Books

Zukiswa Wanner is the author of many publications across fiction and fiction for adults and children. She is also the editor of a number of titles.

Here is her full bibliography;

Novels

  • The Madams, Oshun Books, 2006.
  • Behind Every Successful Man, Kwela Books, 2008.
  • Men of the South, Kwela Books, 2010.
  • London Cape Town Joburg, Kwela Books, 2014.

Non-fiction

  • Vignettes of People in an Apartheid State, Paivapo, 2023 
  • 8115: A Prisoner’s Home with Alf Kumalo, Penguin, 2010
  • Maid in SA: 30 Ways to Leave Your Madam, Jacana, 2013.
  • Hardly Working: A Travel Memoir of Sorts, Black Letter Media, 2018.  
  • Africa (a True Book: the Seven Continents), Children’s Press, 2019

Children’s books

  • Jama Loves Bananas, Jacana, 2013
  • Refilwe (an African retelling of “Rapunzel”), Jacana, 2014
  • The Black Pimpernel: Nelson Mandela on the Run (True Adventures), Pushkin Children’s Books, 2022

Editor

  • With Rohini Chowdhury, Behind The Shadows. Contemporary Stories from Africa and Asia (2012)
  • Water Birds on The Lake Shore (2019)
  • The Heart is A Bastard (2023)