A tragic fall in the Karoo in which one of his brothers dies and the other loses all memory of the day changes the life of young John Hyde irrevocably. In London many years later, the reappearance of his remaining...
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‘Be quiet and be calm, my countrymen, for what is taking place is exactly what you came to do… Brothers, we are drilling the death drill .’ – Reverend Isaac Wauchope Dyobha Paris, 1958. A skirmish in a world-famous restaurant...
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When Ed meets Charlotte one golden afternoon, the fourteen sleeping pills he’s painstakingly collected don’t matter anymore: this will be the moment he pulls things right, even though he can see Charlotte comes with a story of her own. They...
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‘There are many suns,’ he said. ‘Each day has its own. Some are small, some are big. I’m named after the small ones.’ It is 1903. A lame and frail Malangana – ‘Little Suns’ – searches for his beloved Mthwakazi...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member ZP Dala, whose novel What About Meera has won the Debut prize in the inaugural Minara Aziz Hassim Literary Awards for writers from KwaZulu-Natal. Carol Campbell won the Main Category prize for her novel Esther’s...
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