BLUE WEAVER 2020 FICTION CATALOGUE
021 701 4477 PO Box 30370Tokai, Cape Town7966South Africa Table of Contents ABOUT ...... 3 CONTACT ...... 4 LOCAL ...... 5 Castles in the Sand ...... 6 Adamo ...... 7 Beyond the Beard ...... 8 Seizure ...... 9 England Wants your Gold ...... 10 The Irish Boer Woman ...... 11 Dark Night of the Soul ...... 12 Ritchie’s War ...... 13 Inside Out ...... 14 Join the Dots ...... 15 Mute ...... 16 Haze ...... 17 The Praying Nun ...... 18 The Reckoning ...... 19 The Tame Khaki ...... 20 The Khaki Boer ...... 21 One Black Ear ...... 22 Let the Storm Burst ...... 23 Prayer Flag ...... 24 Elsie ...... 25 The Nature of Predation ...... 26 Twenty Eight ...... 27 Ragnarok ...... 28 If I Retreat, Shoot Me ...... 29
INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ………………………………………………………………………………………………………….30
Heelword ...... 31 O Genade Katryn!...... 32 Genade Katryn… Alweer! ...... 33 Die Avonture van Bal-Oog en Brommel ...... 34 uManzekhofi nezaKhe ...... 35
1 Izinkanyezi Ezintsha ...... 36 Inhlamvu Yelanga ...... 37 Amagelelo ...... 38
INTERNATIONAL …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………39
Long Live the Post Horn! ...... 40 The Woman in the White Kimono ...... 41 Ogadinma ...... 42 An Act of Defiance ...... 43 Children of War ...... 44 Kitchen Curse ...... 45 I Choose Elena ...... 46 The Clothesline Swing ...... 47 The Divinities ...... 48 Paradise Rot ...... 49 Wonder Valley...... 50
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ABOUT
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Academic and Scholarly: CONTACT Kirsten McArthur Head Office: [email protected] Cape Town PO Box 30370 Tokai, Cape Town General and Trade: 7966 South Africa Muneebah Osman [email protected] Telephone: +27 (0) 21 701-4477 Facsimile: +27 (0) 21 701-7302 Product Information and Physical Address: Sales: Unit A Victory Park Michelle Meyer Lakeshore Road [email protected] Capricorn Business Park Muizenberg 7945 Social Media, Online Marketing and Books Direct: Juanie Willemse [email protected]
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NEW Castles in the Sand Sub title: A riveting social drama Author: Neville Harrington
ISBN: 9780620886116 Extent: 217 pages Format: Paperback Size: 228 x 153 mm SA Rel date: October 2020 RRP: R195 Published by: Tekweni Productions
Description: A compelling and riveting social drama with strong elements of a mystery thriller set along Durban’s beachfront and harbour area. The action peels away the outer layers of respectable middle-class conformity revealing how, when relationships are based on illusionary expectations, externl forces have the potential to destroy the delicate fabric of their imaginary safe worlds, as if they were no more than fragile sandcastles at the mercy of the incoming tide. About the Authors: Neville Herrington fell in love with storytelling and drama at a fairly young age. In his teenage years he was Percy Fitzpatrick’s ‘Jock of the Bushveld.’ He was drawn to the power of dialogue during his drama studies at University, and soon began writing plays, initially a radio drama which was aired on the English service of the SABC. Following a 20-year period of scripting numerous television documentaries for the national and international broadcast markets, he turned his focus to writing historical novels.
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NEW Adamo Sub title: One for a heartbeat; One for eternity! Author: Talbot Cox
ISBN: 9781990960109 Extent: 352 pages Format: Paperback Size: 228 x 152 mm SA Rel date: September 2020 RRP: R250 Published by: Reach Publishers
Description: Adamo is the greatest composer of musicals ever but despite intensive investigations, his/her identity remains unknown. Royalties of more than a billion pounds have amassed over the years. Adamo composes a final musical about the world’s youth in revolt and promises to reveal his/her identity. The world’s youth identify with the musical “One for a heartbeat, One for Eternity”, and from countries far and wide they petition the United Nations for a symbolic holding of hands despite ideological differences. The Adamo enigma is the catalyst for people from diverse backgrounds, from the very cradle of humankind in faraway Swaziland to the sophisticated Western cultures, to be drawn into the fascinating intrigue. Inextricably Merri Fencham from South Africa, Pierre Villeyand - the scion of a French dynasty and famous conductor, sangoma Vusi Dlamini - a Swazi royal prince, and others are drawn into the web of intrigue. And overall, the ancient influences of the ancestors, the “Toothless Ones”, confound Western stereotypes…. The drive of destiny cannot be denied as the ancient wisdom of Africa and modern technology meld into an awe-inspiring finale at the Royal Albert Theatre. About the Authors: Talbot Cox, CAIB, FIB, AEP (Unisa) was a successful banker before embracing art as a profession on his retirement in 1999. He established himself as a portrait and fine-art artist and has had many exhibitions, live demonstrations and workshops. Talbot is multi-talented: he is a classically trained musician and has played the double bass in the Eastern Cape Philharmonic Orchestra for some years. This is Talbot’s first novel.
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NEW Beyond the Beard Author: Malphia Honwane
ISBN: 9780620884440 Extent: 113 pages Format: Paperback Size: 210 x 151 mm SA Rel date: September 2020 RRP: R180 Published by: Mnisley Media
Description: The book, Beyond The Beard, highlights the challenges faced by men in modern society. The novel was inspired by a reader, who, after reading my first book titled Dry Tears, which focuses on problems faced by women in patriarchal societies, challenged me to write a book exploring some of the issues that men are confronted with, in their everyday lives. The setting of the book is between a village and a township, with the main character caught in-between balancing his life using his experience of having lived in both settings. Beyond The Beard also seeks to preach the gospel of togetherness, selflessness and respect. It is also from the same book that we learn about the importance of forgiveness and not holding a grudge. It is mostly said that people who love one another do not dwell on each other’s mistakes. Through this book, may the spirit of apologising and forgiving be entrenched even further. No one is rich enough to do without a neighbour. In this world infested with high levels of gender-based violence and femicide incidents, may this novel be one of the catalysts for peace! Lastly, enjoy, to the fullest, the African proverbs, traditions and stories invoked in this piece of literature. About the Authors: Malphia Honwane is a Bachelor of Arts in Media Studies graduate from the University of Venda. He is a trained media specialist, analyst, writer, proofreader and editor who cut his teeth in the world of media at institutions such as the SABC and The Citizen. He aslo serves as a professional media analyst. He is an avid reader, writer and poet. Beyond the Beard is his third published book, following in the footsteps of two other novels: Dry Tears and Xivutla Na Mindzheko, published in 2018 and 2019 respectively.
Other acclaimed titles by this author: Title: Dry Tears ISBN: 9780620778343
RRP: R195
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NEW Seizure Author: Willie Currie
ISBN: 9780620879262 Extent: 224 pages Format: Paperback Size: 216 x 140 mm SA Rel date: September 2020 RRP: R325 Published by: QuickFox Publishing
Description: In an age of bewilderment, it is difficult to connect with our strange South African history. The events surrounding the ‘Jameson Raid’ of 1895, in which an ebullient Rhodes and his cronies tried to seize the old Transvaal Republic, demonstrate an early attempt at state capture. Fifteen years later, an alliance of canny Boer War generals and the British Colonial Office captured the state in the name of white settlers. One hundred years later, President Zuma and his collaborators captured the post-apartheid state in the blink of an eye. Novelist Willie Currie explores these events with a sardonic vision. He blends history and fiction in an unlikely adventure story that is at once entertaining and illuminating. Seizure is a comedy wrapped in a tragedy underpinned by a fascinating quest. A typical South African selle ou storie. Kwadubula umbayimbayi. Inkosikazi emhlophe sayibamba thina. The cannon was fired. We caught the white princess ourselves. About the Authors: Willie Currie is married to Barbara Klugman and they have a thirty-two-year-old son, Paul. Willie and Barbara live in Johannesburg. In 2016 he published a novel called Blue Eland Foxtrot, which is an adventure story with satirical intent set during the 1970s and 1980s. He studied Political Philosophy and English at the University of Stellenbosch and holds an MA in Film and Television Studies for Education from the University of London, Institute of Education.
