Delores, who is forty-something, slightly dotty, and knows no boundaries: she dances with joy and with pain. When the world becomes too much for her, she takes her daughter to the corner for street theatre. To her name clings the sound of tears. She is the queen in King Solomon's Songs; she is also the queen of lament, bigger than life itself, a resurrected jester. Winner of the Sanlam/Insig/Kwela Debut Prize for Fiction. 152pp, SOUTH AFRICA. GENUGTIGS.

Short novel for young adults. Listen carefully, Meneer,the hairs on my neck are suddenly standing upright, I wasn't frightened. I'm sitting here tonight because I was dragged into something I know nothing about and want nothing to do with. If I look frightened to you, its because I am upset that you and the politicians have made sure that an honourable position is no longer possible for an ordinary person in this country. Originally published in Afrikaans as Relaas van 'n Moord. pp. 44, SOUTH AFRICA. HEINEMANN SOUTH AFRICA

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In this final collection of stories, published posthumously, Rive returns to the themes of his earlier books. SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

Only in real life do we find coincidences so unbelievably farfetched that the names are changed to safeguard those who wish to remain anonymous. A nationally renowned Japanese artist falls in love with an uncouth South African businessman. He promised her the world and flew her to Johannesburg, only to lock her up as a sex slave and to work as a servant in the flat of his mistress. A fictionalised account of true events. Illus, 200pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JOHO!

Born into a world with two options for the black man: life as a doormat, or life as a tsotsi, Shatterproof chooses the one that absolves him from begging the nazi amaboere for every oxygen inhalation. Uncle Phuza Babalaza Mthembu and later The General kick-start Shatterproof's life as a tsotsi - a life his crafty nature ensures he is particularly adept at - a life that sees the amarands come rolling in, and that's how he likes it, mfowethu, thank you very much. 336pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA.

New novel by the author of DOG EAT DOG. Bafana (nicknamed Advo for advocate), is a young man with a weight on his shoulders. After flunking his law studies at the University of Cape Town, he now has to find a way to either admit the truth to his family, or somehow find a job that will allow him to continue fooling them. Back home in Soweto he meets up with Nigerian Yomi, who promises to help him solve all his problems. What should Bafana do? Should he bite the bullet and confess the truth to his mother and uncle, or should he rather take up Yomi's suggestion to buy a law degree and start practicing as an attorney? Gloss, 222pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

New edition. Set in the 1950s, the time of the Passive Resistance campaign, the Sophiatown removals, the emergence of the South African Liberal Party and the early stages of the Nationalist government in power. In a series of vivid episodes, Paton examines what happens between people when such events overtake their lives. 271pp. UK. VINTAGE.

At the centre of this poignant novel is Simon, a successful Johannesburg businessman, whose carefully constructed life is rapidly falling apart. Trying to make sense of it all, he returns to his childhood home in Zululand. It is here that the reminders of his own boyhood lead him on a journey of rediscovery of both the ordinary and the extraordinary. 218pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

Debut novel. Danika believes she is able to cope with anything. Now, as she keeps a lonely vigil at her mother's hospital bed, helplessly watching her life slip away, Danika is once again confronted by the dark secrets of her childhood in Cape Town in the eighties. 276pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

2006 0795702299 Paperback

New, smaller format paperback. Set on the southeast coast of southern Africa in the early 1800s, this historical epic tells the story of Shaka, the father of the Zulu nation. Brimful of intrigue, heroism, pageantry, nobility and treachery, it sweeps across the burned hills of South East Africa's interior to tell the story of Shaka's irresistible rise to power. AmaZulu is the first in a trilogy that tracks the birth and growth of the Zulu empire to its ultimate clash with the British empire in 1879. Bib, 640pp, UK. QUERCUS.

