Southern Africa

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2003In The Master of Petersburg J. M. Coetzee dares to imagine the life of Dostoevsky. Set in 1869, when Dostoevsky was summoned from Germany to St Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, this novel is at...

**A BBC RADIO 4 GOOD READ**'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The TimesAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an...

Give yourself up. Whatever you've done. They'll find you. In the end.A man with no name staggers down a lonely stretch of road that cuts through the simmering veld of rural South Africa. He is exhausted and hungry yet dives for the long grass whenever...

An eminent, ageing Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him, troubled by Australia's complicity in the wars in the Middle East,it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: how should a citizen of a modern...

The first collection of extraordinary stories from one of the greatest writers of our time. With astonishing clarity, Booker Prize winner Galgut explores both the intimacies and violence of family life against the complex landscape of 1980s South Africa...

When he lands in Harare North, our unnamed protagonist carries nothing but a cardboard suitcase full of memories and a longing to be reunited with his childhood friend, Shingi.He ends up in Shingi's Brixton squat where the inhabitants function at various...

After years teaching Romantic poetry in Cape Town, David Lurie has an impulsive affair with a student.The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent...

Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial...

Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation, she has reached the stage where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. Her life has become a...

A megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe for undermining the 'natural' order of his universe with their anarchic rival order, mocking him and subjecting him to the humiliations of his own all too palpable flesh. A...

Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with...

A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee was 'finding his feet as a writer'. He embarks on a series of interviews with people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914671480Author Paulina ChizianeFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago Books

In this dark and deeply radical novel, Dambudzo Marechera offers a visceral account of a photojournalist's entanglement with a terrorist organisation. In an unnamed totalitarian state, the members of Black Sunlight – a group of violent anarchists – are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312421748Author Zakes MdaFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm...

LONGLISTED FOR THE SA SUNDAY TIMES FICTION AWARD When danger lies in the eye of the beholder, what happens when you reject its pull?Cora carries secrets her daughter can't know.Freya is frightened by what her mother leaves unsaid.Angel will only bury the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312420918Author Zakes MdaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm...

In this poignant novel, award-winning author, Charles Mungoshi, explores the consequences of colonialism in 1960s Zimbabwe. Waiting for the Rain asks how a nation can look to the future and preserve its traditions while being tied down to the present...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648277231Author L T KayFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint MjbPublisher MjbWeight(grams) 553g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779213358Author Stephen A MpashiFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Mwanaka Media and PublishingPublisher Mwanaka Media and PublishingWeight(grams) 122g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953861689Author Paulina ChizianeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946395863Author Siphiwe Gloria NdlovuFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Catalyst BooksPublisher Catalyst Books

From debut Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Mapepa comes the saga of the four Taha sisters, and the indomitable matriarch who carried her daughters-and her community-through times of drought and violence in their Harare neighborhood. From the red soil of her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956343086Author Tor HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Trebuchet BooksPublisher Trebuchet BooksWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914287619Author Shingi MavimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Carnelian Heart Publishing LtdPublisher Carnelian Heart Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632063557Author Louis Timagène HouatFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623717414Author Futhi NtshingilaFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623717964Author Uvile XimbaFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc