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- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): mid/late 19th Century
The first book featuring the Courtney family. The Courtney brothers, Sean and Garrick sneak off with a gun. Sean accidentally shoots Garrick in the leg, which eventually leads to amputation. This event is at the heart of a shaky...
- Location(s): Johannesburg, South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Jo returns to South Africa after ten years in the UK to cover the riots sweeping the Jo’burg township of Alex. Nico, her estranged Afrikaner father, reappears and asks her to help prove his innocence in the murder of...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
The unfolding story of a young woman’s slowly evolving identity in the turbulent political environment of present-day South Africa. Her father’s death in prison leaves Rosa Burger alone to explore the intricacies of what it actually means to be...
- Location(s): Cape Town, Dubai, Serbia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2000s
This is the 37th James Bond novel, written by American crime writer Jeffrey Deaver. It takes secret agent 007 from London to Serbia and Dubai, but much of the story is focused on the activities of Bond’s grotesque antagonist...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1990s
The setting isCape Town in the months after the ANC has come to power and the changes are beginning to be felt. Matt Joubert has lost his wife and is grabbling with weight and alcohol problems – he is...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A rich white man is murdered in Cape Town, his coloured mistress is witness to the murder. She runs back to her husband and children but the murderer is on to their whereabouts and hounds them. A complex and...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
After a freak accident, Douglas’s twin brother is dead, and his family’s fragmentation begins. His mother packs up their home in Cape Town and takes him to a tiny backwater town in the semi-desert Karoo region, where she withdraws...
- Location(s): Ladysmith
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1900s
In the dying days of the 19th century, the world’s eyes turned to the small South African town of Ladysmith, whose inhabitants spent 118 days under siege from Boer forces, waiting for General Buller’s relief forces. Giles Foden tells...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s/1980s
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned,...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 20th Century
The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long Walk to Freedom. A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South Africa’s apartheid regime....
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