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- Location(s): Khayelitsha
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ignoring advice from his white friends, and to the bemusement of his black friends, Steven Otter throws caution to the wind and moves into Khayelitsha, a black township outside Cape Town. The story of his experiences in the uneven...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1952-2007
Throughout her career the internationally renowned South African writer Nadine Gordimer has built a literary reputation with her incisive short stories as much as with her acclaimed novels. Together with her essays, this highly imaginative and committed body of...
- Location(s): Durban
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
The story of a young South African black man obsessed with an English girl whom he encounters on the segregated Durban beachfront is told from the narrator’s prison cell in this classic African novel. Although no words are exchanged,...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
First published in 1946, this novel exposed the condition of black South Africans under a white regime. It presents a portrait of labour discrimination, appalling housing conditions and one man’s humanitarian act of defiance.
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Near future
‘Beukes deals with slightly surreal things in very real ways. I’m all over it’ Gillian Flynn Kendra, an art-school dropout, brands herself for a nanotech marketing program. Lerato, an ambitious AIDS baby, plots to defect from her corporate employers....
Murder on the Safari Star (Adventures on Trains)
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Join Hal and Uncle Nat as they plunge straight into an exciting mystery – this time while on Safari! All-aboard for the third amazing journey in the bestselling Adventures on Trains series from M. G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman,...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
A schoolboy playing truant bumps into his revered father coming out of the cinema with a woman. An ordinary mishap; but the father is no ordinary man, and the family, threatened by the affair, is no ordinary family. This...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A classic of literary nonfiction, My Traitor’s Heart has been acclaimed as a masterpiece by readers around the world. Rian Malan is an Afrikaner, scion of a centuries-old clan and relative of the architect of apartheid, who fled South...
- Location(s): South Africa, Cape Town
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
An elegant and evocative novel about people, place – and pests – by one of South Africa’s most exciting writers. Katya Grubbs, like her father before her, deals in ‘the unlovely and unloved’. Yet in contrast to her father,...
- Location(s): Kruger National Park
- Genre(s): Environmental, Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
Broken-hearted after losing her brother in a terrorist attack, 17-year-old Yael Amar seeks solace on an elephant conservation program in South Africa’s Kruger National Park. Catapulted into a world harmonious with nature, and dazzled by her new best friend,...
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