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- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
A fascinating portrait of the new South Africa by the acclaimed author of Brazil: Life, Blood, Soul. From the stillness of the Karoo savanna to the warmth of the Indian Ocean, and from the exclusive white neighbourhoods of Pretoria...
- Location(s): Johannesburg
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
In Johannesburg prosperous whites live in gated communities: when they exit their cars to open the gates, car-jackings are common. But seldom is the victim killed, much less shot twice, like Annette Botha. Piet Botha, the husband of the...
- Location(s): Johannesburg
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
Two children growing up in 1940s South Africa are told to stay away from lonely places because there is a child abductor on the loose. What could possibly go wrong? Young Maudie doesn’t realise she has a ‘gift’ that...
- Location(s): Johannesburg, Kruger National Park
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1970s
Edward Lincoln had scaled the Himalayas, survived deadly car chases, defeated scores of assassins. As a film action man he’d even suffered stoically at the hands of sadistic directors. After finishing his latest film, he’s asked to visit South...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Mid 1990s
Dervla Murphy’s journal of her cycle tours of South Africa, before, during, and after the transfer of power in 1994, gives a day-by-day view of that momentous period. When she first pedalled across the Limpopo she fancied that she...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
This follow on from The Power of Once. Half-African, half-Indian and beautiful, Tandia is just a teenager when she is brutally attacked and violated by the South African police. Desperately afraid and consumed by hatred for the white man,...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Various, 1600s to 1980s
Adventurers, scoundrels and missionaries. The best and worst of two continents carve an empire out of the vast wilderness that is to become South Africa. For hundreds of years, their rivalries and passions spill across the land. From the...
- Location(s): England, South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1878
1880, South Africa – a land torn apart by greed… Frances Irvine, left penniless after her father’s sudden death, is forced to emigrate to the Cape. In this barren country, she meets two very different men – one driven...
- Location(s): Cradock, South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919 to travel to South Africa and marry the fiance she has not seen for five years. Isolated and estranged in a harsh landscape, she finds solace in her diary and...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
First with your head and then with your heart … So says Hoppie Groenewald, boxing champion, to a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world. For the young Peekay, its a piece of advice...
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