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Apostle Lodge

Apostle Lodge
  • Author(s): Paul Mendelson
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Col Vaughn de Vries Book 4 From the author of the acclaimed The First Rule of Survival, praised by Lee Child as ‘excellent and uncompromising’, comes Paul Mendelson’s explosive latest thriller. Apostle Lodge looks out over the ocean, an...

Cobra

Cobra
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Why would a mathematics professor from Cambridge University, renting a holiday home outside Cape Town, require a false identity and three bodyguards? And where is he, now that they are dead? The only clue to the bodyguards’ murder is...

Dead of Night

Dead of Night
  • Author(s): Michael Stanley
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

When freelance journalist, Crystal Nguyen, heads to South Africa, she thinks she’ll be researching an article on rhino-horn smuggling for National Geographic, but within a week she’s been hunting poachers, hunted by their bosses, and then arrested in connection...

PARIS NIGHTS MY YEAR AT THE MOULIN ROUGE

PARIS NIGHTS MY YEAR AT THE MOULIN ROUGE
  • Author(s): Cliff Simon, Loren Stephens
  • Location(s): Paris, South Africa, Sweden
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1989-1990

“ holds a loving regard for both Africa and Paris, expounding on the various riches of both lands… the Paris lights and what they bestowed upon the author will mesmerize the reader.” —Manhattan Book Review Little did Cliff...

Reconciliation for the Dead

Reconciliation for the Dead
  • Author(s): Paul E Hardisty
  • Location(s): Angola, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fresh from events in Yemen and Cyprus, vigilante justice-seeker Claymore Straker returns to South Africa, seeking absolution for the sins of his past. Over four days, he testifies to Desmond Tutu’s newly established Truth and Reconciliation Commission, recounting the...

Ride the Wings of Morning

Ride the Wings of Morning
  • Author(s): Sophie Neville
  • Location(s): Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1992-1999

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work as a safari guide on a game reserve in Southern Africa? Sophie arrived in South Africa to spend help a friend run horseback safaris on a game reserve...

Takeout Sushi

Takeout Sushi
  • Author(s): Christopher Green
  • Location(s): Tokyo, London, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Takeout Sushi is a collection of 17 illustrated short stories set mostly in contemporary Japan that explore feelings of belonging, displacement, and the strangeness of everyday human interaction. In an innovative, fast-paced company, a man’s job comes under threat...

The Dark Flood

The Dark Flood
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): Stellenbosch
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘The undisputed champion of South African crime’ – Wilbur Smith One last chance. Almost fired for insubordination, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido find themselves demoted, exiled from the elite Hawks unit and dispatched to the leafy streets of...

The Promise

The Promise
  • Author(s): Damon Galgut
  • Location(s): Pretoria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma’s funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for —...

Alarm Girl

Alarm Girl
  • Author(s): Hannah Vincent
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When 11-year-old Indigo and her older brother Robin arrive in South Africa to stay with their father, they find a luxury lifestyle that is a world away from their modest existence back in England. But Indigo is uneasy in...

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