A SPY IN TIME

270pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2018

A futuristic novel about Enver Eleven, a spy for the Historical Agency whose job it is to make sure the end of the world never happens again. He is based in Johannesburg, the only city that survived when a supernova hit Earth.

Imraan Coovadia is the author of the novels The Wedding, Green-Eyed Thieves, High Low In-between, The Institute for Taxi Poetry and Tales of the Metric System, and a collection of essays, Transformations. He has been awarded the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, the University of Johannesburg Prize, the M-Net Prize, and a South African Literary Award for Non-Fiction. Currently he directs the creative writing programme at the University of Cape Town.