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Penny Haw

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Born

South Africa

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Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Children's

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Penny Haw was the recipient of the 2024 Philida Literary Award for her “oeuvre of literary excellence” and won the 2022 Women's Fiction Writers Association Star Award.

Her books feature remarkable women, illustrate her love for animals and nature, and explore the interconnectedness of all living things.

Penny’s works of biographical historical fiction are published by Sourcebooks Landmark and include The Invincible Miss Cust (2022), The Woman at the Wheel (2023), Follow Me to Africa (2025) and The Woman and Her Stars (2026). Her other books include The Wilderness Between Us (2021), which is contemporary fiction while Nicko (2017) is a children’s book.

Penny lives in Hout Bay near Cape Town, South Africa with her husband and three dogs, all ...more

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Average rating: 4.11 · 7,341 ratings · 1,237 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Invincible Miss Cust 4.20 avg rating — 4,098 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Woman at the Wheel 4.05 avg rating — 1,407 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Follow Me to Africa really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,143 ratings — published 2025 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Woman and Her Stars 3.76 avg rating — 448 ratings — published 2026 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wilderness Between Us 4.21 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nicko, the tale of a vervet monkey on an African farm by Penny Haw (Goodreads Author), Petra Langner (Illustrations) 4.71 avg rating — 24 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	With Love, Jen: Letters from a boarding school in Africa 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Woman and Her Stars: A Novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Weekend

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Mary Barton

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In 2023, Anne Schlebusch delighted readers with her novel, BLOOMER about the antics, adventures and activism of Maggie and her cohort of Invictus “inmates” from the Hazyview Mansions Retirement Home who prove that there’s no reason for septuagenarian ...more
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“When you let go of things that make you unhappy, you make space for new things to happen. New things that could make you happy. Nothing’s ruined forever.”
― Penny Haw, Follow Me to Africa

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