Tag: LiteraryFiction

The author returns with Farewell to Eden, an ambitious historical novel about love, trauma, faith and the difficult process of rebuilding a life after war. Set between post-war Mandatory Palestine and the English countryside, the novel explores how private lives carry the lasting consequences of major historical events.

Damilare Kuku’s Women Rent Men and Secrets Here offers a lively and suspenseful glimpse into the complicated social world of Lagos. The novel combines mystery, scandal and sharp social observation. It also explores how gossip can expose uncomfortable truths while creating new dangers for those involved.

Lethabo Khumalo works at the Department of Home Affairs in Pietermaritzburg. She is also a single mother raising three beautiful children. When her new lover offers her an opportunity to earn an additional R45,000 per month, she immediately thinks about her mother's leaking roof in Soweto and her eldest daughter's university fees. Faced with mounting financial pressures, she says yes.

A literary crime novel and multi-generational family saga, blending mystery, history and psychological depth with touches of magical realism. Tom Cottrell grew up in suburban Johannesburg. In 2013, he found himself drawn unwillingly into the unsolved murder of his cousin. However, the search for answers stirs something older and darker.