No Poison No Paradise by Nzeru Aquilar Nsaí

In this seminal novel of conflict and attempted reconciliation, we follow Kitso whose father had expelled him from the family home in Soweto on account of his youthful homosexual encounter with Themba, a local friend, but who returns for the first time since that trauma to attend his father’s funeral.

Point Blank by Mike Alfred

A novel about the men who managed a potentially dangerous explosives manufacturing complex in the time of South Africa’s 1970’s revolution.