Books by Masha du Toit

The Story Trap

An illustrated contemporary fantasy set in Cape Town, South Africa.

Book description

One girl’s death might save the ocean. But can her sisters let her die? 

Rebecca never expected to meet a witch, least of all in a second-hand bookshop in Mowbray. Surely she has nothing to fear from an old woman holding a box of books? She boards a crowded train to Cape Town, and settles in to read her book. When she looks up again the carriage is empty. Outside the window is a city she has never seen before. Impossible buildings stretch up towards an unknown sky.

Rebecca’s sisters, Pippa and Anmarie, receive a call from a stranger: Rebecca has collapsed on a train and is deep in an unexplained coma. They are confronted by a frightening mystery. Her body might be in the hospital bed, but where is Rebecca?

Somewhere an old woman sits by the ocean, watching and waiting. She can hardly bear to see the plastic pollution that fouls the water but it won’t be long now. Her trap is sprung, her plan is in motion. Soon the sea will be clean again.

Read the first few chapters online.

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The Broken Path

An illustrated contemporary fantasy set in Cape Town, South Africa.

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This book is the sequel to “The Story Trap.”

Book description:

What if a story came to life?  If the characters stepped off the page and into our world?

Rebecca has recovered from the coma but she still longs for the places she saw and the people she met in the coma-dream. Writing helps her bear her loneliness, but things get out of control when the characters from her stories come to life in the streets of Cape Town.  And Miss Mouse, the Antelope Girls, Hyena and the rest don’t exactly blend in with the crowd.

Cape Town in winter is a harsh place to be homeless. Esther, the witch who tried to kill Rebecca, is still at large. Rebecca has to keep her people safe until she finds a way to get them back into their story. She turns to her sisters for help but finds that they have secrets of their own. And Rebecca’s gun-packing neighbour is getting far too interested in her strange visitors.

Read an online sample of “The Broken Path”

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Strange Neighbours

Strange Neighbours is a collection of ten illustrated fantasy short stories set in Cape Town, South Africa.

Book Description

Meet a hitch hiking troll with a taste for pepper-spray and a homeless witch with a trolley full of secrets.  Discover a book hoarding mermaid and a fridge full of frogs. And learn how to greet a witch – politely, of course. These stories describe encounters with every-day magic, where strange neighbours live in the flat next door or under the manhole cover you step on every day.

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11 Comments (+add yours?)

  1. yameng
    Aug 27, 2011 @ 18:22:42

    Hey Masha,
    where can I get hard copy versions of these?

    Yameng

  2. mashadutoit
    Aug 27, 2011 @ 18:26:39

    Hey Yament – how are you doing? At the moment these are only available as e-books. Best you can do is get the .pdf from Smashwords and print it!
    Edited to add: The Story Trap is available in print from http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Story-Trap-Masha-Du-Toit/9781470190163

  3. yameng
    Aug 27, 2011 @ 18:29:27

    Thanks, I’ll give it a try :)
    I’m well, have finished with the studies so leaving Italy tomorrow and will be coming home…

  4. mashadutoit
    Aug 27, 2011 @ 18:34:16

    Wow. Has it been that long already? Just in time for springtime, too. Travel safely :)

  5. yameng
    Aug 27, 2011 @ 18:49:00

    yea its a bit weird.. by the way have you seen my thesis project yet? here’s a link http://yamengli.co.za/work/?p=333 , i would love to hear what you think :)

  6. mashadutoit
    Aug 27, 2011 @ 18:51:20

    No – I’ve not looked yet. Going to look at it now … *Masha du Toit*

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  7. mashadutoit
    Aug 27, 2011 @ 18:57:34

    …intriguing! My connection a bit slow for the videos, so just reading through the text for the moment… *Masha du Toit*

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  10. illka
    Jun 30, 2012 @ 19:23:57

    Hi Masha
    Sjoe, ja, dit is ‘n mooi cover…baie geluk met jou wenner-boek!
    x

  11. mashadutoit
    Jul 01, 2012 @ 10:01:34

    Dankie Ilka !

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