struggle, what could he do to protect his beloved wife Jules and their children?

And those death threats? They are not merely empty gestures and they are, in fact, just the very start of  what might happen.

But what would happen if he was pushed beyond his limits? What would he do to protect or avenge his loved one?

This is a very thought provoking novel and recreates the terrible days of Apartheid.

It's published by Matador at £9.99.