Alan Paton

Kontakion for You Departed is a book by Alan Paton dedicated to his wife Dorrtoe Francis Lusted. The book was published in 1969, two years after her death from emphysema in 1967.

Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful is the third novel of Alan Paton, the South African author who is best known for writing Cry, the Beloved Country. Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful is an anti-apartheid novel, in a similar vein to Cry, the Beloved Country. It is a fictional reworking of Paton's own years working as a …

Too Late the Phalarope is the second novel of Alan Paton, the South African author who is best known for writing Cry, the Beloved Country. It was published in 1953, and was the last novel he published before Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful in 1981. The summary on the dust jacket of the first UK edition reads, in part; …