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"A deftly crafted novel that blends family drama with crime and black comedy, "Outside the Lines" is a unique and extraordinary novel by an author with an impressive flair for the kind of narrative storytelling that grips the reader's full attention and invests them in the characters and events portrayed. A riveting read from first page to last."
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Reviewer: Margaret Lane in Midwest Book Review, Sept 2020
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Ten stories. Ten voices. Ten diverse perspectives of what home has meant to South Africans during our country’s challenging history.
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Find This Place I Call Home in any good SA bookstore, internationally via African Books Collective, or direct from our online store 📚
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The first novel by an Equatorial Guinean woman to be translated into English, La Bastarda is the story of the orphaned teen Okomo, who lives under the watchful eye of her grandmother and dreams of finding her father.
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Whether drawn from the distance of history or located in contemporary Cape Town, these eight stories create a tender and luminous account of just how extraordinary the everyday life of women can be.
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Find Unsettled in any good SA bookstore, internationally via African Books Collective, or direct from our online bookstore 📚
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Armed robbery is nothing new in South Africa. But when a pair of clever and squeaky-sounding criminals go on a looting spree that rocks several small towns in the Eastern Cape, Detective Inspector Thabisa Tswane from The Eagles, the Special Violent Crimes Unit is called to work the case. There’s only one problem, one of the most important witnesses in the case is her estranged grandfather, Chief Solenkosi, who ordered her violent expulsion from the village over 10 years ago.
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Find #NowISeeYou at any good SA bookstore, internationally via African Books Collective, or direct from our online store 📚
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"The Gospel According to Wanda B. Lazarus is just the kind of novel the world needs right now. Draw a line through The Odyssey, the Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, Don Quixote, Gargantua, The Flying Dutchman and The Confederacy of Dunces, sprinkle over all with good kosher salt and you only scratch the surface of this big, bountiful novel. Just what the world needs – a fizzing, fulsome and fiercely funny heroine worlds away from the anaemic, lifeless puppets that populate so much fiction today, and a novel that is charged with music, energy, bounce, juice and joy."
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You can pre-order The Gospel According to Wanda B Lazarus from the Modjaji Books website or any good bookstore in SA.
You can preorder forthcoming titles so they'll get to you hot off the press!
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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. She gives up her drugs until she can get to an abortion clinic. Her cold turkey opens up a window in her mind, whipping Tess into a shattering understanding of how she got here. Tess’s quirky humour, raw honesty and deep love of beauty lead her to find redemption in astonishing places. This book has a huge heart, like Tess, revealing that there is something in everyone that cannot be touched. Not by human hands. Not ever.
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Whiplash is now out of print and copies of this first edition are collector's level stuff! But, you can find Tess at any good SA bookstore, internationally via African Books Collective, or direct from our online store 📚
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Loss has left Ella Spinner alone to care for her husband, Bart, who suffers from clinical depression. Their days now echo the tides: any progress made, rolls back. Yet Ella keeps pushing against the monotony. Set in Mossel Bay, Ella’s day begins like any other. But on this day the minutes begin to crack allowing change to filter through. As we cheer on her tenacity, we’re left asking ourselves what motivates anyone to try again.
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Get #ThisDay at any good SA bookstore, internationally via African Books Collective, or direct from our online store 📚
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