ABOUT THE AUTHORS

JENNI BAXTER was born in Kuruman and grew up in Salt Rock, South Africa. She worked as a TV and political researcher and
journalist until 1990, when she moved to London and profiled movie stars and tackled British teen angst for London Weekend
Television and Just 17. In 1998 she married a South African and they moved to Australia, where they live on the Gold Coast
with their three daughters and have a web design company, www.bluex2.com. Jenni's happiest when drinking lattes, reading
glossy magazines and doing pro bono work for AWEC - an Afghan women's charity.

TED BOTHA was born in New York and grew up in the United States, Japan and Pretoria. He worked as a journalist and then
went travelling through Africa, which resulted in the book Apartheid in my Rucksack. He moved to New York in 1996 and
freelances for publications like the New York Times and Condé Nast Traveler. His book Mongo, Adventures in Trash, about the
people in New York City who collect the valuable things that others throw away, was recently published by Bloomsbury. You
can read more about him at www.tedbotha.com, which was designed by Jenni Baxter (see above).