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The Affair

The Affair
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): London, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Happily married with two small children and a circle of devoted friends, Angelica knows she should be grateful. But then she meets a charismatic South African who flirts with her and makes her feel beautiful. What starts as a...

The Blessed Girl

The Blessed Girl
  • Author(s): Angela Makholwa
  • Location(s): Johannesburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 SOUTH AFRICAN SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY AWARDS Young, beautiful and ambitious, Bontle Tau has Johannesburg wrapped around her finger. Her generous admirers are falling over themselves to pay for her Mercedes, her penthouse,...

The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories

The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories
  • Author(s): Ivan Vladislavic
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Short Stories

“Not writing is always a relief and sometimes a pleasure. Writing about what cannot be written, by contrast, is the devil’s own job.” In this unusual text, a blend of essay, fiction, and literary genealogy, South African novelist Ivan...

The Way of the Women

The Way of the Women
  • Author(s): Marlene van Niekerk
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

How can you speak when speech has been taken away? When the only person listening refuses to understand? Milla, trapped in silence by a deadly paralysing illness, confined to her bed, struggles to make herself heard by her maidservant...

Whitethorn

Whitethorn
  • Author(s): Bryce Courtenay
  • Location(s): South Africa

From Bryce Courtenay comes a new novel about Africa. The time is 1939. White South Africa is a deeply divided nation with many of the Afrikaner people frantically opposed to the English. The world is also on the brink...

You Will Be Safe Here

You Will Be Safe Here
  • Author(s): Damian Barr
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1901 & 2010

South Africa, 1901, the height of the second Boer War. Sarah van der Watt and her son are taken from their farm by force to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp where, the English promise: they will be safe. Johannesburg, 2010. Sixteen-year-old...

A Song in the Morning

A Song in the Morning
  • Author(s): Gerald Seymour
  • Location(s): England, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The catalyst is the arrest of a British agent, James Curwen (aka Jeez Carew), in Johannesburg. After Jeez is sentenced to hang, along with four young blacks, he is effectively abandoned by the politically wary English government. Service with...

Close to the Wind

Close to the Wind
  • Author(s): Zana Bell
  • Location(s): Cape Town, Dunedin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1868

Georgiana da Silva is catapulted out of the Victorian drawing rooms and into a world of danger when she escapes her fiendish fiance to engage in a mad dash across the world to save her brother before an unknown...

Get a Life

Get a Life
  • Author(s): Nadine Gordimer
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A story of domsticity, and conservation against the backdrop of South Africa.

High Low In-Between

High Low In-Between
  • Author(s): Imran Coovadia
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction

The violent death of her biologist husband forces Nafisa into a world of illegal organ transplants, bribery, and scientific and political controversy. With an acute sense of the disruptions of contemporary South Africa, and its keen feeling for love...

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