Thabang Maje, retired school teacher and part-time private eye, is contacted by Regional Education Director J. B. M. Motau to solve the case of a missing school teacher, Mamorena Marumo. There are two complicating factors: firstly, Thabang was in love with the elusive and bewitching Mamo when they were both teenagers; and, secondly, to complete his task, he'll have to enrol as an undercover primary-school teacher in the far-flung village of Marakong-a-Badimo, near Mafikeng. It doesn't take long before he is affected by the strange atmosphere of the village: the villagers are secretive, there are kinship ties he cannot fathom and bonds of loyalty that stretch far back into the mists of time. 160pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

Three female medical interns from vastly different backgrounds are sent to a rural KwaZulu-Natal hospital where gang assassinations and rogue snakes are facts of life and AIDS simply does not exist. Pampered, spoilt Rachel struggles to establish her independence and learns to love across the cultural divide. Conservative, beautiful Seema struggles to end a relationship that has become increasingly abusive. And street-savvy Nomsa finally learns to accept a past she has spent a lifetime denying. 256pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

The story of a journalist who returns to South Africa in the mid sixties to assess what is left of the black resistance. Includes an afterword written in 1988. Gloss, 250pp, UK. VIRAGO.

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The story of a secret love affair between a boss and his secretary who create a fantastical, theatrical life for themselves within the confines of her apartment. Their theatrical existence is intricately entangled with superb food, romance, a cappella, an angel, Shakespearean drama, reflections on South Africa's war in Angola, drug-money, a muti murder, visions of the Afterlife and various works of fine art. 256pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

When an Afrikaans police captain is murdered in a small South African country town, Detective Emmanuel Cooper must navigate his way through the labyrinthine racial and social divisions that split the community. And as the National Party introduces the laws to support the system of apartheid, Emmanuel struggles to remain a good man in the face of astonishing power. 320pp, UK. PICADOR.

The story of two university friends, Alison and Marilyn, who meet again after 31 years of silence. A chance meeting later in life forces both women to revisit the dramatic incident that destroyed their friendship all those years ago. As they reconnect, both women are forced to look at parts of themselves that they have long kept hidden from themselves and other people. Alison, a repressed middle-aged housewife, is in a secure but unexciting marriage, and is inwardly searching for a break from the tedium of her existence. Marilyn, outwardly glamorous and successful, conceals the scars of bitter disappointment and heartbreak. 320pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

Nobantu has everything a girl could dream of: a brilliant businessman for a husband, two cheeky but adorable children, and two of the best friends a girl could ask for. And yet, on Nobantu's thirty-fifth birthday, surrounded by glitz, glamour and fame, she realises something important. What has happened to her ambitions? Her career? What has happened to Nobantu? A funky, witty tale of a mother turned entrepreneur - to the great exasperation of Andile, her husband and BEE tycoon. 188pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

Moving between contemporary London and the rural South Africa of twenty years earlier, this novel explores the shifting relations between memory, forgetting and denial and the possibility of healing at both a national and per-sonal levels. 215pp, UK. PENGUIN BOOKS SOUTH AFRICA.

2002 0143024043 Paperback

A year ago Patrick Winter, a younger South African, was in Namibia completing his military service. Now, during the country's first free elections, Patrick is back, back in the country he once defended and the place where he fell in love for the first and only time. With the country poised to change forever, Patrick is forced to revisit the past and climb the wall behind which he has sealed himself for so long. 192pp, UK. ATLANTIC BOOKS.

Novel set a phantasmagoric world where streets are paved with human remains and men are apocalyptically condemned to death by the fire of their loins. And yet, despite recurrent night-mares, the world is also home to calligraphers who continue to record dreams that encompass the past, present, and future in a sort of Borgesian circularity. 179pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

Debut novel. Big Dan's Sofie is a poignant tale of family and compassion against the setting of the woodcutter's lives in the Knysna forest. It tells the story of Sofie, a woman born into abject poverty with no prospect of marriage. The story takes place during the period 1935 to 1945 when Sofie goes to work for Big Dan, a forester whose wife is terminally ill. She takes care of his neglected children and raises her own level of education while helping them with their homework. After his wife dies, Big Dan finds himself increasingly drawn to Sofie and her tender yet straightforward ways. 210pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA.

A South African love story, and the first novel of acclaimed writer and journalist, Fred Khumalo. It focuses on the epic love affair between Bra Zakes, a former amateur musician, bootlegger, mercenary and killer of great repute and Lettie, a shebeen queen. Joint Winner of EU Literary Award 2005. 326pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

When a human rights lawyer is murdered in a hotel room, a crime thriller of intrigue and controversy is unleashed involving an unusual cast of South African characters. 227pp, SOUTH AFRICA. STE PUBLISHERS.