9 England Wants your Gold Author: Neville Harrington
ISBN: 9780620673044 Extent: 216 pages Format: Paperback Size: 228 x 153 mm SA Rel date: October 2015 RRP: R195 Published by: Tekweni Productions
Description: The truth is, and history will so record it, that England wanted the control of this country because it is the richest in gold in the world. England always puts in a claim where gold is found. New York congressman, William Sulzer, 1900. A riveting story laced with romance, humour, political intrigue and violence against the backdrop of the infamous Jameson Raid that triggered the Anglo-Boer War. Caught up in the turbulence of the time is Brigid O’Meara, a beautiful Irish musical hall performer who arrives in Pretoria in 1895 to have an illegal abortion only to find herself drawn into the intrigues of a group of British Uitlander sympathisers, who are planning the overthrow of Paul Kruger’s Boer Republic. She falls in love with the charismatic leader of the group, a trader who is smuggling weapons into the Transvaal and operating from a small, unpretentious hotel right on the doorsteps of the Raadsaal. The discovery of gold in the Transvaal was a double-edged sword bringing wealth to the impoverished agrarian economy, but adding to the simmering conflict between the Republic and Great Britain. When a burgher announced joyfully to General Joubert that a new gold reef had been discovered, he replied, `You would do better to weep; for this gold will cause our country to be soaked in blood.’ About the Authors: Neville Herrington fell in love with storytelling and drama at a fairly young age. In his teenage years he was Percy Fitzpatrick’s ‘Jock of the Bushveld.’ He was drawn to the power of dialogue during his drama studies at University, and soon began writing plays, initially a radio drama which was aired on the English service of the SABC. Following a 20-year period of scripting numerous television documentaries for the national and international broadcast markets, he turned his focus to writing historical novels.
10 The Irish Boer Woman Author: Neville Harrington
ISBN: 9780620710848 Format: Paperback Size: 228 x 153 mm SA Rel date: June 2016 RRP: R240 Published by: Tekweni Productions
Description: The Irish Boer Woman is the second volume of the Brigid O’Meara trilogy (the first part was England Wants Your Gold printed in 2015) that follows the life of an adventurous young Irish woman who is drawn into the intrigues and violence of the Jameson Raid of 1895, and later incarcerated in a British concentration camp during the Anglo Boer War for assisting active Boer commandos. As an Irish nationalist, Brigid finds herself in the midst of a clash of cultures and worldviews. She is drawn into the conflict of the Anglo Boer War by identifying and entering the struggle of the Boers of the Transvaal to retain their independence, putting her into direct conflict with British authorities representing an expanding global empire. Adding to her emotional turmoil is her romantic involvement with a British Uitlander, who is facing charges of high treason by the Transvaal Boer Government. Through the characters, the reader enters the harrowing realities of a war in which the two Boer Republics mobilized every man between 16 and 60 with no uniform, no money and no formal training to take on the might of the British Empire. About the Authors: Neville Herrington fell in love with storytelling and drama at a fairly young age. In his teenage years he was Percy Fitzpatrick’s ‘Jock of the Bushveld.’ He was drawn to the power of dialogue during his drama studies at University, and soon began writing plays, initially a radio drama which was aired on the English service of the SABC. Following a 20-year period of scripting numerous television documentaries for the national and international broadcast markets, he turned his focus to writing historical novels.
11 Dark Night of the Soul Sub title: Journey to Redemption Author: Neville Harrington
ISBN: 9780620759144 Format: Hardback Size: 223 x 152 mm SA Rel date: August 2017 RRP: R240 Published by: Tekweni Productions
Description: In this Final volume of the Brigid O’Meara trilogy, the heroine, a beautiful Irish music hall dancer/singer, who was drawn into gun smuggling during the 1895 Jameson Raid against Kruger’s Boer Republic, and was incarceratedin a British concentration camp when she sided with the Boers during the AngloBoer War, marries Willie Gray, the British Uitlander and revolutionary who she fell in love with during the turbulent period building up to the war. Now, in the aftermath of the war, Bridgid undergoes a cathartic journey where she is forced to confront the demons of the past that she has kept bottled up inside her. The dark world she is projected into is a harsh one, far removed from the comfortable life she has created with Willie and her son Ritchie, but it is also a world that gives insights into the hypocritical social morals and sanctimonious self-rightiousness of the new rulung British colonials. It is a world which gives Bridgid the freedom to take revenge on past enemies, but also one in which she has to face retribution for actions that have sunk her into a deep abyss from which there seems no escape. About the Authors: Neville Herrington fell in love with storytelling and drama at a fairly young age. In his teenage years he was Percy Fitzpatrick’s ‘Jock of the Bushveld.’ He was drawn to the power of dialogue during his drama studies at University, and soon began writing plays, initially a radio drama which was aired on the English service of the SABC. Following a 20-year period of scripting numerous television documentaries for the national and international broadcast markets, he turned his focus to writing historical novels.
12 Ritchie’s War Author: Neville Harrington
ISBN: 9780994669254 Extent: 307 pages Format: Paperback Size: 228 x 153 mm SA Rel date: June 2018 RRP: R250 Published by: Tekweni Productions
Description: Looks at a young man, straight out of school, who fought in the East African campaign in 1916. It outlines the depiction of the equatorial environment and the health challenging conditions under which the war was fought. Is a gripping story of war, intrigue, romance, humour and spiritual awakening. The year is 1916, and, at age 19 Ritchie is launched into a world conflict that he doesn’t fully comprehend. It is a time when the opposing sides in World War 1 are European countries that have drawn on their colonies to assist in their continental dispute. Ritchie volunteers for service in East Africa, and, although excited by the prospects of a great adventure, soon begins to feel like a pawn in a game of chess that is being manipulated by external forces to their own advantage. The intolerable conditions of the East African campaign, where more soldiers died of dysentery and malaria than of battle wounds, revives memories of his traumatic experience as a 5-year old when he and his Irish-born mother were incarcerated in an Anglo Boer War British concentration camp. It was to be the strong bond between mother and son, along with her indomitable spirit that kept him alive in an environment of insurmountable human suffering, disease and hunger. But it was a bond that was to be sorely tested and ultimately broken by circumstances which come back to haunt him as he retreats inwards after a near-death experience during the war in German East Africa. On his return from the war, he sets out to discover the truth about his mother that leads him into a dangerous encounter with kidnappers and criminals, and a liaison with a woman who was indirectly responsible for his mother’s downfall and demise. About the Authors: Neville Herrington fell in love with storytelling and drama at a fairly young age. In his teenage years he was Percy Fitzpatrick’s ‘Jock of the Bushveld.’ He was drawn to the power of dialogue during his drama studies at University, and soon began writing plays, initially a radio drama which was aired on the English service of the SABC. Following a 20-year period of scripting numerous television documentaries for the national and international broadcast markets, he turned his focus to writing historical novels.
