As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, Andre Brink's classic novel, A Dry White Season, is an unflinching and unforgettable look at racial intolerance, the human
When Flip Lochner, a seedy, tired journalist fleeing a failed marriage, sees a beautiful woman with four breasts in Devil's Valley, he thinks it's a mirage. But then a man called Lukas Death stands b
Chris Minaar is a distinguished South African writer who has lost his gift for the word. That is, until, he meets Rachel, a woman destined to become the great love of his life, a love greater for bei
Three connected stories exploring issues of race in contemporary South Africa follow three white men whose lives are changed by unexpected confrontations with the realities of life for black South Afr
Elisabeth Larsson, a young Swedish woman stranded in the wild jungle of eighteenth-century Africa, discovers new passions and a distaste for society in the initially discomfitting company of Adam Mant
Martin Mynhardt seems invincible. Violence surrounds him, yet he remains unscathed: a woman asks him the time, then leaps in front of a train; after a mine riot, he watches hoses sweep scattered body
This is what it is to be a slave: that everything is decided for you from out there. You just got to listen and do as they tell you. You don’t say no. You don’t ask questions. You just do what they te
After years of abuse, with only a bleak future ahead of her, a young German woman joins other women being transported to German's colony in South-West Africa to attend the needs of male settlers, but
When expatriate Afrikaner Kristien Muller hears of her grandmother's impending death, she ends her self-imposed exile in London and returns to the South Africa she thought she'd escaped. But irrevocab
A member of several print and broadcasting standards boards at various times, Van Rooyen describes the different stages that the Appeal Board went through after it was formed in 1974 to buffer the dif
