A Chance Meeting
R190Each chapter of this inventive consideration of American culture evokes an actual meeting between American writers and artists.
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Tell the Wolves I’m Home
R145Tell the Wolves I’m Home is a tender story of love lost and found, an unforgettable portrait of the way compassion can make us whole again.
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No Cold Kitchen: A Biography of Nadine Gordimer
R600Eight years in the making, this book charts Nadine Gordimer’s life and work, providing a vibrant portrait of the country in which Gordimer lives, the history she lived through, and the people around her people in South Africa, such as Nelson Mandela, George Bizos, Es’kia Mphahlele, Bram Fischer, Nat Nakasa, Desmond Tutu and Alan Paton; and people abroad, including Susan Sontag, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Sampson, Edward Said, Amos Oz, Harry Levin and New Yorker editor, Katherine White.
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Black Widow Society
R220In 1994 when South Africans were finally seeing the light of freedom and independence, three well-respected businesswomen
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Out of stockThe Madonna of Excelsior
R155“A generous, patient, wry and intelligent voice…[that] suggests not just a writer who can seduce us through beautiful language and unfailing humor. We also encounter a writer who has the power to shock and frighten us, to astound and anger and unsettle us…In short, his is a voice for which one should feel not only affection but admiration.”
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The Other Side
R70Hillary might be a mother, writer and avid gardener now, but she hasn’t always lived an ordinary life
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Shooting Snakes
R210An old man is woken up by the wailing of a prophetess. Sitting on the veranda and staring into the dry veld he is beset with images of snakes hiding in the cellar beneath him….
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False River
R220“You are too close to the water”, Paul whispered. “There are barbels in the mud. They will wake up if you step on them.” When Paul and Dominique are sent to boarding schools in Natal,…