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- Location(s): Cape Town, KwaZulu-Natal (Natal)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s/1980s
Gecko’s childhood is one of sheltered, almost magical innocence on a farm in Natal. He spends his days taking barefoot expeditions with his dogs and his nights listening to Springbok Radio, unaware of the cruel force in his life...
- Location(s): Cape Town, Namibia, South Africa
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
The gruesome murder of a homeless teenage boy suggests a methodical serial killer is at work in Walvis Bay, a depressed port, isolated in the vast sweep of the Namib Desert. It is a corrupt, claustrophobic place with a...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Emma le Roux, a wealthy young woman sees a news story on TV, which leads her to believe that her brother, Jacobus le Roux, thought to be dead for twenty years, is, in fact alive: and a suspect, under...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1940s
In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood‘s young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could...
- Location(s): Cape Town, South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1800s
Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar removed the spectre of invasion and England is now free to seek conquests and colonies in the furthest reaches of the world. Captain Kydd joins an expedition to take Dutch-held Cape Town, a...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Friday evening. A deserted street below Table Mountain. A six-year-old ballerina waits alone for her mother to fetch her. Then an unmarked car approaches, and she is gone. With no trace of where, or why she’s been abducted, suspicion...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
The former freedom fighter known as ‘Tiny’ has finally achieved his dream of a peaceful life. But then his beloved son is taken away from him. In that moment, he unleashes himself upon a corrupt South Africa. His victims...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Turn of 21st Century
Disgrace takes as its complex central character 52-year-old English professor David Lurie whose preoccupation with Romantic poetry–and romancing his students–threatens to turn him into a “a moral dinosaur”. Called to account by the University for a passionate but brief...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
Restless and driven, journalist Nadine Morgan is always on the move, chasing the next big story, following risky leads and running from anything that might weigh her down. Ten years after an assignment in South Africa ended in tragedy,...
- Location(s): Drakensberg Mountains, South Africa
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): First half of the 20th Century
Returning to his love of the African continent and its wildlife, Hemingway captures brilliantly the thrill and excitement of the hunt for big game. In some of the most vivid, intense and evocative travel writing, and memoir of his...
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