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In White Boy Running, Christopher Hope explored how it felt and looked to grow up in a country gripped by an ‘absurd, racist insanity’. On a road trip thirty years later, Hope goes in search of today’ …
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Evening Standard’s Wander List Guide to 2019 Getaways”A beautiful, brilliant modern classic.” Sabrina Mahfouz, Guardian, Best Summer Books 2018Neha has just been diagnosed with the same terminal cance …
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize, 2019 __________’A literary sensation’Guardian’A bombshell of a book… Sharp, explosive, hilarious’ New York Times’Glittering and funny… A stiletto slipped between …
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In the run up to the 1987 election Christopher Hope returned to his native South Africa after a twelve-year absence. The nature of that year’s whites-only election and the bitter defeat of the liberal …
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2010 MAN BOOKER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2010 ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE ONDAATJE PRIZEA young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels with little p …
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Damon Galgut’s first collection of stories transports us to 1980s South Africa where politics begins at home.An exquisite early work by the twice Man Booker-shortlisted Damon Galgut.The family – that …
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, 2003A year ago Patrick Winter was in Namibia completing his military service. Now, during the first free elections, Patrick has returned to the country he defende …
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Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappointme …
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A breathtaking parable of death and deception from the twice Booker-shortlisted author.Damon Galgut’s ‘lost’ novel, written in 1995 but unpublished outside South Africa for ten years.On a lonely stret …
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Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2015Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize University of Johannesburg English Literary Award Nominated for the 2014 Folio PrizeIn 1912, th …
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As Nelson Mandela was released from prison and the ensuing years saw the collapse of South Africa’s apartheid regime, John Carlin (‘one of the great post-apartheid chroniclers’ Financial Times) was th …
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In her garden, ensconced in the lush vegetation of the Western Cape, Clare Wald, world-renowned author, mother, critic, takes up her pen and confronts her life. Sam Leroux has returned to South Africa …
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This uplifting true story is now a major film, starring Oscar nominees Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, directed by Clint Eastwood.Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2008As the day …
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Now filmed as INVICTUS directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2008As the day of the final of …
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Shortlisted for the 2010 McKitterick PrizeAngel Tungazara runs a small business, baking cakes for the parties and celebrations of her neighbours. As her customers tell her their stories, Angel comes t …
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Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best BookA gripping, claustrophobic novel of guilty secrets, obsession and self-reinvention on the African Savannah from the twice Man Booker-shortl …
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