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Our books

Barbara Boswell, Grace: A Novel

Barbara Boswell 

Grace: a Novel (Modjaji Books, 2017).

Winner of the 2018 UJ Debut Prize for South African Writing in English.

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Nadia Davids, An Imperfect Blessing

Nadia Davids 

An Imperfect Blessing (Umuzi, 2014).

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Nadia Davids, At Her Feet

Nadia Davids 

At Her Feet (Wits UP, 2005).

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John Higgins, Academic Freedom in a Democratic South Africa

John Higgins

Academic Freedom in a Democratic South Africa: Essays and Interviews on Higher Education and the Humanities (Bucknell UP, 2014 [Wits UP, 2013]).

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John Higgins, An Excluding Consensus

John Higgins

An Excluding Consensus: Grants and Loan Schemes and the need for equitable access to Higher Education Globally (SAIH, 2019).

John Higgins, ed. Kagisano 11: Constituting Higher Education

John Higgins, ed. 

Kagisano 11: Constituting Higher Education (Council on Higher Education, 2017).

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Hedley Twidle, Experiments with Truth

Hedley Twidle

Experiments with Truth: Narrative Non-fiction and the Coming of Democracy in South Africa (James Currey, 2019).

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Hedley Twidle, Firepool: Experiences in an Abnormal World

Hedley Twidle

Firepool: Experiences in an Abnormal World (Kwela, 2017).

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Sandra Young, Shakespeare in the Global South

Sandra Young

Shakespeare in the Global South: Stories of Oceans Crossed in Contemporary Adaptation (Arden Shakespeare, 2019).

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Sandra Young, The Early Modern Global South in Print

Sandra Young

The Early Modern Global South in Print: Textual Form and the Production of Human Difference as Knowledge (Ashgate, 2015).

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