At last! The long awaited sequel to Way Up Way Out, Harold Strachan's boisterous tale of the early years of MK and how, because of some rudimentary knowledge of explosives from WWII, he was The One to teach the comrades How To Blow Things Up.

Featuring a young Yoshke Slovo (aka Joe), Govan Mbeki and Ben Turok (and a cameo appearance of Tom Sharpe's jalopy), Strachan's account of his love of fishing, his time in jail, his release and his return to his family and to fishing for shad off the rocks at Patty's Groyne, is beautiful, hilarious and true form for one of South Africa's best satirical exponents.

Eagerly awaited by those who remember his previous book, and by those who are new to Strachan from his Last Word column in Noseweek, Make a Skyf, Man! is destined to be a classic of South African literature.

A South African Air Force pilot during World War 2, he became an art techer in the 1950s and was active during the 1960s in the Communist Party and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the ANC. He was imprisoned for four years and held under house arrest for ten years after that. He eventually left the CP and ANC, but refused to leave South Africa, and after 16 years' unemplyment set himself up as an art restorer and renowned columnist for Noseweek, a controversial current affairs magazine.