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Every story hides a secret.
This one is real.
A mystery for the child in all of us — spanning Africa, Wales and the Congo, across three generations of a true family story.
A mystery for the child in all of us — spanning Africa, Wales and the Congo, across three generations of a true family story.
The name DuGallan hides a secret — just like the stories inside. Every book drops a clue that leads into the next. The trail never ends.
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Samuel Thomas Isaac Hughes — ST, to those who knew him — arrived in South Africa in the 1920s with a Welshman's stubbornness and a dreamer's heart. He bred racehorses in the Orange Free State. He created a remarkable herbal remedy called Black Forest Tea. He was swindled, he fought back, and then — somewhere in the Congo, sometime in the late 1930s — he simply disappeared.
His daughter Daphne knew him. She grew up in his world — the racehorses, the tea, the Shannon farm. When he disappeared she carried the question of him through a long and full life. She never stopped believing the clues he left were enough — if only the right person followed them far enough.
His grandson — DuGallan — is writing the books.
ST didn't just live adventurously — he hid his initials in every location he visited. A habit, a mark, a mystery. The books do the same. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
A life lived across continents, hiding clues at every stop. These are the waypoints of a remarkable true story.
Dugallan is not an invented word. Look carefully — Dugallan. Hidden inside the brand, exactly the way ST hid his initials in every place he ever lived. Discovery runs through everything here. It's not decoration. It's the point.
Durban Harbour, 1937. A ship. Two hundred shoes. And a man who laughed at exactly the wrong moment. Fifteen pages. One family. A trail that never ends.
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Browse All Books & Bundles →A grandfather on the West Coast of South Africa. A grandchild in London. Both looking at the same page on a video call, arguing about where ST went and why he left the clues he did.
One purchase. One flipbook. One shared screen. The trail runs between generations — exactly the way ST intended it to.
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