Unassuming archivist Macaulay Vogel examines a recently discovered cache of old police archives, when all of a sudden he comes upon a surveillance file about himself. It's a terrible shock: he doesn't recognise this person at all. Who is the youthful Macaulay Vogel in these reports? As Vogel sets out to discover who he once was - and now is, a series of dramatically unintended events is ignited. 208pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

When guerrilla violence and tragedy strike the small farm on the South African border owned by Marit Lauren, she finds herself in a tug of war between local Afrikaners and the black workers who live on it. Frightened and confused, she turns to the only person who can offer her friendship, her maid Tembi. This novel offers a unique perspective on what it means to be black and white in a country where both live and feel entitlement. 397pp, UK, MAIA PRESS.

A chef, a portraitist and a barber are taken hostage in a coup to overthrow their boss, the President. They are held captive in a palatial retreat in the mountains high above the capital city. Far below them, chaos tears through the streets. The chef's daughter, the portraitist's wife and the barber's lover watch their men from the shadows. In such precarious times, intimate relationships are as dangerous as political ones. As the old order falls, so does the veil that hides the truth about these men and women's secret passions. Drawing her readers masterfully towards the novel's devastating climax, Ceridwen Dovey reveals how humanity's most atavistic impulses - vanity, vengeance and greed - seethe, relentlessly, just beneath the veneer of civility. 185pp, UK. ATLANTIC BOOKS.

New in paperback from the author of DEVIL'S PEAK. Lemmer is a freelance bodyguard for Body Armor, a personal security company in South Africa. Lean, angry, violent, he is way down on the price list where the bargains are to be found. Emma le Roux wants to find her missing brother, who supposedly died twenty years ago, but whom she is convinced she's seen on the news as a suspect in the recent killing of a witch doctor and four poachers. She hires Lemmer to watch her back when she goes looking for answers. As le Roux and Lemmer look for clues in the Lowveld, it becomes clear someone wants to keep them in the dark. 384pp, UK. HODDER HEADLINE.

Richard and Kaunu are the central characters in the story of a family group of Drakensberg Bushmen and a British farming family who, in the mid-1800s, had emigrated to the Colony of Natal. Spanning a period of roughly ten years, the story interweaves the experiences of both families. With mounting tension, the parallel events and hardships that each family go through, lead inexorably towards the point where they clash - with devastating consequences for them both. 160pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

Three women look back in old age at a past they shared, not always harmoniously - Emmeline Pankhurst, the formidable suffragette; her daughter Sylvia; and Helen, who was loved by Harry, the neglected son of Emmeline and beloved brother to Sylvia. Through the narrative of each woman flits the figure of Christabel, Mrs Pankhurst's favourite daughter - selfish, vain but irresistible. The three accounts, sometimes contradictory, sometimes confirmatory, reconstruct piece by piece the events surrounding Harry's death and the human entanglements behind, indeed at times driving, the public acts of the time. [NB South African author, but British subject matter]. 312pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL.

Khutso grows up poor in Masakeng. He studies hard, despite many distractions, and goes to the University of the North where he meets Pretty. Although she is scarred by her past relationships with men, the two fall in love and get married. Soon after, their son, Thapelo, is born. But there is no happily ever after here. Even with her successful career, surrounded by beautiful things in her big house, Pretty is lonely. Their son seems to favour his father and Thapelo and Khutso seem to have their own secret club that she is not a part of. So Pretty has an affair. She contracts HIV, and their short marriage starts falling apart. 166pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

The small town of Boston in the Kwa-Zulu Natal Midlands is cut off from the outside world by an unprecedented snow storm. Into this crisis drives a woman in a sports car and a bus full of local people heading for Harrismith. Their saviour is David Roth, a recent arrival in Boston and the owner of a grader, the only vehicle that can negotiate the snow-clogged roads. He saves the stranded travellers, but now they are trapped in town. Amongst them are two killers, desperate to get back to the stranded bus and the money they stole from the man they murdered. And there is the woman from the sports car, who isn't quite who she claims she is. David plays the hero, believing that he is doing penance for his own painful secret, something so unforgivable that it would surely banish him from town if it ever came to light. 215pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN & ROUSSEAU.

