EVERYTHING GOOD WILL COME by Sefi Atta (Double Storey)
Acclaimed overseas, this novel by a young Nigerian now receives a South African edition. The story of two girls growing up in dictator-ruled Nigeria, it was described by The Observer as ‘an iridescent introduction to a fascinating nation”.
A QUILT OF DREAMS by Patricia Schonstein (Bantam)
Grahamstown in the 1990s: amid political turmoil, two lives intersect — that of a heavy-drinking white man and that of the young daughter of a political activist. From the author of A Time of Angels and The Apothecary’s Daughter.
NEW SWELL by Byron Loker (Double Storey)
A collection of tales by a ‘white surfer boy”; filled with the kind of characters who say ‘Howzit, bru”. Funny and poignant.
WAITING FOR THE MOON by Tim Keegan (Jonathan Ball)
A compelling historical novel set in South Africa and Rhodesia at the end of the 19th and the start of the 20th century. Roland Carey comes to South Africa to establish what happened to his great uncle, developing a close relationship with a black man, John Gumede.
SLEEPWALKING LAND by Mia Couto (Double Storey)
First English-language publication of the debut novel by the much-acclaimed Mozambican author of Voices Made Night and The Last Flight of the Flamingo. An old man and a young boy are fleeing a vicious civil war; in a burnt-out bus they find a corpse with a story to tell …
THE SHADOW FOLLOWS by David Medalie (Picador Africa)
A meticulously observed and deftly woven novel providing a panorama of post-apartheid South Africa — from a former prime minister’s alienated daughter to a man trying to find his biological mother.
A BRIDGE ON NO RIVERS by Nirmala Nair (Lotsha)
This ‘fictional memoir” by an Indian-born woman living in South Africa tells of a woman struggling to accept the lessons of the past and move on. Swathi returns to ‘the temple of her past” and visits the land of her ancestors.
CHAIRMAN OF FOOLS by Shimmer Chinodya (Double Storey)
In his new novel, one of Zimbabwe’s leading authors examines the plight of a supposedly successful writer and professor, a man who chafes under the constraints of tradition, morality and a cruel land.