franjil publishing

Frank Graves is an author and film producer raised in South Africa and is the great grandson of Sir Thomas Maclear named as one of the foremost royal astronomers at the Cape of Good Hope. He is also distantly related to Robert Graves the renowned writer and poet who was a large inspiration for Frank to eventually take up writing. Robert Graves encouraged Frank to start writing with several correspondence letters and stories while still a boy at school. His first published work was published in 1989 was a fictional political thriller named African Chess (Now revamped, updated and republished in March 2014). African Chess was loosely based on his South African upbringing and the then apartheid system in place before Nelson Mandela’s release from prison or his death. Next came The Ancestral Trail published by Marshall Cavendish in 1993 in 52 Episodes In 2014 Frank started writing again and published the following Other Books this year by Frank Graves include January 2014 The Ancestral Trail Trilogy (First Part - Ancestral World Novel) March 2014 African Chess Revamped Novel - Freedom Fighting in South Africa & UK May 2014 The Culling Novel - UN Conspiracy Theory to rid the World of 10 Million People per Year June 2014 Now The Kixing Conglomerate Forceing Business Takeovers meet their match by a small Family Run Business.