New schools edition. In 1966 parts of District Six were declared for whites occupation only, as part of South Africa's Group Areas Act. The novel traces the lives of the black community, through their moments of triumph, despair and upheaval. Complete & unabridged edition, containing 35 pages of teaching notes and activities. 236pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

Set in 1970s Yeoville (Johannesburg), teen Danny Rothbart is drawn inexorably into a damaging and abusive relationship. A powerful debut novel of betrayal. Glossary, 299pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

The story of Isaak and Liesa, young people growing up in a small Griqua fishing village on the Tsitsi-kamma coast. Isaak and Liesa struggle with their life choices and their love for one another. Does Isaak leave the villiage and become a musician, or does he feel too responsible for the livelihood of the village? Can Liesa acknowledge her true feelings for Isaak? The backdrop to their story is that of the fate of their community, and their struggle for survival. 128pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

A coming of age novel which captures the essence of growing up in a country fraught with contradictions of class, race and language. 244pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL.

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Stories that celebrate the pain and joy of those who returned to the new South Africa following years of exile. 178pp, SOUTH AFRICA. VIVLIA.

Mphahlele's second novel introduces a cast of characters who struggle with conflicts of power and corruption in South Africa. xvi, 158pp, SOUTH AFRICA. RAVAN PRESS.

To outsiders, St Patrick's High School in Johannesburg is a model of excellence, producing well-balanced young adults equipped to claim their inheritance as the new leaders of the fledgling democracy. But behind this facade lies a dark secret: the school is dominated by 'The Club', a powerful group of senior students who have adopted the values of the business and political elite of a post-Mandela South Africa - pride and its six deadly offspring: greed, lust, wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth. Bright, privileged and utterly ruthless, they manipulate the school for their own gain, their antics invisible behind the polished exterior of the exclusive institution. It is 2007 and senior member Mammuso Mazibuko is hot favourite to become the next chairman of The Club. Life could not be better. But when her naive younger brother Jacob attracts the attention of a brutish fellow Club member, Mammuso is drawn into a sinister and increasingly desperate battle of wits to protect him. 276pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL.

EU Literary Award Winner 2006. A story that deals with growing up as a black child in a white world. It is the story of black youth who grow up in white neighbourhoods, go to private schools and have white friends. As is the case with any child, all that these children want is to grow, to be loved; but most importantly, to fit in. Fitting in, however, comes at the cost of their blackness - too white for black, and too black for white. 192pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA

With a beautiful wife and newborn baby daughter, it seems private eye Thabang Maje should be satisfied with life. But while his wife and daughter survived it, a car crash took the life of his unborn son. Thabang knows just who to blame: Sandile Nkosi, ruthless businessman and father to the teenager who caused the fatal car crash, and Thabang won't stop until Sandile pays. With the help of an old journalist friend Tolo, Thabang starts asking questions about some very powerful men that finally lead him to uncover an underground world of illicit drug dealings and human trafficking. 256pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

Spanning the pogrom years in Lithuania and the 1950s South Africa, Frankel weaves a delicate tale of despair and loss, of love and attachment and of place. She evokes the post-war years in South Africa in heartbreaking detail, and traces the relationships within an extended family and their own struggle with racism, grief and guilt. 274pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

A group of women at a specific period in the history of southern Africa find their family life under the pressures of capitalist modernity and apartheid. These private stories are anchored to the more public stories of Penelope of ancient Greek Mythology who waited 18 years for her husband to return and Winnie Mandela who waited twenty seven years. Gloss, 150pp, UK. AYEBIA,.

New edition of 'The most influential South African novel ever written' - Nadine Gordimer. One of Africa's 100 Best Books. 240pp glossary, UK. VINTAGE.

