A rare collection of stories from a members of the Indian community in South Africa.. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS

1989 0435909215 Paperback

A South African children's story about the adventures of Jock the bull-terrier. First published in 1907 and very much of its time. Illustrated by E. Caldwell. 475pp. SOUTH AFRICA. PEARSON EDUCATION.

Abridged edition of the South African children's story about the adventures of Jock the bull terrier. First published in 1907 and very much of its time. In this edition language has been modernised, and measurements updated, but the esoteric charm of the original is retained. Illustrated by Edmund Caldwell. 280pp. SOUTH AFRICA. AD DONKER

A novel about a Southern African American preacher sent to South Africa to preach the values of love, compassion and forgiveness during the Depression years of the 1930s. But in the harsh apartheid climate of the Eden like country he discovers, his life is turned upside down. 370pp, USA. WARNER BOOKS.

New fiction. Sue Carey is a driven, twenty-something doctor struggling to preserve her sanity, sobriety and humanity in the corridors of one of Cape Town's biggest public hospitals. Finding imaginative ways of saving patients is her life's work. Finding a man who wants more than a one-night stand would be nice as well. On her journey of self-discovery, she visits the bedsides of the patients who make her weep and the men who make her weak. She discovers that all she ever wanted is waiting for her ... if only she can learn to see beyond the hard science into the mysteries of the heart. 296pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

Debut fiction. Christmas Day, Muizenberg beach, Cape Town and a freak accident leaves Douglas's twin brother dead, and his family fragmenting. Wracked by guilt, his father leaves. His mother packs up their home and takes her son to a tiny backwater town, where she withdraws into her painting. Douglas, a city kid in an insular community, makes only two friends: harum-scarum Marika, on the brink of womanhood, and the old Xhosa garage worker, Moses, with his dream of putting together a car from spare parts and driving to Cape Town, his longed-for promised land. 196pp, USA. HARCOURT.

This anthology includes three major works by South Africa's first novelist to achieve interna-tional acclaim. Together, they provide fascinating insights into nineteenth century life in the Eastern and Western Cape, and into the personality of Olive Schreiner herself. 706pp, SOUTH AFRICA. STONEWALL BOOKS.

Historical novel set in the Cape Colony in the time of Ngqika. 376pp, SOUTH AFRICA. VAAL UNIVERSITY PRESS.

2005 9781770120051 Paperback

A first person novel, looking back at a holiday farm experience in the 1950's in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa. The novel reflects the politics and race relations of that period. Kikuyu refers to a mythical creature of the night. 315pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA

It is 1916 on the German East African frontier, early days for South African and Rhodesian regiments to be camping with men from the King's African Rifles and the Indian Baluchis. Private battles are waged as officers use the war to further their careers or cloak their pasts and a Boer War hero's son carries the weight of his father's reputation with him before he has even taken his first life. After a devastating defeat, Fuller, two men from the King's African Rifles, a Baluchi officer and Captain Carter are called to embark on a secret mission deep into enemy territory and the bush. To survive these men are drawn into each other's struggles with both visible and unseen enemies. 272pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

When Michiel Steyn returns to the family farmstead in South Africa for his mother's funeral, he has spent close to half his lifetime abroad. But even after fifteen years absence, neither Michiel nor those he left behind have truly come to terms with his terrible flight from the farm they called Paradise. As Michiel submits himself to the rituals of mourning and remembrance in the small town and on the land where he became a man, all that has lain undisturbed for years is brought to light. A fathers implacable fury and a brothers violent death, the loss of a child, the betrayal of love and the ugly memory of the dying days of apartheid all come between the prodigal and forgiveness. Michiel finds that he must confront not only his grief for his mothers passing but the painful truth of his own transgressions. 236pp, UK. ABACUS.

A novel tracing the lives of four generations of South African women and the effect a long buried event on their development and their relationships with one another and their children. 211pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA EDUCATION, 1919931120

Novel based on the lives of Anna de Koning and her mother, Angela of Bengal, a slave in the household of Jan van Riebeeck who gains her freedom through a romantic and fortuitous set of circumstances. The story is told through the eyes of her daughter, Annie, who achieves material as well as social success and encounters many of the persons prominent in the history of the Cape from the middle of the Seventeenth Century until her death in 1734. Gloss, 247pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

A biographical novel set in the politically charged atmosphere of the Cape in the mid seventeenth century exploring identity, power and how individuals react to the clash of cultures. Bib, gloss, 239pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

Adaptation of his 1976 play by the bestselling author of Song of the Atman. Set in Cato Manor in the good old, bad old days - Fawlty Towers meets Bollywood in the glorious hills of KwaZulu-Natal. 165pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

Fictional account of a life spent as drop out. 207pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PENGUIN BOOKS SOUTH AFRICA.

