other writing
A River to the Sea
A family saga of love and betrayal over three generations, set in South Africa, and culminating in the ANC's Sabotage Campaign of the early 1960s. (A novel. Unpublished)
The Light that Shadows Make
An unusual love-story, which starts with a nine-year-old girl witnesses her father killing her mother and her maternal grandparents. (A novel. In development.)
Moses and the Missing Tablets
An archeologist is on the trail of Moses' first tablets, and is shadowed by The Angel of Death, a grim assassin, sent by powers who do not wish to have the contents revealed. Interspersed is the story of Moses and his quest to disseminate his belief in The One, The Unity of Everything. (narrative for a comic graphic novel)
Blommetjie
A children’s story about love and magic during the time of the earliest White settlers in the Xhosaland frontier of South Africa. (A novel. In development)
Turning Point
A young Consultant Child Psychiatrist returns from suspension to find that the unit which she is send to run is threatened with closure. Has she been set up to fail? Can she and the warring staff and the desperate young people keep it open against the odds? (Screenplay for a 60-minute pilot episode for a returning series, set in an adolescent mental health crisis unit. )
Angels to Fly
An unusual love story which starts with an 9-year old witnessing a family murder. (Original full-length screenplay.)
other writing
Caravan
An old man and a young man, living on the edge, find friendship and belonging, as they battle against the odds to set up a marching band for a local procession. (Original full-length screenplay.)
NON-FICTION. When Father Kills Mother: Guiding Children Through Trauma and Grief
Black, Harris-Hendriks and Kaplan. Routledge, London, New York and Copenhagen.1993, (revised and reprinted in 2000)
NON-FICTION. The Emergency Department Handbook: Child and Adolescent Mental Health
(Ed. and chapters author). Gaskell/Royal College of Psychiatrists Press. (2010)(nominated for the BMA Psychiatry book of the year, 2010.)