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The Cafe de Move-on Blues

The Cafe de Move-on Blues
  • Author(s): Christopher Hope
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

In White Boy Running, Christopher Hope explored how it felt and looked to grow up in a country gripped by an ‘absurd, racist insanity’. On a road trip thirty years later, Hope goes in search of today’s South Africa;...

The Cape Raider

The Cape Raider
  • Author(s): Justin Fox
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Adventure
  • Era(s): World War II

This World War II novel evokes the landscapes and seascapes of Cape Town, South Africa. Scarred – physically and emotionally – by the brutal warfare at Dunkirk Jack Pembroke decides to leave his home in England to join his...

The Cape Town Book

The Cape Town Book
  • Author(s): Nechama Brodie
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Cape Town Book presents a fresh picture of the Mother City, one that brings together all its stories. From geology and beaches to forced removals and hip-hop, Nechama Brodie, author of the best-selling The Joburg Book, has delved...

The Elephant Conspiracy

The Elephant Conspiracy
  • Author(s): Peter Hain
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Leading politician and anti-apartheid campaigner turns the spotlight on to Elephant poaching in South Africa. Gripping and pacey this is an epic tale of corruption, collusion and courage. Having thwarted murderous poachers in The Rhino Conspiracy, the Veteran, Thandi and...

The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants

The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants
  • Author(s): Lawrence Anthony
  • Location(s): South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal (Natal)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of ‘rogue’ elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand, his common sense told him to refuse. But he was the herd’s last chance of survival...

The First Rule Of Survival

The First Rule Of Survival
  • Author(s): Paul Mendelson
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Col Vaughn de Vries Book 1 Seven years ago in Cape Town three young white South African schoolboys were abducted in broad daylight on three consecutive days. They were never heard of again. Now, a new case for the...

The Girl from the Train

The Girl from the Train
  • Author(s): Irma Joubert
  • Location(s): South Africa, Poland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

A sweeping international love story that celebrates the triumph of the human spirit over the inhumanities of war and prejudice. Six-year-old Gretl and her sister jump from a train bound for Auschwitz, her mother and grandmother unable to squeeze...

The History of Blood

The History of Blood
  • Author(s): Paul Mendelson
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When the South African Police Service receive a panicked call for help from the wayward daughter of a former Apartheid-era politician, they discover only her body but, within it, a message which will take Colonel Vaughn de Vries and...

The Last Hunt

The Last Hunt
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

A cold case for Captain Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido of the Hawks elite police unit – not what they were looking for. And a difficult case, too. The body of Johnson Johnson, ex-cop, has been found beside a...

The Last Place You Look

The Last Place You Look
  • Author(s): Nikki Smith
  • Location(s): Hoedspruit, Oxshott
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Leo thought he knew his wife. Until she disappeared. Leo Kennedy has it all: money, looks, the perfect marriage and luxury homes in the UK and South Africa. But when his wife Addison goes missing, his immaculate life detonates....

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