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.
This novel weaves colonial fact and ancestral memory in contemporary Eastern Cape life
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.
Moving, memorable novel explores the life of ANC soldiers in exile and their return to SA shortly before Mandela’s release.
Jane Rosenthal on the urban intelligentsia in new novels from Perfect Hlongwane and Thando Mgqolozana.
In a compelling novel and an engaging memoir, Jane Rosenthal finds richly textured accounts of Muslim and Indian experiences in South Africa.
Jane Rosenthal sculpts dreams and rides quaggas in the exotic kingdom of the sacred gold-plated rhino in Zakes Mda’s "The Sculptors of Mapungubwe".
Jane Rosenthal assesses four novels that cast the country in very different lights.
The only book prize that celebrates works of ?fiction written in all of our official languages has been suspended.
A poignant debut novel reflects on life and love in a conservative farming community in the Free State.
Now that Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, her previously low profile in South Africa is bound to change.
Insightful and controversial, Coovadia’s essays are a cracking read — even if they are in book form
South African literature has a long tradition of farm novels digging deep into the lives of people on these farms.
This reads like a South African James Bond novel, but is more elegantly written and rather more serious.
Like a curiosity from another era, or even another universe, Peter Carey is still with us. He has won the Booker twice and for good reason.
Tan Twan Eng uses the concepts that underpin Japanese gardens and the ancient Chinese gardens on which they are based to construct this unusual novel.
Author’s journey offers an honest, funny and realistic take on South Africa and its people.