Set in a farming community in the Karoo and in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth, the story of Nel, a farm girl who leaves home to find work in the city so that she can support her family during the Great Depression. Times are hard, but Nel lives her life as best she can, honestly and with fortitude. She marries Piet, whose feckless ways ruin her hopes. When Piet dies Nel is destitute and returns to the Karoo to spend the last years of her life with her youngest sister. Laced with humour and realism. 197pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PENGUIN BOOKS SOUTH AFRICA, 0143024078

When a beautiful young woman is found murdered on Cape Towns Seapoint promenade, journalist and part-time police profiler Dr Clare Hart is drawn into the web of a brutal serial killer. As more bodies are discovered, Clare is forced to re-visit memories of the brutal rape of her twin sister and the gang ties that bind Cape Towns crime rings. Is her investigation into human trafficking linked to the murders or is the killer just playing a sick game with her? 314pp, UK. ATLANTIC BOOKS.

Afrikaans author and journalist, Joubert tells the story of Poppie Nongena whose life is shaped by the pass laws and the Homelands policy. Provoked much debate when it was published in South Africa in 1978. Gloss, map, 359pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL.

Now in paperback. An art curator travels to a small town to buy a statue and receives a suspicious reception from residents who think she is after Boer gold. 439pp, UK.SCEPTRE

2003 2002 0060530146 Paperback

Bangula is a developing island nation presided over by the Colonel, architect of the highly praised Reform policy aimed at transforming the lives of the island's inhabitants. But the success of the Reform is clouded by rumbles of mismanagement and political opposition as well as by the looming shadow of the blood plague, which threatens to ravage Bangula's population. Five turbulent years after the Colonel's death, his son and heir Abioseh Gondo reluctantly assumes the mantle of leadership. He finds himself increasingly isolated, surrounded as he is by those who seek to sway his judgement and influence Bangula's future. As the political intrigue and conflict escalates Abioseh has to contend with Zebulon Gondo, the Colonel's love-child and 'professional' mourner and Hieronymous Jerome, a childhood friend who is Abioseh's head of security but whose loyalties seem to be wavering. Winner of the Regional Commonwealth Prize for BEST BOOK in the African Region, 2009. 336pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PICADOR AFRICA.

At noon one hot midsummer's day, sixteen-year-old Alice Walker left her home in suburban Bushmansburg and vanished into thin air. Award-winning writer John Conyngham pursues the impact of Alice's lostness through Africa in a compelling account of one man's bitter-sweet relationship with the continent of his birth. 155pp. SOUTH AFRICA. AD DONKER.

A realist novel set in Durban's Casbah with its underworld of gangsters, political activists and merchants, telling the story of a family's journey from India to South Africa. Winner of the 2001 Sanlam Literary Award. 525pp, SOUTH AFRICA. STE PUBLISHERS.

The author's first novel explores transcontinental heritage and contemporary South African city life. 297pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

The story of Stephen, a 13 year old boy growing up in Johannesburg during the 1960s, whose parents become political prisoners. Suitable for young adults. 211pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

A stylish translation from the Afrikaans, from a winner of the Hertzog prize. Short stories. 144pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP PUBLISHERS.

New fiction from South Africa. Carla Jensen is big-hearted, bright, beautiful, a rebel by nature and a champion of the downtrodden. Adrift and exhaustedby her chronic illness, she witnesses a random act of violence on a city street and the ensuing confrontation impels her to challenge man's inhumanity to society's outcasts and ultimately to embark on a personal quest for healing and redemption. Her journey takes her into the maelstrom of disordered minds, across the sometimes hazardous terrain of sexual deviance, and into the dark heart of her own family and of Anna, her mother, who is haunted by her own sad secrets. 357pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PENGUIN BOOKS SOUTH AFRICA.

