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Books > Local Author Showcase > Fiction - adults > Drama
“This apricot tree has multiple souls that fill me with wonder every morning and enchant me by afternoon. This tree has bitter-sweet memories, just like the fruit it bears.” If the apricot trees of Soweto could talk, what stories would they tell? This short story collection provides an imaginative answer. Imbued with a vivid sense of place, it captures the vibrancy of the township and surrounds. Told with satirical flair, life and death are intertwined in these tales where funerals and the ancestors feature strongly; where cemeteries are places to show off your new car and catch up on the latest gossip. Populating these stories is a politician mesmerised by his mistress’s manicure, zama-zamas running businesses underground, a sangoma with a remedy for theft, soccer fans ready to mete out a bloody justice, a private dancer in love and many other intriguing characters. Take your seat under the apricot tree and be enthralled by tales that are both entertaining and thought-provoking.
Met die oorspronklike publikasie van die drie romans oor die wel en wee van vier geslagte Meissners het Ena Murray opnuut haar status as koningin van die Afrikaanse liefdesverhaal gestand gedoen. Die drieluik bestaan uit: Die Meissner-kliniek, waar ons die die stigter van die eksklusiewe privaat kliniek en sy gedugte span dokters ontmoet. Die vrede word in 'n oogwink omvergewerp wanneer 'n nuwe trolliejoggie daar begin werk ... Dokter Julene, waar Julene die veilige hawe van die Meissner-kliniek verlaat om by haar biologiese pa in Switserland aan te sluit ... en dan onverwags in Istanboel beland. En Die ongebore uur, waar Inge Buchner, die agterkleindogter van dr. Albert Meissner, alles in haar vermoe doen om te probeer verseker dat iemand met die van Meissner weer aan die hoof van die kliniek sal staan.
Reghardt du Toit is ’n bekende sanger met die wêreld aan sy voete. ’n Ernstige ongeluk verander sy lewe onherroeplik. As gevolg van gehoorverlies, is sing skielik buite die kwessie. Hy gaan soek na ’n nuwe begin in die klein WesKaapse dorpie van Philadelphia. Hier maak Reghardt ’n boetiekrestaurant oop terwyl die dorpie en inwoners in sy hart inkruip. ’n Dokter met ’n praktyk in die naburige Malmesbury trek ook met sy gesin en ’n geheimsinnige au pair na Philadelphia. Die plaaslike dominee se dogter is ’n internasionale model en haar pa se enigste kind. Sy weet sy presies wat sy in die lewe wil hê. Sy spits haar toe daarop om Reghardt se hart te verower. Die dowe sanger fokus egter daarop om mentor te wees vir ’n seun wat sy eie sangtalent wil slyp. ’n Skokkende tragedie bring ’n onverwagse wenteling in almal se lewens. Sal Reghardt genoeg liefde en vergifnis kan vind om die ontrafeling wat volg te weerstaan, of sal alles weer inmekaartuimel?
Twenty-nine-year-old Zola has spent the past 15 years working and studying in Europe thanks to a series of high school bursaries and opportunities that allowed her to escape the hardships of South Africa. But when her visa finally expires and there are no further prospects in sight, she has no choice but to leave behind her life, lover and the dreams she has begun to build in Germany and return home to an uncertain future. The Thing With Zola is a humorous and sexy beach read about a young woman navigating the working world, family politics and an unexpected office romance, all while trying to figure out her place in a country that no longer feels like home. Basically, it's complicated.
‘Outside, in the road, behind what looks like some hastily erected barricades, I see a crowd. Television cameras. Lights. Paparazzi. Press photographers. They’ve materialised out of nowhere. What looks like over a hundred locals and tourists are peering into every car leaving this area. Crowding against the car doors, pushing cameras up against the windows. Jostling. Screaming. Shouting. In all my anxiety, hard- nosed journalist that I’m not, during the hours spent shifting around in the plastic seat in the waiting room I had somehow not understood the enormity of this story.’ As deputy editor of the glamorous FILLE magazine in London, Lisa Lassiter had almost passed up the chance of a weekend on a billionaire’s yacht off the coast of Mykonos. But her best friend Claudia Hemmingway, on her way to becoming one of the hottest movie stars on the planet, could be very persuasive when she wanted something. Not only would they get there by private jet, she’d told Lisa, they would also get to rub shoulders with VIP guests – not least a famous Hollywood film producer. It would be a weekend of fun, sunshine, champagne and partying. And it was all of those things. Until it wasn’t. Lisa has spent ten years trying to get past that weekend. If she has learnt anything, it is that unfinished business and secrets always work their way to the surface. Moving on is one thing; forgetting is another, and forgiving ... well, where to start?
