Henrietta Rose-Innes has written a piece for The Literary Sofa on Cape Town, the ‘old colonial outpost at the southern tip of a continent, with its complex history and glorious views’.

Rose-Innes’s most recent novel is Green Lion, published locally by Umuzi in 2016 and shortlisted for the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, and published in French as L’Homme au Lion by Editions Zoe and in the UK by Aardvark Bureau.

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Her next novel is tentatively titled Stone Plant.

Read Rose-Innes on Cape Town:

Visitors notice the contrasts and juxtapositions on display here. The mansions alongside the tin shacks, the startling beauty and raw inequality. Oceans on either hand, and a great big flat-topped mountain set down in the middle of it all. To tourists, Table Mountain seems incongruous, wondrous; to locals, it’s a landmark and a compass point, even for those of us who live so far from the centre that the “tabletop” is a just pale silhouette. Having a mountain changes things. Capetonians’ heads are often in the clouds, as anyone from grittier, faster, slicker Jo’burg will attest. Here, it’s possible to to climb into the sky and gaze down upon the geography of the city from a contemplative distance – a novelistic view. It’s a good city for writing.

• Read Rose-Innes’s full article on The Literary Sofa

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