13 Inside Out Author: Patrick Moffett
ISBN: 9781784653712 Extent: 353 pages Format: Paperback Size: 202 x 135 mm SA Rel date: November 2018 RRP: R220 Published by: Vanguard Press
Description: When Adam's wife, Wendy, is murdered, he executes a series of vigilante killings and, as a result, is invited to join an organised covert operations unit, rather than face life in prison. Given a new name and a new identity (and a faked death to boot), Adam adopts the identity of Bataleur and commences his new life as a trained and lethal fighter and assassin, working directly for the government. Alongside his new colleagues, he works to take down prominent political players when requested, targeting businessmen and women alike to maintain national security and apparent order. Taking place in South Africa, Inside Out explores crime, gang culture and politics using multiple narratives and various newspaper clippings to paint a vivid and action-packed story of lawbreaking and violence that is well-concealed from society. About the Authors: Following a highly successful 35-year career in the IT industry, Patrick ditched his corporate life in the big city in exchange for a house in a coastal forest and followed his lifelong dream of writing a novel. Patrick lives with his wife of 47 years, two chows and an inherited poodle. In between penning his latest violent thriller, he enjoys the somewhat more peaceful company of his four adult children and eleven grandchildren.
14 Join the Dots Author: Patrick Moffett
ISBN: 9781784654733 Extent: 332 pages Format: Paperback Size: 202 x 135 mm SA Rel date: November 2018 RRP: R220 Published by: DKPH South Africa
Description: From Afghanistan to Johannesburg, from Libya to London, a team of highly-trained undercover operatives is engaged in a race against time. Martin Stevens, Eleanor Watts, Nombeko Tshivhase and Lukas Shabalala work for the underground agency IA3, under the command of Sid Blackman, Thabo Madonsela and Julius Mafere. When a child-trafficking ring is exposed, this team must enlist the aid of the CIA and the local police services in a dangerous mission to unearth the ring-leaders. But the tentacles of this evil gang extend far beyond the borders of South Africa and the team's investigation leads them deeper and further than they ever believed they would go. What is the connection to the gangs of Soweto, and how is the nefarious and powerful Imam Abed Al-Kumein involved? What is one of the largest investment banks in South Africa's role and who is the mysterious hacker, Vladimir Al-Masri? What is the most you would do, to halt the malevolent actions of powerful people? How many dots would you join, when they led you into unspeakable horrors and danger? About the Authors: Following a highly successful 35-year career in the IT industry, Patrick ditched his corporate life in the big city in exchange for a house in a coastal forest and followed his lifelong dream of writing a novel. Patrick lives with his wife of 47 years, two chows and an inherited poodle. In between penning his latest violent thriller, he enjoys the somewhat more peaceful company of his four adult children and eleven grandchildren.
15 Mute Author: Christine Bernard
ISBN: 9780639915906 Extent: 280 pages Format: Paperback Size: 208 x 144 mm SA Rel date: October 2018 RRP: R200 Published by: FW Books
Description: Is it possible to live in the world without speech? How much would you change if you had to live only in your head? This is exactly what thirty-three-year old Rebecca Marley is about to find out, as she embarks on this self-induced nine-month challenge. Will it be the peaceful reprise that she so desperate seeks? Or will she be forced to face aspects of herself that a noisy world helps hide so well? About the Authors: Christine Bernard is a South African author with an obsession for good coffee, books and guinea pigs. She’s also a graphic and layout designer who illustrates on the side, but she’s happiest when writing.
16 Haze Author: Christine Bernard
ISBN: 9780639915944 Extent: 340 pages Format: Paperback Size: 208 x 144 mm SA Rel date: October 2018 RRP: R200 Published by: FW Books
Description: Everyone knows Rebecca Marley. She’s the crazy, brave and introspective woman who spent nine months without talking. Everyone loves her. She’s raw, honest and relatable. She’s also rich and famous, although I’m sure you knew that already. You’ve probably read her articles, or her book, or seen one of her many interviews. She’s also socially anxious, self-conscious and self-degrading, but she tries to keep that to herself. Her once-silent world has changed, and the noise has engulfed her. It’s also about to get noisier, as Rebecca agrees to a new challenge, perhaps even crazier than before. This story picks up from Mute, and follows Rebecca on a new journey, one which we all face today. It begs the question, ‘how do we find quiet in a deafening world?’ About the Authors: Christine Bernard is a South African author with an obsession for good coffee, books and guinea pigs. She’s also a graphic and layout designer who illustrates on the side, but she’s happiest when writing.
17 The Praying Nun Sub title: A Slave Ship Saga #1 Author: Michael Smorenburg
ISBN: 9780620722612 Extent: 144 pages Format: Paperback Size: 209 x 131 mm SA Rel date: October 2018 RRP: R120 Published by: House of Qunard Publishing
Description: In 1985 two divers discovered an ancient unchartered shipwreck off South Africa’s Cape of Storms. Salvaging the wreck only inflames the enigma with the trail of secrets compounding and the wreck refusing to yield her identity. Countless vessels, some crammed with bullion, have joined this ship graveyard over the centuries, but what sort of galleon was this, leaving only canon, cannon balls and scant few clues behind? Three decades pass before the Smithsonian of Washington solves the riddle. It’s 1794. On the fevered coast of Mozambique, Chikunda and his wife Mkiwa, stripped naked and shackled, are heaved aboard the São José de Africa. Only a miracle may save them from the horrors below deck where more than 400 fellow slaves are crammed. But nobody can guess what fate has in store. About the Authors: Michael was born in 1964 in Cape Town, South Africa. A serial entrepreneur with a passion for marketing, he moved to California in 1995 where he founded a business consultancy and online media and marketing engine. Michael later returned to SA in 2003. He has an insatiable interest in the ocean, conservation, keeping up with the latest breakthroughs in science, understanding the cosmos, and tracking the fast-changing facets of culture. Michael is also intrigued by the old guard clinging to tradition, and the neurology that explains it.
18 The Reckoning Sub title: A Slave Ship Saga #2 Author: Michael Smorenburg
ISBN: 9780639915326 Extent: 180 pages Format: Paperback Size: 209 x 131 mm SA Rel date: October 2018 RRP: R145 Published by: House of Qunard Publishing
Description: A slave evades re-capture after his slave ship is wrecked at the treacherous Cape of Good Hope, only to face handing himself over when his wife goes missing with the man who rescued them. A tale of hope, fear and most of all, the yearning for freedom. It's 1794 and the slave trade is at its ugly peak. When the Portuguese slave ship Sao Jose Paquete de Africa shipwrecks at the Cape of Good Hope, only two hundred of the four hundred slaves aboard survive. Chikunda and his pregnant wife evade re-capture only to face the impassable cliffs of Table Mountain. With the wild South Atlantic at their backs, Cape Town's gallows and whipping post to the north, the British garrison blocking escape to the south, and dangers of an untamed African coast to the east of a vast mountain range, escape seems impossible. When Chikunda's wife goes missing, he has a monumental choice to make. Pick up The Reckoning now and lose yourself in a world you never could have imagined, a world where freedom slips ever more out of a man's grasp. About the Authors: Michael was born in 1964 in Cape Town, South Africa. A serial entrepreneur with a passion for marketing, he moved to California in 1995 where he founded a business consultancy and online media and marketing engine. Michael later returned to SA in 2003.
