The Township Plays: No-good Friday , Nongogo , The Coat , Sizwe Bansi is Dead , The Island

Set in war-time London, this book is probably the nearest thing to a novel of suspense that Elizabeth Bowen has written. All the elements of a thriller are here, but what Bowen makes of them is an internal drama of remarkable perception and understanding in a domestic setting.

Tells the story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. This work talks about love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.

The first book by a South African who has worked as a journalist in both his native country and the United States. It offers a black and Afrikaaner view of South Africa, expressed through the medium of a reporter's anguished conscience.

The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa. The extraordinary and powerful account of the brutality and degredation black people suffered under the apartheid regime.

*The autobiography of one of the greatest men of the twentieth century reissued to coincide with the publication of Anthony Holden's biography coming from HarperCollins

Set in London during the 1930s, this is a tale of innocence betrayed, of passion, misunderstanding and the emotional atrophy of grown-ups. When 16-year-old Portia comes to stay with her cool, elegant relations in Windsor Terrace, she meets Eddie, an attractive young philanderer, and falls in love.

A picture of Anglo-Irish life at the troublesome time of 1920. The family at the big house are in an equivocal position. Interest and tradition should make them support the British but affection ties them to the now-resistant people of the surrounding country.

The Life and Death of Harriett Frean is a quintessentially modernist novel. Sinclair's work is important in terms of the development of the novel and the representation of women's lives

This is the story of nine people, each of whom is looking for love, and the resulting complex relationships between them. Impelled by affection, lust, lost scruple, illusion and disillusion, wanting to be free yet needing to be involved, these characters perform the linked figures of their destiny.

A classic coming-of-age novel from one of the best-loved writers of the twentieth century