Sa: 138 books

Winner of the 2015 University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing in English Shortlisted for the 2015 Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize and the Jenny Crwys-Williams Fiction Book of the Year 2015 ‘It’s here at last – the South African novel that throws off all the...

How is it that a character from literary fiction can so alter the landscapes he touches, even as he – in his self-imposed isolation – seeks to avoid them? How is it that Michael K, bewildered and bewildering, can remain so fragile yet so present, so imposing without attempting to be so? In...

A gripping narrative set against the complex tapestry of Johannesburg As the head of Wits Mining, the last major mining company to do an empowerment deal, Max Sinclair has a mandate from the board and a clear directive: to sell a share of the company to a black consortium. Born and bred in...

Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation is a first-hand account of the university protests that gripped South Africa between 2015 and 2017, widely better known as the #FeesMustFall. Chikane outlines the nature of student politics in the country before, during and after the emergence of #MustFall politics,...

How long does it take for scars to heal? How long does it take for a scarred memory to fester and rise to the surface? For Marubini, the question is whether scars ever heal when you forget they are there to begin with. Marubini is a young woman who has an enviable life in Cape Town, working...

On a freezing winter’s night, a few hours before dawn on 12 May 1969, security police stormed the Soweto home of Winnie Mandela and detained her in the presence of her two young daughters, then aged eight and ten. Rounded up in a group of other anti-apartheid activists under Section 6 of...

The Roman Empire has just collapsed, and the Dark Ages are descending across Europe. It is the time when legends and myths are born. Some say Elves and Dwarfs lived alongside men and practiced magic and wizardry and other arts long forgotten. Dark Arts were also practiced by the evil powers that...

Bantubonke is an accomplished and revered jazztrumpeter, composer and band leader in decline – an absent present and inadequate spouse. He lives for art at the expense of all else, an imbalance that derails his life and propels him to the brink of madness and despair. A story of direct and implied...

Con un estilo adictivo ya conocido por sus lectores, Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez ha escrito una novela magistral que plasma los temores y frustraciones del amor. Con afinadísima técnica literaria, cuenta una historia absorbente, íntima y poética que se precipita hasta un final inesperado. Sheccid,...

Ella siempre lo amó. Él nunca lo supo. Hasta que la vida los volvió a encontrar. Sheccid ha sufrido un grave accidente. Está sola, aislada del mundo y de su familia; tiene marcas de intento de suicidio, pero no recuerda nada. El médico le pide que se remonte al pasado y reconstruya poco a poco...

Esposa mía, perdóname: He sido injusto contigo muchas veces. Trabajas en una oficina, aconsejas a los demás, te involucras en obras sociales y cuidas la casa. Cuando terminas parece que no has hecho nada… ¡y yo te reclamo! Siempre he reprochado que gastas demasiado. Si te compras un vestido...

It is summer in Stratford-upon-Avon. Thomas is a young theatre director at the Royal Shakespeare Company who is desperately in love with Lucy, the leading actress in a production of The Tempest. Their experiences are woven into the life of a theatre presided over by Harry, an ageing South African...

Un intenso viaje poético que toca los espacios mas íntimos del ser humano: el duelo materno, el desamor, la fragilidad y el erotismo. Estos poemas buscan encontrarle sentido a todo, aprendiendo a sobrevivir en los sinsentidos. En palabras de la autora: "En este libro siento que me atreví a...

Mara, a filha mais nova da poderosa Casa dos Acoma, estava destinada a uma vida de contemplação e paz. Mas quando seu pai e seu irmão são mortos, sua vida muda de um dia para outro. Apesar do sofrimento, cabe a ela a tarefa de vestir o manto da liderança e enfrentar as dificuldades e os inimigos...