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.

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.

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.

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.

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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...

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.

If you have enjoyed the ebook 'Who was oreithyia?' then you should find this book interesting. The character who forms the backbone of the narrative is none other than Joe Magee - nicknamed 'Jomogee'. Joe Magee an entrepreneur extraordinaire and compulsive philanderer who spends his live subverting the very idea of Order as something which serves the Common Good. Exerpt: '.......If we had to choose a patron divinity or daemon for Joe Magee then Hermes would be most qualified to fill this r...

Hannah Zeeman's journey begins in the 1950s at City Deep, a mining village located in the southern suburbs of Johannesburg South Africa. City Deep was one of the first gold mines developed in the late 1880s in Johannesburg. By the late 1950s City Deep goldmine has reached the end of its useful life as a goldmine and for this reason, and also for other reasons which will become disclosed in the novel, the Zeeman family relocate from City Deep to the small mining town of Stilfontein situated...

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.

In the 1970s as a result of the intellectual labours of senior academics working under the auspices of what become known as 'The History Workshop in South Africa' a resurgence of radical political activism erupted among students on the historically white university campuses. Apart from the critical revision of South African history which was informed by applying Marxist class analysis to the explaining and understanding of the origins and development of the Apartheid, undergraduate student...