Robert Molteno

Footballers (and author) huddling in an unusual pose – not on the playing field, but around their publisher, Glenn Cowley. The scene – Ike’s Bookshop, Durban, May 2004, just a few days before FIFA awarded South Africa the right to host the 2010 World Cup.

This book is something rather unusual, the biography of a house. Not some aristocratic family’s great residence. An ordinary house, a modern house, but worth ‘listening to’ because of the remarkable people who lived and worked in it.