Barking at Dogs
Lion dung, toast collecting, and a naked man on the steps.
Barking at Dogs is a riotous, tender, and oh-so-South African collection of true and true-ish tales from the backrooms of a family shop and the wild edges of late-apartheid South Africa.
These stories move like a bakkie over corrugations—clattering, hilarious, then suddenly, unexpectedly gentle. Threaded through the mischief is the ache and absurdity of a country in upheaval.
Leon Lazarus writes with the accuracy of a mechanic and the timing of a comic; memory as spanner, humour as solvent, truth as the one bolt you finally loosen.
If you love great storytelling that leaves grease under your nails and a lump in your throat, you’ll devour Barking at Dogs.
Expected Publish Date: May 16, 2026 | Published by Deiora Publishing | Available Online and in Stores
The Beat of Tiny Wings
The end of the world was just the opening act. The real story is what rises on the beat of tiny wings.
On a dead farm outside a dead town, Daniel tends a greenhouse and the last beehive. A fragile miracle in a landscape of cracked earth and poisoned wells.
Then Hannar steps out of the shadows. She’s filthy, scarred, and not nearly as lost as she pretends to be. She talks about a “Mother” in the far north, and a disfugured beast called Aker that is on the hunt. She urges Daniel to accompany her north.
Across abandoned interstates stacked with wrecks and bones. Through dust storms, raiders, and the final choke of a dying world. What begins as a brutal road trip for survival becomes something else: a summons to the edge of the world, where an ancient presence is waiting.
Expected Publish Date: August 1, 2026 | Published by Deiora Publishing | Available Online and in Stores