Max Montfalcon lay in bed and tried to remember how many people he had killed...Old Max, the geni...

In the run up to the 1987 election Christopher Hope returned to his native South Africa after a t...

Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize,2019'Hope writes with extraordinary exuberance and inv...

In the sunny jacaranda-leafed garden of his Johannesburg home, six year old Martin Donally is kin...

In the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, SA, claiming to ha...

It is the early fifties in Badminton, Johannesburg, where all the street-names recall British kin...

David Mungo Booi is a descendant of the Bushmen who once lived in the distant African Karoo. Chos...

Bella is a teenage chocolate junkie - fashion-mad and God-haunted - who lives in the lakeside vil...

Young Harry Moto has problems with fallen arches, crinkly hair that won't flatten down, a pl...

Theodore Blanchaille is searching for the missing millions of the Boer leader Paul Kruger, and hi...