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Local Authors

South Africa has a rich literary tradition, and there are numerous talented local authors who have made significant contributions to literature.

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  • The Death of Jesus

    J.M. Coetzee
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    A masterful new novel completes an incomparable trilogy from J. M. Coetzee, Nobel laureate and two-times winner of the Booker PrizeIn The Childhood...

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  • The Gold Diggers: A Novel (Paperback)

    Sue Nyathi
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    We all know our final destination but we have no idea what will cross our path as we journey there. It’s 2008 and the height of Zimbabwe’s economic...

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  • The Keeper (Trade Paperback)

    Marguerite Poland
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    When lighthouse keeper Hannes Harker is posted to a remote island with his wife, he discovers something long-hidden in the tower that causes him to...

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  • Benny Griessel 6: The Last Hunt (Paperback)

    Deon Meyer
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    A cold case for Captain Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido of the Hawks elite police unit - not what they were looking for. And a difficult case, too...

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  • The Last Hunt (Paperback)

    Deon Meyer
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    A cold case for Captain Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido of the Hawks elite police unit - not what they were looking for. And a difficult case, too...

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  • The Lazy Makoti's Guide to the Kitchen (Paperback)

    Mogau Seshoene
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    Mastering the kitchen can seem pretty intimidating, especially when confronted with Instagram and TV chefs who seem to do everything with ease whil...

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  • The Lie of 1652: A Decolonised History of Land (Paperback)

    Patric Tariq Mellet
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    In The Lie of 1652, influential blogger and history activist Mellet retells and debunks established pre­colonial and colonial land dispossession hi...

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  • The Lost World of the Kalahari (Paperback)

    Laurens Van Der Post
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    Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural li...

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  • The Madonna of Excelsior (Paperback)

    Zakes Mda
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    This novel is set in the Free State town of Excelsior from the 1970s to the time of political liberation in the 1990s. In the 1970s Excelsior was n...

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  • The New Century of South African Poetry: 3rd Edition (Trade Paperback)

    Michael Chapman
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    A revised and updated edition of this much-loved poetry anthology which was first published in 2002. This new edition of The New Century of South A...

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  • The Number (Paperback)

    Jonny Steinberg
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    WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES ALAN PATON AWARD On 9 June 2003, a 43-year-old coloured man named Magadien Wentzel walked out of Pollsmoor Prison in ...

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    The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma In Power And Out Of Prison (Paperback)

    Jacques Pauw
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    Investigative journalist Jacques Pauw exposes the darkest secret at the heart of Jacob Zuma’s compromised government: a cancerous cabal that elimin...

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  • The Quarry (Paperback)

    Damon Galgut
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    He came out of the grass at the side of the road and stood there without moving. His eyes were blinking in a way that wasn’t normal and he was rock...

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  • The Quiet Violence Of Dreams

    K. Sello Duiker
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  • The Road to Mecca (Paperback)

    Athol Fugard
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    A South African pastor and a young teacher from Cape Town battle over the fate of an eccentric elderly widow. The play won the 1988 New York Drama ...

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  • The Scent of Bliss (Paperback)

    Nthikeng Mohlele
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    Q is diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder and resigns as lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Good Hope in Lumumbaville. In qui...

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  • The Seed Is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, A South African Sharecropper (Paperback)

    Charles Van Onselen
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    A bold and innovative social history, The Seed is Mine concerns disenfranchised black people who did so much to shape the destiny of South Africa. ...

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  • The shallows

    Ingrid Winterbach
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  • The Shadow Of The Hummingbird

    Athol Fugard
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    The Shadow of the Hummingbird explores the loss of innocence and the need to maintain a sense of wonder at the fleeting beauty of the world. The pl...

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  • The Smell Of Apples (Paperback)

    Mark Behr
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    'Masterly... A disturbing story which subtly lays bare the twisted logic of apartheid' The TimesMarnus is terrified he will not fulfil the expectat...

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  • The Super-Afrikaners: Inside the Afrikaner Broederbond (Trade Paperback)

    Max Du Preez
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    The Super-Afrikaners, originally published in 1978, scandalised a nation as it exposed the secret workings of the Broederbond. Out of print for ove...

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  • The Tall Assassin: The Darkest Political Murders of the old South Africa (Paperback)

    Alan D. Elsdon
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    General Hendrik van den Bergh, the former head of the Security Police and later head of the Bureau of State Security (BOSS), was for many, the most...

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  • The Theory Of Flight (Trade Paperback)

    Siphiwe Ndlovu
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    ‘On the third of September, not so long ago, something truly wondrous happened on the Beauford Farm and Estate. At the moment of her death, Imogen ...

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  • The Vegetarian Option (Paperback)

    Jan Braai
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    Jan Braai’s friends have been badgering him to write a vegetarian braai book for years, and he has finally done it! Once he sat down to tackle t...

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