Chris Minnaar is a distinguished South African writer who feels he has lost whatever gift he had for writing. A chance encounter causes him to reflect upon his life and the many women he has known. This final act of writing is an attempt to bring order to an otherwise chaotic existence. Andre Brink's new novel is the history of a life set against the history of a nation, and the history of a transforming love. 311pp, UK. VINTAGE.

A specially commissioned short story in both English and Afrikaans to mark the launch of the Umuzi imprint of Random House South Africa. It was founded in March 2006 to celebrate and spread abroad the writers and writing of contemporary South Africa. 56+58pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UMUZI.

South African essayist, playwright and novelist, this book is a meditation on the ways ordinary people become politicised in repressive States. It is the story of Ben du Toit, whose investigations into his friends death causes him to become an outsider in his own community, in conflict with the apartheid system. 316pp. UK. VINTAGE.

When Kristien returns to South Africa to care for her ailing grandmother she finds a family and a country in a process of crisis and change. Gloss, 351pp, UK. VINTAGE.

In early 1749 a white woman and a black man are stranded in the South African wilderness. She is educated and totally helpless in the wilds, he is a runaway slave. Their poised, guarded selves begin to change as they face the long trek back to civilisation. 249pp, UK. VINTAGE.

Tells the story of Joseph Malan as he awaits execution for the murder of his white lover. 400pp, UK. VINTAGE

Now available in paperback. Early in the last century, a child escapes abuse in a Bremen orphanage only to face worse terrors in the colonial settlements of German South-West Africa. Gloss, 311p, UK. VINTAGE.

Now in paperback. In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of his region. Coming under the spell of a woman, the soap-boiler Anna, and particularly under the influence of the great Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp of the London Missionary Society, Cupido is then made the first Khoi or 'Hottentot' missionary ordained at the Cape of Good Hope. The novel explores through the historical figure of Cupido Cockroach the origins of racial tension in the shadowlands between myth and history. 251pp, UK. VINTAGE.

Now in paperback. A meditation on ageing and on love, on loneliness and fulfilment, on guilt and innocence and loss. Set within the context of a rapidly changing South Africa. 311pp, UK. VINTAGE.

Winter in South Africa, a time of searing drought, angry stirrings in Soweto and the shadow of the Angolan conflict cast across the scorched bush. A wealthy Afrikaner plans a weekend away but his visit coincides with a time of personal crisis. 446 pp, UK. VINTAGE.