Lauri Kubuitsile: 8 books

It is 1871 and Nthebolang and her mother must flee their home: her father has been accused of witchcraft and sentenced to death. For months they walk, sleeping in the open, living off the veld, until they are offered shelter in Ntsweng in the kingdom of Kgosi Sechele I. It is there, years later, that...

With an over-protective brother, a part-time job and a project deadline fast approaching, Mpho certainly has no space for romance. She dreams of ditching her oil-stained aprons for designer fabrics and will not let anything jeopardise her chances of success – until Thabang, a record-label owner and her brother’s nemesis, makes an appearance.

Uganda is sometimes called the "land of lakes," because almost one-third of its territory is covered by water. The greatest Ugandan body of water is Lake Victoria, the second-largest freshwater lake in the world. The world's longest river, the Nile, also has its source in Uganda. Uganda has faced...

Songbird Kedi Taukobong is living her dream. Enormously successful as an Afro-pop musician, she travels the continent performing to adoring crowds. However, fame comes at a price – a sinister stalker is watching her, intent on making her his. Kedi’s management team is determined to hire the best...

Gorata Kwadiba has a plan. By the time she turns thirty in two years’ time, she wants to have made her mark as a public relations officer, and to have married a successful man. Ozee certainly doesn’t fit into her plans. However charismatic and handsome he is, Gorata can’t get over the fact that...

In many of these stories, there is as sense that things are not as they seem: a woman's husband-to-be has a questionable past and a voluptuous stranger's beauty belies her malevolence. Characters are shaped by the particular challenges of their context - a young pregnant Mosarwa girl is forced to...

A reporter with The Joburg Tribune, Ayanda Nkosi is always hot on the heels of her next breaking story. Sipho Dlamini is the MD of Egoli Investments. Charming and successful, he would like nothing better than to have the down-to-earth Ayanda on his arm. But Ayanda is not so sure. She’s beer and...

Signed, Hopelessly in Love hits all the core notes for a great read: it is set in high school, with entertaining main characters and incidents, there is the great love story of Amo and John, and the interfering parent in Granma, not to mention school bitchiness in the attack on Amo’s best friend,...