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Black Dog Spirits by Khadija S

Consisting of poems and flash fiction, this collection cuts deep as it exposes the swollen propaganda personas of a techno-feudal society exhibiting extreme inequality in terms of wealth and power.

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.

Keep the Ship Moving! by Mpumelelo Cilibe

In this memoir of the 1970s in New Brighton – the largest black township built by the apartheid system outside Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) – family relations and the development of the writer’s political consciousness and organizing abilities at the American-owned Ford Motor Company factory take centre stage.

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.

BLOOD SKIN BONES by Phelelani Makhanya

BLOOD SKIN BONES is a poetry collection that covers diverse sub themes, from nostalgia to world politics to the admiration of the natural world to deep self-introspection. But the dominant packaging theme of this collection is mortality. Mortality of the body, the mind and the soul.