VJ Books presents Natasha Mostert!

Born in Johannesburg, Mostert was educated in South Africa and then Columbia University, New York. She also worked as a teacher at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and at the WNET television station in New York City before taking up writing.

As a political op-ed writer, she has written for the New York Times, Newsweek, The Independent and The Times.

To date she has published four novels. She specializes in contemporary fantasy psychological thrillers with paranormal and mystic themes. Her first novel, The Midnight Side, both a murder mystery and ghost story, was released in 2000. It was followed by The Other Side of Silence (2001), a thriller about music and computer gaming, and Windwalker (2004), a gothic romance tale. Season of the Witch (2007) deals with remote viewing, memory palaces and witchcraft.

Her latest book, Keeper of Light and Dust, "blends mysticism with science and explores themes as old as time: the imperative of violence, the redemptive power of love and the greatest desire of all -- to live for ever."

She now lives in the United Kingdom, in Chelsea, west London although she still owns an apartment in Stellenbosch in her native South Africa.