An essay by Henrietta Rose-Innes has appeared in Granta online. The piece, which is on the theme of homecoming, sees Rose-Innes return to her memories of her childhood home in Cape Town's white suburbs in the 1960s and 70s in the early days of racial segregation. The theme of returning home is one that is prevalent in Rose-Innes's latest short story collection HOMING which has recently been published in South Africa by Random House's Umuzi imprint.

HOMING is the first of two books by Henrietta Rose-Innes to be published by Random House SA's Umuzi imprint, and features the Caine Prize winning story 'Poison' (which was praised by the Guardian as 'a compellingly enigmatic story' and 'an eloquent vignette of the "new" South Africa') and 'Falling', a runner-up in the 2010 Willesden Short Story Prize.  A novel, NINEVEH, will also be published by Umuzi in 2011.

More Praise for Henrietta Rose-Innes:
 
'Rose-Innes is a writer almost in the Virginia Woolf mould - lateral of mind and poetic in her style of narration.'
-- Leon de Kock, SA Sunday Times
 
'Henrietta Rose-Innes is a master of the beautifully thought-out metaphor. Her prose is elegant and liquid, and carries you along throughout.'
-- Helen Brain, Cape Times
 
'Henrietta Rose-Innes writes an admirably taut, clean prose...a welcome addition to the new South African literature.' 
-- J M Coetzee