"Lior Tirosh is a semi-successful author of pulp fiction, an inadvertent time traveler, and an ongoing source of disappointment to his father. Tirosh has returned to his homeland in East Africa. But Palestina--a Jewish state founded in the early 20th century--has grown dangerous. The government is building a vast border wall to keep out African refugees. Unrest in Ararat City is growing. And Tirosh's childhood friend, trying to deliver a warning,...

By watching the other animals, a newborn elephant learns many uses for his wonderful trunk.

"Andrew Brown, winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, has stunned readers in his native South Africa with this intelligent and compelling police procedural set in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Now, Brown is ready to take on America with this top notch mystery series, published here for the first time. In Coldsleep Lullaby the body of a young woman is found drifting in a river, and Detective Eberard Februarie is called in to investigate the case....

The newest headspinning thriller from the breakout South African crime writer, author of "Heart of the Hunter," is the story of an ex-cop, Zet van Heerden, who has seven days to solve a seemingly unsolvable crime--the answer to which lies in his own dark past.

It's 1972. When hot-headed, impetuous Jack Muir gets off the ship in Durban, he fails to get back on. Instead, he sails into misadventure, fleeing the stifling town of Genoralup to try to lose himself in South Africa at the height of apartheid. But the past has a way of catching up with you, and soon Jack is running again, this time to a kibbutz in Israel. In the course of a lifetime, Jack will travel far, always caught between fleeing from and seeking...

In a future world where young people are automatically forced to do work assigned by the Global Alliance, three seventeen-year-olds are chosen to be blenders and help repopulate and rebuild the devastated continent of Africa, but mercenaries who want to crush the blending program pose a serious threat to them.

Presents six tales about Spider, including those which explain how he got a thin waist and a bald head and why he lives in ceilings and dark corners.

While Mankunku grows up in Africa, we share in a parade of saints, charlatans, workers, bureaucrats, terrorists, and peacemakers with him.

Expert mouse dentist Doctor De Soto is called suddenly to Africa to work on the sore tooth of a desperate elephant.

Anansi the spider plans to trick Turtle into catching a fish for his dinner, but Turtle proves to be smarter and ends up with a free meal. Explains the origin of spider webs.