Based in Durban, South Africa, our objective is to entertain, inform and amuse southern Africa’s surviving readers with innovative and elegant books designed to keep them awake and away from the television. If we’re successful, we might even add to the limited numbers who turn to the bookcase for stimulation and pleasure.
  The first book from Lizard’s Leap Press is Cultivating Flavour – Kitchen Gardening for Kindred Spirits by Toni B Walters, and launches in October 2008. Cultivating Flavour is the first complete guide to kitchen gardening in southern Africa and is a richly illustrated fusion of cultivation and culinary delight. Six books will follow in 2009, including an Australian edition of Cultivating Flavour.
  The first of these will be Herman Charles Bosman’s Marico Moments – The Life and Times of Oom Schalk Lourens, a century of South African adventure through the eyes of Bosman’s iconic story teller, Oom Schalk, designed and illustrated by Peter Badcock. Designer and illustrator of the best-selling Illustrated Bosman (1985, 1986, 1987 and 1988), Peter has doubled the number of original illustrations for this entirely fresh look at Herman Charles Bosman’s Groot Marico and its place in South African history.
  This will be followed by 3 lavishly-illustrated books for children (of all ages) in the Stories Fresh Out of Africa series, best-sellers originally published in English and Afrikaans (1988), written and illustrated by Peter Walters. First up will be Hironymus, the hippopotamus who couldn’t swim, followed by Engelbert, the elephant who wouldn’t stay grey and Larynx, the lion who lost his roar.
   And to round 2009 off, a second southern African edition of Cultivating Flavour will be published, followed by an adapted edition for Australia and New Zealand.
   Lizard’s Leap Press will also publish a range of limited edition prints and artist’s proofs from Illustrated Bosman, as well as Marico Moments – The Life and Times of Oom Schalk Lourens.