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South Africa

Authors of color
Brandy Burgess

Born a Crime

BORN A CRIME: STORIES FROM A SOUTH AFRICAN CHILDHOOD Trevor Noah, South African comedian, recent emigrant to the U.S., and currently the host of The

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

The Woman Next Door

THE WOMAN NEXT DOOR Yewande Omotoso’s latest novel, The Woman Next Door, intertwines two thematic constants—one strand considers the process of aging, while the other

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History
Neal Ferguson

Hero of the Empire

Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill Winston Spencer Churchill  (WSC) was in most respects a

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Mystery
Ann Ronald

A Beautiful Place to Die

A Beautiful Place to Die brings to life a 1950s South Africa, when new apartheid laws have just been enacted and when justice is in

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