South African Retailers carrying this book from October 2007
(note this list will be updated continuously as the October launch deadline approaches).

Bookstores email the distributor here for details - minimum order five copies

Book Stores: Adams Books - 341 West St, Durban Phone: 031 3048571 Musgrave Rd Shopping Centre and University of Natal, Durban Adams Books - website. Bookworld, Cascades Mall, Pietermaritzburg Phone: 033 3471361 Books and Books, Shop 42 Kensington Square, 53 Kensington Drive, Durban North, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa Phone: 031 563 6288 Clarke's Bookshop, 211 Long St, Cape Town Phone: 021 4235739 Clarke's Bookshop - website CNA Stores Nationwide Central News Agency - website Fables Bookstore, Grahamstown, 119 High Street, Grahamstown, 6139 Phone: 046 6361525 Fascination Books, Mimosa Mall, Bloemfontein Netbooks.co.za - online book orders Oom Japie se Huis, Voortrekker St, Philippolis Phone: 051 773 0050 Reditts Books, Grahamstown UPB Booksellers, 129 High St, Grahamstown Village Bookshop, Plettenberg Bay Exclusive Books (individual stores might have to order) Stores stocking the book: Mandela Square, Sandton; Cavendish Square, Claremont; Tyger Valley, Bellville

Museums etc.... Griqua National Conference, Kranshoek, Plettenberg Bay Kokstad Museum, Kokstad, 104 Main Street Kokstad Phone: 039 7976600 Mary Moffat Museum, P.O. Box 18, Griquatown, 8365  Phone: 053 3430180 Cape to Cairo Books, Origins Centre, 1 Yale Road, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Ratelgat (Griqua) Resort, near Vanrhynsdorp north of Cape Town South African Archaeological Society. For mail orders contact fox@boers.org.za or 011 803 2681. For online orders take this link

Hi Mr Scott Balson I ordered your book, Children of the Mist, after it was discussed on South African TV. It is a master piece, covering the unfortunate life experiences of my people. Thank You. It will be valued forever in my family! A Few days after it arrived, a relative died, and I attended his funeral in Kokstad and had the opportunity to take photos of the graves, which needs maintenance badly. In the second last photo clip, the Kok family graves are fenced off, but just behind these graves are some graves of my predecessors, the Lubbe family. It seems the family had some important role in the Griqua history. I have been struggling to get information on our family tree. The last story that I am trying to follow is that a ship, carrying Scottish immigrants was stranded on the Natal Wild Coast, near Port St Johns, in the late 1800’s, These Scottish intermarried with the Griquas. The following surnames are rumored to have come from the intermixing; Lubbe, Moody, Jones, Thompson, Davids, My granny was one of these Scottish immigrants, Thompson, who married my grandfather, Lubbe, in 1910, a mixed Griqua. The last clip is one of my grand parents. I had the pleasure of greeting my uncle Jan de Bruin as described in the book; Children of the Mist on page 328, and his wife, aunty Ella, at the funeral, Saturday, 26 April 2008. I wish you could help, or point my in the right direction. Peter Lubbe, Kokstad

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