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 | BEST OF BOSMAN Bosman, Herman CharlesCased edition with two volumes. 'Starlight on the Veld' is a 'best of' anthology of his stories; and 'Recognising Blues' collates the best of his humour. 146 + 134pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN & ROUSSEAU, 0798142030 2001 Hardback THIS BOOK IS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE, BUT PLEASE CHECK BACK IN CASE WE GET MORE STOCK.
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BOSMAN AT HIS BEST Bosman, Herman CharlesSelected by Lionel Abrahams. The 33 tales in this book were taken from Mafeking Road, Cold Stone Jug, A Cask of Jerepigo and Unto Dust. Vintage Bosman. 206pp, SOUTH AFRICA . HUMAN & ROUSSEAU. 0798144335 2004 1965 Paperback
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 | CASK OF JEREPIGO Bosman, Herman CharlesThe collected essays and sketches of one of South Africa's greatest storyteller. This new edition includes an introduction and notes. 208pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN & ROUSSEAU, 0798142766 2002 1964 Paperback
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CELEBRATING BOSMAN: A Centenary Selection of Herman Charles Bosman's Stories Mynhardt, Patrick (Ed.)This collection contains many favourite stories of the wars and loves, prejudices and insights of a backveld Afrikaner community. Gloss, 219pp, SOUTH AFRICA. WITWATERSRAND UNIVERSITY PRESS. 2005 186814416X Paperback
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 | THE COMPLETE OOM SCHALK LOURENS STORIES Bosman, Herman CharlesIn one volume for the first time, the entire sequence of Bosman's famous Oom Schalk Lourens stories. Edited from authoritative sources, and accompanied by original illustrations, this gathering represents a feast of South Africa's best-loved tales. 400pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN & ROUSSEAU. 2007 9780798146760 Paperback
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HOMECOMING: Voorkamer Stories II Bosman, Herman Charles & MacKenzie, Craig (Ed.)This concluding set of Voorkamer stories contains forty-three pieces in all, nearly double the number in the volume it replaces (A Bekkersdal Marathon). But twelve items have never been included in a collection before, and one Mental Trouble) is entirely new. Homecoming also includes the moving titular piece from October 1951 that turned out to be Bosmans last. Index, 288pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN & ROUSSEAU. 2005 0798144742 Paperback
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 | IDLE TALK: Voorkamer Stories (I) Bosman, Herman CharlesThese stories from 1950 1951 were considered by the author's colleagues on The Forum to be his finest work, yet until now many of them have never appeared in book form. 166pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN & ROUSSEAU. 1999 079813982X Paperback
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JACARANDA IN THE NIGHT: The Anniversary Edition Bosman, Herman CharlesBosman describes small town life in the Northern Transvaal male jealousies and passion surrounding the young woman, Hannah Theron, and her boarding house and teaching life. Edited by Stephen Gray, this edition of Bosman's first book includes a new introduction and brief notes on the text. 213pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN & ROUSSEAU. 0798140844 2000 Paperback
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 | LIFE SENTENCE: A Biography of Herman Charles Bosman Gray, Stephen (Ed.)Absorbing story of the life of the most famous white writer in South Africa of the first half of the Twentieth Century. Born in the Cape in 1905, schooled in Johannesburg and trained as a teacher, then sent to a backveld school the source for the stories in his bestselling Mafeking Road. After a sensational trial, found guilty of murdering his step brother in cold blood, he served his term in Pretoria Central Prison the source of his classic Cold Stone Jug. Bosman's extraordinary career is reconstructed from documents and his papers, to present the most revealing and explicit portrait of this most controversial South African author. Index, bib, 382pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN & ROUSSEAU. 2005 079814484X Paperback
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MAFEKING ROAD AND OTHER STORIES: The Anniversary Edition Bosman, Herman CharlesArguably the most well known and popular of Bosman's works, this collection of twenty one voorkamer stories is set in the Marico District. Narrated by the character of Oom Schalk Lourens. Edited by Craig MacKenzie from the original version published in 1947. Includes a new introduction and brief notes on the text. 151pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN & ROUSSEAU. 0798139021 1998 Paperback
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 | MY LIFE AND OPINIONS: The Anniversary Edition Bosman, Herman CharlesAlthough Bosman wrote no formal life history, this collection of his writing contains all the autobiographical pieces he wished to become known, from his Cape childhood and his Johannesburg education as a teacher through to his career as a freelance journalist. Includes a selection of his private letters. B/w illus, 208pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN & ROUSSEAU, 0798143541 2004 Paperback
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OLD TRANSVAAL STORIES: The Anniversary Edition Bosman, Herman CharlesA collection of twenty Bosman tales, some never before published, others already famous. Edited by Craig MacKenzie from original versions, with an introduction and notes on texts. 130pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN & ROUSSEAU. 0798140852 2000 Paperback
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 | RAMOUTSA ROAD: And Other Re Collected Stories Bosman, Herman CharlesA collection of writings representing the entire spectrum of Bosman's work over a period of 30 years. Many of these stories have been recovered from long forgotten magazine and journals and include Oom Schalk Lourens stories, veld stories, a prison story and some 'In the Voorkamer' pieces. Introduction by Valerie Rosenberg. Notes, 165pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL, 0868521302 2003 1987 Paperback
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SEED-TIME AND HARVEST AND OTHER STORIES Bosman, Herman CharlesFor the first time these bushveld stories appear in the order they were published, and we witness Oom Schalk rap-idly developing from a blustering fool into the wise old man of South African fiction. Notes, 136pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN & ROUSSEAU, 0798141867 2001 Paperback
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 | UNTO DUST AND OTHER STORIES Bosman, Herman CharlesThe writer's final stories as well as two previously unpublished works and other rarities. This anniversary edition includes notes on the texts and an introduction. 142pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN & ROUSSEAU, 0798142774 2002 Paperback
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WILD SEED: The Anniversary Edition Bosman, Herman CharlesThis poetry collection is the contents of two previously published titles The Earth is Waiting (1974) and Death Hath Eloquence (1981) plus some additional writing. Includes an introduction to Bosman's poetry and brief notes on the text. Edited by Stephen Gray. 176pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN & ROUSSEAU. 2004 0798144092 Paperback
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 | WILLEMSDORP Bosman, Herman CharlesHerman Charles Bosman's classic work about South African small town intrigue is published here for the first time in its complete, unabridged form. Edited by Stephen Gray. 216pp. SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN & ROUSSEAU. 0798139013 1998 Paperback
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YOUNG BOSMAN: The Anniversary Edition Bosman, Herman CharlesWritten between 1921 and the end of 1933 this collection of early work range from his contributions to the Sunday Times, written at the age of sixteen, to his experimental short pieces. Also includes the playscript, Street woman. B/w illus, 194pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN & ROUSSEAU. 2003 0798143576 Paperback
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