Winner of two prizes in Africa, this is a tale set among the Cape Coloureds during the apartheid era. The direct narrative of an 11 year old girl conveys powerfully the inhumanity and tragedy of the period. 348pp, UK. DOUBLEDAY, 0552997579

A novel about the development of a friendship between two unlikely girls during apartheid South Africa. 348pp, UK. BLACK SWAN, 0552997587

The story of Conrad and his sister Beeky and their different trajectories in a changing South Africa. The legends of the Bushmen were told to Conrad as a child. This philosophy stays with him and sustains him in his brutal home life as he attempts protects his sister from the hatred of their powerful father. 316pp, UK. BLACK SWAN, 0552998672

Now available in paperback. A novel chronicling the lives of middle-class white South Africans whose well mannered existences are turned upside down by divorce, a failing economy and the end of apartheid. The author casts a perceptive look on the new societies of South Africa and their changing world. 335pp, UK. DOUBLEDAY, 0385605404

New smaller-format edition. Haunting literary novel about two sisters from South Africa's Cape Coloured community, orphaned and growing up in Cape Town during apartheid, by the award-winning author of 'Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter.' 394pp, UK. BLACK SWAN.