YOU NEVER REALLY KNOW by John Hunt A clever and humorous spoof of life in the “unofficial, unofficial home” of the Chief Boss Commander, CBC, narrated by Cappuccino who has been promoted from the laundry to being the Barista. Never having left the compound, orphaned by his mother and...
Then a Wind Blew by Kay Powell Kay Powell wanted to explain the Rhodesian/Zimbabwean war to her daughters, so wrote a powerful and thought-provoking novel based on the totally different lives of...
THOSE WHO LIVE IN CAGES by Terry-Ann Adams Those Who Live in Cages captures an astonishingly intimate view of life in Eldorado Park, a Coloured township south of Johannesburg, through five women of...
The Inn at Helsvlakte by Patricia Schonstein. I really enjoyed this book with its combination of war, romance, humour and great imagination. Tremendous characters, some more eccentric than...
Macpherson’s Elephant by Ed Ostrosky. This is a work of ‘faction’, a novel, inspired by real events that took place in and around the Tembe Elephant Park in the late 1980’s and early ‘90s....