Kenya Colony’s Insane Asylum
How Kenya Colony’s used its Insane Asylum as a Form of Social Control If you have ever taken the British Airways flight from London to...
Jennifer McVeigh Recalls Camping Wild on her Honeymoon in Kenya and Tanzania
I have been on many journeys in Africa – or ‘safaris’ as they say in Swahili – and all of them fostered a deep love of wilderness, but...
Driving out of Nairobi
A Journey in the Footsteps of a Character Leopard at the Door begins with a journey. Rachel – the young girl in the novel – is returning...
The Books behind Leopard at the Door
“In the biggest, brownest, muddiest river in Africa…” The Enormous Crocodile waded into my four year old life with a terrifying snap of...
The Real Diamond Mine Behind The Fever Tree
Whilst working in the British Library I discovered the diaries of a young doctor who fought to expose a smallpox epidemic which had...
Jennifer Talks to Richard & Judy about The Fever Tree
Richard and Judy ask Jennifer McVeigh 1) So . . . why the Cape, and why then? What drew you to that particular place and time? A few...
Reading Group Guide for Leopard at the Door
Over the course of the novel, Rachel—though always one of the more progressive characters—develops a more nuanced, less naive view of the...
How I Came to Write The Fever Tree
The Fever Tree first spoke to me on a dark winter’s afternoon in the British Library. The hush in the reading room was broken only by the...
