Henrietta Rose-Innes (author of Nineveh) shortlised for M-Net Literary Award

"M-Net has revealed the shortlists for its prestigious M-Net Literary Awards, the only South African book awards that honour well-crafted novels in all South Africa’s official languages. The winners, who will each receive a cash prize of R50,000, will be announced on October 19 in Johannesburg.

The top novels that finally made it onto the respective shortlists (in alphabetical order according to the author’s surname):

English: Homemaking for the Down-at-heart - Finuala Dowling (Kwela Books); Lost Ground - Michiel Heyns (Jonathan Ball Publishers); The Landscape Painter - Craig Higginson (Picador Africa); Shooting Angels- Christopher Hope (Atlantic Books), and Nineveh - Henrietta Rose-Innes (Umuzi)"

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About Nineveh:

There’s an out-of-control swarm of insects hampering the completion of Nineveh, a luxury estate outside Cape Town. When Katya Grubbs, proprietor of Painless Pest Relocations, is called in, she discovers far more to exorcise than the mysterious infestation. Her own past returns to torment her in the form of her unruly father and the chaos he creates. With Nineveh crumbling around her, Katya is forced to question her own place in a rapidly changing world. This third novel by the award-winning Rose-Innes confirms her reputation as one of South Africa’s most noteworthy literary voices.

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Click here to read an extract from the book

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