Banned for many years in the author's native South Africa, this novel tells the story of black actor Joseph Malan as he awaits execution for the murder of his white lover. Andre Brink was twice nominated for the Booker Prize.

Kristien's grandmother is dying and she finds herself leaving London to fly back to her native South Africa. Her grandmother is determined to hand down her treasury of family history, telling of magic, treachery, heroism and farce - the panorama of a nation's experience.

Ruben Oliver's life is coming adrift from its moorings, he has lost his job, become a widower, and his children have emigrated. When Tessa arrives in response to his advertisement for a lodger, she restores passion to his life, but brings with her a turbulent past.

Ben Du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless man whose sense of justice is outraged by the death at the hands of the police of a man knew. As Ben investigates, he finds that his curiosity becomes labelled as rebellion. The author has won South Africa's CNA award for both Afrikaans and English work.

In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator, and fighter of his region. Coming under the spell of a woman, and Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp of the London Missionary Society, Cupido is then made the first Hottentot missionary.

In early 1749 a white woman and a black man are stranded together in the wilderness of the South African interior. She is an educated person, totally helpless in the wilds. He is a runaway slave. As they face the long trek back to civilization, a fellowship emerges between them.

In this wide-ranging study, Andre Brink argues that the self-consciousness has been a characteristic of the novel since its earliest stirrings.

The postmodernist novel has become famous for the extremes of its narcissistic involvement with language. Andre Brink argues that this self-consciousness has been a characteristic of the novel since its earliest stirrings.

Andre Brink grew up in the deep interior of South Africa, as his magistrate father moved from one dusty dorp to the next. This title describes his conflicting experiences of growing up in a world where innocence was always surrounded by violence.

Andre Brink grew up in the deep interior of South Africa, as his magistrate father moved from one dusty dorp to the next. In this book, he describes his conflicting experiences of growing up in a world where innocence was always surrounded by violence. It is also a love song to the country where he was born.

It is on New Year's Eve, courtesy of his stalled car, that he meets Rachel, a young sculptress who becomes the great love of his life, a love greater for being unfulfilled. This book presents the history of a life set against the history of a nation, and the history of a transforming love.

David le Roux, a teacher recently turned fulltime artist, returns to his studio one afternoon to find his whole familiar world turned upside down. The woman who opens the door and welcomes him as her husband is a complete stranger to him. Has everything in his life been illusion?

Andrea, a coloured expatriate from the Cape, comes to Provence to research the background to her lover Paul's film on the Great Plague. Mandla, a fellow South African and black activist, travels with her; his intense convictions make her question her own life and beliefs.

As a small child in wintry Bremen, Hanna dreams about escaping from years of abuse in the orphanage and in service. She joins a shipload of young women transported in the early years of the 20th century to the colony of South-West Africa to assuage the needs of the male settlers.