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- Location(s): Cape Town, Dubai
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2006 and present
To escape the pain of failed relationships and careers, both Valda and Larissa take themselves to Dubai seeking not only success, but a reason and purpose in life. Valda does indeed find success and to her astonishment love, but...
- Location(s): Mozambique, South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In a place near Mozambique where no one knows the boundary, drought is changing everything. Tens then hundreds of people seek refuge in a forgotten outpost where a clinic is run by lonely souls of uncertain training, nuns staunchly...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Struggling with its past, Cape Town is a city of shifting allegiances. A place where children go missing and remain gone. Law and order is an interesting concept in the Mother City but not a helpful one. Living on...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1950s
Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper — a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger...
- Location(s): Johannesburg
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
Ben du Toit teaches history and geography in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is the period of the height of the youth riots in the township of Soweto. He is an ordinary, decent, harmless man, unremarkable in every way –...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First World War onwards
This is the third book in the Courtney series, which takes us through the latter years of Sean’s life. A new character is that of Mark Anders. Sean and Mark during the First World War and once they return...
- Location(s): The Western Cape
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
“In her garden, ensconced in the lush vegetation of the Western Cape, Clare Wald, world-renowned author, mother, critic, takes up her pen and confronts her life. Sam Leroux has returned to South Africa to embark upon a project that...
- Location(s): KwaZulu-Natal (Natal), Berlin, Cape Town
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
BERLIN. Agent Vicki Kahn is on her first foreign mission for the South African government, on the trail of an international child-trafficker. A complication she doesn’t need is that the President’s son is somewhere in the mix. When Vicki...
Beethoven was one-sixteenth Black
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Short Stories
This rich story collection will be a reminder to Nadine Gordimer’s countless admirers, and a taster for the uninitiated, of her enduring imaginative power. A woman gauges the state of her marriage by the tone of her husband’s cello:...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
The last time Silas Ali encountered the Lieutenant, Silas was locked in the back of a police van and the Lieutenant was conducting a vicious assault on Lydia, his wife. When Silas sees him again, by chance, twenty years...
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