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AFRICAN COMPASS: New Writing from Southern Africa 2005AFRICAN COMPASS: New Writing from Southern Africa 2005
Coetzee, J.M. (Ed.)

Presents stories by the 26 finalists for the HSBC/SA PEN Literary Award 2005. 205pp, SOUTH AFRICA. SPEARHEAD.

2005 0864865805 Paperback

Contains the 2006 Caine Prize for African Writing shortlisted story 'A Joburg story' by Darrel Bristow-Bovey. 


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AFRICAN PENS: New writing from Southern Africa 2007
Coetzee, J.M. (Ed.)

Moral and creative courage marks these new stories from young writers of the SADC region - They say what they want and confront what they must, unconstrained by past notions of what can or should be voiced. 272pp, SOUTH AFRICA. SPEARHEAD.

2007 9780864867858 Paperback 


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AFRICAN PENS: New writing from Southern Africa 2007


AFRICAN ROAD: New Writing from Southern Africa 2006AFRICAN ROAD: New Writing from Southern Africa 2006
Coetzee, J.M. (Ed.)

Anthology of the best 30 short stories selected from 220 submissions for the HSBC/SA PEN Literary Award. The award is targeted at young writers who are citizens of any country in the SADC (Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe). 224pp, SOUTH AFRICA. SPEARHEAD.

2006 0864865864 Paperback 


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AT THE FIRESIDE VOLUME 3: True Southern African Stories
Webster, Roger

Fourth book in a best-selling series of stories from southern Africa. With a foreword by Max du Preez. Bib, 157pp, SOUTH AFRICA. SPEARHEAD.

2005 0864865821 Paperback 


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AT THE FIRESIDE VOLUME 3: True Southern African Stories


BEING HERE: Modern Short Stories from Southern AfricaBEING HERE: Modern Short Stories from Southern Africa
Malan , Robin

Updated edition of a collection first published in 1994. It contains 21 short stories about and from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Mozambique since 1960. Includes works by GORDIMER, RIVE, LA GUMA, HOMWANA, HEAD, DANGOR, COUTO, WICOMB, MAGONA and MATTERA. 271pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

2007 1994 9780864866967 Paperback 


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THE GIRL WHO MARRIED A LION
McCall Smith, Alexander

Now in paperback. First published in 1989 as Children of Wax, this collection of folktales and animal fables from Zimbabwe and Botswana has been republished with a new foreword by Mma Ramotswe. Includes the stories 'Sister of Bones', 'Hare Fools the Baboons', 'The Wife Who Could Not Work' and 'Bad Uncles'. 174pp, UK. CANONGATE.

2005 2004 1989 1841956295 Paperback 


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THE GIRL WHO MARRIED A LION


MUSUNGU JIM AND THE GREAT CHIEF TULOKOMUSUNGU JIM AND THE GREAT CHIEF TULOKO
Neate, Patrick

A satrirical novel set in the fictional Southern African country of Zambawi. While President Adini clings to power, student teacher Jim Tulloh tries to keep his days as mellow as possible. But when he is kidnapped by the Black Boot Gang, his fate takes some unexpected twists. Gloss, map, 375pp, UK. PENGUIN BOOKS,.

2000 0140286551 Paperback

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STORIES GOGO TOLD ME
Grainger, Lisa

In almost every village in Southern Africa lives a storyteller. Telling stories is not her official job. By day she may be a Gogo (or granny), a teacher, a farmer or a seamstress. But by night, round the fire, she will sit, surrounded by young children, old friends, neighbours and travellers, and will tell you of how it was in the olden days, when the Earth was young, when man was a hunter-gatherer, and when animals roamed wild throughout the continent. The author spent several months hiking around the villages, towns, farms and deserts of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and South Africa, asking people who can't read or write to tell her their favourite stories. The result is this children's treasury of legends and fables, of witchdoctors and king-doms of strange creatures and talking animals, which celebrates Africa and its ancient storytelling cultures. Illustrations by Celia von Poncet and a foreword by Iman. 190pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PENGUIN.

2008 2007 9780143025788 Paperback 


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STORIES GOGO TOLD ME