At the Fireside was born out of the need to preserve, retell and rekindle some of the stories of events and lives that have shaped and coloured South Africa. Th

Roger Webster published his first volume of At the Fireside stories in 2001. It became an overnight bestseller and he went on to write three more books filled w

The stories in this work are the tales of bravery and honour, greed and failure, hope and despair, but ultimately the stories of real people who went beyond the