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South Africa, 2004; Jerusalem (half Muslim, half Jew) is a young student with poetic leanings. Zero, his buccaneering father, will no longer fund his ephemeral lifestyle. More details
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From the author of award-winning Six Fang Marks and a Tetanus Shot, comes a new noir thriller – The Big Stick More details
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A bold and daring novel, Illuminating Love entwines the journeys of two Jewish women, Judith, forced to leave her home in Eastern Europe before World War II, and Cally, her granddaughter living in South Africa. More details
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Moses wanders through the remote Tanzanian wilderness lost, hungry and about to die. He is nine, or maybe ten years old, a homeless street kid from the port city of Dar es Salaam who has just buried his best friend . . . More details
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A remarkable and gripping tale with shades of Jeanette Winterson and JM Coetzee, Sea of Wise Insects's exquisite prose is a delight. Fate has it in for the oddball loner secretary Alice Wolfe. Not only has she lost her dog, Pluto, her husband-to-be, Ralp More details
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The inaugural European Union Sol Plaatje Poetry Competition Anthology honours the spirit of the legendary intellectual giant, Sol Plaatje, the activist, linguist and translator, novelist, journalist and leader More details
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The daring author of A Man Who is Not a Man has challenged the conventional once again with his wonderfully original second novel, Here Me Alone.Written as a re-imagining of the Nativity Story, Here Me Alone offers an imaginative alternative to the story More details
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African Delights is a unique literary journey through some critical moments in South African history. The journey begins in Sophiatown of the 1950s, one of the most definitive periods in South African urban culture. This part of the book is in dialogue an More details
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Planet Savage is a story narrated by Leungo, a nine-year old with a very interesting outlook on life; he views his parents as good-for-nothing savages who care only for themselves; who drink themselves silly with friends who come round every day, leaving More details
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Worlds in One Country is a compact, inclusive history of writing in South Africa from the nineteenth century to 1994 that crosses boundaries of language and colour, including prose, poetry and theatre. It is an accessible story rather than a theoretical a More details
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"Violence rendered things visible”, writes Denis Hirson in this beautifully crafted, musical story, which is as much about seeing how people lived at that time as it is about desire, loneliness and the desperate, blind need for revenge.Lemon Street runs d More details
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Freedom Never Rests is the much-awaited second novel from James Kilgore. It is an extraordinary novel which portrays the historical roots of the service delivery revolts that have swept South Africa in recent years. More details
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The shortlisted stories for the 2011 Caine Prize - often referred to as the 'African Booker Prize' - offer five memorable snapshots of life on the African continent in all its diversity. More details
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From the imagination of Peter Merrington, author of Zebra Crossings: Tales from the Shaman’s Record, comes an eclectic tale, woven with folklore, fairy tale and magic, that draws urban shaman Malibongwe Ngingingini and his beloved apprentice, Anna Persens More details
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Write! Africa Write!
SAPEN brings you a brand new anthology of writings from Africa, a collection that will give the reader insight into what African writers are experiencing and writing about in the new decade. More details
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This year’s collection consists of three sections: poetry, short stories and personal essays that tell of diverse women’s experiences of love; romantic love, love of family, love of friends, love of community. Love that has touched in revolutionary ways t More details
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In the 1980s in Lagos, a succession of unfortunate events leads Tolani, a bank secretary, to be persuaded by her roommate Rose to consider drug trafficking as a way to make a living. More details
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Prize winning author Rayda Jacobs has created the character of a lifetime in her heart warming yet tough–as-nails story of Joonie from Grassy Park. More details
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Revelations, is a narrative journey undertaken by artists and modern-day warriors, who, after the liberation of South Africa, try to understand what was fought for, and why. More details
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Fossil Artist weaves matters of the heart and mind into a compelling story of one family, which traverses time and place, from the East End of London in the early 1900s to great archaeological sites in Africa. More details
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Big Dan’s Sofie is the first offering of a trilogy. A gentle absorbing read that tells the story of how one woman’s dedication, perseverance and belief changed the course of a family. It also shows in contrast how despite her efforts, the community lacked More details
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An Intimate War is a tumultuous love story, and an exploration of a dangerously addictive relationship between a man and a woman who come from different worlds. More details
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Thematically, Deeper than Colour explores the wide gulf between our view of ourselves, how we are seen by others, and the dispassionate images seen through the cold lens of a camera. More details
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In a country where homosexuals are condemned by their president as being ‘lower than pigs and dogs, where one could be prosecuted and imprisoned for committing ‘homosexual acts’, comes a story of a young man forced to lead a shadow of a life to avoid the More details