19 The Tame Khaki Sub title: Where love and loyalties collide Author: Dave Baker
ISBN: 9780620753739 Extent: 366 pages Format: Paperback Size: 234 x 153 mm SA Rel date: June 2017 RRP: R245 Published by: I GO Books
Description: It is 1899. A young English officer, Jack Whitelaw, leaves hearth, home and his lovely English rose to join his new battalion and help see off the Boer commandos, which have invaded The Natal Colony. The Challenges he faces prove far tougher than originally envisaged, especially when he is wounded and nursed in a Ladysmith hospital by a beautiful Dutch-speaking nurse, Rachel du Toit. Their idyllic romance is put to a severe test when Rachel is forced to flee Ladysmith and Jack’s battalion treks around Transvaal, fulfilling Lord Milner’s ‘scorched earth’ policy. You will be fascinated as you follow the physical and emotional trails Jack experiences during the Second Anglo-Boer War. About the Authors: Dave Baker’s background and psyche are rooted in South Africa’s rainbow of cultures. Born and raised in the capital of the then Transkeian Territories, Mthatha, less than forty kilometers from the birthplace of Nelson Mandela, he was raised as an English boy but, during many years of his business career, was closely associated with many Afrikaans- speaking colleagues and friends. Dave has published three novels, If I Retreat, Shoot Me, The Tame Khaki and The Khaki Boer. The first earned him the SA Writers’ Circle Quo Vadis award for The Self Published Writer of the Year in 2015. All three books are available in stores now.
This title is also available in Afrikaans Title: Die Mak Kakie ISBN: 9781928283409
20 The Khaki Boer Sub title: When love and loyalty collide Author: Dave Baker
ISBN: 9781928283201 Extent: 268 pages Format: Paperback Size: 234 x 153 mm SA Rel date: July 2018 RRP: R220 Published by: I GO Books
Description: This is a continuation of the love story begun in the author’s previous novel, The Tame Khaki, in which the twenty-year-old Jack Whitelaw set off from his home in Dorset to fight the Boers in the southern tip of Africa. Wounded, he’s taken to a Ladysmith hospital, where falls in love with a beautiful young nurse, Rachel du Toit, a boerenooi, whose father and brothers are all fighting in a Boer commando. The love affair flourishes during the siege– until Rachel is forced to flee Ladysmith and ends up in a British concentration camp. It’s now March 1902 and the war is virtually over. Shortly before Jack sailed for home, Rachel forgave him for his part in Milner’s ‘scorched earth policy’ and he returns to Pietermaritzburg determined to win her hand in marriage. His blissful life with his lovely wife and two little children on a farm in the Natal Midlands begins to transform when Britain declares war against Germany and his deep sense of loyalty to his ex-colleagues and The Old Country kicks in. Rachel is at first fiercely opposed to him again donning a British uniform but eventually relents, knowing Jack will continue to feel powerful pangs of guilt if he doesn’t. You’ll become deeply engrossed – at times saddened – by what occurs next. About the Author: Dave Baker’s background and psyche are rooted in South Africa’s rainbow of cultures. Born and raised in the capital of the then Transkeian Territories, Mthatha, less than forty kilometers from the birthplace of Nelson Mandela, he was raised as an English boy but, during many years of his business career, was closely associated with many Afrikaans- speaking colleagues and friends. Dave has published three novels, If I Retreat, Shoot Me, The Tame Khaki and The Khaki Boer. The first earned him the SA Writers’ Circle Quo Vadis award for The Self Published Writer of the Year in 2015. All three books are available in stores now.
21 One Black Ear Author: Sheldon Baverstock
ISBN: 9781912964291 Extent: 367 pages Format: Paperback Size: 197 x 132 mm SA Rel date: July 2020 RRP: R275 Published by: Cranthorpe Miller Publishers
Description: It's in the early years of the new South Africa and, despite its geographical remoteness, nestling in the foothills of the Drakensberg, one farm's community finds it is not immune to the legacies of the past and a society grappling with the trauma and consequences of apartheid. Dirk and his twin sisters, Pat and Lerryn, have joined their high-flyer father, Tom, after his 'retirement' move to the small conservative town of Fynberg with his young, new wife. His purchase of the town's only restaurant and investment in a nearby farm, Caracal Ridge, sets in motion a chain of events that will influence their lives and the lives of some of those around them forever. As the family negotiates the twists and turns of their changing country and the challenges of reinventing the farm, and themselves, they find they have to deal with unexpected situations. Some terrifying, some enlightening, they allow those in Caracal Ridge's community the opportunity to fully appreciate each other. About the Authors: Born and raised in South Africa, Sheldon began writing towards the end of a long and successful career in IT. Tenures with various global companies saw him and his family set up homes in England, New Zealand and Australia where he currently resides. He has two daughters and two sons. "One Black Ear" is his first novel.
22 Let the Storm Burst Author: Barry Cohen
ISBN: 9780620858311 Extent: 238 pages Format: Paperback Size: 210 x 148 mm SA Rel date: June 2020 RRP: R275 Published by: Barry Cohen
Description: 1895: A group of trekkers travel by wagon through the bushveld to the goldfields, romance adventure, gold, action, and a plot to overthrow the Boer republic where our hero assists in capturing the raiders, but is then arrested together with the plotters and sentenced to death only to be saved. But it results in the Anglo-Boer war where our hero saves his son from a hanging. About the Authors: Barry Cohen is a well-known figure within the golf sporting circles. Since his return to Cape Town in the mid 1990’s, Cohen has done much to contribute to the sport. In 2006, Cohen headed up the SA Golf Heritage Trust which aimed to build a golf museum and honour those who have made a contribution to the game. Despite the trust running out of funds in 2008, Cohen ensured the golf museum opened its doors in 2010.
23 Prayer Flag Sub title: A life of guilt, a quest for forgiveness Author: Peter Prinsloo
ISBN: 9781916081932 Extent: 360 pages Format: Paperback Size: 199 x 129 mm SA Rel date: December 2019 RRP: R250 Published by: Sunrise Script
Description: On his deathbed, Johannesburg multimillionaire Martin Simmons makes a cri de coeur when he confesses to a brutal crime committed 50 years before, and admits to the bigoted rejection of his daughter-in-law and grandson. The ex-soldier's confession sets his lawyer, Richard Low, a challenge--to repatriate a Japanese soldier's prayer flag seized as a war trophy to the grieving family, and heal the wounds of a bitter family quarrel. Easier said than done. Driven to seek forgiveness for his dead client, healing for his surviving relatives and closure for the Japanese family, Richard abandons a promising legal career to adopt the quest. He turns detective and travels to Nagasaki in search of clues that will lead him to the soldier's family. Richard acquires the help of beautiful academic Asami Nakamura who not only proves invaluable in the hunt--and enigmatic in love--but also forces him to face his own prejudices and learn lessons his client could not. Prayer Flag is a riveting tale of confession and revelation that proves there is always the chance for sinners to seek forgiveness, even from beyond the grave. About the Authors: Peter Prinsloo is a retired corporate law attorney, now living in Knysna and pursuing his passion for writing. He was born in Zimbabwe and moved to South Africa in 1980, where he spent most of his time until retirement in Johannesburg. He has travelled extensively and enjoys interacting with people from different cultures.
24 Elsie Author: Neville Harrington
ISBN: 9780620855570 Extent: 220 pages Format: Paperback Size: 228 x 153 mm SA Rel date: October 2019 RRP: R250 Published by: Tekweni Productions
Description: ELSIE is a riveting story told with gut-wrenching reality of a woman’s courage set against a torrid period in South African and world history. Growing up in a small diamond-mining village near Pretoria, South Africa, her secure, sheltered environment is shaken with the return of the two men in her life from fighting in German East Africa during the first World War …a changed shell-shocked boyfriend who commits suicide and an unemployed brother who becomes involved in illicit diamond dealing with dire consequences. Rather than indulge in self-pity she puts her strong pacifist feelings to work by volunteering as a nurse at a military field hospital in Belgium where she meets her husband to be and where exposure to the horrors and futility of industrial warfare changes her worldview and she joins with other women calling for universal suffrage. After the war she is thrown into further conflict when her husband is involved in the bloody confrontations of the 1922 miners’ strike in South Africa and she opens a care centre for abused women and single pregnant mothers, giving them protection and hope of a better future. About the Authors: Neville Herrington fell in love with storytelling and drama at a fairly young age. In his teenage years he was Percy Fitzpatrick’s ‘Jock of the Bushveld.’ He was drawn to the power of dialogue during his drama studies at University, and soon began writing plays, initially a radio drama which was aired on the English service of the SABC. Following a 20-year period of scripting numerous television documentaries for the national and international broadcast markets, he turned his focus to writing historical novels.
