We look forward to welcoming you to the launch of Homing, a collection of short stories by prize-winning South African writer, Henrietta Rose-Innes. She will be in discussion with writer and journalist Jacqui L'ange.

The collection comprises 15 stories, spanning over a decade of writing. They include the Caine Prize-winning 'Poison'; Caine Prize-shortlisted 'Bad Places'; and 'Falling', a runner-up for the 2010 Willesden Prize. Several stories are previously unpublished.

From the blurb:

'... an extraordinary glimpse into a selection of ordinary lives. Diverse characters – a teenager learning to be a boyfriend, an ageing copywriter, a girl on the brink of womanhood – are animated in sparse, sparkling prose. The Cape Town they mostly inhabit is both a playground and an obstacle course, filled with menace and delight. Through this landscape, like the pigeons in the title story, they find new paths home – and are themselves transformed by the journey.'