Set against political tumult, this psychological thriller explores the dilemmas faced by the 1960s generation of Afrikaners in South Africa. A disjointed chronology reveals the quandaries of Delport, the existentialist hero and protagonist who has lived alone deep in the bush for nine years in hopes of evading his past. Always fearful that his nemesis, the mysterious Ritter, is out to find and kill him, Delport begins having paranoid visions as he endures days of burning sun, nights of buzzing mosquitoes, and the constant sound of inexplicable drumming. Then, when someone does arrive, a woman named Malia Domingo, Delport cant escape the feeling that she might be connected to Ritter in some way. Translated from the Afrikaans by Luzette Strauss. 170pp, UK. AFLAME BOOKS.

Novel that recounts the personal trauma of a young Xhosa initiate after one such circumcision gone wrong. With frankness and courage, the author details the pain and lifelong shame that is experienced as a result of not just the physical trauma, but the social ostracism of being labelled 'a failed man'. He decodes the values and mysteries of this deep-seated cultural tradition and calls to account the elders for the disintegrating support systems that allow such tragic out-comes to happen. But it is also through this life-changing experience that his protagonist is forced to find his strength and humanity, and reassess what it really means to be a man. 164pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL PRESS.

A tale of a young woman retiring to South Africa hoping to come to terms with the murder of her sister, the father she hates and a country undergoing its own reconciliation. 119pp, UK. MACMILLAN.

2003 0330415603 Paperback

A novel of township life in Johannesburg in the 1930s, it tells the story of Martha, trapped between the pull of the country and the violent life with dance-band groups. '... has the authentic ring of Johannesburg of the time.' - New Society. 118 pp. UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

1973 0435901249 Paperback

First independent publication of a novel written in the early 1930s. A young woman returns to her village as an ardent nationalist after qualifying as a doctor in London; a ‘bittereinder’ who left the Transvaal Republic for the Argentine after the Anglo-Boer War returns to his grandfather's village as a highly critical expatriate; the local villagers pursue their lives; and the resulting issues of patriotism, language, race, religion, culture, politics and morality, so endemic to South Africa, combine as the action of the story builds to a climax. 277pp, SOUTH AFRICA. CEDERBERG PUBLISHERS.

New edition. First published in 1982 during the height of apartheid, Mating Birds exposes the mythology of segregation and highlights the political nature of interracial relationships. This new edition includes a new preface by the author. 140pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

A thriller set in South Africa, based on the events surrounding the air crash that killed Mozambiquan head of state Samora Machel. 255pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

Begninning in 1949 with Afrikaner hopes dashed by the outcome of the war, this novel reveals the character and concerns of the people of South Africa and how the 20th century almost passes them by. It ends with a celebration of the first year of democracy in 1995 and an Elvis Presley competition. 272pp, UK. PICADOR.

In this novel a reluctant heroine finds support from unlikely quarters. After a ruling by the Land Claims Court, a group of people start returning to their ancestral land in KwaZulu Natal. Joshua, the patriarchal leader, dies soon after their return. His daughter Zodwa, a sophisticated young graduate, is forced to continue where her father left off. The Memory of Stones is her story of how she deals with attitudes towards women, with the clash between traditional values and modernity, and with her maternal uncle who extracts levies from the squatter neighbours. A microcosm of the tensions existing in a new democracy still trying to define itself. 366pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

An historical romance, telling the story of Mhudi who saves her husband's life from raiding soldiers in a time span from August 1832 to the rout of the Matabele in November 1837. First published in 1930, this edition includes a bibliography, and a new introduction. 202pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL PUBLISHERS.

New fiction. Miss Kwa Kwa (or MK) is learning that in a country supposedly so black-and-white, there are a million shades of grey: 'Coconuts', 'Wiggas' and 'Buppies' are a few examples. But behind the simple façade of the rural, charming Miss Kwa Kwa lies a mind as sharp as a panga and just as deadly - and somewhere in this Rainbow Nation is a pot of gold with her name on it. Unaware that several people are chasing her, MK begins stalking a politician who has just checked his wife into rehab. Utterly charmed by MK, he takes her to the top-secret Studio 94 with its exclusive clientele. Throw in coincidence/fate, skulduggery, a crazed prostitute named Leeyann, a terrifying thunderstorm and a blackout, and it's a recipe for disaster. 246pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

In Johannesburg and Cape Town, sinister plots are afoot, and MK - no stranger to the deep end - may just be in over her head. The lady usually causing all the trouble now faces it from all sides: political fanatics, a Hollywood party girl, a secret agent, and most diabolical of all - local television. Further adventures of Miss Kwa Kwa, from the scurrilous pen of Stephen Simm. 224pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

