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An Appetite for Peas | Autobiography: General

Casey B. Dolan

“I have done some really brave things in my life. I, too, have done some really stupid ones. The line between these is precariously thin and I have far too often crossed it . . .”   Casey B. Dolan – actress, television presenter, entertainer, DJ, entrepreneur and singer – is perhaps best known for being voted FHM South Africa’s sexiest woman in 2000. In this no-holds-barred biography she unveils just what it is like to be that woman, the one on...

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An Exceptionally Simple Theory (of Absolutely Everything) | General Fiction

Mark Winkler

Tracy lifts a Botoxed lip, shakes her head, minces off on her Louboutins, descends the stairs like a cautious antelope. Gabe is lying on his unmade bed with his...

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Penumbra | General Fiction

Songeziwe Mahlangu

Mangaliso Zolo is a hapless recent graduate, still living in the southern suburbs of Cape Town near the university. Manga has an office job at a large insurance...

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Coming Soon

Chokers en survivors | Poetry & Poetry Anthologies

Nathan Trantraal

This overwhelmingly honest debut collection of poems, written in the Kaaps dialect, present the reader with the stark reality of life on the Cape Flats in a...

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Shadows | Short Stories & Fiction Anthologies

Novuyo Tshuma

With this debut novella and collection of short stories the reader is introduced to a startling new voice in African literature. Novuyo Tshuma sketches,...

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Whatever Happened to the Cowley Twins? | General Fiction

Gail Schimmel

The unsolved disappearance of two blonde baby girls in Johannesburg thirty years ago is a subject regularly raised around northern suburbs dinner tables. The...

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Sapphire Press: Three Dates | Romance & Sagas

Tshego Monaisa

Professional ballroom dancer, Lesedi Moatlegi, has looked after her sister, Karabo, ever since their mother died. Her dance partner, Nicholas, is her perfect...

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Latest News

20 May 2013
New novel by Zakes Mda to be published by Kwela

The Sculptors of Mapungubwe, Mda’s first novel since 2009, will be published in October 2013.

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16 May 2013
Interview with Casey B. Dolan on Expresso

...on her book An Appetite For Peas

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Author Focus

Casey B. Dolan

Casey B. Dolan began her TV career as a continuity presenter. Thereafter followed the controversial series 37 Honey Street, in which the first-ever lesbian kiss...

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