25 The Nature of Predation Author: Gaelen Donovan Wort
ISBN: 9780620839976 Extent: 574 pages Format: Paperback Size: 244 x 169 mm SA Rel date: July 2019 RRP: R295 Published by: Reach Publishers
Description: Two centuries after the Fall of the Old World, Aegis City, humanity’s last bastion, is beginning to fail. Resources are dwindling, famine runs rampant, and what little supplies remain, the Senate pools towards the struggling military. The Senatorial Council is leading Aegis towards a certain demise. They are overcome with vices, obsessions, and hidden grudges. In the shadows of the slum district, an insurgency rises to usurp them. Out-numbered and facing a technologically superior foe, the rogues rely on guerrilla raids and cunning waylays to combat the ruling conglomerate. And, outside of Aegis, a team of expendable inhuman hunters cuts a swath through the feral wastes, slaying humanity’s predators. The search for a way to break the siege on Aegis, or at the very least, stem the tide to give humanity a chance. About the Authors: Gaelan Wort was born in South Africa in 1999 and wrote his debut novel, The Nature of Predation, when he was eighteen. A long time avid science-fiction and fantasy reader, Gaelan has also cultivated an interest in philosophy and political debate - themes central to his fictional works. Gaelan is a passionate guitarist with a deep love of classic rock. He has a background in stage acting and has travelled to the United States where he performed Shakespeare in an Off-Broadway Black Box Theatre. Later, he took up fencing, earning his senior and junior national colours to compete in the junior world championships in Italy. He draws on this martial experience to lend combat sequences realistic depth. Gaelan is now studying film arts at the Open Window Institution whilst kickboxing on the side.
26 Twenty Eight Author: Daniel D
ISBN: 9781928362678 Extent: 395 pages Format: Paperback Size: 198 x 129 mm SA Rel date: April 2019 RRP: R220 Published by: DKPH South Africa
Description: Ever since he could remember, Stephen Weir has had the ability to close his eyes and re- live twenty eight seconds of his life. Whether it was the twenty eight seconds of a magnificent firework display on New Year’s Eve or the twenty eight seconds after he caught a decent-sized shad from the rocks at Baggies Beach, he cherished every moment of his ‘Twenty Eight Syndrome.’ The year is 2017 and sanctions against South Africa are so strict that even international air travel isn’t allowed any longer. All imports and exports have been banned and the interest rate is at an astronomical 63%. President Killian and the South African Republican Party (SARPA) continues their apartheid reign, after the ‘No’ vote won the referendum in 1992. Nelson Mandela was never released from prison and citizens of South Africa are not allowed access to the Internet or any international media. Stephen feels like an outsider in his once-beloved country. He wants everything to be so different and starts to experiment… What if he could replicate the twenty eight seconds into days, months, or even years? Twenty eight years… Back to 1989, before the referendum. What if he could change the outcome of the vote? The odds are stacked against him, but Stephen Weir is a very determined young man. Join him as he embarks on the biggest journey of his life. About the Authors: Daniel D is the pseudonym of Daniel de Kock. Born and raised in Volksrust, Mpumalanga, Daniel started his writing career in 2015 after a good friend passed away. This sudden passing left Daniel with questions about conversations he will never have with his friend and inspired Daniel to write a collection of fictional stories Unfinished Conversations. To date, Daniel has written three books and intends to continue to follow his passion.
27 Ragnarok Sub title: Worlds Collide Author: Michael Smorenburg
ISBN: 9780620722636 Extent: 290 pages Format: Paperback Size: 209 x 131 mm SA Rel date: February 2018 RRP: R150 Published by: House of Qunard Publishing
Description: On a flight from Paris to Los Angeles Tegan Mulholland is intrigued & charmed by Pete, the mysterious stranger sitting beside her. But when their plane almost falls from the sky and other jets in her vicinity wink from the radar, the official explanations that follow reek to Tegan's retired investigative journalist mind of cover up. What nobody realises: A secret NASA warp-drive experiment has warped a column of time instead of space, plucking with it the planes out of our era, and replacing them with a longship and its Norse warriors from the Vinland colony, off of modern day Newfoundland. Rowing eastward and back to Iceland, the contrail of Tegan's plane appearing after the strange aurora and moving westward high above, the Norsemen conclude are Odin's order to return to Vinland and unknowingly toward the modern day Canadian coast, where, just days--yet a thousand years before--the skraeling Indians had driven them out. As news reports flood Tegan's living room of bloodshed and massacre, speculating about which gang of roughly dressed bearded marauders are responsible for mass-murder around the quiet Canadian coast, Tegan develops a hunch that there is more to the story than it seems. She quits her Hollywood Exec job and embarks on an odyssey that leads inexorably ever closer toward the Norsemen's hidden lair. Only Pete, the Lockheed consultant she had steadily fallen in love with during the harrowing flight and since, has any hope of saving her. If you enjoy intrigue, conspiracy and romantic suspense, Ragnarok will grip your imagination and not let go. About the Authors: Michael was born in 1964 in Cape Town, South Africa. A serial entrepreneur with a passion for marketing, he moved to California in 1995 where he founded a business consultancy and online media and marketing engine. Michael later returned to SA in 2003
28 If I Retreat, Shoot Me Author: Dave Baker
ISBN: 9781928283041 Extent: 380 pages Format: Paperback Size: 240 x 165 mm SA Rel date: June 2016 RRP: R245 Published by: I GO Books
Description: The sibling rivalry between brothers Pierre and Jan Rousseau escalates when the Smuts Government declares war on Nazi Germany. Pierre, the charming extrovert, chooses the more glamorous option, heading ‘Up North’ with the Air Force but his equally good-looking rightwing brother Jan joins the militant wing of the Ossewa Brandwag. The story tracks their adventures during the conflict, reaching a climax when Pierre survives a spell ‘on the loose’ in Italy and returns home. It portrays the deep division World War II created between groups and individuals in South Africa and the life-changing impact it had on many lives. You’ll be fascinated as you follow the brothers’ hairy – and often romantic - adventures. About the Author: Dave Baker’s background and psyche are rooted in South Africa’s rainbow of cultures. Born and raised in the capital of the then Transkeian Territories, Mthatha, less than forty kilometers from the birthplace of Nelson Mandela, he was raised as an English boy but, during many years of his business career, was closely associated with many Afrikaans- speaking colleagues and friends. Dave has published three novels, If I Retreat, Shoot Me, The Tame Khaki and The Khaki Boer. The first earned him the SA Writers’ Circle Quo Vadis award for The Self Published Writer of the Year in 2015. All three books are available in stores now.
This title is also available in Afrikaans Title: As Ek Omdraai, Skiet My ISBN: 9781928283270
RRP: R240
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NEW Heelword Sub title: Oor Genoeg-wees, Ma-wees en Menswees Author: Tania Smit
ISBN: 9781776056507 Extent: 162 pages Format: Paperback Size: 210 x 140 mm SA Rel date: October 2020 RRP: R310 Published by: Kwarts Publishers
Description: The honest way in which Tania writes about her own deepest and most often felt feelings, has reached and resonated with many readers. Heelword is the second bundle from the pen and life of the Oudtshoorn author, Tania Smit. Her first bundle, Hekelwoorde van My Hart, has in the past two years generated thousands of book sales and social media followers. In 2019, The South African Independent Publisher’s Awards named the book its most inspirational bundle of 2019. Some of Tania’s short stories and poetry was recited by the beloved Paul Eilers during the 2019 KKNK. This title is in Afrikaans About the Authors: Tania Smit lives in Oudtshoorn with her two teenage children, Julia and Adrian. She writes about experience from her own life, single dating her forties, her fears and triumphs, to be accepted and rejected, to be enough and to be too little, about wine, fires, food, travel, being a mother, and being a person. She is dreamer and a realist. The words in this bundle are her story, but also everyone’s story.