’n Vreemdeling by ’n familiebegrafnis keer Kristie se lewe onderstebo.
Haar daaglikse take by die argiteksfirma beleef ook ’n wending: Erik is
’n moeilike kliёnt en ook die onweerstaanbare tipe. Toe Kristie se
werklikheid ineenstort, vlug sy na Phuket in Thailand. Maar die eiland
bring nie vir haar die gemoedsrus waarop sy gehoop het nie. Terwyl sy
van haar omgekeerde wêreld probeer sin maak, begin een van die laaste
bastions in haar lewe wankel.
Almal in Jurassic Park op die Kaapse Vlakte ken vir Anwaar ‘Ahnie’ Brandt vandat hy ’n ekstra in die film GangStar was. Maar die baas van die Butcher Boys soek nog meer roem. Nou maak die gang hulle eie movies met hul selfone – movies wat die vrees in mense se oë vasvang. Ahnie se ma, Mary, kyk anderpad en sê sy weet van niks. Sy het mos nog ’n baksteenfoon, sy like nie van tegnologie nie. Nicole Lamb en Derick Delcarme is in matriek en verlief, maar toe Nicole swanger raak, moet Derick die skool verlaat om ’n werk te soek. Hy het geen ander keuse as om by die UML-gang aan te sluit nie, want daar kan hy darem geld maak. Rolanda Fischer wil ’n lewe van weelde soos ’n Cape Kardashian hê en as sy nie ’n celebrity op sosiale media kan word nie, gaan sy vir haar ’n ryk man kry. Maar sy hou ook van ’n bad boy . . . In Kinnes deur Chase Rhys word moeilike waarhede met deernis en humor oopgeskryf.
From the author of The Accident and Two Months comes the story of a whirlwind friendship and the dark secrets lurking beneath it. After a tumultuous marriage, Mary Wilson is happy in her uncomplicated life, focusing on her twelve-year-old son. She has always been content with her little family – but then she finds an old postcard that throws her past into question ... When an invitation arrives for her high school reunion, Mary jumps at the chance of a distraction from the shock discovery, and meeting her old classmate April feels like a gift. Despite barely remembering April, Mary throws herself into the new friendship and finds her previously quiet social life reinvigorated. But as the bonds between them are forged, Mary finds herself drawn further and further into April’s life and marriage, increasingly fearing that everything is not as perfect as it seems. Is her own painful past clouding her judgement, or is Mary right to suspect that the people she trusts most are the ones with the most to hide?
Bendes in die Kaap is weer op mevrou Smit se spoor. Sy sal self moet
ingryp as sy haar doodgewone lewe wil behou.
Helene de Kock se eerste Inspirasie-omnibus is nou beskikbaar, met twee
lekker verhale: Kruispad vir Kara en Engel op die drumpel.
As Imogen Zula Nyoni, aka Genie, lies in a coma in hospital after a long illness, her family and friends struggle to come to terms with her impending death. Genie has gifts that transcend time and space, and this is her story. It is also the story of her forebears – Baines Tikiti, who, because of his wanderlust, changed his name and ended up walking into the Indian Ocean; his son, Livingstone Stanley Tikiti, who, during the war, took as his nom de guerre Golide Gumede and who became obsessed with flight; and Golide’s wife, Elizabeth Nyoni, a country-and-western singer self-styled after Dolly Parton, blonde wig and all. With the lightest of touches, and with an overlay of magical-realist beauty, this novel sketches, through the lives of a few families and the fate of a single patch of ground, decades of national history – from colonial occupation to the freedom struggle, to the devastation wrought by the sojas, the hi virus, and The Man Himself. By turns mysterious and magical, but always honest, The Theory Of Flight dwells not on what was lost and what went wrong in a nation’s history, but on the personal triumphs and why they matter.
In 2021, is Damian de Jong biesag mette boek oo serial killers. Hy
force homself ommie dae te onthou toe hy asse kind innie 90s oppie
sandduine gespeel. Die man wattie media ‘The Railway Ripper' noem,
het begin coloured boys doodmaak en begrawe in vlak grafte innie bosse
en sandduine rondomie Western Cape. Hy praat met ex-detective
Michelle Wakefield ma soe meer sy die feite vi Damian ytlê, soe minner
vestaan hy wat rêrag daityd gebeerit.