A daughter's legacy is the story of Kedibone's journey from childhood to parenthood, from the dusty streets of her home village to the modern worlds of university and working life. Determination and resilience battle with fear and insecurity in Kedibone's searing engagement with relationships and personal growth. This novel is a bold and necessary statement that exposes the taboos and abuse that a male-dominated culture allows, if not engenders. It breaks the silence and connivance in a way that has never been done before. 170pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL PRESS.

Explores the wide gulf between our view of ourselves, how we are seen by others, and the dispassionate images seen through the cold lens of a camera. Angus has been traumatised by his time on the Border and now begins to film himself doing ordinary things, to try to understand his life. It is impossible, he says, for an abnormal person to have a normal life in an abnormal city like Johannesburg. The effect of the Border War on young white males has received little attention from novelists. 200pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

Written with a love for the wild places of Southern Africa, the author recounts a story of adventure and intrigue in the tough world of geology. 291pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

New in paperback. Bennie Griessel may be losing his battle with alcohol but he still knows enough to head up the police team tracking 'Artemis', a vigilante killer who targets child murderers. The killer is in fact Thobela Mpayipheli, a former freedom fighter robbed of every-thing by the murder of his son. And when Griessel's daughter is kidnapped, his world and Thobela's converge towards a devastating climax. A brilliantly suspenseful novel, and a searing portrait of modern South Africa, in which sometimes only hope and humanity can fight the cruellest crimes. 416pp, UK. HODDER HEADLINE.

Set during the 1994 elections in South Africa, this novel tells the story of Dingz, a young Wits student caught between two worlds, the university and the township, and is scheming hard to make his way in both. 222pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

When Mia was a child she told Asher that the dreamcloth took away her nightmares. It is 1994 when Mia finally returns home, ambivalent, afraid of what she will find. A strong-willed journalist embroiled for the last decade in ravaged conflict zones; she arrives in Johannesburg to confront the secrets that have plagued her family for three generations. And hidden in her bra, close to her heart, is the dreamcloth. The cloth, woven in the 1920s by a seamstress in a grim shtetl in Lithuania, veils the mystery of a forbidden love affair of Mia's paternal grand-mother, Maya, as she fled anti-Semitic Europe and will lead Mia to a shattering truth. A sprawling and controver-sial epic that weaves together the present, past and distant past. 350pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

Novel about Moses Swart who, as a child at the turn of the 20th century, is washed ashore like a piece of driftwood at Rietfontein in the Southern Cape. Plucked from amongst the drowned bodies and the wreckage of a ship which floundered in a storm, he is taken in by the local community. Fifty years later and with no knowledge of his past, he spends his days feeling displaced and in search of his real identity. His work in the garden for the elderly Lord and Lady de Samourez begins to yield answers to the questions that plague him, and in turn, he begins to discover the missing pieces of his life. 180pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PENGUIN BOOKS SOUTH AFRICA.

Set mostly in modern day Southern Africa, this novel depicts the struggle of four groups caught in the middle of a civil war. 272pp, SOUTH AFRICA. comPRESS.

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On the run after being framed for murdering his family, South African journalist Robert Dell's only ally is his oldest enemy: his father. Bobby Goodbread, an ex-CIA hitman just sprung from prison for atrocities he committed whilst in the employ of the apartheid regime, joins his son on a bloody cross-country road trip, bringing his killing skills and his hunger for redemption. From picture-postcard Cape Town to a Zulu tribal valley where AIDS, savage feuds and poverty have left the population as gutted as the parched red earth, father and son hunt down assassin Dog Mazibuko, uncovering a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of the South African State. They cross paths with another man on a desperate mission: ex-investigator Disaster Zondi, returning to the place he fled as a youth to rescue a teenage girl - who may or may not be his daughter - sold into marriage to Mazibuko. These men are thrown together in a spiral of violence and retribution in a country where corruption and anarchy have replaced brutal tyranny and human life has never been cheaper. 288pp, UK. SERPENT'S TAIL.

An Afrikaner community is thrown into turmoil when a young man brings home an English bride; the mismatch has tragic repercussions. 229pp, UK. Heinemann African Writers Series.

