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Turning her back on what is considered conventional, Makhosazana Xaba engages with her subject-matter on a revolutionary level in Running and Other Stories. She takes tradition – be that literary tradition, cultural tradition, gender tradition – and re-imagines it in a way that is liberating and innovative. Includes by Xaba’s revisitings of Can Themba’s influential short story, The Suit.
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Find Running and Other Stories in any good SA bookstore, internationally via African Books Collective, or direct from our online store 🛍️ We've got 15% OFF and free shipping until midnight on 30 April. Use the code HBD15 at checkout. South Africa and order over R300 only

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Originally published as Whiplash, this is the first full-length novel Modjaji published, in 2008. A gut wrenching story of a Muizenberg sex worker, Tess who pops painkillers by the handful and sells her body to strangers. When a condom breaks, Tess’s life swings one eighty degrees.
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"As students at university in Makhanda during the #RUReferenceList campaign, Langa and her lover Khwezi have a passionate and complex relationship. Puzzling gaps in her memory haunt Langa, yet her dreams are vivid with colours and symbols that hint at a nightmare of forgotten violations and losses."
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Find Dreaming in Colour and other Modjaji titles on our online store. Link in bio.

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Get these titles or others from our online store with 🌟 15% OF 🌟 and free shipping! Valid in South Africa until midnight 30 April for orders of R300 or more. Use the code HBD15 at checkout. Link in bio to our online store 🛍️ #ModjajiTurns15

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Love Interrupted is set partially in the university town of Grahamstown and partially in rural Limpopo. The stories in this collection have an intimate feel, like conversations eavesdropped on.
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Find Love Interrupted or other Modjaji titles on our online store via the link in our bio

To celebrate our birthday, the Facebook group Rhyme Share Poetry Club is doing a giveaway of two copies of the Modjaji poetry anthology, The Only Magic We Know. All you have to do is:
1. Join the Rhyme Share Poetry Club group on Facebook
2. Share a poem you like by any woman poet on the group
3. Tag the Modjaji Books Facebook page
The winner will be announced on 30 April. The prize will be delivered anywhere in South Africa.
Find the group on Facebook or check out our latest newsletter (link in bio) to join

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In a series of ten mesmerising stories, Cranswick pulls aside the covers to let us in on the lives and inner lives of women thrown out of their comfort zone. With chilling clarity and a haunting lyricism, Cranswick slows down time, zooms in close, and refuses to look away.
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