Patricia Schonstein

• Dec-2000
• / General Fiction
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Skyline is a vibrant novel set in contemporary times in a run-down block of flats in Long Street, central Cape Town.

Through this novel, narrated by an adolescent girl, the book explores the lives of African refugees who come to South Africa...

• Aug-2004
• / General Fiction
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A nobleman and his wife, an apothecary nun, an astronomer-mathematician, an inquisitor, a poet who is both lover and villain, a portraitist, a queen and loyal servants deftly act out a beautiful drama of tantalizing relationships. They take up their ...

• Dec-2004
• / Contemporary Romance
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Primo Verona is born with a gift of clairvoyance so strong that he is able to predict his own mother's death while still in her womb. Brought up on a rich diet of astronomy, philosophy, and storytelling, Primo accurately reads the futures of the loca...

• Oct-2006
• / General Fiction
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Set in Grahamstown, South Africa, during the 1990s at the height of political unrest and opposition to apartheid, this is the bittersweet story of two people whose lives intertwine with-out them knowing each other-one a heavy-drinking white man and t...

• Nov-2008
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2011
• / General Fiction
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Patricia Schonstein takes us to the heart of Cape Town's violent inner city. She weaves together a rich and consuming story of a secret love affair between a boss and his secretary who create a fantastical, theatrical life for themselves within the c...

• Dec-2014
• / General Fiction
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The poems in this anthology illuminate the infinitesimal detail of intricate and true love. We find the unadulterated first kiss, first touch and first breaking of all things virginal. We see love’s sweetness, its temper and the hurt it causes. ...

• Jun-2021
• / Literary
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In the Karoo-like landscape of a mythical country beset with civil war, tarot cards are brandished and bones swiftly turn to dust. Against the backdrop of this arid place, Kitty Cloete, the inkeeper’s wife, survives on her inner resources.Stron...

• / General Fiction
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Africa My Africa is an anthology of some 190 poems, compilation of which began in 1997. As the collection grew, similarity in the 'types of fabric' that made up the whole became apparent:

Love. Song. Loss. Exile. Journeys. War's folly. Fi...