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- Location(s): Cape Town, Dunedin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1868
Georgiana da Silva is catapulted out of the Victorian drawing rooms and into a world of danger when she escapes her fiendish fiance to engage in a mad dash across the world to save her brother before an unknown...
- Location(s): Robben Island, Soweto
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Late 1960s/70s
On a freezing winter’s night, a few hours before dawn on 12 May 1969, security police stormed the Soweto home of Winnie Mandela and detained her in the presence of her two young daughters, then aged eight and ten....
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
t is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. She...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): End 20th Century
Deidre is a victim, of her family, her society, her history. That is how she sees herself, and so she feels free of all obligations, moral and practical. Until the police take her back to her family home… In...
- Location(s): Cape Town, South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When a lion at a breeding park mauls an old school friend of his, Con must step in as the keeper of Sekhmet, the last remaining black-maned lioness in the world. In a Cape Town where fences keep people...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): early 2000s
After 602 days dry, Captain Benny Griessel of the South African police services can’t take any more tragedy. So when Benny is called in to investigate a multiple homicide, it pushes him close to breaking point – a former...
Joyful Trouble: Based on the True Story of a Dog Enlisted in the Royal Navy
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Take home an unbelievable and humorous true story of an incredible dog and how he found his true, yet unexpected calling. You will love the moving tale of Joyful Trouble, a dog whose love for humans went beyond any...
- 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): 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....
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