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Cape Town Books
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The Number: One Man's Search for Identity in the Cape Underworld and Prison Gangs (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cape-town)
avg rating 4.19 — 341 ratings — published 2005
The Unwanted Wife (Unwanted, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as cape-town)
avg rating 3.76 — 58,344 ratings — published 2012
The Cape Doctor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cape-town)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,992 ratings — published 2021
The Woman Next Door (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as cape-town)
avg rating 3.61 — 4,895 ratings — published 2016
Gang Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as cape-town)
avg rating 3.99 — 151 ratings — published 2016
Thirteen Hours (Benny Griessel, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as cape-town)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,677 ratings — published 2008
Dead Before Dying (Mat Joubert, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as cape-town)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,549 ratings — published 1999
Wake Up Dead (Cape Town #2)
by (shelved 2 times as cape-town)
avg rating 3.84 — 468 ratings — published 2009
Distress (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,864 ratings — published 1995
Harlem Rhapsody (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,907 ratings — published 2025
Under Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,341 ratings — published 2026
The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.07 — 73,545 ratings — published 2024
The Last Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.48 — 629,204 ratings — published 2019
A Good Person (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,326 ratings — published 2026
The Things We Never Say (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.28 — 14,991 ratings — published 2026
The Adjunct (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 3.49 — 731 ratings — published 2026
Wandering Souls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.12 — 19,651 ratings — published 2023
Interpreting Earth: A History of Geology through Encounters with Table Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
The First Rule of Survival (Col Vaughn de Vries, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 3.95 — 486 ratings — published 2014
A Husband's Regret (Unwanted, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 3.57 — 17,990 ratings — published 2014
Dark Video (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 3.55 — 108 ratings — published 2008
The Quiet Violence of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.33 — 401 ratings — published 2002
Griet skryf 'n sprokie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 3.89 — 663 ratings — published 1992
The Mavericks: How Coronation, Ninety One and Allan Gray beat the rest (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 3.21 — 14 ratings — published
7 dae (Bennie Griessel, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,109 ratings — published 2011
Not a Fairytale (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2011
Not a Fairytale (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 3.71 — 63 ratings — published 2010
Murderers, miscreants, and mutineers: early colonial Cape lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.00 — 10 ratings — published
The Boyfriend (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,058,916 ratings — published 2024
The Glass Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.29 — 21,750 ratings — published 2024
The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,772,861 ratings — published 2022
The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.22 — 380,034 ratings — published 2013
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,568,228 ratings — published 2012
Idees Vol Vrees (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.86 — 7 ratings — published 2011
An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed (Elderly Lady, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 3.86 — 14,661 ratings — published 2020
A House Divided: The feud that took Cape Town to the brink (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 3.97 — 30 ratings — published
The Slave Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.02 — 109 ratings — published 1998
Elton Baatjies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.39 — 18 ratings — published 2022
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.40 — 337,950 ratings — published 2017
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,938,715 ratings — published 2018
Cape Town Uncovered (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 2.00 — 2 ratings — published 2014
The Box in the Woods (Truly Devious, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.05 — 57,038 ratings — published 2021
The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.11 — 96,340 ratings — published 2020
Hoerkind: Die memoires van ’n randeier (Afrikaans Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 3.89 — 167 ratings — published
How Cities Learn: Tracing Bus Rapid Transit in South Africa (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Hammerman: A Walking Shadow (PI Fish Pescado and Vicki Kahn Book 5)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 4.27 — 44 ratings — published
Op ’n mooi dag (Afrikaans Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as cape-town)
avg rating 3.60 — 106 ratings — published 2021
“MOUNT PLAASMOORDE
If ever you visit South Africa
And do
Leave the brilliant beaches of Cape Town for a moment
Climb Mount Plaasmoorde Witkruis monument
And you’ll see the victims of apartheid
White crosses marking a thousand white victims
Planted in the earth of a million black victims
They lie dissolved in the humus of the soils
They were too many to have their own marked graves
Too many to build black crosses for
And just too hard to forget about
Because they make the soil under your feet black”
― Roses in the Rainbow
If ever you visit South Africa
And do
Leave the brilliant beaches of Cape Town for a moment
Climb Mount Plaasmoorde Witkruis monument
And you’ll see the victims of apartheid
White crosses marking a thousand white victims
Planted in the earth of a million black victims
They lie dissolved in the humus of the soils
They were too many to have their own marked graves
Too many to build black crosses for
And just too hard to forget about
Because they make the soil under your feet black”
― Roses in the Rainbow
“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 Currie Cup final. It is something for which he has never been forgiven by the powers-that-be at Loftus. Archie has played cricket in South Africa and India and gave the bowling term military medium a new and more pacifist interpretation. His greatest ambition was to score a century on Llandudno beach before the tide came in.”
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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 Currie Cup final. It is something for which he has never been forgiven by the powers-that-be at Loftus. Archie has played cricket in South Africa and India and gave the bowling term military medium a new and more pacifist interpretation. His greatest ambition was to score a century on Llandudno beach before the tide came in.”
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