BITCHES' BREW

326pp., paperback, Reprint, Jacana, Johanneburg, (2006) 2023

ISBN: 9781770091900

Joint winner of a European Union Literary Award.

Bra Zakes, a former amateur musician, bootlegger, mercenary and infamous killer, lies dying in his luxurious villa in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. At his bedside are his most trusted lieutenants, waiting for instructions on what to do with his crime syndicate. Also at his bedside is Lettie, his former lover and the mother of his only son, whom he has not seen for twenty years, and whom he hopes to make a beneficiary of his empire.

Journalist and writer Fred Khumalo is the author of the novels The Longest March, Seven Steps to Heaven, Two Tons O' Fun and Dancing the Death Drill (winner of a Humanities and Social Sciences Award); two collections of short stories, Talk of the Town (winner of the 2020 Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award) and A Coat of Many Colours; and a memoir, Touch My Blood.