Lesley Beake

• Aug-2012
• / General Fiction

One day, Dad comes home with a lion. ?Brought you a dog,? says Dad. Mum and the children don't believe him, but they call it Dog, let it sleep in the dog basket, and keep quiet about their strange, noisy pet. But Big Jonno, the school bully, is cu...

• May-2010
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy

A young princess of the River People and her lion cub are seized to be part of a terrible ceremony, in a futuristic environmental story....

• May-2009
• / Action Adventure

Kitty doesn't expect to have an exciting holiday. After all, it's Nyae Nyae, a remote area of northern Namibia, miles from her London home. But Kitty makes an unexpected friend in Bau and dreams of finding diamonds with the help of a secret map left ...

• Mar-2007
• / General Fiction

After losing her parents to the African AIDS epidemic, Sieta now lives with her Aunty in a place she must call Home Now, but Sieta can't seem to smile until the one day when she meets an orphaned baby elephant at the elephant park and she begins to s...

• Nov-1993
• / General Fiction

Be, a young Bushman woman searching in the desert for the peace she remembers from her childhood, realizes that she and her people must reconcile new personal and political realities with ancient traditions....