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- Location(s): North Africa, South Africa, Umbria
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): World War II and 21st century
HISTORICAL FICTION Diana G Armstrong picks up her story as she and her husband continue to live several months of the year in a remote village in Umbria, Italy. It is here that she uncovers the fact that her...
- Location(s): East Africa, Egypt, Italy, South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): World War II and Today
Diana G Armstrong picks up her story as she and her husband continue to live several months of the year in part of a converted monastery in a remote village in Umbria, Italy. It is here that she uncovers...
- Location(s): Johannesburg
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Toby Hood, a young Englishman, shuns the politics and the causes his liberal parents passionately support. Living in Johannesburg as a representative of his family’s publishing company, Toby moves easily, carelessly, between the complacent wealthy white suburbs and the...
- Location(s): KwaZulu-Natal (Natal)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1980s
This is the story of a young woman’s first encounters with rural South Africa. Coming from the all-mod-cons society of Britain at the beginning of the 1980s, the author is literally transplanted to a farm in the foothills of...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
t is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. She...
- Location(s): South Africa
The story of young Pele, this work takes a solitary journey from his small village to as he hopes to fulfill his dream of seeing the South African soccer team play in the 2010 World Cup. Along the way...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern day
After the sudden death of her husband, fraud investigator Kiara Fox is thrown into a high-stakes case that pulls her halfway across the world. In South Africa, oil tankers are mysteriously arriving at port with far less cargo than...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
Seventeen-year-old Savannah is cursed. It’s a sinister family heirloom; passed down through the bloodline for hundreds of years, with one woman in every generation destined to die young. The family call them Hella’s girls, named for their ancestor Hella;...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Short Stories, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 20th Century
One of the comedy world’s brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the absurdities of politics, race and identity, sharing jokes and insights drawn from the wealth of experience acquired in his relatively young...
Close Encounters of the Traveling Kind
- Location(s): South America, Japan, Nepal, South Africa, Thailand
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
This collection of near-death (and a few almost-near-death) stories take you on adventures in Africa, South America, Nepal, Japan and Thailand. Close Encounters with an angry snake, the edge of an abyss, an unfriendly African tribe, a shady guide...
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