Cape Town

Books in this genre are set in or about Cape Town.

The Number: One Man's Search for Identity in the Cape Underworld and Prison Gangs
The Unwanted Wife (Unwanted, #1)
The Cape Doctor
The Woman Next Door
Gang Town
Thirteen Hours (Benny Griessel, #2)
Dead Before Dying (Mat Joubert, #1)
Wake Up Dead (Cape Town #2)
Faking Forever: The Hawthornes
Interpreting Earth: A History of Geology through Encounters with Table Mountain
Finding Forever: The Hawthornes
Distress
Harlem Rhapsody
Under Water
The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
The Washing of the Spears by Donald R. MorrisFrontiers by Noël MostertThe Dead Will Arise by J.B. PeiresRogues, Rebels and Runaways by Nigel PennKrotoa-eva by Kwela Books
Colonial South Africa
110 books — 5 voters
My Father's Orchid by Rayda Jacobs'Buckingham Palace', District Six by Richard RiveDance with a Poor Man's Daughter by Pamela JoosteSong for Sarah by Jonathan JansenUp from Slavery by Richard E. van der Ross
Understanding Cape Town
104 books — 5 voters

Born a Crime by Trevor NoahDisgrace by J.M. CoetzeeWaiting for the Barbarians by J.M. CoetzeeCry, the Beloved Country by Alan PatonLong Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
Best South African Books
135 books — 78 voters

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan PatonLong Walk to Freedom by Nelson MandelaDisgrace by J.M. CoetzeeBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahMy Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan
Best South African reads
314 books — 184 voters


H.L. Balcomb
DWAAL, noun, a dreamy, dazed, or absent-minded state. "In that space of peaceful serenity, I finally understood that home is where you heart feels free. A place far removed from any physical barriers or constraints. Home is a space where you feel alive. You feel like dancing. A dance called dwaal – meaning to wander into the uncharted waters of our stories unexplored and underrepresented chapters" (All Roads Lead to Cape Town, a novel about the birthplace of our togetherness and amazing words li ...more
H.L. Balcomb, All Roads Lead to Cape Town

Archie Henderson
Archie Henderson has won no awards, written no books and never played any representative sport. He was an under-11 tournament-winning tennis player as a boy, but left the game when he discovered rugby where he was one of the worst flyhalves he can remember. This did not prevent him from having opinions on most things in sport. His moment of glory came in 1970 when he predicted—correctly as it turned out—that Griquas would beat the Blue Bulls (then still the meekly named Noord-Transvaal) in the ...more
Archie Henderson

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