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.

Buy The Story Trap

• Amazon: both print and Kindle version
• Kobo: ePub version
• The Book Depository: Print version with free international shipping.

The Broken Path

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

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”

Buy “The Broken Path”:

• Kindle versions on Amazon.com
• Kindle versions on Amazon.co.uk

Strange Neighbours

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

• You can read the first story online here.
• It is available as an ebook from Amazon

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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