Touch: Stories of Contact: For this unique and impressive anthology, some of South Africa's top storytellers were invited to interpret the theme of touch. The result is a scintillating collection of twenty-two stories about all kinds of human interaction. There are tales of love lost, and of newfound intimacy. Some describe encounters with strangers, others explore family relationships. Most deal with touch in a physical and emotional sense; one or two consider the idea of 'keeping in touch'.
Touch: Stories of Contact brings us work from such established luminaries as André Brink, Nadine Gordimer, Damon Galgut and Ivan Vladislavić, as well as exciting new voices such as Alistair Morgan and Julia Smuts Louw. Whether poignant or light-hearted, fictional or autobiographical, these innovative stories remind us of the preciousness of touch and are a testimony to the creative talents of South Africa’s writers.

All the authors have agreed to donate their royalties to the Treatment Action Campaign. Every copy sold therefore contributes to the fight against HIV and AIDS.

ISBN: 9781770220461

The Children’s Hours: Stories of Childhood
Edited by Richard Zimler and Raša Sekulovic

Publication timed to coincide with the implementation of recommendations of a groundbreaking united nations study on violence against children.

To support Save the Children and raise awareness for its fight to end violence against children, bestselling authors from the world have banded together to create a bold and moving anthology of stories about childhood. Participants include such acclaimed and award-winning authors as David Almond, Margaret Atwood, André Brink, Melvin Burgess, Nadine Gordimer, Eva Hoffman, Alberto Manguel, Meg Rosoff, Nicholas Shakespeare, Ali Smith, Joan Smith and Richard Zimler.

In The Children’s Hours, these and fifteen other renowned authors explore and celebrate childhood; their tales touching on abuse and rejection, loneliness and love, the joys of friendship and discovery, and the first confused inklings of adolescent love.

All writer’s royalties will be donated to Save the Children (www.savethechildren.org) for its work to end violence against young people.

ISBN: 9781905147809

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Truer than Fiction: Nadine Gordimer Writing Post-Apartheid South Africa

Nadine Gordimer is one of South Africa's most prominent authors. In 1991, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Truer than Fiction charts this iconic writer's post-apartheid work, focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on the four novels she published between 1994 and 2005: None to Accompany Me (1994), The House Gun (1998), The Pickup (2001), and Get a Life (2005). The study includes a brief biographical outline of Gordimer's life and a discussion of her long-standing status as 'the voice' of South Africa. It also provides the contemporary socio-historical and literary contexts for her work after the country's first democratic elections in 1994. The core of the study constitutes a thematic assessment of Gordimer's fiction and non-fiction after 1994, explored in the light of these contexts. Drawing upon such schools of thought as postcolonial theory, cultural studies, ecocriticism, feminist criticism and gender studies, as well as the rich critical reception of her writing, Truer than Fiction illuminates the continued importance of Nadine Gordimer's oeuvre in her home country and across the world.

ISBN: 9783838100661

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J.M. Coetzee in Context and Theory

This work draws on a wide range of theoretical ideas and approaches to illuminate Coetzee's texts including: deconstruction and the 'school of singularity', ethics and power, gender studies, queer theory, issues surrounding the body and animal rights.Nobel Laureate and the first author to win the Booker Prize twice, J.M. Coetzee is perhaps the world's leading living novelist writing in English. Including an international roster of world leading critics and novelists, and drawing on new research, this innovative book analyses the whole range of Coetzee's work, from his most recent novels through his memoirs and critical writing. It offers a range of perspectives on his relationship with the historical, political, cultural and social context of South Africa. It also contextualises Coetzee's work in relation to his literary influences, colonial and post-colonial history, the Holocaust and colonial genocides, the 'politics' and meaning of the Nobel prize in South Africa and Coetzee's very public move from South Africa to Australia. Including a major unpublished essay by leading South African novelist André Brink, this book offers the most up-to-date study of Coetzee's work currently available.

One of my essays is also included.

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Load Shedding is a collection of non-fiction stories from South Africa’s pre-eminent authors, journalists and commentators. Published at a time of great uncertainty – during the so-called ‘Second Transition’ – these stories reflect the ambivalence and anxiety of our age. Covering diverse subjects such as corruption in the countryside, sexual abuse, ‘Zuluness’ in time of Zuma, and ethnic panic, these personal accounts shed new light on our contemporary South African world.

The collection includes one of my essays on migration and xenophobia: “Given Half a Chance”.

ISBN: 9781868423231