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

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
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

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


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 blac ...more
Mawuena Addo, Roses in the Rainbow

Hazel Gaynor
Yorkshire had none of the color I'd known in Cape Town- the vivid pinks and purples of the freesias and arum lilies in the flower sellers' baskets. Yorkshire had none of the fragrant floral perfume, or the tang of salt in the air from the ocean. ...more
Hazel Gaynor, The Cottingley Secret

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