In Hannes Barnard’s dynamic coming-of-age novel "Nebulous: The Last Hurrah", teenagers seek refuge from an ominous storm cloud. Best friends Xandr and Rufus sneak out of their... Read More

A determined Ethiopian woman enters the fight for Eritrean independence in Donica Merhazion’s riveting historical novel "Born at the End of the World". To escape an arranged... Read More

Jane Kurtz’s touching memoir in verse "Oh Give Me a Home" is about belonging and sisterhood. In Maji, Ethiopia, young Kurtz and her family laid down roots after her father... Read More

An interwoven father-daughter story, Mphuthumi Ntabeni’s ambitious novel "The Wanderers" is a philosophical examination of the legacy of South African apartheid. Although... Read More

Karen Vermeulen’s graphic memoir "Good Luck to Us All" is a funny, honest account of an “imperfect” life marked by foibles and follies. An unwanted pregnancy, a bad... Read More

Vibrant, textured illustrations accompany this eloquent picture book about embracing your identity. Wanjiku grows up in a Kikuyu village in Kenya. She helps her grandmother tend... Read More

A country’s first Black chief inspector investigates the disappearance of a powerful white man in Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu’s spellbinding mystery novel "The Quality of Mercy".... Read More

An eleven-year-old girl with a magical link to a water spirit confronts her destiny in the graphic novel "Kariba". Siku, discovered as a baby in a secret area of the Zambezi... Read More

A teenage girl befriends a misunderstood sea monster in the graphic novel "Pearl of the Sea". Pearl lives with her father by the sea in South Africa, but with little work for... Read More

A man learns, too late, the price of colonial ambition in Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu’s novel "The History of Man". From a young age, Emil was encouraged to become “a man of... Read More

"Madame Livingstone" uses a World War I conflict in the Congo as the backdrop for an exciting adventure, glimpsing into the country’s history of colonial exploitation. Based... Read More

In Ameera Patel’s novel "Outside the Lines", narcissism and addiction blur the lines of reality. Drug dealers kidnap Cathleen, but her distracted, middle-class family fails to... Read More