Flip Lochner is a weary and disillusioned newspaper crime reporter. Curious to find out more about the origins of a casual acquaintance, he descends into Devil's Valley where, like Dante's Virgil, he encounters a bewildering array of mysterious characters and events.
Flip Lochner is a weary and disillusioned newspaper crime reporter. Curious to find out more about the origins of a casual acquaintance, he descends i...
Winter in South Africa - a time of drought, angry stirrings in Soweto, and the shadow of conflict in Angola cast across the scorched bush. A wealthy Afrikaner's weekend visit to his old family farm coincides with a time of personal crisis. The author has twice been runner-up for the Booker Prize.
Winter in South Africa - a time of drought, angry stirrings in Soweto, and the shadow of conflict in Angola cast across the scorched bush. A wealthy A...
Hanna sees her chance to escape years of abuse in the orphanage by joining a shipload of young women to the colony of German South-West Africa to assuage the needs of the male settlers. This journey reveals suffering, revenge, companionship and love.
Hanna sees her chance to escape years of abuse in the orphanage by joining a shipload of young women to the colony of German South-West Africa to assu...
From a world-class writer - a remarkable new novel about love in all its forms. Chris Minaar is a distinguished South African writer; an old writer, a writer who has lost whatever gift he had for writing. It is on New Year's Eve, courtesy of his stalled car, that he meets Rachel, a young sculptress, who becomes the great love of his life, a love greater for being unfulfilled. Having believed that his remaining function should be to comfort his mother, more than a century old now, he finds himself captivated by Rachel and drawn into a close friendship with her photographer husband...
From a world-class writer - a remarkable new novel about love in all its forms. Chris Minaar is a distinguished South African writer; an old write...
A magical novel from a world class writer about a remarkable historical figure. In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of his region. Coming under the spell of the soap-boiler Anna, and under the influence of the great Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp of the London Missionary Society, Cupido is made the first Khoi or 'Hottentot' missionary ordained at the Cape of Good Hope. Received into the fold of the Church, Cupido passionately turns against all...
A magical novel from a world class writer about a remarkable historical figure. In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interio...
From an early age the South African writer Andre Brink found in storytelling the means of reconciling the stark contrasts of his world between religion and play-acting, between the breathless discovery of a girl called Maureen and the merciless beating of a black boy. Here he tells the story of a life lived in tumultuous times."
From an early age the South African writer Andre Brink found in storytelling the means of reconciling the stark contrasts of his world between religio...
The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the liberation of slaves. Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master.
Francois has reneged on his promise to set her free and his father has ordered him to marry a white woman from a prominent family, selling Philida to owners in the harsh country in the north. Unwilling to accept this fate, Philida tests the limits of her freedom by setting off on a journey. She travels across the great wilderness to the far north of Cape Town -- determined to survive and be free. LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN...
The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the liberation of slaves. Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the so...
Kristien's grandmother is dying and she finds herself leaving London to fly back to her native South Africa. Her grandmother is determined to hand down her treasury of family history, telling of magic, treachery, heroism and farce - the panorama of a nation's experience.
Kristien's grandmother is dying and she finds herself leaving London to fly back to her native South Africa. Her grandmother is determined to hand dow...