Other acclaimed titles by this author: Title: Hekelwoorde van my Hart ISBN: 9781776055524
RRP: R280
31 O Genade Katryn! Sub title: ‘n Bundel Lekkerlees Stories Author: Katryn Bekker
ISBN: 9780620851589 Extent: 98 pages Format: Paperback Size: 256 x 145 mm SA Rel date: December 2019 RRP: R149 Published by: Katryn Bekker
Description: O Genade Katryn is an easy-to-read collection filled with humorous stories as seen through the eyes of Katryn. Katryn’s unique way of re-telling events allows everyone to see themselves in the situation and find something to relate to O Genade Katryn guarantees to leave a smile on every face and to cause giggles and snickers for days afterwards This title is in Afrikaans About the Authors: Katryn Bekker is the pen name of author and storyteller, Karlien Bouwer. Karlien was born on a farm in Vryheid and matriculated in 1993 from Hoërskool Sybrandt van Niekerk in Sabie. Nowadays, her family is living in Eswatini (previously Swaziland). She is a great lover of creative arts and this is clearly visible in her work. Karlien focuses on comedic fiction that people can relate to because of the realism of her stories.
32 Genade Katryn… Alweer! Author: Katryn Bekker
ISBN: 9780620881098 Extent: 186 pages Format: Paperback Size: 206 x 146 mm SA Rel date: August 2020 RRP: R160 Published by: Katryn Bekker
Description: Readers can once again share in the hilarious stories and events as seen from Katryn’s point of view. Genade Katryn…Alweer! is the follow up short story collection to O Genade Katryn authored by Katryn Bekker. Katryn’s unique way of storytelling invites the reader to share in her experiences and encourages the reader to see just a little bit of themselves in the events that unfold This title is in Afrikaans About the Authors: Katryn Bekker is the pen name of author and storyteller, Karlien Bouwer. Karlien was born on a farm in Vryheid and matriculated in 1993 from Hoërskool Sybrandt van Niekerk in Sabie. Nowadays, her family is living in Eswatini (previously Swaziland). She is a great lover of creative arts and this is clearly visible in her work. Karlien focuses on comedic fiction that people can relate to because of the realism of her stories.
33 Die Avonture van Bal-Oog en Brommel Sub title: Moord in Ixiastraat Author: Willem Samuel, Swart Streep, Sjaka Septembir
ISBN: 9780620767026 Extent: 48 pages Format: Paperback Size: 285 x 210 mm SA Rel date: September 2018 RRP: R220 Published by: Swart Septembir Productions
Description: Who murdered Kobus Burger? Bal-Oog and Brommel, two school friends in Milnerton, decide to investigate. When Boltjie – Bal-Oog’s dog – follows the trail of notorious gangsters, Bal-Oog and Brommel suddenly find themselves on an adventure filled with laughs and thrills leading into the dark underworld of Milnerton’s criminals. To complicate matters, Bal-Oog is in love with Anja – Kobus’s girlfriend… And what about the mysterious bowl? Is it linked to the murder? This all happens while Bal-Oog and Brommel's only desire is to enjoy their holiday and to record new songs. Moord in Ixia Straat is Bal-Oog and Brommel’s first detective adventure. This title is in Afrikaans About the Authors: Willem Samuel is a South African comic book artist, songwriter and painter currently based in the UK. His work on Die Swart Kat and his first original graphic novel, the acclaimed Mengelmoes, has propelled him to success abroad and established him as one of the leading voices in South African comics. Swart Streep is the comical alias of David du Plessis, an experienced children’s author and illustrator. Apart from creating books, David is also a digital designer that experiments with animation. To see more of his work please visit www.davidduplessies.com. Born Karl Gröger, Sjaka S. Septembir has assumed many pseudonyms over the years. In 2009 he received his Masters degree in Physical Theatre from the University of Cape Town. Sjaka prides himself on wearing many hats: author, poet, actor, director, stage manager, but above all an excellent storyteller
34 uManzekhofi nezaKhe Author: Fred Khumalo
ISBN: 9780639957500 Extent: 134 pages Format: Paperback Size: 177 x 110 mm SA Rel date: April 2019 RRP: R120 Published by: Kwasukela Books
Description: Fred Khumalo’s debut isiZulu book, uManzekhofi nezaKhe (‘Manzekhofi’s Tales’) is a collection of interconnected, irreverent, timeless and witty short stories inspired by Kunyenyeza Esikhotheni, the isiZulu translation of Geraldine Elliot’s The Long Grass Whispers. Most of the 13 stories are centred on the trials and tribulations of the Sibiya family after moving from the township to a white suburb, as seen through the eyes of Manzekhofi and S’khalangabanye, the house cat and dog. Other stories, meanwhile, follow the exploits of a host of memorable animal characters, from rats, and goats to the hamerkop bird, baboon, and wild-cats/servals. uManzekhofi nezaKhe, while following the growth of Manzekhofi on his journeys, is also a telling of a family’s experience of post-apartheid South Africa through a seemingly whimsical, but critical lens. This title is in isiZulu About the Authors: Fred Khumalo has been described as a ‘reluctant Zulu’, ‘clever black’ and an ‘equal opportunity offender’. He completed his MA in creative writing from Wits University with distinction and is the recipient of a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard University.
His writing has appeared in various publications, including the Sunday Times, the Toronto Star, New African magazine, the Sowetan and Isolezwe. In 2008, he hosted Encounters, a public-debate television programme, on SABC 2. His books include Bitches Brew, Seven Steps to Heaven and Touch My Blood.
35 Izinkanyezi Ezintsha Editors: Thandiwe Dlamini, Lizeka Maduna, Wade Smit
ISBN: 9780620775793 Extent: 90 pages Format: Paperback Size: 210 x 148 mm SA Rel date: December 2017 RRP: R100 Published by: Kwasukela Books
Description: Izinkanyezi Ezintsha is the first-ever anthology of isiZulu speculative fiction featuring seven short stories that bend the imagination, take us on magical journeys, and make us look at our own world from different eyes. With fantastical battles, journeys into lonely forests, dogs that talk politics and more, Izinkanyezi Ezintsha redefines South African speculative fiction. This title is in IsiZulu
36 Inhlamvu Yelanga Author: Mandla Maphumulo
ISBN: 9781869143275 Extent: 208 pages Format: Paperback Size: 220 x 140 mm SA Rel date: August 2016 RRP: R85 Published by: UKZN Press
Description: This collection of 20 short stories is the outcome of a widely publicised competition in the media (isiZulu newspapers and uKhozi FM). An adjudication committee, put together by the UKZN University Language Planning & Development Office, selected the top twenty stories out of a 101 entries. The stories are based on varied themes, both current and old, written in an interesting style that encompasses current circumstances. Some newer themes include those based on drugs, social networks, religion, etc., the older themes include witchcraft (ubuthakathi) and using umuthi for power (ukuthwala), as well as the ever popular themes of love, secrets and betrayal. The twenty stories in this book were further evaluated in order to select the top three, who are going to win prizes at the launch of the book on the 8th of November 2016.The book is suitable for schools and general readers because of the thematic strands that it covers. This title is in isiZulu About the Authors: Abednego Mandla Maphumulo is a Professor of isiZulu at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Pietermaritzburg campus). He is an accomplished academic who sits in the isiZulu National Language Body. He is an author of isiZulu books and poems.
