Short stories set in Southern Africa. 178pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

Stories about South Africa's past, originally broadcast on radio. Index, iii, 152pp, SOUTH AFRICA. SPEARHEAD, 0864864876

After decades of captivity in the stultifying enclosures of the old order, South Africans now live in the liberated space of democracy. From the post-apartheid vantage point, fiction writers reflect on the advent of freedom. The dramatic consequences of the historic changes of 1994 are thrown into sharp relief in this volume of stories. In some thirty-one previously unpublished narratives an irrevocably changed and still changing world is brought into view. 280pp. SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

Posthumous collection of short stories and poems that were written as a prequel to Phaswane Mpe's acclaimed bestseller, ‘Welcome to Our Hillbrow’. In these thematically linked stories, we meet the organic roots of the emblematic characters and concerns of the later novel. Written with an expressive simplicity that evokes the rural soul of tiny Tiragalong and its neighbouring village of Nobody, Mpe's stories speak out strongly on issues close to his heart.The poems form a tandem narrative that is gritty, topical and observant and which articulates the dilemmas of inner city living, along with the broader conundrums of Tiragalong, Hillbrow and South Africa. Gloss, 214pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL PRESS.

Traces the construction of memory and racial identity in South African Jewish literary and cultural history. Contributors include Nadine Gordimer, Albie Sachs, Pieter Dirk Uys, Matthew Krouse, Rose Zwi and Dan Jacobson. BNS, 224pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS, 0803212704

Fourteen short stories by street children in South Africa Their stories range from their personal experiences, friendship, conditions they find themselves in, to motivational stories. 72pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UMSINISI.

Previously announced in English only, but also available in Afrikaans. A collection of 26 stories by new S African writers reflecting on the changed world after April 1994. Photo and C V for each writer. SOUTH AFRICA . KWELA BOOKS.

Among the twenty contributors are Nadine Gordimer, Herman Charles Bosman, Ivan Vladislavic, Ahmed Essop, Mandla Langa, Dan Jacobson, Miriam Tlali among others. xxxv, 236pp, SOUTH AFRICA. WITWATERSRAND UNIVERSITY PRESS.

A collection of South African folk tales first published in 1968 and includes the stories of the Jackal and the Wolf Tortoise and the Hare, Bluebottle and Bee and the Till Owlglass. Illustrated with colour paintings. 224pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN & ROUSSEAU.

New edition of this compelling collection of short stories, bringing to life the black urban locations of Apartheid South Africa. SOUTH AFRICA. PICADOR AFRICA.

Short stories from a South African writer, showing the insidious way that apartheid undermines every aspect of daily life. 162pp, 1989. DAVID PHILIP.

New paperback edition. A collection of twenty two vivid short stories by the South African writer, centred around the Fordsburg community, Johannesburg. Winner of the 1979 Olive Schreiner Award. x, 132pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PICADOR AFRICA.

A selection of twenty-one stories written from 1945 onwards. Introduction, notes on contributors, 248pp., UK. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS SERIES.

A new collection of colourful stories about real life characters and events that have shaped the South African past. The author retells the story of Ernst Luchtenstein, the demise of the San, Sarah Baartman, the hills of Mapungubwe and Bambandyanalo, the Dorsland Trekkers, the battle of Saldanha Bay, the flight of the Herero and many more. Bib, 198pp, SOUTH AFRICA. SPEARHEAD, 0864865589

Thirty brand new stories from a wide spectrum of South Africans with the focus being on the experiences of young people. (Afrikaans edition also available - under the title STROOMVERSNELLING) 163pp, SOUTH AFRICA .0795701125X

A rare collection of stories from a members of the Indian community in South Africa.. HEINEMANN AFRICAN WRITERS

Selected and Edited by Colin Gardner. A collection of Paton's poems, short stories, articles and speeches. 298pp. LONDON. REX COLLINGS.

A collection from active writers: poets, playwrights, novelists, print journalists, radio journalists, TV scriptwriters who either edited the journal 'English Alive' or were originally published in it. 256pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

Collection of short stories that rings true with consistency and subtlety. In the title story a deposed Robert Mugabe and his wife move to Mooikloof and their recently divorced business-man neighbour plans an elaborate, but, as it turns out, ill-conceived meat braai to welcome them to the neighbourhood. 138pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DOUBLE STOREY BOOKS.

A collection of short stories evoking themes of good and evil, purity and contamination, desire and religion. Titles of the stories include Jungfrau, Jessica Without Detail, House Call, Beesting and Endpiece. 151pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS, 0795701810

2004 Paperback

A gripping collection comprising a new novella and ten short stories, published elsewhere between 1991 and 2004. 'My Serial Killer' depicts the relationship between an older man, an HIV/Aids educator, and the younger Hennie, a rent-boy who is picked up while hitchhiking. Their relationship is tested when Hennie begins to delve into the depths of murder and pyromania. 256pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

Short stories dealing with the recent apartheid past, contested present and the concerns and idiosyncrasies of the defenders of the old. Winner of the Bessie Head/Alex La Guma Prize. 184pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

A collection of ten short stories displaying the author's mastery of social and political tensions, allegory and human drama. 143pp, SOUTH AFRICA. RAVAN PRESS, 1869170067

2002 Paperback

The selection ranges from San and African oral tales to contemporary works. Acknowledged talents such as Pauline Smith, Herman Charles Bosman, Can Themba, Nadine Gordimer, Abraham H de Vries and Hennie Aucamp share the pages with story writers from the recent past including H I E Dlhomo and Alex La Guma, and with writers form the present day: Ahmed Essop, Njabulo S Ndebele, Peter Wilhelm and Antjie Krog, among them. Translations, many especially commissioned, ensure representation in English of South Africa's cultural diversity. 353pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL PUBLISHERS.