Reluctant bank robber Jack Burn is on the run after a heist in the United States that left three million dollars missing and one cop dead. Hiding out in Cape Town, he is desperate to build a new life for his pregnant wife and young son. But on a tranquil evening in their new suburban neighbourhood, they are the victims of a random gangland break-in. Benny Mongrel, an ex-con night watchman, knows who went into Burn's house, and what the American did to them. Burn's actions soon trap them both in a cat-and-mouse game with Rudi Gatsby Barnard, a corrupt Afrikaner cop. Once Gatsby smells those missing American millions, the men are drawn into a web of murder and vengeance that builds to an unforgettable conclusion. 320pp, UK. SERPENT'S TAIL.

Debut novel. Art-school dropout Kendra brands herself for a nanotech marketing program; Lerato, an ambitious AIDSbaby, plots to defect from her corporate employers; Tendeka, a hot-headed activist, is becoming increasingly rabid; and rogueish blogger, Toby, discovers that the video games he plays for cash are much more - the narrators of Moxyland are on a collision course that will rewire their lives and the future of Cape Town. 240pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

New fiction from the author of THE INNOCENCE OF ROAST CHICKEN. A story of betrayal and atonement that spans the lives of two siblings from their nomadic childhood in the Eastern Cape in the 1960s, to their adulthood in 2004 in Johannesburg. While the nation struggles to come to terms with its past, Lily struggles with her guilt about her careless betrayal of her brother, Tom, which destroyed his life and their relationship. Tom confronts this fraught past by writing a memoir. But both Lily, and Tom's former lover Miranda, take issue with the way his book remembers their shared pasts. 253pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PICADOR AFRICA.

New in paperback. Draws on the memories of a son who recalls and immortalises his mother, a glamorous safari pilot and the daughter of a prodigious family, part Irish, part English, part African. The men she brings into the house refract the story of the whites in South Africa, whose sorry history runs from the Boer War, through both World Wars, to the loss of power in the 1990s. An epic tragicomedy, as dark as the European romancing of Africa. 464pp, UK. ATLANTIC BOOKS.

A law-abiding citizen is arrested for an unspecified crime and kept under house arrest. The town buzzes with wild rumours and the innocent victim soon discovers what dark suspicions his neighbours have been harbouring. This is the darkly comic tale of how momentous changes dramatically alter the respectable townsfolk of G, how the past is remembered or collectively forgotten. Depicts a society in transition and, with irony and wit, shows how it deals with truth, history and identity. 240pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

The story of a young country boy who comes to town - to the bright lights of Johannesburg and the dangerous streets of the townships. SOUTH AFRICA. RAVAN PRESS.

Fictional snapshots of South African life, impressions drawn from the author's experience of political exile.147pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP

Sam Jameson, eight years old at the time of his father George's death, decides, some forty years later, to go through the box of his father's papers which his mother had passed on to him. In trying to piece together the life of a parent he never really knew, Sam discovers a sensitive, inherently kind but insecure man. George has seemingly spent his working life as a native commissioner conscientiously carrying out his duties, but has never quite been able to come to terms with the white man's place in Africa. As his doubts deepen he is overwhelmed by despair. 244pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PENGUIN BOOKS SOUTH AFRICA.

Set in the province of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, the author tells the courageous story of a young girl growing up having to face both traditional customs and violent abuse from her father. 154pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

A professor contemplates the ruin of his life while delivering a passionate final lecture; a city girl suffers an unaccountably cruel twist of fate in a stranger's apartment; a rising executive flies blindly toward his past; and, darkly fleeting, a young boy haunts the lives of all who cross his path. In The New Suffolk Hymnbook, it is the district of Suffolk that binds them together - a place so carefully and imaginatively constructed that it evokes the novels of William Faulkner. 227pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

36-year-old Paul du Toit, a covert army operative in the twilight years of white-ruled South Africa, believes he has buried his violent past, until events force him to apply for amnesty from the TRC for the deaths of two anti-apartheid activists. He is dismissed from his job and his wife sues him for divorce. Heartbroken and unemployable, Paul knows he has become a pariah. On discovering that Louise has fled to London, he follows her there to win her back and becomes part of the South African expatriate community. Adrift in an inhospitable city, he reflects on his past and his guilt, something he has avoided since being associated with the death of two activists. However, the truth is as elusive as Louise is, and his journey to London also becomes a painful journey into himself. He finds out that Louise harbours some secrets of her own and becomes involved in a violent feud with London criminals. 206pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UMUZI.

