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Pumpkin Seeds and Other Gifts
The names of those who penned the writings in this impressive collection alone tell half the story. They tell their stories in different modes. They run the whole gamut - they tell of defiance, and spin hilarious tales of elopement and wry tales of despair, loss and lovelessness. Some of the poems lift up the heart, and others peel back the blinkers that blind our eyes. There is the romantic, the macabre and the surreal. The writings never leave you indifferent - you are likely to take sides, to get angry, to laugh, to cry, and to think of a lot that goes on inside the human heart.
Looking for Trouble
You could breathe in Yeoville. Set in vibrant, edgy Yeoville during late 1980s, early 1990s Johannesburg, the stories in Looking for Trouble capture a moment when everything in South Africa was about to change. Colleen Higgs presents love stories without sentiment, relationships explored through the small, broken things that reveal everything. In "Plumbing: A Short History," a woman recounts her relationships through the metaphor of the dripping faucet that all the men in her life tried to fix. In "Looking for Trouble," the collection's signature story, a woman recounts the unraveling of her situationship that ultimately leads to violence and to her question about how she arrived there. Thes...
The Only Magic We Know
The Only Magic We Know is a celebration of all the poets Modjaji has published. This anthology offers a taste of the range and diversity of the poems that have appeared in the individual poets collections.
Colleen Higgs
Biography of Colleen Higgs, currently Publishing Director at Modjaji Books, previously Acting Company Secretary (consultant) at PUKU Children's Literature Foundation and Acting Company Secretary (consultant) at PUKU Children's Literature Foundation.
My Mother, My Madness
A woman reluctantly takes on the responsibility of putting her eccentric rebellious mother into a retirement home, and managing her care. She has her own daughter to raise and nurture, a marriage and a business to hold together, and her own psychological troubles due in good part to how she was mothered. my mother, my madness is Colleen Higgs's diary of her mother's last ten years. It is at once funny, harrowing, mundane, chaotic, and full of insight. It is a rich and moving story which unfolds through its characters like a novel.
The Cry of the Hangkaka
The Cry of the Hangkaka is the story of young Karin and her mother Irene. Shamed by a divorce, Irene seeks to flee with her daughter from post WWII South Africa. Jack, a Scotsman who works at the tin mines in Nigeria, seems to be the answer to Irenes prayers. In the torrid heat of the Nigerian plateau, Karin is exposed to the lives of the colonisers, the colonised, and most of all to the dictatorship of Jack.
Dinaane
The African writer, Yvonne Vera, used to recall that, as a young girl in the cotton fields, the urge to write was so strong that with no pen and paper available she picked up a twig and started to scratch words onto her skin. Stories in South Africa kept the dream of freedom alive during the colonial and apartheid years; and the tradition of the people and elders of a village meeting under the shade of a tree is based on telling stories as a way of arriving at an understanding. This rich tradition is brought to life here, by women who write of and from the landscape and its people. Part of a series showcasing contemporary women writers from around the world.
In the Spirit of Mcphineas Lata, and Other Stories
In many of these stories, there is a sense that things are not as they seem: a woman's husband-to-be has a questionable past and a voluptuous stranger's beauty belies her malevolence. Characters are shaped by the particular challenges of their context - a young pregnant Mosarwa girl is forced to make a terrible decision and the barren wife of a wealthy Gaborone man is made to see an old woman with supposed powers of fertility. Atmospheric and evocative, these stories will entertain and transport you to the hot, dusty heart of Botswana.
