Raised in what was then Rhodesia, Graham Jones was educated in Bath, UK, from where he returned to Africa during school holidays.
After teaching in Kenya, he gained an English degree at Cambridge and has spent most of his career as a copywriter and speech writer for big companies. He has ghost-written several memoirs for business and other clients and Astonishment is his first venture into telling his own story.
He is married to Lynda and has three grown-up sons.
When Graham Jones returns to Zimbabwe to recapture his idyllic Rhodesian childhood, a chance encounter leads him to him to meet a one-time child slave called Astonishment. Now dedicated to helping society’s most vulnerable, Astonishment grew up...
'brings Africa to life in a way I have rarely found'
Preface
The man in the Mazda sedan tightens his grip on the wheel and flicks an anxious glance at the rear-view mirror. He’s heading north on the N1 highway, eating up the miles through the flat grasslands of South Africa’s Limpopo Province. In a couple of hours, so he hopes...
Stunning account of escape from childhood slavery
Inspiring, moving and true story of two men from opposite backgrounds reconciling their pasts
Backdrop of life in Mugabe’s brutal Zimbabwe and racist, colonial Rhodesia
A story of God’s grace and the transforming power of forgiveness
