THE ALAN PATON AWARD LONGLIST

• Third World Child: Born White, Zulu Bred by GG Alcock (Tracey McDonald Publishers)

• Regarding Muslims: From Slavery to Post-Apartheid by Gabeba Baderoon (Wits University Press)

• What’s Gone Wrong? On the Brink of a Failed State by Alex Boraine (Jonathan Ball Publishers)

• Justice: A Personal Account by Edwin Cameron (Tafelberg)

• Girl on the Edge by Ruth Carneson (Face2Face)

• The Side of the Sun at Noon: A Quest by Hazel Crampton (Jacana)

• Brothers in War and Peace: Constand and Abraham Viljoen and the Birth of the New South Africa by Dennis Cruywagen (Zebra Press)

• Digging Deep: A History of Mining in South Africa by Jade Davenport (Jonathan Ball Publishers)

• Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle by Jacob Dlamini (Jacana)

• The Rise of the Securocrats by Jane Duncan (Jacana)

• Lost and Found in Johannesburg by Mark Gevisser (Jonathan Ball Publishers)

• Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and Daughter by Lyndall Gordon (Little Brown)

• The Search for the Rarest Bird in the World by Vernon RL Head (Jacana)

• DF Malan and the Rise of Afrikaner Nationalism by Lindie Koorts (Tafelberg)

• Good Morning, Mr Mandela by Zelda la Grange (Penguin)

• Opposite Mandela: Encounters with South Africa’s Icon by Tony Leon (Jonathan Ball Publishers)

• The Fall of the ANC: What Next? by Prince Mashele and Mzukisi Qobo (Picador Africa)

• Back To Angola: A Journey from War to Peace by Paul Morris (Zebra Press)

• The New Radicals: A Generational Memoir of the 1970s by Glenn Moss (Jacana)

• Hostels, Homes, Museum: Memorialising Migrant Labour Pasts in Lwandle, South Africa by Noëleen Murray and Leslie Witz, (UCT Press)

• Postmortem: The Doctor Who Walked Away by Maria Phalime (Tafelberg)

• Drinking with Ghosts: The Aftermath of Apartheid’s Dirty War by Michael Schmidt (BestRed)

• A Man of Good Hope by Jonny Steinberg (Jonathan Ball Publishers)

• Memoirs of a Born Free: Reflections on the Rainbow Nation by Malaika wa Azania (Jacana)

• Raising the Bar: Hope and Renewal in South Africa by Songezo Zibi (Picador Africa)