[Richard Davey Chronicles 02] • Serving Shaka

Serving Shaka is a dramatic evocation of Zulu nation building, immersing the reader in vivid battle scenes, poignant relationships and tense political machinations.

History teacher Richard, his friend Emile and Napoleon Bonaparte are stranded on the African coast, where they encounter Shaka Zulu, a leader even more ruthless and ambitious than the former French emperor. Richard’s secret, that he is from the future, is revealed; Bonaparte seeks to outmanoeuvre Shaka; and Emile joins the nascent Zulu army. Buffeted by the birth pangs of nation-building, Richard tries to exert his influence and retain his sense of self, relying on no more than half-remembered lectures from two hundred years in the future.