PEN SA members Zakes Mda, Lauren Beukes, Masande Ntshanga and Nadia Davids have been shortlisted for the 2014/2015 University of Johannesburg Prizes for South African Writing. Zakes and Lauren are on the Main prize shortlist for Rachel’s Blue and Broken...
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A collection of new speculative fiction from Africa, featuring the top nineteen stories from Short Story Day Africa’s 2014 competition, edited by Nerine Dorman. Terra Incognita is the second collection of short stories to be published by Short Story Day...
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Inspector Albertus Beeslaar has left the ruthless city, only to have his hopes of finding peace and quiet in the Kalahari shattered by the brutal murder of artist Freddie Swarts and her adopted daughter. But Freddie’s journalist sister Sara is...
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What About Meera tells the tale of Meera Narain, a twenty-two-year-old woman from Durban who escapes her abusive arranged marriage to run away to Dublin, where she takes up a job as a care-giver at a school for autistic children....
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For many people, visiting South African game reserves is all about ticking off the ‘Big Five’. But what about those animals you’ve got almost zero chance of seeing? Justin Fox goes in search of South Africa’s most elusive animals –...
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