Oliver Stuart York - using a Nom de Plume to protect his identity in troubled Zimbabwe - has donated all the author's proceeds from the novel Man of Bees to elderly farmers and their workers displaced during the countries chaotic land reform programme. Whilst bookstores are slow to accept Man of Bees into stock, word of mouth sales on behalf of the Man of Bees Trust remain strong, with purchasers sometimes adding a donation, as well as paying US$15.00 per copy. It is notable that within the limited Zimbabwe market, the Trustees sold five hundred copies of Man of Bees in four weeks. More good news is that the Trustees have already distributed nearly six thousand dollars to the aged, with cataract operations scheduled soon for suffering old farm workers who require them. I shall up-date this page from time to time and confirm that the Man of Bees Trust is correctly incorporated within Zimbabwe; the Trustees accepting no payment for their services - a proper old-fashioned kind of charity. Alex Morris-Eyton, Publisher of Man of Bees, Harare, February 2017.
In a sweeping saga set against the struggle for independence in the former Rhodesia, spanning continents, global concerns and reaching to the highest levels of the British government, Alexander Morris-Eyton, honouring a request from Oliver York, reveals the dramatic story behind The Man of Bees. Might it be true?
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Oliver Stuart York - using a Nom de Plume to protect his identity in troubled Zimbabwe - has donated all the author's proceeds from the novel Man of Bees to elderly farmers and their workers displaced during the countries chaotic land reform programme. Whilst bookstores are slow to accept Man of Bees into stock, word of mouth sales on behalf of the Man of Bees Trust remain strong, with purchasers sometimes adding a donation, as well as paying US$15.00 per copy. It is notable that within the limited Zimbabwe market, the Trustees sold five hundred copies of Man of Bees in four weeks. More good news is that the Trustees have already distributed nearly six thousand dollars to the aged, with cataract operations scheduled soon for suffering old farm workers who require them. I shall up-date this page from time to time and confirm that the Man of Bees Trust is correctly incorporated within Zimbabwe; the Trustees accepting no payment for their services - a proper old-fashioned kind of charity. Alex Morris-Eyton, Publisher of Man of Bees, Harare, February 2017.
In a sweeping saga set against the struggle for independence in the former Rhodesia, spanning continents, global concerns and reaching to the highest levels of the British government, Alexander Morris-Eyton, honouring a request from Oliver York, reveals the dramatic story behind The Man of Bees. Might it be true?
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TSITSI: A TOUCHING AFRICAN STORYOliver Stuart York's Man of Bees is a cracking good read: an African thriller that proves that few people are truly bad-or good. Not since Wild Geese has a writer from Zimbabwe produced an edge of the seat tale that keeps you turning the pages late into the night-and it has the added advantage of being an apparently true story.Book one is the best-balanced account of the bush war I have read. I particularly liked the bit when African bushcraft outwits Western military might. And the account of a Zanla camp that might have been Chimoio will have greybeards of both colours shaking their heads.York has a remarkable understanding of what it was like to be a guerrilla, living in the bush like a wild animal and how young Rhodesian men felt being called up to fight a war in which the numbers were stacked against them.Dhina, the Man of Bees, is a heartwarming character. He survived losing his job, his family and then the civil war with enviable equanimity and it is his genuine warmth, which reaches out to help strangers, that makes him endearing.Then his understanding of his environment and how to use it to best advantage makes fascinating reading and is the key advantage of Zanla's most feared group of insurgents.In the second book York, a British orphan adopted and brought to Rhodesia returns to newly independent Zimbabwe after an enriching stint on the North Sea oil rigs. He buys a small engineering works with his savings and rents a house next door to the Kufas: he is a colonel in the newly created Zimbabwe National Army and the household includes Tsitsi, a pretty blonde, blue-eyed child who is drawn to York and his swimming pool.How did she end up with the Kufas? What is her future: how well do they care for her or is she the Cinderella of the household, paying for white supremacy and Ian's Smith's vow that no black would rule Rhodesia in 1,000 years?Her story forms the backbone of the book, linking back to the earlier section and taking the tale onto three continents. The tension is relentless and the denouement totally unexpected. I can't wait for the film.The first edition sold out in a few weeks before Christmas and the second, updated one is on the presses.All the authors proceeds from its sale go to help farmers and their workers displaced by the land reform programme. Do buy it: it will be the best thing you ever did for charity and for yourself.Man of Bees by Oliver Stuart York, 2016.ISBN 978-0-7974-6157-4. Available in bookshops and on Amazon
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Who is Oliver Stuart York? Part two of the novel gradually reveals an orphan, born in England, who grew up in Rhodesia and fought in that country's civil war. As soon as he could, he left to make a new life-but the people drew him back. This is his story. Who am I? My name is Alexander Morris-Eyton and I published Oliver's Man of Bees narrative on his behalf, safeguarding a fresh identity created by the British Secret Service. Now, at last, the Zimbabwe Censor Board has approved the book.
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