By the Same Author
NOVELS
The Lying Days / A World of Strangers / Occasion for Loving
A Guest of Honour / The Conservationist
Burger’s Daughter / July’s People / A Sport of Nature
My Son’s Story / None to Accompany Me / The House Gun
The Pickup / Get a Life / No Time Like The Present
STORY COLLECTIONS
The Soft Voice of the Serpent / Six Feet of the Country
Friday’s Footprint / Not for Publication
Livingstone’s Companions
A Soldier’s Embrace / Something Out There
Jump / Loot / Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black
Life Times: Stories 1952–2007
ESSAYS
The Black Interpreters / On the Mines (with David Goldblatt)
Lifetimes under Apartheid (with David Goldblatt)
The Essential Gesture – Writing, Politics and Places
(edited by Stephen Clingman)
Writing and Being
Living in Hope and History: Notes from Our Century
EDITOR, CONTRIBUTOR
Telling Tales
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First published in Great Britain in 1966
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