SEVEN STEPS TO HEAVEN

209pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007

A novel about Sis Lettie, entrepreneur and streetwise philosopher of the shebeens, and her son Kokoroshe, a street urchin turned lawyer.

Fred Khumalo is the author of the novels The Longest March, Dancing the Death Drill and Bitches' Brew and a book of short stories, Talk of the Town. His memoir, Touch My Blood, was shortlisted for the 2007 Alan Paton Prize for non-fiction.