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- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): timeless
The first of Lauren St John’s heartwarming White Giraffe series, featuring the adventures of a young orphan girl and a magical white giraffe in exotic Africa. When she is eleven years old, Martine is orphaned and sent to live...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1990s
Inspector Kurt Wallander returns in the second of Henning Mankell’s award-winning, internationally-bestselling detective novels, this time to investigate the execution-style killing of a Swedish housewife. The local police focus on a determined stalker who’s suddenly nowhere to be found,...
- Location(s): Tsitsikamma National Park
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
An award-winning finalist in the 2021 American Fiction Awards, The Wilderness Between Us is an extraordinary story about nature’s role in the renewal of the human spirit, the victory of compassion and the promise of a new start. It’s a page-turner...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
The Woman in the Blue Cloak is a brilliant novella which will thrill and entertain fans of Deon Meyer’s much-loved detective Benny Griessel. Benny Griessel is a cop on a mission: he plans to ask Alexa Bernard to marry...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Hortensia and Marion are next door neighbours in a charming, bougainvillea-laden Cape Town suburb. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers behind them. Both have recently been widowed. Both are in their eighties. And...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Crime, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2016
Two dead men. Forty suspects. The trial that broke a small South African town “Look what the fucking dogs did to them, someone muttered. No-one mentioned the rope, or the monkey-wrench, or the gun, or the knife, or the...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
Through The Cane Fields is the story of two young sisters living a life of privilege in Apartheid era South Africa. Delia Hallowell is content with her carefree, luxurious life until she meets a boy named Thomas. As the...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
It’s Rosa. There’s trees outside. Get me help. Please. A terrified young woman leaves a phone message for her grandfather. He promised he’d protect her, but now she’s disappeared. A little girl, only three years old, is found half-dead...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda’s acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a “professional mourner” in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa. Day after day he attends funerals in the townships, dressed with dignity in a...
- Location(s): Hillbrow
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Recent
Welcome To Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbing ride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow – microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring and painful in the changing South African psyche. Everything is there: the shattered...
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