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  Kwela Books is proud to announce that Willem Anker’s novel, Siegfried, has been awarded the University of Johannesburg debut prize for creative writing in Afrikaans.
 
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Rowing Lesson, The
Anne Landsman
Fiction
Pregnant with her first child, Betsy Klein is summoned from her home in New York to her father’s hospital bed in Cape Town. Once...
 
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Porcupine
Jane Bennett
Fiction
Porcupine is a collection of twelve short stories exploring maverick, impossible, and incredulous moments in South Africa...
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Ukuvuka kwam ekufeni
Thembelani Ngenelwa
NonFiction

“One regret I have from publishing my book in English is that my mother and grandmother, who both speak and write Xhosa...

 
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Tears of an Angel
Sello Mahapeletsa
Children & Youth
Seventeen-year-old Dikeledi has everything going for her – she is pretty and clever and comes from a loving family. But when her...
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Vatmaar: Skooluitgawe
AHM Scholtz
Fiction
A hundred years ago, a small settlement sprang up in the Northern Cape. As a rich diversity of people moved in and the first...
 
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Marriage Vows
Gail Schimmel
Fiction
It’s Jordi Gordan’s 55th birthday and she receives, as she has for every birthday for the last fifteen years, a message from Nico....
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Notes from the Dementia Ward
Finuala Dowling
English Poetry
Notes from the Dementia Ward is Finuala Dowling’s third collection of verse following on the brilliant and popular I Flying...
 
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Nooit is ’n lang, lang tyd
Anchien Troskie
Fiction
This story is undoubtedly what one could refer to as ‘chicklit’. It’s an emotional, humorous look at the lives of Daleen, Karien...
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