Short stories of ordinary South African lives. 117pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DOUBLE STOREY BOOKS.

Makes available all the stories from three best-selling anthologies: 'A Century of South African Short Stories' (1978); the revised edition (1993); and 'The New Century of South African Short Stories' (2004). Acknowledged talents of the past like Olive Schreiner, Pauline Smith, Herman Charles Bosman, C Louis Leipoldt and Alan Paton share the pages with writers of the present day: Nadine Gordimer, Es'kia Mphahlele, Hennie Aucamp, Ahmed Essop, Njabulo Ndebele, Peter Wilhelm, Sindiwe Magona, Marlene van Niekerk, and Ivan Vladislavic, among them. Translations ensure representation in English of South Africa's cultural diversity. 868pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL.

Maverick and out-of-the-ordinary short stories set in New York and Cape Town. 152pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

'No artist will ever be content to substitute the noise of war for the music of his soul,' wrote the South African Can Themba (1924-1967), the star turn of the Sophiatown Renaissance of the 1950s. His pieces about what he defined as the shadow life of the new African led the way for a generation of writers in Drum magazine, The Classic and other outlets. Here are twenty-five short stories and sketches from the creative side of his career, including 'The Suit' - his classic, most anthologised and adapted work - with several previously uncollected pieces, some in print for the first time. 220pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PENGUIN BOOKS SOUTH AFRICA.

In these five connected stories, set in Cape Town's District 6 in the 70s, the central character is a precocious little girl called Rosa. Through her adventures in the neighbourhood we come to meet and know the District and its many colourful inhabitants - Mamma Zila, Auntie Flowers, Mrs Hood and Uncle Peter - and their confusing, enigmatic lives and all too human quirks. Vividly written from the author's own experience, these stories explore a society that was created by slavery, exploitation and apartheid to emerge in chaos and anger and confusion as well as a unique harmony. Gloss, 232pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

Contemporary authors offer literary responses to the end of apartheid. xix, 196pp, USA. HEINEMANN USA.

Short stories centred on single women travelling to exotic locations. 216pp, SOUTH AFRICA. TAFELBERG.

New edition of a 1988 anthology of stories by the Man Booker shortlisted writer, set in 1980s South Africa. 212pp, UK. ATLANTIC BOOKS.

Collection of uniquely South African short stories, set mainly in the farming world of the north-eastern Cape Karoo and the southern Orange Free State during the first half of the twentieth century. Foreword by Guy Butler. Gloss, 145pp, SOUTH AFRICA. ECHOING GREEN PRESS.

A second edition of this collection of twenty South Africa short stories. Includes the stories The Suit by Can Themba, Beggar my Neighbour by Dan Jacobson, The Wind and Boy by Bessie Head, No Witchcraft for Sale by Doris Lessing, The Hajji by Ahmed Essop, Unto Dust by Herman Bosman, Devil at a Dead End by Miriam Thali, The Toilet by Gcina Mhlophe and To Kill a Man's Pride by Mtutuzeli Matshoba. xi, 334pp, SOUTH AFRICA. RAVAN PRESS.

Short prose pieces, poems, fragments and graphics by students in the last two years of high school, provides a fascinating follow-up to Another kind of one nation (1996) and I, a living arrow (1998). Up the down escalator once again reflects the changing concerns of South African youth. Contributions range across the SA cultural, language and class spectrum, vivid flashes on real life in RSA. 144pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS, 0795701063

Young writers present a vision of life that is immediate, punchy, funny, brutal yet always starkly real. 107pp, SOUTH AFRICA. SPEARHEAD, 086486518X

2001 PB

A new collection of vibrant South African short stories. 143pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP/NEW AFRICA BOOKS, 0864865457

The third collection of short stories from the successful Urban series highlighting new South African prose writing. Includes the stories Asking for It by Natasha Distiller, Private Reserve by Shaun De Waal, God Doesn't smoke Dagga by Phaswane Mpe and How Far Would You Go by Sello Khaoli. 159pp, SOUTH AFRICA. SPEARHEAD, 0864865619

New edition, edited with an introduction by Nahem Yousaf. Seven stories from District Six in Cape Town about poverty and oppression written in a crisp and honest style. 94pp, UK. TRENT EDITIONS.

Short pieces compiled from all women writing group workshops. 182pp, SOUTH AFRICA. WOMEN'S WRITING WORKSHOPS.