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Recommended literature and novels
House Rules
Jacob Hunt is a teenager: brilliant at maths, wicked sense of humour, extraordinarily organised, hopeless at reading social cues. And Jacob has Asperger’s. He is locked in his own world – aware of the world outside, and wanting to make a connection. Jacob tries to be like everyone else, but doesn’t know how. When [...]
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Mandela’s Ego: A Novel
“Uncle Simon, what about the Big Man you’re always telling me about. Did he also steal chickens when he was a boy?” It is the heady days of 1960s South Africa, with Nelson Mandela in hiding from the Apatheid Government’s Security forces. For Dumisa Gumede, a herdboy and budding Don Juan, Mandela is the stuff [...]
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A Beautiful Place to Die
In 1950’s South Africa,the colour of a killer’s skin matters more than justice . . .When an Afrikaans police captain is murdered in a small South African country town,Detective Emmanuel Cooper must navigate his way through the labyrinthine racialand social divisions that split the community. And as the National Partyintroduces the laws to support the [...]
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Tehaka’s Journey
Tehaka’s Journey: A Novel by Murray McMillan This progression of three tales, set in the nineteenth century, in the present and in the near future, respectively, holds a message that is just as relevant in each era. The issue under scrutiny is greed and the way it underlies human society. George Braithwaite is an ambitious [...]
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The Number: One Man’s Search For Identity In The Cape underworld and Prison Gangs
On 9 June 2003, a 43-year-old coloured man named Magadien Wentzel walked out of Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town. Behind him lay a lifelong career in the 28s, South Africa’s oldest and most reviled prison gang, for decades rumoured to have specialised in rape and robbery. In front of him lay the prospect of a [...]
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The Big Bad Bitterkomix Handbook
Showcasing the brilliant and controversial existence of one of the world’s most famous political “comix” magazines, this anthology exhibits the wide range of published material including covers, postcards, posters, and drawings from the creators’ personal sketchbooks. The collection is a testament to the contentious history of Bitterkomix and its attacks on the Afrikaner culture and [...]
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Pablo Picasso: The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & other Poems
Pablo Picasso may be the most famous and influential artist of the twentieth century. What few know is that in 1935, at age 54, Picasso stopped painting, and for a time devoted himself entirely to poetry. Even after eventually resuming his visual work, Picasso continued to write, in a characteristic torrent, until 1959 – leaving [...]
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The Lost Colour of the Chameleon
The lost colours of the Chameleon is set on the fictitious island of Bangula in the Indian Ocean – an island populated by an indigenous community that coexists uneasily with Creoles, mainly descendants of ancient Portuguese colonizers. The half-a-million inhabitants live under the twin shadows of an impending cyclone and an outbreak of the blood [...]
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The Restless Supermarket
This exhilarating novel by prize–winning author Ivan Vladislavić is a linguistic tour de force, a spectacular carnival of post–modern commentary, urban satire, riotous imagery and outrageous wordplay.
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