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Affluenza
Nicholas Mhlongo
Niq Mhlongo returns with a collection of short stories that cover the span of our democracy: crime, xenophobia, racism and homophobia, the new black elite, land redistribution, the Zuma presidency. The stories have been published to critical acclaim…
Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2015,
Paperback,
190 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795706967
89 USD
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Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2015,
Paperback,
190 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795706967
Bending the rules : From De Klerk to Mandela
Stories of a pioneering diplomat
Rafique Gangat
An honest and humorous collection of short stories about growing up in South Africa under the rule of apartheid and finding interesting ways to cheat the system. Later, Rafique Gangat became one of the first South African diplomats of colour, and he…
Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2017,
Paperback,
189 p., il,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795708077
67 USD
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Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2017,
Paperback,
189 p., il,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795708077
Colour me yellow
Searching for my family truth
Thuli Nhlapo
Thuli Nhlapo is the Managing Director of her own media company, Thuli Nhlapo Media. She has previously worked for ABC News (USA), Daily Sun and SABC
News as reporter and/or producer. She has also written for The Sowetan, Mail & Guardian and The Star.…
Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2017,
Paperback,
224 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795708107
80 USD
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Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2017,
Paperback,
224 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795708107
Colour Me Yellow
Searching For My Family Truth
Thuli Nhlapo
Thuli Nhlapo was seven years old when she realised that no one called her by name. Known as "Yellow", she was bullied at home and at school. Fearing that she had a terrible disease, she withdrew into herself.
Years later, Thuli is still haunted by h…
Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2017,
Paperback,
224 p,
(In English)
ISBN 978-0-7957-0810-7
65 USD
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Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2017,
Paperback,
224 p,
(In English)
ISBN 978-0-7957-0810-7
Feminism Is
South Africans speak their truth
Jen Thorpe
Jen Thorpe is a feminist writer and researcher based in Cape Town, South Africa. Jen published her first novel, The Peculiars, with Penguin South Africa in 2016. It was long listed for the Etisalat Prize for Literature (2016) and the Sunday Times Fi…
Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2018,
Paperback,
320 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795708275
78 USD
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Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2018,
Paperback,
320 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795708275
Firepool
Hedley Twidle
"Firepool" is a chronicle of South Africa in the ‘second transition’ – one in which the foundations of the post-apartheid settlement are questioned in all kinds of ways. From the complex legacy of artists like JM Coetzee to the #FeesMustFall protest…
Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2017,
Paperback,
224 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795708046
67 USD
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Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2017,
Paperback,
224 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795708046
Going back to say goodbye
A boyhood on the mine
Kenneth De Kok
Kenneth de Kok describes his childhood in Stilfontein, a small mining town in the Transvaal. Set in the 1950s, the story immerses the reader in a world of bicycle races down dirt roads, kleilat fights, childhood pacts and seaside holidays. A Row of …
Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2016,
Paperback,
198 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795707841
80 USD
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Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2016,
Paperback,
198 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795707841
How Far We Slaves Have Come
Nelson Mandela , Fidel Castro
Two world renowned revolutionary icons, Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro, meet for the first time in Cuba 1991. This book is the collection of their speeches from that auspicious day. Speaking at a rally, Mandela credits Cuba’s military support and i…
Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2016,
Paperback,
196 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795707674
64 USD
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Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2016,
Paperback,
196 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795707674
London, Cape Town, Joburg
Zukiswa Wanner
Zukiswa Wanner is a South African journalist and novelist, born in Zambia and now based in Kenya. Since 2006, when she published her first book, her novels have been shortlisted for awards including the South African Literary Awards (SALA) and the C…
Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2014,
Paperback,
224 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795706301
69 USD
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Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2014,
Paperback,
224 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795706301
Penumbra
Songeziwe Mahlangu
*The winner of the 2014 Etisalat prize for literature*
Mangaliso Zolo lives in the southern suburbs of Cape Town, near the university. He has an office job at a large corporate, but he does little every day bar shuffle papers and surf the ’net. Penum…
Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2013,
Paperback,
212 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795704680
43 USD
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Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2013,
Paperback,
212 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795704680
Shadows
Novuyo Tshuma
Herman Charles Bosman Prize for the best literary work in English. Novuyo Rosa Tshuma is a Zimbabwe-born writer. Her stories have won the Yvonne Vera Award and been shortlis…
Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2013,
Paperback,
192 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795704802
67 USD
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Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2013,
Paperback,
192 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795704802
Soweto, Under the Apricot Tree
Nicholas Mhlongo
Niq Mhlongo (born 10 June 1973) is a South African journalist and novelist. He studied African literature and political studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, gaining a BA in 1996. In 1997 he enrolled to study law there, transferring to the…
Kwela Books
Cape Town, South Africa,
2018,
Paperback,
208 p,
(In English)
ISBN 978-0-7957-0837-4
88 USD
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Kwela Books
Cape Town, South Africa,
2018,
Paperback,
208 p,
(In English)
ISBN 978-0-7957-0837-4
The Life of Worm and Other Misconceptions
Short Stories and Fiction Anthologies
Ken Barris
A collection of new and critically acclaimed stories by award-winning South African author Ken Barris. Here, Barris’s work combines everyday events with the surreal and fantastical: the title story centres on a dog called Worm; in another, husband a…
Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2017,
Paperback,
192 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795707957
55 USD
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Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2017,
Paperback,
192 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795707957
The Lost Boy
Aher Arop Bol
Aher Arop Bol is a boy of three or four when his uncle carries him from the bush into an Ethiopian refugee camp. This remarkable account tracks this Sudanese boy’s journey through one camp after another, through good times and bad, until he begins a…
Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2010,
Paperback,
192 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795702785
65 USD
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Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2010,
Paperback,
192 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795702785
The traveller
Thebe Ikalafeng
Thebe Ikalafeng is a branding icon who set the agenda for the industry at the dawn of our democracy and continues to pioneer it to this day. As the founder of Brand Africa, the African continent is now a major focus in his life's mission. He is The …
Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2024,
276 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795711091
270 USD
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Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2024,
276 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795711091
Untitled
A Novel
Kgebetli Moele
Moele’s debut novel, "Room 207", was published by Kwela Books in 2006. It was short-listed for the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Best First Book (Africa) in 2007. It was the joint-winner of the Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English fiction as we…
Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2013,
Paperback,
192 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795704949
71 USD
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Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2013,
Paperback,
192 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795704949
Way Back Home
Nicholas Mhlongo
Niq Mhlongo was born in Soweto. He has a BA from the University of the Witwatersrand, with majors in African Literature and Political Studies. His first novel, "Dog Eat Dog", was published by Kwela in 2004 and was translated into Spanish under the t…
Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2013,
Paperback,
216 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795707452
49 USD
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Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2013,
Paperback,
216 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9780795707452
Young blood
Sifiso Mzobe
Sifiso Mzobe’s debut novel, Young Blood, presents a challenge. This winner of the 2011 Alan Paton Prize for Fiction, Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa (2012).
Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2013,
Paperback,
228 p,
(No language)
ISBN 9780795702938
59 USD
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Kwela Books
Cape Town,
2013,
Paperback,
228 p,
(No language)
ISBN 9780795702938
