Blogs in January 2021

Double Negative 15th January 2021

‘One of the most imaginative minds at work in South African literature today.’-Andre Brink Originally part of a collaborative project with photographer David Goldblatt, ‘Double Negative’ is a subtle triptych that captures the ordinary life of Neville Lister during...

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Outside the Lines 18th June 2020

Outside the Lines is a journey through the underbelly of Johannesburg, South Africa and the intimacy of family drama scattered across racial, religious, and class divisions. Drug addict Cathleen is kidnapped and her distracted, middle-class family fails to notice...

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Journey to Jo’burg: A South African Story 9th June 2020

Mma lives and works in Johannesburg, far from the village thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother, Tiro, call home. When their baby sister suddenly becomes very sick, Naledi and Tiro know that they need to bring their mother back...

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Hum If You Don’t Know The Words 10th October 2019

Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation, but worlds apart, Beauty, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of...

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If You Want to Make God Laugh 10th October 2019

From the author of the beloved Hum If You Don’t Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time and discover the ways that...

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