A story exploring politics, cultures and sexual mores in post Apartheid South Africa. 220pp, UK. VINTAGE, 0099289520

A specialist in psychological warfare is driven to breakdown and madness by the stresses of a project of macabre ingenuity to win the war in Vietnam. A megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe for undermining the order of his universe. Coetzee uses the narrative of these two men separated by several centuries to crystalise the extremes of scientific evangelism and heroic exploration. 125pp, UK, MINERVA 0099268337

Now in paperback. The story of an renowned Australian writer who questions the meaning of her life as an intellectual nomad, and those of the people she encounters. 230pp, UK. VINTAGE, 0099461927

In 1720 the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe is approached by Susan Barton, lately a castaway on a desert island. She wants him to tell her story, and that of the enigmatic man who has become her rescuer, companion, master and sometimes lover: Cruso. Cruso is dead, and his manservant, Friday is incapable of speech. As she tries to relate the truth about him, the ambitious Barton cannot help turning Cruso into her invention. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe, and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself. 157pp, UK. PENGUIN.

New edition. A critically acclaimed story about a woman's obsessed and violent response to an Africa that will not heed her. A lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace. 151pp, UK. VINTAGE, 0099465949

Coetzee's work introduces the concept of ethics into post-modern literature and questions concepts of authorship and power. In this book he tells the story of one of the many inarticulate victims of Apartheid. A young gardener who, alarmed by the escalation of the war, decides to takes his mother away from the violence. However, events overtake him and he must fight with the only resources he has. 184pp, UK.

New Edition. A novel of mystery and intrigue set in Russia during 1869 when Dostoevsky was summoned from Germany to St Petersburg at the mysterious death of his stepson. 250pp, UK. VINTAGE UK, 0099470373

Now in paperback. Second Australian-set novel from the South African winner of teh Nobel Prize for Literature. Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart. 272pp, UK. VINTAGE UK.

New Edition. A novel about the oppressor and the oppressed, describing a community in which people live in complicity with regimes that ignore justice. 170pp, UK. VINTAGE, 0099465930

Set against the background of the events of the 1960s, Sharpeville, the Cuban missile crisis and the Vietnam War, this novel tells the story of a young South African trying to make his way in the harsh environment of London. 169pp, UK. VINTAGE, 0099433621