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Alarm Girl

Alarm Girl
  • Author(s): Hannah Vincent
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When 11-year-old Indigo and her older brother Robin arrive in South Africa to stay with their father, they find a luxury lifestyle that is a world away from their modest existence back in England. But Indigo is uneasy in...

An Elephant in My Kitchen: What the Herd Taught Me about Love, Courage and Survival

An Elephant in My Kitchen: What the Herd Taught Me about Love, Courage and Survival
  • Author(s): Françoise Malby-Anthony
  • Location(s): KwaZulu-Natal (Natal), South Africa
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Françoise Malby-Anthony never expected to find herself responsible for a herd of elephants with a troubled past. A chic Parisienne, her life changed forever when she fell in love with South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony. Together they founded a...

An Unusual Grief

An Unusual Grief
  • Author(s): Yewande Omotoso
  • Location(s): Gauteng, Johannesburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How do you get to know your daughter when she is dead? This is the question that haunts Mojisola as she grapples with the sudden loss of her daughter, Yinka, and the unresolved fractures in their relationship. Mojisola is...

Cry, The Beloved Country

Cry, The Beloved Country
  • Author(s): Alan Paton
  • Location(s): Johannesburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Many-layered messages of loss and faith, murder, redemption, and the Reverend Kumalo and his love for his people. A true classic.

Fever

Fever
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa–and the world, as far as they know–to have survived a devastating virus which has...

Portrait of Stella

Portrait of Stella
  • Author(s): Susan Wüthrich
  • Location(s): England, New Zealand (Aotearoa), South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 forward

A fake birth certificate! No record of her existence in the UK data base. Jemima Ashton is desperate to discover her real identity. With scant information and the burning question ‘who am I?’, she embarks on an incredible journey...

The Tyranny of Trust

The Tyranny of Trust
  • Author(s): Neil Gevisser
  • Location(s): Cape Town, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

In Cape Town, South Africa in 1972, Aaron meets Angela in a bar. He has no way of knowing that she has sought him out because he is a White man about to move into District Six – an...

Warrior King

Warrior King
  • Author(s): Wilbur Smith, Tom Harper
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Historical, Adventure
  • Era(s): 1820s

A BATTLE FOR HONOUR AGAINST A POWERFUL NEW ENEMY South Africa, 1820 When Ann Waite discovers a battered longboat washed ashore in Algoa Bay, she is stunned to find two survivors: a badly scarred sailor and a little boy....

Weeping Waters

Weeping Waters
  • Author(s): Karin Brynard
  • Location(s): Bushmanland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2009

Inspector Albertus Beeslaar is a traumatized cop who has abandoned tough city policing and a broken relationship in Johannesburg for a backwater post on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. But his dream of rural peace is soon shattered...

7 Days

7 Days
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

I’ll shoot a policeman every day until you arrest the murderer of Hanneke Sloet. Shortly after the South African Police Services receive this threatening email, a policeman is shot by a sniper and recovering alcoholic Benny Griessel is ordered...

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