Justin Fox is a Cape Town-based travel writer, novelist, and editor.

Justin was a Rhodes Scholar and holds a PhD in English from Oxford University.  He was a research fellow at the University of Cape Town after his doctorate, where he still teaches part-time. Justin’s articles and photographs have appeared internationally in a number of award-winning publications and his short stories and poems have appeared in multiple anthologies.

Justin is a two-time Mondi journalism award winner (1999 and 2004). His recent books include AFRICA LENS (Jacana, 2009), THE MARGINAL SAFARI (Umuzi, 2010), UNSPOTTED (Mampoer, 2013) and THE IMPOSSIBLE FIVE (Tafelberg, 2015; Jacaranda Books UK 2018). THE MARGINAL SAFARI was nominated for the 2011 Alan Paton Award for non-fiction and the 2012 Olive Schreiner Prize for Literature.

Justin’s debut novel WHOEVER FEARS THE SEA (Umuzi, 2014) was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize, Africa’s richest literary prize. The best-selling THE CAPE RAIDER (Penguin Books, 2021; Sapere Books UK, 2021) and THE WOLF HUNT ( Sapere Books UK, 2022) are book one and book two of Fox’s series of Jack Pembroke naval adventures. Book three HELL RUN TOBRUK is forthcoming.

Forthcoming (Penguin Random House 2023) non-fiction PLACE explores the South African landscape through the lens of local literary greats.