Vincent: 2487 books

On a world where the days are ticking toward extinction, the desperate inhabitants send their best emissaries into the unknown for a solution.Coiled in the distrust of the Cold War and faced with an enigma that threatens humanity, three ordinary people wage an extraordinary fight to bridge...

Que ressent le chrétien, désireux de vivre sa foi comme une méditation d’amour envers Dieu, lorsqu’il se voit tenu de la proclamer par le Credo tel qu’il est rédigé encore aujourd’hui ?Un texte où il est question d’un dieu créateur de toutes choses, d’un fils de ce dieu, incarné,...

While meeting Segomotso changed Joab's life forever that strange magical meeting was only part of Joab's story. The story of the 'Dress Maker' is also a story of his deconstructive reading of John Calvin. Joab's reading of Calvin's work takes the texts apart along the structural 'fault lines' created...

While the narrator’s story centres on a young teenage Lolita. The story also includes school yard narratives and school boy folk wisdom regarding strategy, tactics, manoeuvres, persuasion and the overall methodology for the guaranteed, successful and fool-proof gaining of access to physical intimacy...

A strange and unlikely romance begins on a night-train journey, the romance fraught with deception, contradictions and comedy borders on farce. The love between the two individuals requires them to negotiate impossible obstacles, and all the time the Rabbi remains completely oblivious of his beautiful wife's secret love life.

A young black woman desperately seeking work is forced by economic circumstances to accept the position as a domestic servant in the employment of two postgraduate students studying at the University of Potchefstroom who live in a cottage hidden among acacia trees at the edge of town. A relationship...

This collection of short stories captures the diversity and uniqueness of the life experiences of young people within a South African setting over-shadowed by the grim realities of apartheid.

How could a feminine conscious self-awareness arise from the material constituents out of which the Universe was composed? Feminization was to become fabulous, to be feminine was to be ‘fantastical’. To be fantastical was to be whimsical, fanciful, sublime and above all, magnificent in a freshly metamorphosed body.

It was difficult to fathom Sheldon. He did come across as a hard line Leftist or Marxist. This was confusing for me and for the others. Was he phony or was he genuine. I could honestly not tell at the time. Anyway, whatever misgiving we may have had regarding his Leftist credentials, we were awe struck...

Waterlandsridge is the story of an African farm in the early 1960s told by two teenagers, a brother and a sister. Through what they see, experience and think we acquire an intimate insight into their rural universe with all its characteristic rhythms of life and death, hope and grief.

Basking in the Mediterranean sun, visiting art museums in Italy, and walking the streets of Paris a young student from Africa embarks on a journey of love and erotic adventure.

In this novella Joab Badenhorst as a white South African male finds himself literally thrown into the cauldron of war, fighting on the wrong side of history, first in the counter-insurgency bush war on the Namibian-Angolan border and then in the Angolan civil war. Unable to extricate himself he experiences...

This novel is the second book in The Barracuda Night Club trilogy. The entanglement of the lives of Aaron and Geraldine grows more complex. progressing inexorably to the inevitable crisis which sets them onto the journey to the Barracuda Night Club.

This novel is the third book in the Barracuda Night Club trilogy. Aaron and Geraldine leave apartheid South Africa for Swaziland where they start their careers as teachers at a remote mission station in a valley at the foot of the great Lebombo mountains. They go on an erotic honeymoon journey into...