South African Fiction

When the Smoke Cleared chronicles how resilience and conviction took hold in one woman to overcome the circumstances of her turbulent childhood and adolescence. A novel that paints a vivid and intimate portrait of an African American Southern family in a small rural town filled with segregation and cultural racism.

Tales from the Eastern Cape, gathered in 1886.

From groundbreaking and award-winning poet Koleka Putuma comes an empowering and uplifting collection of poems about figuring out who you are and embracing it. With words to affirm, this is the ideal companion to hold your hand while you navigate all the big questions, discoveries and transitions of young adulthood.

Katrina Hunt is a journalist with a secret. From her early days growing up in the poverty of a trailer park, she has been able to detect the sour notes of corruption. And she's never wrong. She turns her talent to the work of sniffing out the unprincipled and the amoral in positions of privilege and power. On the far side of the world, a morally ambiguous scientist working in the unfolding field of genetic profiling has cracked an algorithm that will forever change law-enforcement. His new 'scan' will be able to detect a person's genetic propensity for wrongdoing, even before they act.

Prince Myers came from Nawlins to ATL to take over the game. His rise was fast and he enjoyed all the luxuries of his hustle, including the fly chick on his arm. But his reign is short lived. Now he is in prison on a bogus murder conviction and everything he had is gone, including his woman. Beautiful and ambitious Lieutenant Nicole Wright is the fantasy of every convict at Georgia State Prison where she works.

June, 1957. One afternoon, in the backwater town of Sutton, a young black farmer by the name of Tucker Caliban matter-of-factly throws salt on his field, shoots his horse and livestock, sets fire to his house and departs the southern state. And thereafter, the entire African-American population leave with him. The reaction that follows is told across a dozen chapters, each from the perspective of a different white townsperson. These are boys, girls, men and women, either liberal or conservative, bigoted or sympathetic - yet all of whom are grappling with this spontaneous, collective rejection of subordination.

In this dramatic sequel to Admission, a Story Born of Africa, Adam Broadford’s continuing journey of transformation is profound, compelling, and life-changing. Deserting another call-up from the South African Army, and a stowaway on a Union-Castle ship bound from Cape Town to Southampton, Adam yells a promise back to Felicity, the love of his life, to return. Desperation, desire, and guilt plague him. On his adventures he seeks resolution from his unusually difficult past, encounters far-influencing people, but remains challenged by his own deceptions and betrayals.

Why exactly Charley Bordelon's late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous. Recognizing this as a chance to start over, Charley and her eleven-year-old daughter, Micah, say good-bye to Los Angeles. They arrive just in time for growing season but no amount of planning can prepare Charley for a Louisiana that's mired in the past: as her judgmental but big-hearted grandmother tells her, cane farming is always going to be a white man's business.

**Some things are worth the wait.** Set on Canada’s picturesque Cape Breton Island, this book is perfect for those who enjoy new beginnings and countryside landscapes. Sam MacAuley and his wife Annalize are total opposites. When Sam wants to leave city life in Halifax to get a plot of land on Cape Breton Island, where he grew up, his wife wants nothing to do with his plans and opts to move herself and their three boys back to her home country of South Africa. As Sam settles into a new life on his own, his friend Lachlan encourages him to get back into the dating scene. Although he meets ...

Displaced and running away from political persecution in Zimbabwe, Bloggs shares his macabre experiences of the regime that forced him into exile.Depressed by his raw, squalid life, the threat of an ignominious death on the streets of Johannesburg and shame of failing his family, the equilibrium between his inner self and the outside world descends into chaos and mental anguish. In near despair and degradation, his blighted spirit collides with the dark forces of his extremity which triggers an amazing transformation that not only saves him but also touches the broken lives of other people ...

Gray finds himself torn between anguish and ecstasy when another Lalia-sitting assignment is placed in his hands; he's asked to hinder Malcolm's advances and subdue the paparazzi, while wrestling with his smoldering desire to get Laila in his bed. Will this assignment cause him to disclose feelings that may sever their friendship and jeopardize his career?

Garrison Daniels is on the run. After his failed attempt to murder his brother and overthrow his father as boss of The Enterprise Faction, his days are numbered. So, why was he in a mansion filled to the brim with his father’s deadliest associates? One word: Malina.

“I knew the moment I came up out of that water yesterday, that it was a sin for me to own you, Isaiah.” Samuel’s breath caught, and he briefly looked away while wiping tears from his face. “You’re my brother…my equal.” Blind Faith (Volume 3 in the Blinder's Trilogy) is set in 1855 and the prosperous Hawkins plantation of Kentucky is not only home to Samuel, his wife, Elizabeth, and their four children, but to over two hundred enslaved souls. Born into slavery on the Hawkins plantation, Naomi makes quite an impression as Elizabeth’s talented seamstress. Her beauty is ...

In her dynamic debut, Halle Hill’s Good Women delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South. A woman boards a Greyhound bus barreling toward Florida to meet her sugar daddy’s mother; a state fair employee considers revenge on a local preacher; a sister struggles with guilt as she helps her brother plan to run away with a man he's seeing in secret; a young woman who works for a scam for-profit college navigates the lies she sells for a living.

Gabby en haar niggie Georgia lyk baie na mekaar en toe hulle jonger was, was hulle onafskeidbaar. Maar iewers het hulle vreemdelinge vir mekaar geword. Al wat hulle in gemeen het, is die bloed in hulle are. Gelukkig het Gabby goeie vriende en dalk selfs iets meer as net vriendskap met Brandon.

Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, she’s forced to take on her least favourite kind of job – missing persons. Being hired by reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a teenybop pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass and their animal companions live in the shadow of hell’s undertow.

Hurra, hier ist Pinguin Pivi Pavo® mit seinem dritten Abenteuer! Diesmal treten der kleine Pinguin, sein bester Freund Bertram, der Albatros und Onkel Carlos eine aufregende Reise nach Südafrika an, um das mysteriöse Geheimnis einer rätselhaften Kiste zu lösen. Werden sie erfolgreich sein?Das Buch ist für Kinder ab 5+ Jahren oder für Erstleser prima geeignet.

Love in Hatfield: Naledi Book 1 of the Love in Varsity Series When Naledi leaves her quiet hometown of Mafikeng for the bustling streets of Hatfield, Pretoria, she steps into a world unlike anything she’s ever known. Armed with ambition and a scholarship to the University of Pretoria, she’s determined to succeed, but she soon finds that the city doesn’t just challenge the mind; it tests the heart, the spirit, and the soul. Drawn into the fast-paced life of varsity culture, nightclubs glowing under neon lights, whispers of wealthy older men, campus drama, and emotional rollercoasters, ...

Kendra, an art-school dropout, brands herself for a nanotech marketing program; Lerato, an ambitious AIDS baby, plots to defect from her corporate employers; Tendeka, a hot-headed activist, is becoming increasingly rabid; and Toby, a roguish blogger, discovers that the video games he plays for cash are much more than they seem. On a collision course that will rewire their lives, this story crackles with bold and infectious ideas.

Love in Hatfield: The Story Of Kgomotso By AS Davids Kgomotso, a bright and disciplined young woman from Hammanskraal, arrives in Pretoria full of dreams and ambition. She’s the first in her family to attend university, determined to become a chartered accountant and make her parents proud. But nothing could prepare her for the seductive chaos of life in Hatfield, where freedom, fast money, and false love walk the same streets. Navigating the temptations of blessers, the pressure of dating apps, academic stress, and painful betrayals, Kgomotso’s journey is one of survival, self-...