Novels

The common denominator here is the narrative, the story, the ‘and then?’ syndrome that has long enchanted us. Romantic, adventure, science fiction, dystopian, crime, whodunit, fantasy, thriller: all these are adjectives that can describe a novel. And, above all, they’re full of people just like us: the heroes and heroines, the villains, the damsels in distress and knights in shining armour, and often just ordinary folk struggling against impossible odds.

Novels

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  • Brand: David Robbins
  • Price: R1.00 - R200.00

Kite Flying at World's End

When the disease began to spread around the world, and also in Johannesburg where Gregory Davis lived, everyone was ordered into their houses and told to stay there. On the last day of freedom, people scrambled into the supermarkets and bottle-stores and, after standing two metres apart at the tills, emerged heavily laden ...

Price R190.00

Writing for Salvation -...

Forty years after coming of age in South Africa in the 1960s, the author unearths a forgotten manuscript written at that time. Through rereading this early work, he revisits the political and religious falsehoods that had characterised the context of his genesis as a writer, particularly as revealed by the fictional characters that he then created.

Two women have been damaged by the realities of the time, one crushed by the withering world of Afrikaner urbanisation, the other by the devastating impact of racially defined morality. They bring tragedy and greater maturity to the central character, a young visual artist who falls in love with both these shattered individuals.

Price R130.00