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Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1990
Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind bars, South Africa has been undergoing a radical transformation. In one of the most miraculous events of the century, the oppressive system of apartheid...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): End 20th Century
Deidre is a victim, of her family, her society, her history. That is how she sees herself, and so she feels free of all obligations, moral and practical. Until the police take her back to her family home… In...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): early 2000s
An antiques dealer is burned with a blowtorch and executed with a single shot to the back of the head. The only clues at the scene are a scrap of paper and an unusual choice of gun. Ex-cop Zatopek...
- Location(s): Johannesburg
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
‘One of the most imaginative minds at work in South African literature today.’-Andre Brink Originally part of a collaborative project with photographer David Goldblatt, ‘Double Negative’ is a subtle triptych that captures the ordinary life of Neville Lister during...
- Location(s): London, South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): Contemporary
Daniel is a queer journalist living in London. His relationships appear to be sexually fulfilling but sentimentally meagre. He has no relationships outside of sexual ones, and can seem at once callow and, at times, cold to the point...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): nineteenth-century
Set in nineteenth-century rural Africa, Fiela’s Child tells the gripping story of Fiela Komoetie and a white, three-year old child, Benjamin, whom she finds crying on her doorstep. For nine years Fiela raises Benjamin as one of her own...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950 to 1980
Dinah and her sister Lisa are growing up in 1950s South Africa, where racial laws are tightening. They are two little girls from a dissenting liberal family. Big sister Lisa is strong and sensible, while Dinah is weedy and...
- Location(s): London, British Virgin Islands, Scotland, South Africa
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern Day
Two suspicious deaths lead Will and Jay Slater and their old adversary, Inspector Dawkin, into the murky world of big business and government corruption. With fraud at the heart of the case, and hunted by a dangerous assassin, the...
- Location(s): Cape Town, South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When a lion at a breeding park mauls an old school friend of his, Con must step in as the keeper of Sekhmet, the last remaining black-maned lioness in the world. In a Cape Town where fences keep people...
Healing Rhinos and Other Souls
- Location(s): Bush-veld, South Africa
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 20th century
Healing Rhinos and Other Souls tells the story of a much respected if unorthodox vet, a family man who loved and understood nature and all her creatures, a reluctant businessman, a somewhat exuberant driver, a humble person, a great...
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