In the heart of Grey Street in Central Durban stands a dilapidated old building called AK Mansions. Since 1902 when the first batch of tenants moved in, and up to today, the building exudes a communal atmospher…

28 pieces of work from the pens of young people and older people in the L’Abre Writing Club. There is honest writing by teenagers on over-use of the telephone, on things they hate, on pocket money and on beauty…

Stories from the pens of orphans who tell it how it is: teenage pregnancy, alone because of parents dying from HIV and AIDS, young teenage girls as mothers of babies, and about the different kinds of violence t…

This book is the sequel to Angels Anointing. In the last book, Victoria, Lucy, Matthew and Bongani’s lives were changed by Reverend Luke Thomas. At the end Rev. Luke Thomas had a challenge for the group of youn…

Geoff Foster is a teenager like thousands, approaching his final school exams and hoping to go to university. Unlike many of them, he faces two complications. Firstly, he is disabled, paralysed down the left si…

As a child, the South African author and some friends experimented with an Ojija board. This led him on a journey of everyday magic, and exposure to African culture and magical interaction with the spirit world…

Sally-Fay’s contented peaceful life is thrown upside down when her father remarries his business partner who has a clever confident son of Sally Fay’s own age. So that the family starts off knowing each other a…

In this third book in the Angels series, Victoria has to confront the demons of her past. A former Satanist and a current convert to religion, she wishes to help a friend who was also a Satanist. Jane was the y…

The book is composed of five short stories. Faeeza Simjee says: There are moments in life when stories happen. Most we remember, some just fade. These are those ones that I felt needed to be bound into a memory…

Locked in the right side of your brain is a creative writing genius. The simple secret of switching off your analytical critical left brain is within these pages. You then can get help from your gigantic all-kn…

Three teenagers wrote this book. There is the story of the excellent student who relaxed after eating a drugged biscuit. This led to an addiction which led the good student to being expelled from school, gettin…

This book tells it all in a narrative free verse. The Zebra is Nompumelelo, and others who have endured hardships in life, but also had some luck and good living. The theme is multi-faceted, as it can also mean…

Sikhombindlela is the work of educators in the KZN province that has been created to encourage South African learners to discover and utilize their talent of creative writing. Sikhombindlela means « We are showi…

Twelve year-old Elijah is sure there are no demons or bad spirits in the cave of bats. His Shona friend Thambu is positive that his uncle died of a curse from the « Messengers of Death », but Elijah is going to p…

This book contains fourteen short stories by children in South Africa from different sectors, that is, street children in shelters, children in the streets, disabled children and children from the rural areas. …

Profound joy and great anguish link the lives of two families across three generations. The Whitneys and the McKelveys are passionately divided by Kiernan Whitney’s hatred of his rival, sugar baron Edward McKel…

Come and peer into the imaginations of four fascinating women from different walks of life who come together to weave remarkable stories inspired by their own lives, interests, cultures and society. Let their w…

Four retired South African nurses have written this collection of stories and articles. They include settings of growing up in a township in pre-democratic South Africa; and a peaceful valley where one of the a…

This book is made up of poetry, short stories and essays from Isulabasha Dancing Pencils Writing Club. This club consists of young adults and adults of Nkandla community. It is mentored by the Librarian, Khethi…

In a cosy billiard room in one of the oldest historic houses in KwaZulu-Natal, a group of writers meet once a month. In this room, there is a very high skylight with a massive hanging electric-light chandelier….