Knucklebone (Pan Macmillan) 
Sangomas and cops don’t mix. Usually. But this is Joburg, a metropolis that is equal parts flash and shadow, and where not everything can be easily explained. Ian Jack, a disillusioned former police officer, teams up with Reshma Patel, a colleague from his old life, to investigate a routine housebreaking gone bad. But when they uncover links to a possible animal poaching and trafficking syndicate, things go from complicated to dangerous to downright evil.
Set against the richly textured backdrop of a livewire African city, this fast-paced thriller offers a disturbing contemporary take on justice and morality. To be read with the lights on.
Knucklebone is now available in all good South African bookstores.
Buy the ebook version of Knucklebone from Kobo
Buy the kindle edition of Knucklebone at Amazon.com
The Cape Town Book (Struik)
Cape Town, the ‘Mother City’. A metropolis with a 100 000-year history of human habitation. A landscape dominated by the mountain and the sea, transformed by centuries of colonisation and decades of apartheid… The Cape Town Book (Struik Travel & Heritage) presents a fresh picture of South Africa’s first city, weaving together its places and the stories of all the people who live in it. This remarkable, comprehensive social history of Cape Town is a must-have for locals and visitors.
Buy The Cape Town Book from:
Amazon (US) – Kindle edition. Paperback from other resellers.
Amazon (UK) – Paperback and Kindle editions.
South Africa: Find the paperback or e-book version at Takealot, Exclusive Books, Readers Warehouse, and all good bookstores.
I Ran For My Life (Pan Macmillan)
Kabelo Mabalane with Nechama Brodie
An exceptional memoir from the self-proclaimed ‘pantsula for life’, bad-boy kwaito singer, recovered drug addict, and now eight-time Comrades Marathoner Kabelo Mabalane, I Ran For My Life
Buy this book at all good bookstores (South Africa).
E-book available on Amazon
Maverick – Extraordinary Women From South Africa’s Past
(2nd edition; Umuzi)
Lauren Beukes and Nechama Brodie
This updated edition of international bestselling author Lauren Beukes‘ first (non-fiction) work includes expanded and updated original chapters, plus three new chapters on Cissie Gool, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, and Eudy Simelane.
The Joburg Book (Pan Macmillan)
From ancient rivers filled with gold and deep-impact meteorites, through the dark decades of Apartheid and beyond the fragile transition into democracy, The Joburg Book (Pan Macmillan) captures the city’s often uneasy relationship with its past and its future, exploring the history of the city of gold through its geography and its communities. The Joburg Book includes hundreds of historical photos, local area maps, and places of interest. The Joburg Book has sold over 10 000 copies. A revised and expanded edition of the book was released in 2014.
Nechama Brodie’s fine pop-culture history of the city, The Joburg Book, became my bible …’ – Lauren Beukes
Inside Joburg (Pan Macmillan)
Inside Joburg (Pan Macmillan) is a pocket guide to the history and heritage of the city of Johannesburg that takes the reader – resident or visitor – on a journey through the city’s spaces, from its geography and history through to recommended places to shop, eat and relax.
“Even though I understood that the city was the economic hub of the country and was draped in colourful history, I could never see this beauty. Until I read Brodie’s guide to the city, that is.”
– Daily News
“… it’s perfect for the visitor and resident alike to carry around while visiting Joburg’s many interesting things to see and do.”
– Lucille Davie, Joburg.org
Bloody Satisfied (Burnet Media)
Edited by Joanne Hichens, Bloody Satisfied (Burnet Media) is an anthology of South African crime-thriller short stories – the first of the Short Sharp Stories award annual short story anthologies. Nechama Brodie’s unusual crime-and-magic story, “Feet of Clay”, was highly commended by the judging panel.
Home 