Beeda is a forty nine year old Muslim mother of four sons. This is however only one side of her life. She is also an independent minded woman with a sizzling sensuality and a love for risk. Soon Beeda becomes embroilled in intrigue such as an illicit affair and an addiction to gambling. The dilemas of her double life are vividly portrayed as is her fight to challenges the prejudices of her community when her favourite son contracts AIDS. 240pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

Set in the late Eighteenth Century, the novel tells the story of Roeloff, who attempts to bridge the gap between the white settlers of the Cape and the Sonqua people he has grown to love. Gloss, 231pp, UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES

1996 043591006X Paperback

A collection of linked short stories combining fiction with autobiography focusing on South Africans of mixed race and their struggle for identity. 163pp, CANADA. SECOND STORY PRESS.

1994 0929005597 Paperback

Set in Cape Town, this novel explores, among other themes, the obsessive relationship between a Muslim woman and a fundamentalist Christian man. 299pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

2001 0795701055 Paperback

The story of slavery and two people whose love transcends diverse traditions, cultures and faiths, set in the South Africa of 1832. Gloss, 285pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.