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Her latest novel weaves the past with the present and people’s responses to the present and future
This is not comfortable reading, says Sisonke Msimang
Karin Brynard’s novel questions what outsiders have brought to the Khomani Bushmen, including those who profess to support them.
Here the protagonist is in her 30s, and she again narrates her story herself with an interesting distancing to reflect the divisions in her being.
The novel deals with intimacy and trust, and finding one’s place in the world.
A daughter of the 1820 Settlers looks at events that ruthlessly shaped the lives of those linked to the Kowie River
This novel weaves colonial fact and ancestral memory in contemporary Eastern Cape life
Mark Heywood’s book avoids plain history. Instead it encourages its readers to reflect.
Rejected by the Empire, beloved in South Africa, Hobhouse stood for justice, feminism and pacifism
Ameera Patel has produced a book that reads like a fast-paced thriller but it has real depth.
The writer’s humane spirit shines through in a reissue of her novel that was closest to her heart: ‘From Man to Man’.
This collection of stories centres on the ‘slow road to purgatory’, from broken relationships to Huletts sugar-sachet wisdom.
Academic JU Jacobs explores South African stories that reveal who we are and our journeys here and elsewhere, both physically and psychologically.
The Compassionate Englishwoman book is a post-retirement project by author Robert Eales about the Boer war.
The complicated Arab-Israeli situation is hard to write about but makes for fascinating if often harrowing reading.
A gripping historical novel or a new collection of poetry will take your mind off the burning heat, writes Jane Rosenthal.
Author Rehana Rossouw’s latest novel deals with conflicted and confused lives in the Cape Flats.
Carol Campbell uses the characters in Esther’s House to reflect on real issues in a country that is 21 years into democracy.
The fall of apartheid’s structures has allowed fiction to explore a range of social issues.
While disappointing, this farm novel is unconvincing in register, oversimplified and sensationalist, writes Jane Rosenthal.
