Nadine Gordimer was born in 1923 to Jewish parents in Johannesburg. Her work spans the entire period of Apartheid and she has consistently fought these political forces of separation in her fiction. Her creative work is rooted in the European and Russian novel form, but with consistently African themes. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991

In this novel Gordimer has created a character - the daughter of an anti-Apartheid activist - who embodies the uncertainty of existence in South Africa. 374pp, UK.

A collection of interviews with the South African author. UK. ROUNDHOUSE PUBLISHING GROUP.

1990 0878054456 Paperback

Now in paperback. Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, believes he controls the trajectory of his life, with the markers of vocation and marriage. But when he’s diagnosed with thyroid cancer and prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive and for a period a danger to others, he questions, as Auden wrote, ‘What authority gives/ Existence its surprise’. Taken in by his parents, businessman Adrian and successful lawyer Lyndsay, to protect his wife and child from radiation, back in his childhood garden he faces the contradiction between the values of his conservation work and those of his wife, an advertising agency executive. Gloss, 187pp, UK. BLOOMSBURY.

James Bray, an English colonial administrator who was expelled from a central African nation for siding with its black nationalist leaders, is invited back ten years later to join in the country's independence celebrations. UK. BLOOMSBURY .

New edition of the classic tale of Apartheid by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist. For years, it has been what is called a 'deteriorating situation'. Now all over South Africa the cities are battle-grounds. The members of the Smales family liberal whites are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his native village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July the shifts in character and relationships gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites. 195pp, UK. BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC.

A collection of essays, articles, appreciations of fellow writers and addresses delivered over four decades, including her Nobel Prize Lecture of 1991. 256pp. UK. BLOOMSBURY.

A new collection of short stories by the Nobel-Prize-winning writer. Her unique characters and imagery create a lyrical analysis of the recent changes to South African society. 240pp, UK. BLOOMSBURY

New edition. The story of both domestic and political persecution as a family is threatened not only by sexual betrayal but also by the terror of state persecution. 277pp, UK. PENGUIN BOOKS, 014014564X

A powerful and passionate novel telling the story of Vera Stark, a self willed lawyer and of her independent mother. 324pp, USA.

New in paperback. When Julie Summers' car breaks down in the sleazy street where she meets her retro-sixties friends, a young Arab garage mechanic emerges from beneath the chassis of a vehicle to aid her. Out of this meeting develops an extraordinary story of unpredictable and relentless emotions that turn on its head each one's notions of the other. No action by either is what the other expects. She insists, against his know-how of the rules of survival, on leaving the country with him when he is deported. The love affair becomes a marriage. 270pp, UK. BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, 0747559341

Toby Hood, a young Englishman, shuns the politics and the causes his liberal parents passionately support. Living in Johannesburg as a representative of his family's publishing company, Toby moves easily, carelessly, between the complacent, wealthy white suburbs and the seething, vibrantly alive black townships. UK. BLOOMSBURY.