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'n Liedjie Vir Anine (Afrikaans, Paperback): Elsa Winckler 'n Liedjie Vir Anine (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Elsa Winckler
R190 R178 Discovery Miles 1 780 Save R12 (6%) Ships in 7 - 11 working days

Hoe dans jy as die lied in jou hart stil geraak het?

Bekende musiekster, Zander Breedt, se muses het hom verlaat. Die helder ligte van die verhoog het hul glans verloor, en dit klink asof die suiwer melodieë in sy kop vervang is met ’n droewige klaaglied.

Boonop is daar sy nuwe skoonsus, Anine Vos, ’n joernalis, ’n spesie waarvoor hy nie baie ooghare het nie. Hy moet haar gedoog, al maak sy dit duidelik dat sy nie tyd het vir ’n popster soos hy nie. Tog, om een of ander rede begin die note weer helder deur Zander se
gedagtes klink wanneer sy naby is.

Anine kan nie verstaan hoekom juis sý die opdrag moes kry om ’n in diepte-artikel oor Zander te skryf nie. Sy het mos niks verloor by hierdie mislike musikant nie. Om deur sy lewe te krap is die laaste ding wat sy wil doen terwyl haar eie hart nog gebreek is.

The texture of shadows (Paperback): Mandla Langa The texture of shadows (Paperback)
Mandla Langa
R310 R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Save R29 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

It is 1989, a high point of hope in South Africa’s political history. The nation is abuzz with rumours of Nelson Mandela’s imminent release, the dismantling of guerrilla camps and the possibility of peace.

A band of exiled People’s Army soldiers returns to South Africa. After years in Angola they think the change they have been fighting for is finally about to become a reality. They have been ordered to carry and deliver a sealed trunk to an unspecified destination. It is a mission that makes them a target as different parties set out to separate the men from the trunk and its mysterious contents, setting the stage for several fierce conflicts.

The Texture of Shadows explores a world of hardened guerrilla fighters, corrupt police officers, ex-political prisoners and the victims of abuse of a system of bannings and beatings. But there are also cracks in this steel-edged world that hope, love and beauty can fill as the reader is swept up in the story of Chaplain Nerissa Rodrigues and her fellow soldiers.

Maansiek (Afrikaans, Paperback): Gerda Taljaard Maansiek (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Gerda Taljaard
R21 Discovery Miles 210 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Die kortverhale in Maansiek verken 'n wye register: die Rooms-Katolieke geloof, charismatiese aanbidding, Afrika-mistiek, erotiek en moederskap, konflik tussen ras en geslag en sosiale status, spanning tussen die hede en die historiese, die sienlike en die onsienlike.

As basis vir sommige verhale dien 'n nugter koerantberig of tydskrifartikel uit vervloe dekades wat binne die verhaalkonteks tegelyk humoristies en ontstellend is.

Ander is gegrond op minder bekende aspekte van bekende figure of vertellings van onbekende vroue met uiteenlopende agtergronde.

Unspoken Truth (Paperback): Pumza Shabangu Unspoken Truth (Paperback)
Pumza Shabangu
R287 Discovery Miles 2 870 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Bongani and Thando are a loving couple, wonderful parents and each running their own successful businesses. They have it all until one chance encounter with a business associate changes the entire course of their lives.

It forces them to question the status quo and make drastic changes that end up having a great impact on those closest to them.

Will they stay and try to figure out how to exist in the new normal? Or do they follow their hearts and live their Truth.

Disgrace (Paperback, New edition): J. M. Coetzee Disgrace (Paperback, New edition)
J. M. Coetzee 3
R275 R254 Discovery Miles 2 540 Save R21 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

After years teaching Romantic poetry at the University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to daughter Lucy’s isolated smallholding.

For a time, his daughter’s influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.

What's Wrong With June? (Paperback): Qarnita Loxton What's Wrong With June? (Paperback)
Qarnita Loxton 1
R340 R319 Discovery Miles 3 190 Save R21 (6%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

June has worked hard for her family, but she is starting to feel like the dull accountant trope. She is safe and comfortable and bored. June wants more.

On the eve of the new year, when the radio DJ encourages listeners to make the most of it, June feels like he’s talking to her, and she decides to make a vision board — magazine cutouts, silver glitter and all.

Maybe 2022 is the year that June Cupido reinvents herself.

Bantu Knots (Paperback): Lebo Mazibuko Bantu Knots (Paperback)
Lebo Mazibuko
R330 R309 Discovery Miles 3 090 Save R21 (6%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Young Naledi wants to trade her bantu knots for Nonhle Thema’s hair on the Dark and Lovely box. She wishes she looked more like her light-skinned mother too. Ledi grows up in Pimville with her strict grandmother Mama Norah, while her mother, Dineo, is out chasing the blesser lifestyle.

