Kwela imprint: 59 books

Firepool

Experiences in an Abnormal World

by Hedley Twidle
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017

'Firepool' is a chronicle of South Africa in the ‘second transition’ – one in which the foundations of the post-apartheid settlement are being shaken and questioned in all kinds of ways. From the complex legacy of artists like Moses Taiwa Molelekwa and JM Coetzee to the #FeesMustFall protests,...

Going Back to Say Goodbye

A Boyhood on the Mine

by Kenneth de Kok
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

In Going Back to Say Goodbye: A Boyhood on the Mine Kenneth de Kok describes his childhood in Stilfontein, a small mining town in the Western Transvaal. Set in the late 1950s and seen through the eyes of the young Kenneth, the story immerses the reader in a world of bicycle races down dirt roads,...
by Kgebetli Moele
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011

Room 207 is set in and around a dilapitated building in Hillbrow. For more than ten years, six guys live in room 207 of this block of flats: they are Matome, Molamo, Zulu-boy, D’nice, Modishi and the nameless narrator. By day, they are hustlers – they hustle production companies, they have their...
by Anchien Troskie, Elbie Lötter
Language: Afrikaans
Release Date: April 16, 2012

Die opvolg op Dis ek, Anna. Wat hét met Anna gebeur die oomblik ná sy die sneller getrek het? Ná sy haar stiefpa wat haar soveel jare lank fisies en emosioneel verrinneweer het, vroeg een oggend in Bloemfontein in die oë gekyk, en toe geskiet het? Agt jaar ná die verskyning van Dis ek, Anna neem...
by Finuala Dowling
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011

Notes from the Dementia Ward is Finuala Dowling’s third collection of verse following on the brilliant and popular I Flying and Doo-Wop Girls of the Universe. This new collection deals in part with the tragic-comic effects of the inexorable and distressing collapse into senility and the way in which...
by Niq Mhlongo
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018

“This apricot tree has multiple souls that fill me with wonder every morning and enchant me by afternoon. This tree has bitter-sweet memories, just like the fruit it bears.” If the apricot trees of Soweto could talk, what stories would they tell? This short story collection provides an imaginative...

Feminism Is

South Africans speak their truth

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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018

“Feminism is about power, potential, passion, and rights, but it keeps changing in purpose and meaning ...” Do you call yourself a feminist? What does this mean in your daily life? In this book, South African feminists explore their often vastly different experiences and perspectives in accessible...

On the Brink

SA's political and fiscal cliff-hanger

by Claire Bisseker
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

Few countries in transition have managed to get a grip on their public finances as well as South Africa did after 1994. Now, just more than 20 years later, the nation’s credibility and the democratic project lie in tatters as we teeter on the brink of a political and fiscal cliff. Business confidence...
by Rustum Kozain
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012

In this new collection Rustum Kozain, who won both the Ingrid Jonker Prize (2006) and the Olive Schreiner Prize (2007) for This Carting Life, raises his own bar. Groundwork retains strong connections with Kozain's early work, but it does so while simultaneously introducing a group of poems that indicate...
by Cynthia Jele
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016

Four friends’ lives seem to be crashing before them: Just as Nandi’s final wedding arrangements are put in place, her ex-fiancé, a man who bankrupted her heart and bank account, makes a re-appearance. Zaza, the “trophy wife”, waits for the day that her affair comes to light and her husband...
by Maya Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011

Lily struggles with an apathetic mother, a domineering grandmother and the shifting alliances of her schoolgirl friendships. She soon develops a brittle self-esteem and obsesses over the one aspect of her life that she can control – her body. A story of secrets, warped friendships and addiction, and how families guard their secrets to keep up appearances – with disastrous consequences.
by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma has won international acclaim for her short fiction. In this, her first collection – consisting of a novella and five short stories – Novuyo displays the breathtaking talent that has seen her win numerous awards. She sketches, with astounding accuracy, the realities of daily...
by Rustum Kozain
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2005

This Carting Life collects poems that span more than ten years of writing. A fair number of these poems have been published previously in either journals or anthologies, primarily in South Africa, but also abroad in the USA and, in some cases, in translation in France. Within the admittedly small...
by Ken Barris
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012

Bernal Díaz del Castillo is a tattoo artist who is five hundred years old, or believes he is five hundred years old. His mind is filled with images of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. He lives in Cape Town, working out of a tiny studio in Long Street. He is dying, and feels the need to chronicle his...
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