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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.

Basking in the Mediterranean sun, visiting art museums in Italy, and walking the streets of Paris a young student from Africa embarks on a journey of love and erotic adventure.

The Journal Writings written by an enigmatic lesbian anarchist intellectual, in that free-flowing engaging style which fills notebooks with all kinds of erotic and erudite commentary on a mind blowing diversity of topics representing her literary attempt to make sense of the infinite mass of undifferentiated facts regarding her life and the history of the Universe, end up been published posthumously as a work of metafiction. The Journal Writings also represents her intellectual autobiograp...

The strongest thing about African Pastoral is not simply its story of Robert and Vanessa. It is an attempt to make a particular South African landscape—the Highveld—the central consciousness of the novel. The personal story, the history of the land, the author's memories, the Mfecane, gold mining, apartheid, military conscription, Jim Morrison, sexuality, religion, memory and the philosophy of storytelling are all made to converge upon that landscape. On the surface, African P...

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A young black woman desperately seeking work is forced by economic circumstances to accept the position as a domestic servant in the employment of two postgraduate students studying at the University of Potchefstroom who live in a cottage hidden among acacia trees at the edge of town. A relationship develops between the maid and one of the students which plunges them into a life changing crisis.

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...

On a chance meeting on a flight to Paris a professor of philosophy tells a young fashion model an intriguing story of love triangles, infidelities, betrayal, forgiveness which revolve around a desirable young woman who could have been a character out of a Luis Bunuel movie as the one called 'That obscure object of desire'. The story is told against the backdrop of Evangelical Christianity. The dynamics of betrayal, trust, forgiveness, pride, anger, and redemption pose huge ethical and theo...

In this South African-styled LGBTQ story, Joab Badenhorst was born and grew up within a deeply conservative Calvinistic Afrikaner community in the predominantly Afrikaan speaking town of Potchefstroom in what was once the Western Transvaal before the 1994 election which brought the ANC into power. The young boy insisted on playing with dolls and then he only wanted to wear dresses. He was incredibly stubborn about wanting to wear dresses as a young child. He had uncontrollable tantrums whe...

This novel is the sequel to Jo'burg: Sex, Love and Marx. The protagonist Josh bids farewell to his wife Millicent who is immigrating to Canada. After Millicent leaves, a love affair develops between him and Gazala, his post-doc student. Following the successive waves of the Covid pandemic, South Africa undergoes an apocalyptic collapse due to the exorable processes of what Josh refers to as zombification.

Following the passing away of his parents, Gavin Swift moves into a flat in the inner-city of Johannesburg (Jo'burg). Communism has collapsed, apartheid is on the verge of collapsing, the whole world was in a state of transition. On his night walks, his fate merges with that of the city.