is delighted to announce the following titles have been shortlisted for the Sunday Times Literary Awards 2012.

Lost Ground by Michiel Heyns ISBN: 9781868424160 Price: R180.00 Award-winning author, Michiel Heyns returns with a richly textured novel set in contemporary South Africa. The murder of a beautiful woman shatters the rural village peace of Alfredville. Her cousin Peter, a freelance writer in London, returns to South Africa for the first time in decades unsettled, curious, but also in search of a career-defining story. He finds that things are not as straightforward as he imagined, and South Africa is not as he left it. Lost Ground explores questions of xenophobia and prejudice, of national, sexual and personal identity, and what it means to be a foreigner wherever you go. MICHIEL HEYNS is the author of five other novels: The Childrens Day, The Reluctant Passenger, The Typewriters Tale, Bodies Politic and the recently published Invisible Furies. He is a translator and was Professor of English at the University of Stellenbosch.

The Shadow World by Andrew Feinstein ISBN: 9781868423323 Price: R280.00 The Shadow World is the harrowing, behind-the scenes tale of the global arms trade. Pulling back the curtain on this secretive world, Andrew Feinstein reveals the corruption and the cover-ups behind weapon deals. Based on path-breaking reporting and unprecedented access to top-secret information and major players in the weapons business, including arms dealers who have never been interviewed before. The Shadow World places us in the midst of the arms trades dramatic wheeling and dealing.

ANDREW FEINSTEIN is the author of After the Party. His journalism has been featured in the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New York Times, Der Spiegel and Africa Report. He regularly appears on BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera. He is the founding co-director of Corruption Watch and chairman of the Aids charity, FoTAC.

Diepsloot by Anton Harber ISBN: 9781868424214 Price: R175.00 In little more than a decade, Diepsloot has transformed from a semi-rural expanse to a dense, seething settlement of about 200 000 people. A post-apartheid creation lying to the north of Johannesburg, Diepsloot is talked about as a place of fear, vigilante justice, xenophobic violence and a haven for criminals and undocumented foreigners. Respected journalist Anton Harber spent several months there, meeting the people, drinking in the taverns and probing the bitter local political battles.

ANTON HARBER is the Caxton Professor of Journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was the co-founder and co-editor of the Weekly Mail (now the Mail & Guardian), and an executive producer of the television series Ordinary People and Hard Copy. Harber currently writes a column in Business Day.

Little Liberia by Jonny Steinberg ISBN: 9781868423828 Price: R195.00 Jonny Steinberg spent two years in New York shadowing two men in exile, Rufus Arkoi and Jacob Massaquoi. What emerges is a story of a heart-wrenching civil war, of a deeply troubled relationship between America and West Africa, of personal ambition wrestling with moral responsibility, of memory wrestling with forgetfulness, and of the quest to be human in a world losing its humanity. JONNY STEINBERG is the author of the critically acclaimed Three-Letter Plague as well as Midlands and The Number, which both won South Africas premier non-fiction prize, the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award. Steinberg was educated at the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He currently lives in the United Kingdom and works at the University of Oxford.

For further information on these titles please contact Anika Ebrahim (ae@jpb.co.za) or Claire Richards (cr@jbp.co.za) on 021 469 8900.