1997 0435910078 Paperback

A group of revolutionaries in apartheid South Africa kills a policeman, they are detained and then one of them talks... 187pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

A story of secrets, warped friendships and addiction, and how families guard their secrets to keep up appearances - with disastrous consequences. Set in Kalk Bay, the Overberg and Plumstead, the story explores the life of a young girl called Lily, and the influence various strong characters have on her - most notably her domineering grandmother and her classmate Vera. 288pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

The three days between the Sharpeville shootings and the declaration of the State of Emergency are very eventful ones for a young schoolteacher in Cape Town. 251pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

Experimental novel set in the Johannesburg and Maputo of the 1980s; where wars of varying violence erupt and conjure the edgy, war-torn world of the film Casablanca. Adair's writing is brutally funny, witty and unnervingly erotic. This novel breaks new ground in the relatively unexplored territory of the South African post-modern novel, where the characters talk to the narrator about their uncertain destiny. 168pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

A powerful courtroom drama which documents the uneasy transitional years in South Africa. An account of a troubled time. 192pp., UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

Fanie Fourie is a true blue 'boere seun' with an unrepentantly macho approach to love and life in general. But his worldview undergoes an abrupt reinvention when he is 'bitten by the louse and bedbug of love' and falls head-over-heels for Dimakatjo Machabaphala, a beautiful black nurse. In pursuit of true love the lovers must steer a path through the challenging intricacies of inter-cultural negotiation and leap the hurdles of racial bigotry, tenacious former lovers and the like; finally to emerge triumphant as traditionally united man and wife. This novel is filled with naughty humour and ironic reversals of stereotype. With a deft and humorous pen the author evokes the colliding worlds of traditional and contemporary culture in a South Africa still struggling to renegotiate roles and relationships and shake off the complexes and prejudices of the past. Gloss, 338pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL PRESS.

It is 1913, the year of the Natives' Land Act. Thousands of black South Africans are driven off the land. The Native Reserves where they are now supposed to live are mainly arid, infertile, and overpopulated. Men flock in their thousands to the mines and the cities in search of work, leaving their wives and children at home. pp.97, SOUTH AFRICA. RAVAN PRESS.

Fictional depiction of the complex human reality of AIDS in at a small hospital in an African town. I n its vivid accounts of medical battles won and lost, it asserts the value of attempting to preserve life in the face of near-certain death. 380pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL PRESS.

A child wanders too far into the Knysa Forest and never returns. Nine years later, two government officials think they have found the child living on the other side of the forest. They take him from stricken Fiela, who has brought him up, and give him back to his 'original' family. 408pp, UK. LONGMAN.

'A disturbing story of a reluctant soldier who is seduced by the perversity of war and the darkness in his own personality. An ambitious first novel...' 213pp. SOUTH AFRICA. comPRESS.

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This novel is straight out of the streets of Gauteng, or any part of an urbanized South Africa. It is a raw and uncompromising take on the reality and problematic environment of a society in moral rupture, but is told as the simple and gripping story of two young Soweto girls. Sixteen year-old Zenzele is not prepared to stand by while her father, Sizwe, dies of AIDS. Instead, she and her little sister Mpumelelo journey from the townships to an exclusive Pretoria suburb to find their estranged uncle Vusi and ask for his help. Who will they encounter on the way? Will they reach their destination unscathed? 104pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL PRESS.

Fat and over forty, Ethne is not happy. Living in a flat above, thin and over forty, Derek is frightened. Mortimer comes into their lives with panache and pathos, and spins fantasies for them through which they discover surprising strengths within themselves. The saintly dog Rabinowitz, the slobbish bully-boy Percy, the nicotine-stained junk-dealer Olive, all contribute to the unfolding drama of what may well be the supreme moment of their lives, and Mother crouches malevolently in the corner, hoping to entrap them in her egotistical web. The tale is set in the eastern suburbs of Johannesburg. Gloss, 254pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

Sequel to THE HEART KNOWS NO COLOUR (Kwela Books, 2003). Mukesh falls in love with his brothers wife, and moves away from his family home rather than succumb to temptation. But will that be enough to deny this impossible love? And while he battles with his conscience, his family deal, in their own ways, with a psychic daughter-in-law, a forbidden affair and a marriage gone bad. A rich saga, interweaving the stories of a vast and passionate family. 224pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

