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The Last Rhinos: The Powerful Story of One Man’s Battle to Save a Species
- Location(s): South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal (Natal)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lawrence Anthony’s South African game reserve is home to many animals he has saved, from a remarkable herd of elephants to a badly behaved bushbaby called George. Described as ‘the Indiana Jones of conservation’, when one of his rhinos...
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
- Location(s): Angola, Namibia, South Africa
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): early 21st century
“Happy again, back in the kingdom of light,” writes Paul Theroux as he sets out on a new journey through the continent he knows and loves best. Theroux first came to Africa as a twenty-two-year-old Peace Corps volunteer, and...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
She expected the holiday of a lifetime. She got a trip to hell. Anna has rebuilt her life after a toxic relationship with her obsessive, controlling ex, Clayton. She’s finally found happiness with her fiancé, Joel, a veterinarian in...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1688, 1862
A sweeping story of love, adventure and adversity, The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse is an epic tale of courageous women battling to survive in a hostile land. Olifantshoek, Southern Africa, 1688. When the violent Cape wind blows...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Who picked up whom? Is the pickup the illegal immigrant desperate to evade deportation to his impoverished desert country? Or is the pickup the powerful businessman’s daughter trying to escape a priveleged background she despises? When Julie Summers’ car...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Political, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the last decade over 6,000 rhinos have been killed in South Africa. Relentless poaching for their horns has led to a catastrophic fall in black rhino numbers. Meanwhile a corrupt South African government turns a blind eye to...
- Location(s): Karoo
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Food and Drink
- Era(s): Contemporary
Tannie Maria Mystery 2 Meet Tannie Maria – recipe writer turned crime fighter – and before she has time to take her Venus Chocolate Cake out of the oven, our glorious heroine finds herself embroiled in another mystery. In...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Even after the release of Nelson Mandela and the promise of free elections, extremist groups terrorized South Africa, bombing churches, opening fire in bars and restaurants. Nearly twenty-five years ago, as a young Captain, Vaughn de Vries finds himself...
- Location(s): Zanzibar, Cape Town, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Ex Rhodesian soldier Jason Green was frustrated and mildly depressed. The winter in London had been long and bitterly cold. The steady work as a freelance insurance fraud investigator was mundane and repetitive. This tedious monotony suddenly changes early...
- Location(s): Kent, South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
Adeliza Golding is a deaf-blind girl, born in late Victorian England on her father’s hop farm. Unable to interact with her loving family, she exists in a world of darkness and confusion; her only communication is with the ghosts...
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