Plomer's first novel with the Press, Turbott Wolfe began a long publishing relationship with this South African writer. Set in South Africa, Turbott Wolfe describes the racial dynamics between black and white South Africans and aims to portray these to a British reading public (Young, "William Plomer, Transnational Modernism and the Hogarth Press" 128). The narrator is a character called "William Plomer."