37 Amagelelo Author: Nakanjani G. Sibiya
ISBN: 9781868406128 Extent: 88 pages Format: Paperback Size: 220 x 146 mm SA Rel date: April 2016 RRP: R65 Published by: UKZN Press
Description: Take a walk on any of the South African university campuses and you will hear the air resonating with the sounds of different languages seamlessly interweaving with each other as students engage in academic work, talk, laughter and play. In 2012 this inspired the University of KwaZulu-Natal Language Board, in partnership with Independent Newspapers, to hold a first-of-its-kind isiZulu-English writing competition. By issuing an invitation to write in an African Language in a way that captures our changing world, it hoped to stimulate 'border crossings' and by so doing, encourage reading and writing in African languages. The panel of expert judges comprised internationally renowned storyteller Dr Gcina Mhlophe, Dr Nakanjani Sibiya, Prof Otty Nxumalo and Dr Gugu Mazibuko. They were overwhelmed by the high standard of the entries, which highlighted the value and power of indigenous languages as a source and expression of identity and pride. The purpose of the competition and of this book is thus to promote bilingualism and, in particular, the development of isiZulu, with the aim of contributing to literature in that language. This collection of short stories, essays and poetry is the result. We hope that readers will read it with the same degree of interest and enjoyment that the judges found in it - and that it will highlight the importance of creating spaces for people to express themselves creatively in their mother tongue, rather than in English alone. This title is in isiZulu About the Authors: Dr Nakanjani G. Sibiya has published a number of isiZulu books across various genres. It is in the category of short stories that he has contributed the most to South African literature; to date he has published five volumes of short stories, four dramas and seven anthologies of short stories that he co-authored or edited. His debut collection of short stories, titled Ikusasa Eliqhakazile, won the JL Dube Award for Prose. In 2003 he was awarded the M-Net Book Prize for his debut novel Kuxolelwa Abanjani? In 2004 this novel also received the BW Vilakazi Prize, the most prestigious award for isiZulu literature. Sibiya has a PhD from the University of Zululand and works as an editor for a publisher in Pietermaritzburg.
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NEW Long Live the Post Horn! Author: Vigdis Hjorth
ISBN: 9781788733137 Extent: 336 pages Format: Paperback Size: 197 x 132 mm SA Rel date: November 2020 RRP: R355 Published by: Verso Books
Description: Ellinor, a thirty-five-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she’s not been feeling much at all lately. Far beyond jaded, she picks through an old diary and fails to recognise the woman in its pages, seemingly as far away from the world around her as she’s ever been. But when her coworker vanishes overnight, an unusual new task is dropped on her desk. Off she goes to meet the Norwegian Postal Workers Union, setting the ball rolling on a strange and transformative six months.
This is an existential scream of a novel about loneliness (and the postal service!), written in Hjorth’s trademark spare, rhythmic and cutting style. About the Authors: Vigdis Hjorth was born in 1959. She grew up in Oslo and has lived in Copenhagen, Bergen, Switzerland and France. She is the author of a over a dozen novels. She has won numerous liteary awards in Scandinavia, including the Dobloug Prize in 2018.
Other acclaimed titles by this author: Title: Will and Testament ISBN: 9781788733106
RRP: R355
40 The Woman in the White Kimono Author: Ana Johns
ISBN: 9781789550696 Extent: 288 pages Format: Paperback Size: 198 x 129 mm SA Rel date: November 2020 RRP: R265 Published by: Legend Press
Description: Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura's prearranged marriage secures her family's status in their traditional Japanese community. However, Naoko has fallen for an American sailor and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it's learned Naoko carries the sailor's child, she's cast out in disgrace and forced to make unimaginable choices with consequences that will ripple across generations.
America, present day. Tori Kovač, caring for her dying father, finds a letter containing a shocking revelation. Setting out to learn the truth, Tori's journey leads her to a remote seaside village in Japan where she must confront the demons of the past to pave a way for redemption.
Inspired by true stories, The Woman in the White Kimono illuminates a searing portrait of one woman torn between her culture and her heart, and another woman on a journey to discover the true meaning of home. About the Authors: Ana Johns, a former competitive martial artist, studied journalism and worked over twenty-years in the creative arts field, before turning her hand to fiction.
41 Ogadinma Sub title: Or, Everything Will Be All Right Author: Ukamaka Olisakwe
ISBN: 9781911648161 Extent: 336 pages Format: Paperback Size: 198 x 129 mm SA Rel date: August 2020 RRP: R355 Published by: The Indigo Press
Description: A modern feminist classic in the making from a rising star of the Nigerian literature scene Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right tells the story of the naïve and trusting teenager Ogadinma as she battles against Nigeria's societal expectations in the 1980s. After a rape and unwanted pregnancy leave her exiled from her family in Kano, thwarting her plans to go to university, she is sent to her aunt's in Lagos and pressured into a marriage with an older man. When their whirlwind romance descends into abuse and indignity, Ogadinma is forced to channel her independence and resourcefulness to escape a fate that appears all but inevitable. Ogadinma, the UK debut by Ukamaka Olisakwe, introduces a heroine for whom it is impossible not to root, and announces the author as a gifted chronicler of the patriarchal experience. About the Authors: Ukamaka Olisakwe is a Nigerian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. In 2014 she was chosen as one of Sub-Saharan Africa's most promising writers under the age of 40 in Africa. Her writing has appeared in Catapult, the New York Times and The Rumpus. She wrote the screenplay for The Calabash, a Nigerian television series that premiered in 2015 on Africa Magic Showcase.
42 An Act of Defiance Author: Irene Sabatini
ISBN: 9781911648048 Extent: 336 pages Format: Paperback Size: 198 x 129 mm SA Rel date: May 2020 RRP: R285 Published by: The Indigo Press
Description: How can you imagine the future when your story traps you in the past? Harare, 2000. Gabrielle is a newly-qualified lawyer fighting for justice for a young girl. Ben is an urbane and charismatic junior diplomat, attached to Harare with the American embassy. With high-level pressure on Gabrielle to drop her case, and Robert Mugabe’s youth wing terrorising his political opponents as he tightens his grip on power, they begin a tentative love affair. But when both fall victim to a shocking attack, their lives splinter across continents and their stories diverge, forcing Gabrielle on a painful journey towards self-realisation. Irene Sabatini has written an unforgettable novel about love, agency, motherhood and bravery, showing how the dehumanising effects of political violence can shape and remake a life. About the Authors: Irene Sabatini spent her childhood in Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. After attending the University of Zimbabwe in Harare, she moved to Colombia, where she worked as a teacher. She has a master’s degree in child development from the Institute of Education at University College London. Irene is the author of two previous novels; her debut novel, The Boy Next Door, won the 2010 Orange Award for New Writers. She divides her time between New York, Geneva and Bulawayo.
