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Heart of the Hunter

Heart of the Hunter
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 2000s

The big man known as ‘Tiny’ has a past littered with violence and death. An assassin’s past that he hopes never to face again. But when his best friend is kidnapped, Tiny suddenly finds himself on the back of...

Home Ground

Home Ground
  • Author(s): Lynn Freed
  • Location(s): South Africa

Privileged childhood in South Africa

Hum If You Don’t Know The Words

Hum If You Don’t Know The Words
  • Author(s): Bianca Marais
  • Location(s): Johannesburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1970s

Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation, but worlds apart, Beauty, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of...

I Am Because You Are

I Am Because You Are
  • Author(s): Sarah Heron
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1970 - 2008

Though worlds apart, he has always been close enough that he could touch her and, eventually, he will. I am, Because You Are is a love story that spans three decades of political turmoil in South Africa, from the...

Icarus

Icarus
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 2000s

After 602 days dry, Captain Benny Griessel of the South African police services can’t take any more tragedy. So when Benny is called in to investigate a multiple homicide, it pushes him close to breaking point – a former...

If You Want to Make God Laugh

If You Want to Make God Laugh
  • Author(s): Bianca Marais
  • Location(s): Johannesburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

From the author of the beloved Hum If You Don’t Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time and discover the ways that...

Johannesburg

Johannesburg
  • Author(s): Fiona Melrose
  • Location(s): Johannesburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 6 December 2013

6 December 2013. Johannesburg. Gin has returned home from New York to throw a party for her mother’s eightieth birthday; a few blocks away, at the Residence, Nelson Mandela’s family prepare to announce Tata’s death… So begins Johannesburg, Fiona...

Journey to Jo’burg: A South African Story

Journey to Jo’burg: A South African Story
  • Author(s): Beverley Naidoo
  • Location(s): South Africa, Johannesburg
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1990s

Mma lives and works in Johannesburg, far from the village thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother, Tiro, call home. When their baby sister suddenly becomes very sick, Naledi and Tiro know that they need to bring their mother back...

Journey to Jo’Burg

Journey to Jo’Burg
  • Author(s): Beverley Naidoo
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): apartheid era

This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa’s apartheid. Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from...

Joyful Trouble: Based on the True Story of a Dog Enlisted in the Royal Navy

Joyful Trouble: Based on the True Story of a Dog Enlisted in the Royal Navy
  • Author(s): Patricia Fustenberg
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Take home an unbelievable and humorous true story of an incredible dog and how he found his true, yet unexpected calling. You will love the moving tale of Joyful Trouble, a dog whose love for humans went beyond any...

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