Synopsis of The Classifier by Wessel Ebersohn The teenage love affair of Chris and Ruthie takes place against the turbulent political backdrop of South Africa in the 1970s. He comes from the white suburb of Red Hill and she from coloured Greenwood Park on the other side of the valley.
This is the sixth novel of the Yudel Gordon Series. Yudel Gordon is an eccentric prison psychologist working in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa. More about the Yudel Gordon stories can be found here. Enslin Kruger is a dying man, but he is the top prisoner in C-Max prison, and must
This is the fifth novel of the Yudel Gordon Series. Yudel Gordon is an eccentric prison psychologist working in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa. This book is set against the backdrop of post-Apartheid. More about the Yudel Gordon stories can be found here. When Abigail Bukula, a young lawyer in the
This is the fourth novel of the Yudel Gordon Series. Yudel Gordon is an eccentric prison psychologist working in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa. This book is set against the backdrop of post-Apartheid. More about the Yudel Gordon stories can be found here. In a cross border safe house of the
This is the third novel of the Yudel Gordon Series. Yudel Gordon is an eccentric prison psychologist working in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa. This book is set against the backdrop of Apartheid. More about the Yudel Gordon stories can be found here. The killings of Ray Baker and Fellows
This is the second novel of the Yudel Gordon Series. Yudel Gordon is an eccentric prison psychologist working in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa. This book is set against the backdrop of Apartheid. More about the Yudel Gordon stories can be found here. Johannesburg, South Africa, 1974 “From the place where
This is the first novel of the Yudel Gordon Series. Yudel Gordon is an eccentric prison psychologist working in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa. This book is set against the backdrop of Apartheid. More about the Yudel Gordon stories can be found here. The South African highveld, 1977 “They were coming
Probably because South Africa is still a new democracy, and yes, twenty-three years makes us still new, political correctness stalks the land. It gets in the way of novelists, movie makers, visual artists, in fact talented people of every kind who think for themselves. In some company, if you are
All of my Yudel Gordon novels take place at least partly in government offices, the early ones in offices of the Apartheid government and the latter ones offices of the democratic government. Creating a convincing picture of either can be a challenge. When writing about government and what takes place
South Africa has landscapes of every type. For a medium sized country the variety of settings for a novel is astonishing. In romantic stories and rural epics the landscape often plays an important role. We have all seen Gerald O’Hara looking across his cotton fields and telling us that “Land