DIE DOOD VAN RACHEL APRIL

349pp., paperback, Queillerie, Cape Town, 2025

ISBN: 9780795802942

Journalist and MA student Rachel April’s body is found with a stab wound to her heart. Fellow student Lesea du Plessis promises Rachel’s daughter she will find out what happened to her mother.

P.P. Fourie's debut novel The Heart Is the Size of a Fist was translated to Afrikaans by Marius Swart and released simultaneously as ’n Hart is so groot soos ’n vuis. He is also the author of the non-fiction title The Political Management of HIV and AIDS in South Africa: one burden too many? He lives in Wellington, and teaches in the Department of Political Science at Stellenbosch University.