Deals in part with the tragic-comic effects of the inexorable and distressing collapse into senility and the way in which memory and yearning come to the fore as a mix of poignancy and wit. The balance between the grim and the touchingly comic is delicately maintained and the subject is imbued with dignity and grace. The dementia poems are interlaced with wry, ironic and com-passionate poems that are the hallmark of this poet. 62pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

Crime fiction. An artist at the Museum is dead: sharp-tongued Hannah, a former exile, whose passions turn out to be fatal. Three very different people must combine forces to uncover her murderer: Ewan Christopher, Hannah's former lover and a British journalist, out of his depth in the new South Africa; Inspector Cicero Matyobeni, the world-weary policeman from Khayelitsha, holding on to his compassion for dear life; and the beautiful but insecure pathologist Helena de Villiers, who is becoming perhaps too personally involved. 255pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DOUBLE STOREY BOOKS.

New edition. Camille Pascal, a young, unmarried French nurse comes to South Africa with her father and daughter Zara, during the closing years of the apartheid regime. They settle among a wine growing community in the Western Cape where they become involved in the lives of victims of the system. 244pp, UK. VINTAGE.

A collection of short stories set among the poor communities of the Western Cape during the era of apartheid. 206pp, UK. LONGMAN.

1989 1974 0582264359 Paperback

A novel about life in the artistic community in 1960s Cape Town: the struggle against the role of the political writer, of ethnic stereotyping, and personal despair. 197pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

Portrait of apartheid South Africa in its waning years. As the novel builds to a conclusion, the protagonist, a veteran of the secret war in Angola and Namibia, is forced to appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Committee. Gloss, 295pp, USA. W.W. NORTON & COMPANY.

A panoramic novel about a community living near Kimberley between 1900 and 1930. The author presents colourful pictures of life, the Anglo Boer war, diamonds, court cases, marriages and funerals. Winner of the M Net Prize, the Eugene Marais Prize and the CNA Literary Prize. Gloss, map, 375pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

Byron Winterleaf is on the verge of losing his job as a translator at a Xhosa-themed restaurant. And during heavy rains his back garden in Observatory, Cape Town, is flooded, killing the marijuana plants that he'd been hoping to harvest for profit. But the flood also brings something else to the surface - it's a bone, that much is clear, but whose? 296pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN & ROUSSEAU.

Now in paperback. On a lonely stretch of road a nameless man commits a murder. The victim is a religious minister on his way to take up a new post at a nearby town. The murderer decides to steal the man's identity and becomes embroiled with the town's drama and the hunt for the murderer. 169pp, UK. ATLANTIC BOOKS.

New edition. The most important things are hardest to find words for, her father once said. That's why people make music. When Ana returns to the ramshackle cottage of her youth in the seaside village of Noordhoek, near Cape Town, she does so with the intention of sorting out her father's affairs. It soon becomes clear that more is at stake. After a decade in London, where she has failed to find work as a musician, her return to South Africa puts further distance into an already strained marriage, not only because she is out of reach, but because Michael, her husband, has lost faith in the country. Quick to welcome her is her neighbour, Franz van der Veer, an architect searching for redemption. This is further complicated by the arrival of his eccentric brother, Daniel. Against a tangle of childhood memories, scarred histories and renewed hope, Ana finally starts to confront the death of Sam, her Irish luthier father, and with it, questions of guilt and belonging. 208pp, UK. VINTAGE UK.

2007 9780099502678 Paperback

Of this novel Hein Willemse says: 'Should one wish to categorise this work it could probably be defined as a gay novel, or more particularly, a black gay novel. This subject matter has not been explored in this manner in English South African literature before. The novel challenges ingrained myths about maleness, black male sexuality, and urbanised Africans. At the same time it explores the impact of dysfunctional personal histories and the insecurities of relationships between young black and white students during times of personal transition.' 457pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

Set in Grahamstown, South Africa, during the 1990s, at the height of political unrest and opposition to apartheid, this is the bittersweet story of two people whose lives intertwine without them ever knowing each other - one a heavy-drinking white man and the other the young daughter of a black activist. Reuben Cohen van Tonder's battle with unresolved grief and his search for hidden peace and Vita Marangxa's innocent resolve to remove the bad luck which has troubled her family for generations, climax together in a resolution of personal and national triumph. Bib, 367pp, UK. BLACK SWAN.