A double helix narrative, novel and autobiography. One strand explores the growing confidence, skill, and personal courage of a woman (Anna) who longs for connection with the past, and, through engagement with a writing course, finds this through extraordinary archaeological creativity (which demands the archive, the imagination, and uncovering of personal memories). The second strand unfurls the story of the ancestor to whom Anna is guided by her writing, whose nineteenth-century life powerfully illuminates the meanings of gender, sexuality, and colonialism in Cape Town. Bib, 203pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

Now available in paperback. Dinah and her sister Lisa are growing up in 1950s South Africa, where racial laws are tightening. The story follows Dinah's journey through childhood and adolescence during a time of dark and turbulent history. 307pp, UK. BLOOMSBURY.

The story of a childhood passing into adulthood in Kimberley, South Africa as the history of the eighties and nineties merges into the new century. Gloss, 247pp, UK. VINTAGE.

Fiction set in the Dutch settlement at the Cape in 1685, the time of Simon van der Stel, and peopled by a fascinating array of characters - the officials, victims, survivors and rogues who inhabited the early settlement - the story focuses on Adam Wijk, the rather reclusive gardener and botanist caring for the Company's gardens. Despite his reserved outward appearance there is something enigmatic about Wijk, and as the mystery slowly unfolds it is revealed that he was a physician during the Black Death in London, and there is a reason for his 'exile' - he treated a smallpox case by experimenting with an antidote and was then stripped of his licence. 224pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN & ROUSSEAU.

Fictional debut, recreating the voice of a young girl growing up during the height of apartheid unrest in South Africa. As Faith struggles to make sense of the complex world in which she lives and come to terms with the beliefs her society and upbringing have inculcated in her, there emerges a resonant tale of personal courage set against the backdrop of a chaotically divided country. 328pp, UK. PAN MACMILLAN.

New edition. When a young and idealistic new doctor arrives at his rural hospital posting, he enters a world in which the past plays an important role in the present. Short listed for the Man Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. 215pp, UK. ATLANTIC BOOKS.

Intimate glimpses into the lives and minds of three subtle characters, set in the heyday of Sophiatown. 296pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

A story about Sita and her family moving from India to start a new life in South Africa. Life as indentured labourers is hard, but for Sita it is also filled with the trials of growing up and forbidden love. 266pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

A thriller telling the story of Thobela 'Tiny' Mpayipheli, a former assassin that has turned his back on his past and is looking forward to a quiet life with his young family. But when his best friend is kidnapped he suddenly finds himself riding a stolen motorcycle across the harsh plains of the South African Karoo towards Lusaka, Zambia. He has exactly 72 hours to deliver a mysterious package or his friend will die, but every mile brings a new danger and a new threat to his family. 422pp, UK. HODDER HEADLINE.

The story of Martin, a young South African boy whose cosy life of fixed certainties will end with the defeat of the liberal government and the beginning of apartheid. His relationship with his family and his Zulu servant will begin to buckle in a new era of intolerance with Dr Voerwoerd as a neighbour and dour, racist Gordon, as his mother's husband to be. 327pp, UK. PICADOR.

Charts the relationship between Nafisa, who is coming to terms with her husband's murder, and the people around her: her dysfunctional family as well as her patient, Millicent Dhlomo, who is dying of Aids. With gathering momentum, the novel exposes the reader to Nafisa's world of organ donation, greedy Aids denialists, quack doctors, bribes and the looming threats by the South African Revenue Service. Having been part of the struggle, Nafisa now faces the sinister complications of the post-apartheid dispensation and finds herself ostracised once more. 268pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UMUZI.

Set in a boarding school in the Drakensberg in the early 80s it tells the tale of an 11-year-old boy with an unusual bond with nature and the supernatural. Haunted by dreams of creatures conjured by San mythology and encouraged by the enthusiastic teachings of an over-friendly school teacher. 287pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

Debut fiction. As Karen and her estranged siblings are confronted by the excessive hoardings of their recently deceased aunt, they get more than they bargained for. For among the crumbling remnants of a neglected life, ghosts and secrets lie buried just beneath the surface. Set in the sparse and barren veld of South Africa's Eastern cape, against a backdrop of political and social upheaval, Karen's story is one of self-discovery and ultimately of reconciliation. Gloss, 226pp, UK. BOOK GUILD LTD.