43 Children of War Author: Ahmet Yorulmaz, Paula Darwish
ISBN: 9781911107293 Extent: 110 pages Format: Paperback Size: 198 x 129 mm SA Rel date: May 2020 RRP: R235 Published by: Casemate Publishers
Description: Hassanakis is a young Muslim boy of Turkish descent growing up on Crete during WWI. Fifteen generations of his family have lived on the island and until now he has never had any reason not to think he is a Cretan. But with the Great Powers tussling over the collapsing Ottoman Empire and the island's Christians in rebellion, an outbreak of ethnic violence forces his family to flee to the Cretan City of Chania. He begins to lay down roots and his snappy dress earns him the nickname of Hassan `the mirror'. As WWI draws to a close and the Turkish War of Independence rages, he begins a heady romance with the elegant Husniye. There are rumours that the Cretan Muslims will be sent to Turkey but Hassanakis can't believe he will be sent to a country whose language he barely knows and where he knows no-one. This powerful novel drawn from the diary of a refugee family evokes the beauty, complexity and trauma of Crete's past and weaves it into a moving tale of an ordinary man living through extraordinary times. About the Authors: Ahmet Yorulmaz was a Turkish a journalist, author and translator. He was born in Ayvalik to a family of Cretan Turks deported to mainland Turkey as part of the Greek/Turkish population exchange decreed in the Treaty of Lausanne. He was fluent in modern Greek and translated novels and poems from contemporary Greek literature to Turkish. Most of his original works were written with the aim of making people learn about Ayvalık, the city where he grew up. He dedicated himself to Greek-Turkish friendship and rapprochement.
44 Kitchen Curse Author: Eka Kurniawan
ISBN: 9781786637154 Extent: 144 pages Format: Paperback Size: 198 x 129 mm SA Rel date: January 2020 RRP: R240 Published by: Verso Books
Description: Nominated for the Man Booker International, Eka Kurniawan brings his short stories into English for the first time Eka Kurniawan’s freewheeling imagination explores the turbulent dreams of an ex- prostitute, the hapless life of a perpetual student, victims of an anticommunist genocide, the travails of an elephant, even the vengeful fantasies of a stone. Dark, sexual, scatological, violent, and mordantly funny, these fractured fables span city and country, animal and human, myth and politics. Like nothing else, Kurniawan’s stories bury themselves in the mind. His characters and insights are at once hauntingly familiar, peculiar, and twisted. About the Authors: Eka Kurniawan was born in Tasikmalaya, Indonesia, in 1975. He has published several novels, including Beauty Is a Wound and Man Tiger, as well as many short stories. He is a recipient of the Prince Claus Award and has been named a Foreign Policy Global Thinker.
45 I Choose Elena Author: Lucia Osborne-Crowley
ISBN: 9781999683399 Extent: 155 pages Format: Paperback Size: 178 x 112 mm SA Rel date: December 2019 RRP: R195 Published by: Verso Books
Description: Aged 15 and on track to be an Olympic gymnast, Lucia Osborne-Crowley was violently raped on a night out. The injuries she sustained that evening ended her gymnastics career, and eventually manifested in life-long chronic illnesses, which medical professionals now believe can be caused by untreated trauma. In a brilliantly researched and deeply affecting essay, Osborne-Crowley invites the reader to her on decade-long journey to recovery: from the immediate aftermath of the assault, through years of misdiagnosis, to the solace and strength she found in writers like Elena Ferrante. The author’s investigations reveal profound societal failures – of law, justice, education and the healthcare system. An essential contribution to the field of literature on assault and trauma, I Choose Elena argues that it is only through empathy than we can begin to address the self-perpetuating cycle of sexual violence. About the Authors: Lucia Osborne-Crowley is a journalist, essayist, writer and legal researcher. Her news reporting has appeared in ABC News, Guardian, Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal and Women’s Agenda. Her long-form writing has appeared in The Lifted Brow and Meanjin. I Choose Elena, based on her celebrated essay in The Lifted Brow, is her first book. She lives in London. Lucia’s next book, My Body Keeps Your Secrets, will be published by The Indigo Press in 2020
46 The Clothesline Swing Author: Ahmad Danny Ramadan
ISBN: 9781999683368 Extent: 215 pages Format: Paperback Size: 216 x 136 mm SA Rel date: December 2019 RRP: R325 Published by: The Indigo Press
Description: A multi award-winning tale of love and courage, picked by the Independent as one of the 30 Best Debut Novels of 2019. Inspired by One Thousand and One Nights, Ahmad Danny Ramadan’s innovative and poetic debut novel tells the story of two lovers anchored to the memory of a dying Syria. One is Hakawati, the storyteller, keeping life in forward motion by relaying remembered fables and incidents from their youth to his dying partner. Each night he spins stories of a Damascus childhood, of leaving home, of persecution and hardship, and of his fated meeting with his lover. Meanwhile, Death himself, in his dark cloak, shares the house with the two men, eavesdropping on their secrets as he awaits their final undoing. About the Authors: Ahmad Danny Ramadan is a Syrian-Canadian author, public speaker, storyteller and an LGBTQ-refugee activist. His debut English-language novel, The Clothesline Swing, was published to acclaim in Canada in 2017. It won the Independent Publisher Gold Medal for LGBT Fiction and was shortlisted for the 2018 Lambda Award for Gay Fiction, among numerous other accolades
47 The Divinities Author: Parker Bilal
ISBN: 9781999683375 Extent: 376 pages Format: Paperback Size: 198 x 129 mm SA Rel date: August 2019 RRP: R245 Published by: The Indigo Press
Description: When two bodies are found brutally murdered on a building site in Battersea, Detective Sergeant Calil Drake is first on the scene. He sees an opportunity: to solve a high-profile case, and to repair his reputation after a botched undercover operation almost ended his promising career in the Violent Crimes Unit. Assigned to work with the enigmatic forensic psychologist Dr Rayhana Crane, and on the hunt for an elusive killer, Drake’s investigations lead down the dark corridors of the past — to their military service in Iraq and the destruction they witnessed there. With a community poised on the brink of violence and their lives on the line, Crane and Drake must work together to stop the killer before vengeance is unleashed. About the Authors: Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of award-winning literary novelist Jamal Mahjoub. Born in London, he spent his early childhood in Liverpool before the family moved to Khartoum, Sudan. Parker’s Makana Investigations series has drawn critical acclaim, with The Ghost Runner (Bloomsbury, 2014) being longlisted for the 2015 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.
48 Paradise Rot Author: Jenny Hval
ISBN: 9781786633835 Extent: 128 pages Format: Paperback Size: 198 x 129 mm SA Rel date: December 2018 RRP: R275 Published by: Verso Books
Description: Jo is in a strange new country for university, and having a more peculiar time than most. A house with no walls, a roommate with no boundaries, and a home that seems ever more alive. Jo’s sensitivity, and all her senses, become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, and dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh. This debut novel from critically acclaimed artist and musician Jenny Hval, presents a heady and hyper-sensual portrayal of sexual awakening and queer desire About the Authors: Norwegian musician and writer Jenny Hval has honed an intellectual and uncompromising view on politics and sexuality in her prose and in her records, which include “Blood Bitch,” “Apocalypse, Girl” and “Innocence is Kinky.” Paradise Rot is the first of her books to appear in English.
49 Wonder Valley Author: Ivy Pochoda
ISBN: 9781999683344 Extent: 288 pages Format: Paperback Size: 218 x 135 mm SA Rel date: November 2018 RRP: R285 Published by: The Indigo Press
Description: When a teenager runs away from his father’s mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that connects a cast of six characters who narrate Wonder Valley. There’s Ren, just out of juvie, who travels to L.A. in search of his mother. There’s Owen and James, teenage twins who live in a desert commune where their father, a self-proclaimed healer, holds a powerful sway over his disciples. There’s Britt, who shows up at the commune harbouring a dark secret. There’s Tony, a bored and unhappy lawyer. And there’s Blake, a drifter hiding in the desert, doing his best to fight of his most violent instincts. Their lives will all intertwine and come crashing together in a shocking way, one that could only happen in this enchanting, dangerous city. About the Authors: Ivy Pochoda is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Art of Disappearing, Visitation Street and Wonder Valley, which won the 2018 Strand Critics Award for Best Novel. Her writing has appeared in publications including the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. She lives in Los Angeles.
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