Karoo Dusk
Karoo Dusk

Author: Johan Vlok Louw

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2014-08-04

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1415204160

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Billy’s dragon tattoo will attract strange looks in the Karoo town his family now calls home. It’s difficult to blend in when your father’s the new police colonel and your mother’s strung out on pills and wine. Before Billy meets Suzan, who makes him dream in a sideways world, the gangster Ou Joe’s roadside brothel provides strange comfort to truckers and curious youths alike. Ou Joe plans to leave a legacy before staging his final showdown with the cancer growing in his belly. After a brutal night, the colonel sets Ou Joe’s place in his sights and Billy must take a stand when good and evil are yet to pick sides. In the style of a modern western, Johan Vlok Louw’s novel is filled with youth, cars and guns.The book is an uppercut to the chin, its prose as evocative as the Karoo landscape of its setting.

A Gap in the Hedge
A Gap in the Hedge

Author: Johan Vlok Louw

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2017-08-11

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1415209340

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Waking up in a rundown house on the outskirts of a mining town, Karl at first is uncertain who or where he is. What is certain is the pistol and cash in a duffel bag, and the grey Ford, modified for “leaving places quickly, but silently”, in the garage. Over the next few days, as glimpses of his past emerge, Karl stikes up a friendship with his new neighbour, ten-year-old Henri. But Henri’s dad is a small-time drugdealer fresh from the city, and his mother weak at protecting them against the violence of his father. All is not as it seems, however, as the real connection between Henri and Karl is revealed in Johan Vlok Louw’s poignant and potent new novel.

Apartheid's Landscape and Ideas
Apartheid's Landscape and Ideas

Author: Alan Schwerin

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9781580460804

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A mosaic of intriguing first-hand historical accounts of the country, its people, significant events, and moral and political predicaments have been culled from diaries and correspondence from early missionaries, soldiers, politicians, laborers, and ordinary settlers. These historical documents display the prejudices, fears and character of the sojourners in South Africa. The text presents a unique view of the seeds of the racism that would later constitute the lifeblood of apartheid."--BOOK JACKET.

Sons of Mud
Sons of Mud

Author: Johan Vlok Louw

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2023-04-17

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 141521090X

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At an army base close to Voortrekkerhoogte in Pretoria, at the height of summer and South Africa’s Border War, 18-year-old recruits endure an appalling drill sergeant bent on turning them into killing machines for the sadf. They are sleep deprived, and tension mounts in this group of disparate individuals – boys from all walks of life – expected to function as a unit.

Kill Yourself & Count to 10
Kill Yourself & Count to 10

Author: Gordon Torr

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2014-05-02

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0143531301

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They're psychopaths, violent offenders, drug addicts, sexual deviants and social misfits. And these are the good guys. In the notorious military camp known as The Vault, they are considered unfit to wear the South African Defence Force uniform. As part of a brutal rehabilitation programme, they become the experimental toys of a rogue psychiatrist. After a tragic accident and a clerical error, conscript Lloyd Norton finds himself thrust into this macabre world. He will never be the same again. The novel, based on the real apartheid-era camp Greefswald, not only rips open an all but forgotten chapter in a chilling history, but also tells a gripping rites-of-passage story.

Isaiah’s Mountain
Isaiah’s Mountain

Author: Ceri Leigh Berry

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1398475513

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May 1901. Jo stands alone, ready to meet her fate, as British soldiers come thundering up the dusty track of her farm. She has not raised a white flag, it is pointless; the British are burning homesteads to the ground. Choked by the acrid smell of farmlands and livestock, blazing in the valley, Jo struggles to find her voice and the words she needs to save her home. A strange twist of events transports Jo back to a time when, as a young teacher in the tiny Karoo town of Kweek Valley, she was drawn into the troubled world of a boy named Lukas Bester. A time past when nothing was as simple as it seemed and the truth lay silent and festering beneath the surface of the pious community. A time when she was Joanna Shepherd, an entirely different person... If she is to survive, Jo has to find the words which uncover the truth as she navigates her way through grief, betrayal and the violence of war.

Blood Orange
Blood Orange

Author: Troy Blacklaws

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2013-03-26

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1480410012

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DIVDIVTroy Blacklaws’s follow-up to his internationally acclaimed Karoo Boy is the bittersweet tale of a South African boy coming of age during apartheid/divDIV Gecko’s childhood is one of sheltered, almost magical innocence on a farm in Natal. He spends his days taking barefoot expeditions with his dogs and his nights listening to Springbok Radio, unaware of the cruel force in his life that apartheid will soon become. With the start of high school in the Cape, Gecko is thrust into a political and personal awakening that is both tragic and heartfelt. With conscription into the South African army looming over him, Gecko’s future is as uncertain as his country’s. Blood Orange evokes the absurdity, longing, and fear of growing up white in the last decades of apartheid./div/div

Getaway 21 Years of African Travel Writing
Getaway 21 Years of African Travel Writing

Author: Cameron Ewart-Smith

Publisher: Jacana Media

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1770098860

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This wonderful collection of travel writing captures the very best of Getaway's articles over the past 21 years of travel, exploration and adventure.

Migration
Migration

Author: Ann Clayton

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 1928171559

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MIGRATION is poetry written between two nations - the nation of South Africa, where Ann Clayton was born and developed into a widely published writer, and the nation of Canada, where she now lives and writes.