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First novel by Johannesburg-based development consultant Gerald Kraak, was joint winner of the second EU Literary Award. The story revolves around a group of students who are caught up in South Africa's political uprising in 1976. They find refuge in a Greek bar where they find that its owner, George's own background and experiences in Stalinist Greece parallels theirs. Gloss, 329pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

Now in paperback. Irina Davydovna, survivor of the ice ship Chelyuskin which sank in the Arctic Circle, is back in her beloved home city of Leningrad. But in 1933, Stalin begins to turn his attentions against the city and Irina finds herself caught up in forces beyond anyone's control. By the South African author of Red Dust. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize. 544pp, UK. VIRAGO.

New in paperback. A gripping, claustrophobic novel of guilty secrets, obsession and self-reinvention. When Adam moves into an abandoned house on the dusty edge of town, he is hoping to recover from the loss of his job and his home in the city. But when he meets Canning - a shadowy figure from his childhood - and Canning's enigmatic and beautiful wife, a sinister new chapter in his life begins. Canning has inherited a vast fortune and built for himself a giant folly in the veldt, a magical place of fantasy and dreams that seduces Adam and transforms him absolutely, violently - and perhaps forever. 224pp, UK. ATLANTIC BOOKS.

New edition of the 1994 novel. The story of a devout Muslim who, wishing to prove himself worthy of the People's Army, sets out to perform acts of sabotage. 184pp, USA. SEVEN STORIES PRESS.

When a failed novelist dies she is invited to join a writing group along with Olive Schreiner, Katherine Mansfield and the Brontë sisters. But in Limbo, as in life, all is not what it seems. An experimental novel, it consists of faction and fiction, biography and autobiography. It is cobbled together (like a patchwork quilt) out of essays and short stories, nostalgic childhood memories, letters, emails, family trees, work-points, dreams and diary fragments. 210pp, SOUTH AFRICA. IHILIHILI PRESS.

The story of Beukes - lonely, hunted, determined - who works for an illegal freedom organization, and of Elias Tekwane, captured by the South African police and tortured to death in their cells. 181pp, UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES

An exploration of sexual and emotional vulnerability, a brutally-frank yet compassionate account of a tumultuous love affair. I is the story of the disintegration of a marriage, where invisible childhood histories lead to co-dependent, addictive relationships. It lays bare the raw emotion and intense eroticism of the couple's attempts to heal themselves and each other, showing how neediness, shame and self-destructive patterns entangle them in an intimate war. 192pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA.

A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way - including a handsome, enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers and a woman on the edge - he is the Follower, the Lover and the Guardian. Yet, despite the man's best intentions, each journey ends in disaster. Together, these three journeys will change his whole life. 256pp, UK. ATLANTIC BOOKS.

A novel about the lives of Paul and Jane Bowles, a couple living in Tangiers in the late 1940s. Both were writers (he a composer and author of The Sheltering Sky and she the author of Two Serious Ladies) on a mission to explore and cultivate their creative selves. On the surface, the novel tells of the couple's seduction by the decadent expatriate American and European society in Morocco at the time, but on another level deals with the issue of appropriation of human beings, of their emotions, of countries and of the soul. 178pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

Now available in paperback. Set during the first half of the Dutch settlement of the Cape, this novel tells the story of Pieternella, the daughter of a 'mixed' marriage who becomes the pivot of all the action in the story of seven men, whose lives are entangled in the historical action of the 17th and 18th centuries. Translated from the Afrikaans by Andre Brink. 758pp, UK. VINTAGE.

The long awaited English translation of Elsa Joubert's much acclaimed novel, `Die Reise van Isobelle'. An account of the lives of an ordinary South African family against the backdrop of a century of extraordinary national and international upheaval. 583pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL PUBLISHERS.

First novel whose Xhosa hero experiences a radical shift in worldview when his young activist daughter disappears in exile and he sets out to find her. The search leads to Lesotho, where the story reveals that sometimes people are not always what they seem. SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL PRESS.