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The shortlisted stories for the 2010 Caine Prize – often referred to as the ‘African Booker Prize’ – offer five memorable snapshots of life on the African continent in all its diversity. More details
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The intricate networks of township crime are slowly unraveled as Shatterproof gives apartheid-era authority the finger and merrily exploits any loophole that catches his eye. More details
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In Banquet at Brabazan, Patricia Schonstein takes us to the heart of Cape Town's violent inner city, creating a cornucopia of events featuring superb food, romance, a cappella, an angel, Shakespearean drama, reflections on South Africa's war in Angola More details
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Zoo City is the intoxicating second novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Moxyland. Set in a wildly re-imagined Johannesburg, it swirls refugees, crime, the music industry, African magic and the nature of sin together into a heady brew. More details
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Sharmilla and Other Portraits offers a dynamic series of insights into a South Africa in edgy transition. Its vivid and varied narratives follow a range of displaced characters. More details
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Decades after a childhood love affair earns upright school principal Mohumagadi and disgraced preacher Father Bill expulsion from their communities, the two characters are brought back together under the most unlikely of circumstances. More details
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This, the fifth highly successful annual POWA Breaking the Silence collection, contains the three categories of poetry, short stories and personal essays. They describe the experience of living a life that defies prescribed boundaries, More details
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In The Angina Monologues three female medical interns from vastly different backgrounds are sent to a rural KZN hospital where gang assassinations and rogue snakes are facts of life and AIDS simply does not exist. More details
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Saracen at the Gates is a wildly revolutionary tale that is as raucously hilarious as it is bitterly sad, with a satirical edge that finds easy comparison with books like White Teeth, The Ground Beneath her Feet and Gravity's Rainbow. More details
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Now in its 10th year, the Caine Price presents another unmissable opportunity to tune in to what is going on in African fiction. More details
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Jane Taylor's richly imagined tale is of two men; Hawthorne, an organ recipient, and Barnard, the first person to perform a heart transplant. More details
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Gerry Aarons has found out a terrible secret about the father she has never known that sends her life along a self-destructive path. More details
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/Kaunu fell asleep…only to find himself caught up in a frightening dream. Mist was swirling all around him: thick mist, cold and threatening – !Khwa’s mist. Then cries and screams echoed out of the dense, white blanket. Swirling, smoking, the mist turned More details
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When Mr George loses his job teaching English at a private secondary school in Bulawayo, 'his pension payout, after forty years of full-time service, bought him two jam doughnuts and a soft tomato.' More details
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Survivors of violence are often forced to flee - emotionally and geographically - from sites of violence. Women cross vast emotional and geographical borders in order to flee from violence to find a place of safety. More details
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Spanning the pogrom years in Lithuania and the 1950s South Africa, Frankel weaves a delicate tale of despair and loss, of love and attachment and of place and traces the relationship within an extended family and their own struggles. More details
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Unassuming archivist Macaulay Vogel examines a recently discovered cache of old police archives, when all of a sudden he comes upon a surveillance file about himself. It's a terrible shock: he doesn't recognise this person at all. More details
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From the bestselling author of Song of the Atman, this new novel from Govender is poignant, witty, hilarious and bittersweet. Set in Cato Manor in the good old, bad old days - Fawlty Towers meets Bollywood in the glorious hills of KwaZulu-Natal. More details
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Till We Can Keep an Animal is about a middle-aged woman who is attacked, raped and murdered in her home by armed robbers. The novel is written from the shame and sadness that exists in this country. More details
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Things Without a Name is a curious love story set in the chaotic universe of rape and domestic violence. Faith is a legal counselor at a women’s crisis centre. More details
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Jambula Tree and other short stories is the Caine prize for African writing 8th Annual collection. More details
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In true Miyeni style, this book of poems which range in time over the last two decades is indeed a journey. More details
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The POWA Women's Writing Competition was launched in 2004, to celebrate POWA's 25 years of existence. It is continuing to make a positive contribution both towards promoting women's writing and writing in all of South Africa's official languages. More details
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Moxyland crackles with bold and infectious ideas, connecting a ruthless government with video games, biotech attack dogs, slippery online identities, a township soccer school, shocking cellphones, addictive branding, and genetically modified art. More details
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The Uncertainty of Hope is set in the densely populated suburb of Mbare, Harare, and explores the complex lives of Onai Moyo, a market woman and mother of three children and her best friend, Katy Nguni, a vendor and black-market currency dealer. More details
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Based in Nigeria and the United Kingdom, Unbridled chronicles the story of a young woman, Ngozi, who suffers various aspects of abuse from her family. More details
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