Shirley, Goodness & Mercy is a heart-warming, yet compellingly honest story about a young boy growing up in Newclare, Coronationville and Riverlea during the apartheid era. Despite Van Wyk’s later becoming involved in the ‘struggle...
Authors, South African
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Author:Van Wyk, ChrisSummary: - Author:Manenzhe, Resoketswe MarthaSummary:
A BEST NEW BOOK from *Vanity Fair *The New York Times *The Washington Post. A lyrical, moving novel in the spirit of Transcendent Kingdom and A Burning--and the most awarded debut title in South Africa--that tells the story of a...
- Author:GREY, Stephen (Editor)Summary:
A spellbinding and varied line-up of recollections of the star turn of the 20th-century South African literary scene, Remembering Bosman: Herman Charles Bosman Recollected includes detailed memoirs of four of Bosman’s keepers...
- Author:Smith, Wilbur A.Summary:
Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction. From being attacked by lions to close encounters with deadly reef sharks, from getting lost in the...
- Author:VAN WYK, ChrisSummary:
Another memoir, Eggs to Lay, Chickens to Hatch is a view into his friendship as a boy with Agnes, his family’s Zulu housekeeper, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The title pays homage to Agnes, whose favourite saying when...
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Author:D'Offizi, MarioSummary:Bless Me Father is the true story of an incredible South African life. Born into a violent and broken family, and growing up in a variety of institutions, Cape Town based poet and writer Mario d'Offizi tells his remarkable, often...
