Leon De Kock: 11 books

In Losing the Plot, well-known scholar and writer Leon de Kock offers a lively and wide-ranging analysis of postapartheid South African writing which, he contends, has morphed into a far more flexible and multifaceted entity than its predecessor. If postapartheid literature’s founding moment was...

This guide to dreaming is meant to give the reader some insights into the world of dreams and dreaming. It will, hopefully, show you how to enjoy the rich life available in the dreaming world. This book is a companion book to the novels Dream World and Dream School. It is a freestanding book, and there is absolutely no need to read the novels to use this book.

Growing up in the ’60s and ’70s in the tough streets of Mayfair, Joburg, Sammy Baptista learnt how to use his fi sts. But life will teach him that fists cannot defend you against everything. When he scores a plum job and catches the fancy of his sexy boss, Sammy thinks he has landed with his backside...

Scorned and outcast from society, Jason has turned to the only thing he understands, the Dream World. He knows the rules, and he knows he's one of the few people who can manipulate the dreams of others, to force them to do things they would never have done while awake. And in the real, waking world,...

This is the story of a man and a woman who have the most amazing experiences. It is told through two hundred and fifty poems, into which are woven magic and mystery, witches, wizards, dragons and many more. Join John the smith as he follows and captures the heart of Jasmine, a dancer in a band of...

A story that could come true tomorrow. When Ishmael Jacobson creates a virus that stops the aging process in humans and animals alike, chaos could be the only result. Striving towards a dream of eternal life, everybody do what they can to get infected with the virus, even if it means breaking...

Agatha Crow spent ten years in The Hack for a crime she did not commit. It is time for revenge, and they will pay, those that put her behind bars. Because in jail Agatha learned the secret of hypnosis, and the children of her victims will do what she tells them, no matter what she tells them. She...

Dream School, the sequel to Dream World. Conceived in the Dream World but born into the real world, Eve and Shawn have dreaming powers like nobody else, and when they decide to teach their friends the secrets of dreaming, it should lead to a lot of fun. As long as their mother does not find out… But...

In a filthy dirty flat in Johannesburg, a new drug has been invented, a drug so powerful that simply inhaling the fumes will get you addicted. As the addiction to this new Methamphetamine derivative spreads like wildfire, the real fires also start to spread as society falls apart. Not one family is...

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives?historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address a range of topics as...

‘Taut, sensual, funny and full of bodily intelligence. Are you there? Is it only me? these poems ask – as they look you in the eye.’ – Sarah Nuttall. The poems in Bodyhood open widely to the inside while looking outwards at the connecting points of body and being – in love, in feeling, in...