Shooting Snakes
Maren Bodenstein An old man is woken up by the wailing of a prophetess. Sitting on the veranda and staring into the dry veld he is beset with images of snakes hiding in the cellar beneath him. His...
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Makhosazana Xaba When Phil entered my bedroom, he was breathing heavily, carrying a parcel in old newspaper, folded as neatly as only Phil could fold. It was the suit. I was shocked he had even...
View ArticleOne Green Bottle
Debrah Nixon A deeply disquieting novel about mental illness and how institutions that are meant to heal really work.
View ArticleNow I See You
Priscilla Holmes ‘I’m warning you, get off this case, Thabisa Tswane, otherwise you’ll die. Here’s a taste of what you’ll get.’
View ArticleLove Interrupted
Reneilwe Malatji The stories in this collection have an intimate feel, like conversations eavesdropped on.
View ArticleGot No Secrets
Danila Botha A startling and original new voice that owes as much to Black Flag and Bikini Kill as it does to J.D. Salinger and Heather O’Neill. A South African copywriter is transplanted to the urban...
View ArticleGo Tell the Sun
Wame Molefhe Wame Molefhe’s stories have a gentle, unassuming yet intimate and captivating feel to them. Set in Botswana, the stories trace the lives of characters whose paths cross and re-cross each...
View ArticleDo not go gentle
Futhi Ntshingila In her second novel, Futhi Ntshingila once again introduces us to a cast of strong women who have little, but are determined to shape their own destinies.
View ArticleBom Boy
Yewande Omotoso Bom Boy is a well-crafted, and complex narrative written with a sensitive understanding of both the smallness and magnitude of a single life.
View ArticleBalthasar’s Gift
Charlotte Otter Balthasar’s Gift continues the tradition of pacy, hard-boiled South African crime fiction. This title has already been published to critical acclaim in Germany.
View ArticleNow Following You
Fiona Snyckers Now Following You is a clever, chilling and compelling read, which skilfully weaves relevant issues – most notably, the power social media gives to stalkers and others who intend harm —...
View ArticleOutside the Lines
Ameera Patel Outside the Lines is both a thriller and a family drama.
View ArticleNo Sacred Cows
Christopher Nicholson Assembled from stories written over a period of twenty years, No Sacred Cows offers an opportunity to engage with moral matters through wry humour and a careful understanding of...
View ArticleKarkloof Blue : A Maggie Cloete Mystery
Charlotte Otter Karkloof Blue is the sequel to critically acclaimed Balthasar’s Gift. Greenwashing, corporate intransigence and bloody secrets. Maggie Cloete’s back.
View ArticleNamaste Life
Ishara Maharaj “I wish I had a sister who loved me so fiercely.” Surya and Anjani are twins, but they could not be more different. Anjani is calm, devout and responsible, while Surya just wants to...
View ArticleLooking for Trouble
Colleen Higgs A collection of short stories set in Yeoville from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
View ArticleGrace
Barbara Boswell Family secrets run deep for Grace, a young girl growing up in Cape Town during the 1980s, spilling over into adulthood, and threating to ruin the respectable life she has built for...
View ArticleAccident
Dawn Garisch Carol Trehorne’s only child, Max, is in ICU with severe burns. Max, a performance artist, has set himself alight. He recovers but it becomes clear that he is planning further performances...
View ArticleLa Bastarda
Trifonia Melibea Obobo Translated by Lawrence Schimel The first novel by an Equatorial Guinean woman to be translated into English, La Bastarda is the story of the orphaned teen Okomo, who lives under...
View ArticleNamaste Life
Ishara Maharaj “I wish I had a sister who loved me so fiercely.” Surya and Anjani are twins, but they could not be more different. Anjani is calm, devout and responsible, while Surya just wants to...
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