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- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
For years, it has been what is called a ‘deteriorating situation’. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family – liberal whites – are rescued from the terror by their servant, July,...
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s, 1970s
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Time is running out…A killer who won’t stop. An investigator who won’t give up. When a beautiful young woman is found murdered on Cape Town’s Seapoint promenade, police profiler Dr Clare Hart is drawn into the web of a...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Award-winning Michiel Heyns returns with a richly textured novel set in contemporary South Africa. The murder of a beautiful woman shatters the rural village peace of Alfredville, and her husband, the police station commander, is jailed as chief suspect....
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
The two faces of Cape Town: The sunny cosmopolitan part of Cape Town, where europeans hang out without a care: the other side where life is a huge struggle and no way out. Violence is the norm Camps Bay....
- Location(s): Johannesburg
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1990s
Grade 4-8. Sipho’s idyllic country life ends when his nurturing grandmother dies and he returns to his mother’s shack. Shocked to discover he now has a stepfather who is brutal and abusive, Sipho lasts for six months before running...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern day
Sarah Lewis desires nothing more than to begin again after a failed marriage and a tragedy so terrifying, it forces her to leave her life in London to stay with her best friend a world apart in South Africa....
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1830s
Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master. The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the liberation of the slaves. Philida decides to risk her whole life...
- Location(s): Johannesburg
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
(The Author)…..has evidently spent much of his time walking round and round, up and down, above and under, in and out of the city’s not very beautiful streets…..He needs no cathedrals for his art, no victorious monuments. To him...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s-1960s
Following on from Power of the Sword…In Wilbur Smith’s masterly epic of love, hatred and revenge, the long and deadly enmity between Manfred De La Rey and Shasa Courtney explodes as South Africa herself is swept by the fires...
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