Fransien Theron, ’n jong kunstenaar, besluit om haarself te gaan
afsonder op ’n gasteplaas in die Baviaanskloof. Dis tyd om finaal
afskeid te neem van haar baba wat sy twee jaar gelede in ’n ongeluk
verloor het, en te aanvaar dat Hein van haar wil skei. Sy onderneem
In 1916 keer Caleb Kelly, ’n jong WOI-veteraan, getraumatiseerd en
geskend terug na die Oos-Kaap. Die afgryse wat hy in Frankryk beleef
het, is ingebrand in sy wese.
Edited by Kerry Hammerton, this is an anthology of flash fiction and non-fiction.
Contributors:
Toe Marié vier jaar oud is, verhuis haar ouers van Suid-Afrika na ’n
sendingstasie in die destydse Rhodesië waar haar pa vir die plaaslike
drukpers werk. In hierdie oënskynlike paradys beleef Marié die wêreld
om haar met verwondering, humor, nuuskierigheid en, namate sy ouer
word, met groeiende ontnugtering.
Twenty-six years is a long time not to be alive. Since the accident that ruined her life, Catherine has lived on autopilot, going through the motions of work and motherhood without being fully present. Trying to fill the gap, her adult daughter, Julia, is looking for love in all the wrong places, and wreaking havoc on the lives that she touches along the way. Just what will it take to shock Catherine back into life?
Helga Roets is dalk aan die verkeerde kant van 80, maar jy kan haar
steeds deur ’n ring trek, elke dag van die week. Sy woon nou al amper
vyf jaar by Silwerhare Aftreeoord in Pretoria, en hoewel die aanpassing
swaar was, voel haar blyplekkie deesdae soos huis. Sy
het darem nog haar motortjie waarmee sy gereeld winkel toe ry.
DIE AARDE HOU AAN MET DRAAI
Dis hoe mens weet dat die Here werklik leef: Jy sien sy krag wanneer Hy
van mense splinternuwe skepsels maak.
Drawing on the true history of ‘Farini’s Friendly Zulus’, a group of men who were taken to Britain and then to America as performing curiosities, the novel opens in 1885 in wintry New York City. The protagonist, Mpiyezintombi, simply called Em-Pee by the English-speakers, loses more than his name in this far-off foreign country; he is seen as little more than a freak-show act – though he is not kept in a cage like the beautiful Dinka Princess, with her gold-painted papier-mâché crown and fur cape. For EmPee, it is love at first sight, but the caged woman is not free to love anyone back: she is the property of Monsieur Duval, proprietor of Duval Ethnological Expositions. And so begins one of Zakes Mda’s most striking stories, one that depicts terrible historical injustices and indignities, while at the same time celebrating the vigour and ingenuity of the creative spirit, and the transformative power of love. In an already-great pantheon of Mda love stories and classic gems, this may be his most powerful work yet.
In die vroeë 1970’s onderneem die een-en-twintigjarige Jakob Koetaan ’n
lewensveranderende reis van die Baai na Kaapstad ̶ ’n stad wat hom
sedert sy kinderjare gelok het.
Die moord-en-roofspeurder Adriaan Kruger verhuis saam met sy nuwe vrou
na Overberg, ’n dorpie in die Suid-Kaap. Daar ontdek hy gou onheil is
nie beperk tot die grootstad nie. Die egpaar is nog besig om hul voete
te vind toe hy skielik gekonfronteer word met ’n
In the far reaches of the night, the alarm was sounding. Some force was
holding him down. Where was Tejal? He felt with his arm. Her space was
empty. Around him the atmosphere was thick. Somebody was rising from
the bed, coughing out his lungs, shocked by the layers of tropical heat
and darkness. The room was hot and full and invisible.
Soms lê ek in my bed, my lyf opgekrul om herinneringe aan hom, totdat
dit voel asof die woonstel se dak oplig en die mure wegval en ek omhels
word deur die nag se fluweelsagte duisternis. Dan dryf ek uit my lyf,
tot in die buitenste ruim waar my ouers glo al vir dekades lank saam
met ruimterommel en stukkies meteoriet, al om en om ’n hemelliggaam
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