On the face of it, life looks good for Sara-Jayne. She’s a popular radio personality, a bestselling author and she’s recently been reunited with he...

After a near-fatal car accident, Ferguson is shattered by PTSD. The meds she's prescribed don't work. On discovering that her hero Bill W, father o...

When Dr Thomas Browne accepts the role of both inquisitor and witness in one of England's last witch trials, he embarks on what his biographer late...

When your life is a big open sky just waiting for you to let go and jump, and it feels like anything is possible. And it really is. And you really ...

Gina knows hardly anything about her father apart from the fact that he was once engaged to Koringa, a crocodile tamer, and that he is buried in an...

The prosperous Mbeki clan lost everything to apartheid. Yet Thabo Mbeki rose to become president of South Africa in 1999. A decade later, Mbeki was...

The perfect match. Or so she thinks. Her warmth and empathy. His charisma and ambition. Yet, Cathy feels safer teaching battle-scarred gangsters in...

In Cape Town in the near future, a vast arid slum is almost all that is left of the city after cataclysmic climate collapse has wreaked havoc on th...

When The Village Sleeps is a visionary novel about what the loss of identity and dignity can do to people afflicted by decades of brokenness. To...

In April 2017, Pravin Gordan addressed a packed audience in St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town. It was a week after President Jacob Zuma had fired ...

Nancy Brooks was sixteen when she went to sea with her father. Despite a gypsy fortune-teller’s warning to her mother, on 2 July 1938, she signed u...

An invaluable reference book for publishers or anyone interested or in any way involved in the African book/publishing/literary scene, or writers l...

Gaan vind die skurk wat in meisies handel dryf. Dis agent Vicki Kahn se eerste missie, noudat sy vir die Agentskap vir Staatsveiligheid werk. Die f...

For the four friends jogging their regular morning route, along the sleepy suburban streets of Fish Hoek, nothing could have warned them of what wa...

Late one afternoon on the steps of St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town, the leader of opposition forces in the Central African Republic (CAR) is gun...

The Five Firm Friends – Edith, Cordelia, Amanda, Doris and Beauty – are five sassy career women who confront life head- on. But when Beauty suddenl...

For this sixth collection of stories seeking the most innovative writing emerging from the continent, we asked for stories of Africa’s hotels: gran...

A woman reluctantly takes on the responsibility of putting her eccentric rebellious mother into a retirement home, and managing her care. She has h...

‘All those who want to understand the country’s trajectory over the long run of history will enjoy this lively and well-written text.’ – Roger Sout...

In the 1980s, Erika Bornman’s family join, and ultimately move to, KwaSizabantu, a Christian mission based in KwaZulu-Natal, which is touted as a n...

When a strike by the University of Adamastor’s technical staff coincides with a lull in sound operator Vida’s employment, she agrees to stage-manag...

I was three months shy of my 21st birthday, and I had committed the one unforgivable act for a coloured girl from the Cape Flats. I sat on the toil...