John Lawton BLACK OUT is an outstanding debut thriller from a major new talent, featuring an original new detective, Sgt Frederick Troy, the son of a distinguished Russian emigre. Children...

Jeff Gordon GRIPPING FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS OF EXTRAORDINARY SIGHTINGS, SCRAPES AND INCIDENTS IN ONE OF AFRICA'S GREATEST NATIONAL PARKSAn enraged elephant flips a car onto its roof. A lioness prises open...

Deon Meyer I'll shoot a policeman every day until you arrest the murderer of Hanneke Sloet...Shortly after the South African Police Services receive this threatening email, a policeman is shot...

Antjie KrogIdentity, belonging and voyages of personal discovery are but some of the themes inventively explored in the author's first full-length work to appear in English since the publication of...

Andre Brink   The novel has become a landmark in South African literature about the seventies period of unrest and death in detention. The main character is an ordinary man...

Andre Brink From his conflicting childhood experiences in South Africa, to his discovery in 1960s Paris of a wider artistic life, followed by his decision to return home and oppose...

Ishmael BeahThe devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered...

Toni Morrison A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.Jacob is...

Cupcake BrownThis is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake and it begins when, aged eleven, she is orphaned and placed in the 'care' of sadistic foster parents....

Barack Obama A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring, highly anticipated first...

Janny Scott A major publishing an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama--his mother.Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little...

Moses Isegawa Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude , Moses Isegawa's Abyssinian Chronicles tells a riveting story of twentieth-century Africa that is...