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

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

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.

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.

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. PENGUIN BOOKS USA.

Set in the bohemian suburb of Melville in Johannesburg, this novel introduces us to an unforgettable cast of characters. Hugh Appel is a computer scientist setting up a gigantic macro chip for public display. His son, Lyon, is on his way to Melville with a group of friends to perform a ritual in the Melville Koppies. Shane and Renee are two artist friends who observe, from a cafe table, as this group passes by the neglected garden of a reclusive Greek immigrant. Aden, an embittered friend of Shane and Renee, mopes at another table. 184pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UMUZI.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Short stories about the lives and struggles of the inhabitants of the Townships. 198pp, UK. LONGMAN.

Edited by Stephen Gray and published for the first time, this is the comic prequel to the author's acclaimed 'Stormwrack'. Based on the history of Clanwilliam in Southern Namaqualand, this is the unfolding saga of a Western Cape town climbing out of the shadow of slavery into early Victorian settled prosperity. 248pp, SOUTH AFRICA . HUMAN & ROUSSEAU.

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

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, 1868421252

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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.

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

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 UK, 0099766817

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.

Set in 1991 after Mandela's release, this novel explores the underground world of activists, spies, and saboteurs in the liberation movement. It also journeys back in time to find the forgotten histories of 'coloured' people. Includes an afterword by Dorothy Driver and comes well recommended by J.M. Coetzee, Nuruddin Fara and Gayatri Spivak. Notes, gloss, 278pp, USA. KWELA BOOKS.

Thriller. Meet Jerome Michael Nossel. Known as Nossel to many, and as Comrade Golfer to those who know his history. Gutsy, passionate, vulnerable, smart - and in trouble. Nossel is adrift in the New Republic of self-enrichment and sordid power games, cut loose and betrayed by the very ones he helped bring to power. Then he stumbles upon a murder, and his obsessive mind and big heart won't let him walk away from the desire to find the truth. 195pp, 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, 1919833110

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.

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/NEW AFRICA BOOKS, 0864860951

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 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, 191983317X

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.

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.

Tells the story of two couples, one white, one black, set against the background of the Sharpeville massacre. SOUTH AFRICA . DAVID PHILIP.

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, 0747568146

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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, 1843542021

This is a story of twin boys identical in appearance but in nothing else. Ashraf is all rage and action u a lover of the real. Firoze is a dreamer and reader - a lover of the ideal. The Dawood family is from Muslim Fordsburg. The father (formally at least) is a merchant and the mother a part-time philosophy lecturer at Wits. Their uncle, known universally as Ten-Per-Cent, lives in the house and shares the ginger-beer factory business with his brother. The story begins in Johannesburg but ends in the US. Ashraf is jailed in Fort Dix Prison in Texas, and Firoze is just settling in New York with his new young wife. Among the cast of characters are Mohammed Atta (of 9/11 notoriety), George Bush, a Pakistani Brigadier in Peshawar, a host of lawyers and assorted crooks of one kind or another, plus various Korean massage parlour girls. 208pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UMUZI.

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.

Posthumous publication of the first quest story set in a South African township. It moves between hyper-realistic, fantastical and magic worlds. The story seamlessly blends a modern, realistic setting with ancient African myths and folklore, combining naïve humour with a deep reflection on the vulnerability of children in a hard world. As the story opens in Phola, on the outskirts of Johannesburg, 11-year-old Nolitye and her friends (the pampered Bheki, and Four Eyes, a reformed member of the Spoilers gang led by Rotten Nellie) are attempting to survive bullying, but when Nolitye picks up a magic stone, it not only empowers them to stand up the bullies, but also sets her on the path to find her lost parents. 233pp, 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.

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.

A fictional account of a family's life in Namaqualand and their struggle to remain on their land when the government decides they must be moved into the new coloured location. Gloss, 112pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS, 0795701780

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 veld, a magical place of fantasy and dreams that seduces Adam and transforms him absolutely, violently - and perhaps forever. 249pp, 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.

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.

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

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.

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, 0446530328

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.

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.

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.

The author of The Last King of Scotland brings his vivid historical imagination to the Anglo Boer War and the 120 day siege of Ladysmith. 366pp, UK. FABER, 0571197337

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Fictional account of a life spent as drop out. 207pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PENGUIN BOOKS SOUTH AFRICA, 014029564X

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

Classic text with an introduction by Dorothy Driver. 155pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

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.

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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. HODDER HEADLINE.

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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 DONDKER.

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.