With passion, intelligence, and rare moral insight, Elleke Boehmer traces the scars left on the psyche by the tortuous histories of the South.

Elleke Boehmer brings to her stories two qualities that all too often are mutually exclusive: the lucidity of her intelligence and the passion of her engagement.

The delicate intersection between the personal and the political has seldom been so skilfully explored; readable, tangible and haunting.

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News

Catch Elleke at FLF 2025!

Elleke will be at the 2025 Franschhoek Literary Festival on Friday and Saturday to talk about her three new books, Ice Shock, Life Writing and…

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Fiction

Nile Baby

Published by Ayebia, 2008 Nile Baby tells the story of two quirky young friends who…

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Bloodlines

Published by David Philip (South Africa), 2000; Shenzhen Publishing House (China), 2024 Short-listed for the…

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An Immaculate Figure

Published by Bloomsbury, 1993 Rosandra White is the proverbial perfect blonde. Exquisitely proportioned, desirable, her…

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Non-fiction

Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction

Nelson Mandela

Published by Oxford University Press, 2008 As well as being a remarkable statesman and one…

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Agent

Catherine Clarke

Felicity Bryan Literary Agency
2a North Parade Avenue,
Oxford, OX2 6LX

catherine@felicitybryan.com

Tel: (01865) 513816
Fax: (01865) 310055

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