If you enjoyed 'A Posh White Woman', you will enjoy reading this book, which narrates Callisto's discovery of her bisexuality under tropical seaside skies. Throughout her journey, she enjoys the commentary of her interlocutor, a person whom she refers to as Garlfield, who happens to be a professor of literature, whose head is filled with books and cinema.

In the dying days of apartheid a Communist detained by the security police finds herself in a world of shadows, smoke and mirrors, where truth and falsehood seemed to merge seamlessly. It was also a world in which men and women lied shamelessly, and betrayal became the reality of not only the counter insurgency game but also the ultimate inexorable destiny of the revolution.

After a chance meeting with the incurably fickle but exquisitely beautiful Helena Lathbury, Julian Bogart finds himself on a roller-coaster journey which takes him from the orphan city of Germiston to the streets of Paris. While in the Louvre after being warned by a stranger they discover that they have been mistaken for terrorists and their abduction by South African secret agents was imminent.

There was another side to Hannah Zeeman. As a femme lesbian she found herself cruising the shopping malls after inadvertently discovering her talent as a pick-up artist. Her journey as a seductress, picking up older women and so on, has a comical and philosophical dimension.

I was now having regular sex with Susan who was self-identifying as bisexual, and like Francis Digby her faith was falling apart and she was undergoing an existential crisis on the eve of her final exams. The fact that I did not find Francis Schaeffer's apologetics or defence of evangelic Christianity compelling had a negative impact on Susan. I just finished reading Jacque Monod's book Chance and Necessity. Susan also read the book and it had the same negative impact on her faith as the w...

At twelve I was personally experiencing an intimate state of bodily strangeness. My sense of otherness increased my moodiness. My dark moods and adolescent sullenness were due to the fact that I was in the throes of a dramatic psychosexual metamorphosis orchestrated by a surging flood of oestrogen and progesterone. The drama of glands and ganglia within my body was invisible to me and the world.

A strange and unlikely romance begins on a night-train journey, the romance fraught with deception, contradictions and comedy borders on farce. The love between the two individuals requires them to negotiate impossible obstacles, and all the time the Rabbi remains completely oblivious of his beautiful wife's secret love life.

In this novella Joab Badenhorst as a white South African male finds himself literally thrown into the cauldron of war, fighting on the wrong side of history, first in the counter-insurgency bush war on the Namibian-Angolan border and then in the Angolan civil war. Unable to extricate himself he experiences at first hand the existential futility of his life in a Universe ruled by contingency.

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Her story is told by her lover, an eccentric artist and Camus-eque character, who remains nameless. As an old man in the autumn of his life, he unburdens both his and Wanetta's story to a stranger he meets by chance one night in the pub of the Masonic Hotel in Boksburg. Woven into the story is a painting of a bird called the Sakabula Bird. The painting was included in one of his youthful exhibitions and drew the attention of a young university student called Wanetta Samuelsson. The telling...

Helena Lathbury and Julian Bogart first met at the Invisible Church in Joubert Park, Johannesburg, South Africa, during their first year at the University of the Witwatersrand. They remained friends throughout their undergraduate years, however, while Julian fell in love with Helena, she gently fobbed him off. After graduating they went their separate ways. However, a few years later, while in their mid-twenties, after a chance meeting, the incurably fickle but exquisitely beautiful Helena...

Throughout human history the formation of oligarchies have been driven by an innate dystopian impulse. In the post-Palaeolithic world egalitarianism can only exist as a myth. Gavin Swift who becomes Joshua Swift becomes increasingly aware of the creeping onset of an apocalypse and prepares for the inevitable doomsday as things begin to unravel in Southern Africa.