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The Queen of Diamonds

The Queen of Diamonds
  • Author(s): Juliet Moore
  • Location(s): England, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Victorian era, later 1800s

A priceless diamond leads to love and adventure in late nineteenth century England… Only once has anyone cared for abandoned Catherine Claremont’s welfare. Handsome Harrison Foster saved her from a pack of cruel neighborhood girls, and walked out of...

The Raw Man

The Raw Man
  • Author(s): George Makan Clark
  • Location(s): South Africa, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mainly second half 20th Century

It begins with a journey. In a resurrected bungalow on the edge of the fledgling nation of Zimbabwe, Sergeant Gordon’s story has come to rest. He has borne it across drought-blasted floodplains and highlands, fleeing the copper mine which...

The Sound of Thunder

The Sound of Thunder
  • Author(s): Wilbur Smith
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century

Sequel to “When the Lion Feeds”, second book in the saga of the Courtney family. This book is set against the Boer War

The Undesirables

The Undesirables
  • Author(s): Dave Boling
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century

While the vastly outnumbered Boer commandos fight in the field, half a million British soldiers torch a flaming path across the South African veld. As they go, the British imprison thousands of displaced Boer families, including Aletta Venter’s, and...

Thirteen Hours

Thirteen Hours
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): Cape Town, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

They killed her best friend. Now they are chasing Rachel Anderson through the streets of Cape Town. The young tourist doesn’t dare trust anyone – except her father, back home in America. When he puts pressure on the politicians,...

Too Late The Phalarope

Too Late The Phalarope
  • Author(s): Alan Paton
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Novel set in South Africa and demonstrates through the lives of ordinary people the inhuman quality of South African apartheid. Racial segregation is odious in concept, impossible in application. To prove it, Paton tells us the story of Pieter,...

Trackers

Trackers
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A housewife running from years of domestic abuse. A bodyguard hired to escort a smuggled rhinoceros. A group of Islamic terrorists based in a quiet residential street. A secret government agency threatened with amalgamation within a bigger department. A...

Triomf

Triomf
  • Author(s): Marlene van Niekerk
  • Location(s): Johannesburg

Marlene van Niekerk’s multi-award winning novel “Triomf” tells the story of the four residents of 127 Martha Street in the then ‘poor white’ suburb of Triomf, built on the ruins of old Sophiatown, once the vibrant and notorious centre...

Up Against the Night

Up Against the Night
  • Author(s): Justin Cartwright
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘History . . . is seldom able to convey the essence of being human’ Frank McAllister has become wealthy in England, where he has lived for thirty years. He has a house in Notting Hill, a house in the...

Wake Up Dead

Wake Up Dead
  • Author(s): Roger Smith
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

3 Lives intersect in Cape Town, South Africa. Roxy Palmer needs to escape a bad marriage and some bad decisions…Billy Afrika, cold blooded killer, is looking for payment and redemption, Piper is looking for hid ture love.

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