Vincent Gray: 30 books

Zebedee undergoes a life transforming journey while doing his national military service in the South African Defence force at Lake Sibaya in the company of two eccentric comrades. Through his two friends he is exposed to a whole new way of experiencing and perceiving the world. He also experiences enigmatic and paradoxical encounters with different women, including the mysterious Rebekah

After Dr Trevor Guzmán had packed his meagre belongings into the boot of his dark blue Ford Capri he bid farewell to Potchefstroom. On the road to Johannesburg he picked up a hitchhiker. Little did he know that his life was going to change in the most unimaginable way.Three Days in Phoenix seems...

Farewell to Innocence is a novel in which multiple plots unfold sinuously in a world where the boundaries between race, ethnicity, class, religion, gender and sexuality start collapsing almost inexorably as a new age sweeps away all ancient verities and customs. It is also an exotic story of love...

In the dying days of apartheid a Communist detained by the security police finds herself in a world of shadows, smoke and mirrors, where truth and falsehood seemed to merge seamlessly. It was also a world in which men and women lied shamelessly, and betrayal became the reality of not only the counter insurgency game but also the ultimate inexorable destiny of the revolution.

At twelve I was personally experiencing an intimate state of bodily strangeness. My sense of otherness increased my moodiness. My dark moods and adolescent sullenness were due to the fact that I was in the throes of a dramatic psychosexual metamorphosis orchestrated by a surging flood of oestrogen...

The short story involves a retelling of an ancient Jewish parable from medieval European times. Ironically the re-telling of the story takes place in a historical building called 'The Elephant Trading Store' and the trigger that led to the actual re-telling of the Jewish Parable was the discovery...

Literary post-mortem of the 'Raghavee' novella . On the surface this a remarkably simple love story - but this is a deception! This novella is also in a way a sister story to my 'Waterlandsridge'. They are both 'poetic narratives', For those who are interested in reading ‘Raghavee – The Immoral...

The Journal Writings written by an enigmatic lesbian anarchist intellectual, in that free-flowing engaging style which fills notebooks with all kinds of erotic and erudite commentary on a mind blowing diversity of topics representing her literary attempt to make sense of the infinite mass of undifferentiated...

After a chance meeting with the incurably fickle but exquisitely beautiful Helena Lathbury, Julian Bogart finds himself on a roller-coaster journey which takes him from the orphan city of Germiston to the streets of Paris. While in the Louvre after being warned by a stranger they discover that they...

A successful and wealthy artist in the autumn of his life who while living as a recluse meets a stranger one night at his regular watering hole in the bar of the Masonic Hotel in Boksburg. The stranger becomes intrigued by the eccentric artist and ends up spending the night listening to a strange...

During the brutal and dark days of Apartheid in the 1960s Aaron Finnegan a white teenager from a relatively wealthy upper middle class Boksburg family was stunned to learn from his sister Hillary and her best friend Gillian that none of the fundamental questions of philosophy had ever been solved....

On a chance meeting on a flight to Paris a professor of philosophy tells a young fashion model an intriguing story of love triangles, infidelities, betrayal, forgiveness which revolve around a desirable young woman who could have been a character out of a Luis Bunuel movie as the one called 'That obscure object of desire'.

In the 1970s as a result of the intellectual labours of senior academics working under the auspices of what become known as ‘The History Workshop in South Africa’ a resurgence of radical political activism erupted among students on the historically white university campuses. Apart from the critical...

I was now having regular sex with Susan who was self-identifying as bisexual, and like Francis Digby her faith was falling apart and she was undergoing an existential crisis on the eve of her final exams. The fact that I did not find Francis Schaeffer’s apologetics or defence of evangelic Christianity...