Herman Charles Bosman: 5 books

This reissued collection contains the best of Bosman’s stories and humour, previously published in two volumes: Starlight on the Veld: Best of Herman Charles Bosman’s Stories and Recognising Blues: Best of Herman Charles Bosman’s Humour. Starlight on the Veld is a collection of 25 of Bosman’s...

A new collection of “lost” Herman Charles Bosman works.Herman Charles Bosman one of South Africa’s most well-known literary characters wrote short articles, anecdotes and stories under various pseudonyms for the Sunday Times from 1920, when he was just fifteen years old, to the end of 1922, when...

Herman Charles Bosman’s unique account of the term he served as a young man in Pretoria Central Prison. Convicted of murder, and initially condemned to hang on death row, he had his sentence commuted to be a regular convict through the 1920s and into the 30s. By turns gruesome and humorous,...

These slyly simple stories of the unforgiving South African Transvaal reveal a little-described (and rarely romanticized) world of Afrikaner life in the late 19th Century. Like our own Mark Twain, Herman Charles Bosman wields a laughing intolerance of foolishness and prejudice, a dazzling use of wit...

The entire sequence of Bosman’s famous Oom Schalk Lourens stories, in one volume for the first time. Edited from authoritative sources, and accompanied by original illustrations, this gathering represents a feast of South Africa’s best-loved tales. The sixty pieces include all-time favourites...