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- Location(s): Johannesburg
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
When Jozi, as Johannesburg, South Africa’s city of gold is affectionately known, was chosen as the main venue for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, it produced an atmosphere of mingled excitement and anxiety. Along with the promise of national...
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
- Location(s): Durban
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern / 20th Century
Sana and Meena will never meet. They share little beyond Akbar Manzil, the sprawling mansion high on a clifftop above Durban that they both call home. When Meena fell in love with the owner of the house it was...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
A gripping story about what one strong, sexy woman really wants, and gets. This is simply a completely convincing tale, really well told in pitch-perfect prose, of a young Englishwoman – spirited, bold, sexually liberated and ruthless – who...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1950s
This nove is set in South Africa in the 1950’s, and we see Cressida growing from a child into a woman. This is the story of how she faces the desires of her wayward mother, her father who has...
- Location(s): United Kingdom, South Africa
- Genre(s): Dystopian, Thriller
- Era(s): 1990s and contemporary
Decades of spiralling drug resistance have unleashed a global antibiotic crisis. Ordinary infections are untreatable, and a scratch from a pet can kill. A sacrifice is required to keep the majority safe: no one over seventy is allowed new...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1990s
Through Spud’s diary, we follow the activities of The Crazy Eight, from night swims to porn magazines and videos, attempts to break the school farting record, and investigations into the school’s resident ghost. Everything they do risks being caught...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
A sequel to Home Ground this follows the disintegration of the marriage of Ruth and Clive, whilst Ruth embarks on an affair with Hugh Stillington
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son and mistress leave him: his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his...
- Location(s): Robben Island, Soweto
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Late 1960s/70s
On a freezing winter’s night, a few hours before dawn on 12 May 1969, security police stormed the Soweto home of Winnie Mandela and detained her in the presence of her two young daughters, then aged eight and ten....
- Location(s): The Eastern Cape
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century
In the Eastern Cape, Stephen (Malusi) Mzamane, a young Anglican priest, must journey to his mother’s rural home to inform her of his elder brother’s death. First educated at the Native College in Grahamstown, Stephen was sent to England...
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