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In  Rainbow Nation My Zulu Arse  travel writer Sihle Khumalo casts his gaze on our rainbow nation and it’s a zoom through our count...

Clare Houston’s debut novel peels back the onion skin of our complicated past.  The story of life in the British concentration camps wh...

Local author and playwright Craig Higginson moves seamlessly between writing theatre and fiction. He also, at times, borrows from playwri...

Kobus Moolman, known for his award-winning poetry, has released his debut volume of short fiction, The Swimming Lesson And Other Stories , a...

Music is at the heart of Nthikeng Mohlele’s latest novel, his sixth, called  Illumination .  It focuses on a jazz musician and com...

Real people have complex lives. The ones who, from the outside, look as though they are enjoying idyllic stress-free existences are often...

Three novellas about life in the 1980s Three Seasons is an accomplished, highly readable collection of three novellas by a writer who...

Vanessa and her Sister is a fictionalised  imagining of some of the events in their lives. There are some secrets that haunt us forev...

Across a Green Ocean by Wendy Lee A journey through the past This charming novel by Wendy Lee opens with widow Ling Tang contemplati...

This is the sixth anthology of stories published from stories submitted to the Bristol Short Story Prize. This is an an annual internationa...

The late Mavis Gallant's stories are beguiling to read The late Mavis Gallant’s stories are beguiling to read – they creep up on y...

Mrs Stevens ...  Its homosexual revelations  were considered  scandalous  when  first published  Mrs Stevens Hears the Mermaids Sing...

It’s so often laugh out loud funny – but at the heart of the witticisms, there’s a ton of recognition and a truth that runs strong and cle...

The Road of Excess never quite gains the ground or follows the momentum of the previous Winterbach novels I've read in English  ...

Arctic Summer is a fictionalised biography of the novelist EM Forster Arctic Summer – a fictionalised biography of the writer EM Fors...

Reviewing Alice , five interlinked short stories by Judith Hermann  German writer Judith Hermann examines the loss of a loved one through ...