Southern Africa

Jasmin has always known that monsters are real. And they wear ordinary faces.When she was a child, she witnessed her famous, adored grandfather attempt to kill her grandmother.Now Jasmin is...

The Spectator BEST CHILDREN'S BOOKS 2024Five Books BEST NEW BOOKS FOR TEENS 2024'Wars never end, they just change location.'An exceptional, thought-provoking YA novel about sisterhood, trauma and the fighting spirit of women,...

Translated from Portuguese by Lyn Miller-Lachmann A blackout leads two teens to discover the intimacy and vulnerability that can only be shared in darkness in Our Beautiful Darkness, a fully...

Gail-Agnes Musikavanhu's adrenaline-packed joyride of a debut is an ode to Gen Z and chaotic teens—perfect for fans of Grace D. Li, Ebony Ladelle, and Baby Driver. Best friends Loli...

An outstanding YA novel of family love, loss, and life lived between two cultures, by an astonishing, super-stylish new voice.'I'm going to tell you exactly how everything happened. Baba always says, Mati mwana'ngu, I...

This CBCA short-listed book also won the LA Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature and is a stunning and heartrending mystery set in a Swaziland boarding school about two...

From the award-winning author of the CBCA shortlisted When the Ground Is Hard, comes a stunning portrait of a family divided and an uplifting story of how friendship saves and...

An epic South African fantasy from award-winning author Mary Watson, for fans of Children of Blood and Boneand The Gilded Ones Seventeen-year-old Savannah is cursed. It's a sinister family heirloom;...