212 Books imprint: 9 books

'Asylum-seeker'; refugee'. All the major British political parties have brought these words to the top of the political agenda. Some newspapers shout about the swarms' of refugees arriving on our shores; others criticise our government's lack of humanitarian principles. But what do we know about the...

It’s every mother's worst nightmare and Gail Watson is living it: her six-year-old daughter Cindy was found brutally raped and strangled in a park only blocks from their home. Family and friends urge Gail to get on with her life, but Gail is living for just one thing: to see her daughter's killer...

Joanne Hunter's secure suburban world is falling apart. Her husband's desertion after twenty years of marriage leaves her stunned. Eve, her best friend, is strangely distant. Her grandfather, who's been a pillar of strength and support, lies ill and helpless in a nursing home. Lana and Robin, her...

Donna Cressy has no way of knowing that the goodbye kisses she receives from her children when ex-husband Victor picks them up for a day's outing are for all time. For Victor does not return. Instead, this handsome, twisted man, who destroyed their marriage and almost destroyed Donna's sanity, vanishes...

Lynn Schuster didn't expect the phone call from Marc Cameron, the husband of the woman her own husband has recently left her for. She certainly never expected to feel such a strong attraction to him when they met and he offered her the perfect way to get even with her cheating husband. Savvy divorce...

Notable Book of the Year, New York Times Book Review House of Women is the story of three unusual women – seventeen-year-old Thea, her mother Nalia, an opera singer and Holocaust survivor, and Maude, their dour and religious housekeeper. It is the story of how the world changes for each of...

Notable Book of the Year, New York Times Book ReviewThis is the story of Agnes La Grange, a beautiful young woman who emigrates as a housekeeper to South Africa in 1920. With a determination to make a future of her own and a love of men that does not leave her in desperate need of them, Agnes constructs...

Set in South Africa in the ‘fifties and ‘sixties, this is the story of Ruth, youngest of three daughters in the flamboyant, theatrical Frank family. Brash, clear-eyed and passionate, Ruth moves through a decade of drama on every front -the family, the servants, the theatre, and the country at large-wondering...

In 1975, Ruth Frank, married and living in the United States, returns to South Africa to visit her aging parents. There she resumes an old liaison with Hugh Stillington, liberal man of Africa, who lives in a bungalow overlooking the Indian Ocean. Hugh’s world is a South Africa Ruth has never known...