Bantu Knots follows Ledi as she navigates the pressures of her circumstances, womanhood and beauty ideals – and pursues her dreams in spite of it all.

The Silence Of The Shadows (Paperback): Cathy Donald The Silence Of The Shadows (Paperback)
Cathy Donald
R250 R231 Discovery Miles 2 310 Save R19 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Five very different women... Cape Town is home to each one of them. Surrounded by its mountains and seas, but also by the struggles and difficulties of a young post-transformation country, each one lives out her separate life. Then fate begins to intertwine their lives through a series of circumstances...

Faith, who has taken on a job as part-time receptionist in Bethany’s practice, is physically abused by her manipulative and controlling husband. Between Bethany and Rafiqah, the detective who investigates her case, they manage to persuade her to prosecute him and this involves the legal help of Lindiwe, the public prosecutor. But Lindiwe’s nightmare past means that her involvement in cases of abuse can never be totally objective. Ayesha, who teaches Bethany’s young daughter notices subtle changes in the little girl’s behaviour and, together with Faith, makes a shocking discovery.

The Silence of the Shadows is a novel about the strength and frailty in each of us, the recognition that at different times we can be either the helper or the helped and that it is totally acceptable to be both.

Love Leiyah (Paperback): Shan Lee Love Leiyah (Paperback)
Shan Lee
R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

With the unexpected arrival of a package from South Africa, the epic love stories of three vastly different women slowly unfold.

But what did the package contain that has forced the women of the Gordon household to finally reveal their secrets? Why did they conceal the truth from each other for so many years?

As Hannah, Beatrice and Zendaya share their passionate tales from the depths of their hearts; they unravel relationships of racial segregation, forbidden love, societal stigma, seduction and abuse. What they are yet to discover is that one man links their stories. But whose true love is he?

Embark on a journey of mystery, suspense, drama and love that spans across three generations.

Reisgenote (Afrikaans, Paperback): Joanita Erasmus-Alt Reisgenote (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Joanita Erasmus-Alt
R200 R185 Discovery Miles 1 850 Save R15 (7%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Reisgenote bevat ʼn keur uit die kortverhaalbundel, Die reisgenoot, wat oorspronklik in 2013 ingedien is as kreatiewe komponent van ʼn meestersgraadstudie aan die Universiteit van die Vrystaat (onder leiding van prof HP van Coller).

As simboliese “reisgenote” is enkele gedigte getoonset wat tematies aansluit by Joanita se eie verhale. Die “reisgenote” is tematies van aard, maar ook in die gesprek tussen tekste, musikale werke en die kunstenaars wat betrokke was by die projek.

A Kind Of Cousin (Paperback): Suenel Bruwer Holloway A Kind Of Cousin (Paperback)
Suenel Bruwer Holloway
R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Ships in 4 - 8 working days
The Distance (Paperback): Ivan Vladislavic The Distance (Paperback)
Ivan Vladislavic
R320 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Save R25 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In the spring of 1970, a Pretoria schoolboy falls in love with Muhammad Ali. He begins to collect cuttings about his hero from the newspapers, an obsession that grows into a ragged archive of scrapbooks. Forty years later, when Joe has become a writer, these scrapbooks both insist on and obscure a book about his boyhood. He turns to his brother Branko, a sound editor, for help with recovering their shared past. But can a story ever belong equally to two people? Is this a brotherly collaboration or a battle for supremacy?

This is an intricate puzzle of a book by a writer of lyrical power and formal inventiveness. Against a spectacular backdrop, the heyday of the greatest showman of them all, Vladislavić unfolds a small, fragmentary story of family life and the limits of language. Meaning comes into view in the spaces between then and now, growing up and growing old, speaking out and keeping silent.

Cry Baby (Paperback): Lauren Liebenberg Cry Baby (Paperback)
Lauren Liebenberg
R230 R109 Discovery Miles 1 090 Save R121 (53%) Ships in 5 - 7 working days

As he nears his fifth birthday, Sam’s curious dreams of a lost child begin to steal quietly into his waking state.

Sam’s mother, Grace, watches with growing fear the disturbing changes taking place in her charming, spirited son – the fighting at school, the bed-wetting, the meteor showers of defiance. Grace is determined to find out what lies behind Sam’s nightmares, and the search will take her deeper and deeper into layers of love and bonding buried beneath the surface of the family, and into its molten heart.

Cry Baby is not just a story about boyhood and motherhood. It’s about what binds families, the past to the present, about suffocation and deliverance. It is at once a stinging satirical slap across the face of barren suburbia and a poignant hymn to the extraordinary beauty in ordinary lives.

Om Alleen Te Gaan (Afrikaans, Paperback): Nicole Jaekel Strauss Om Alleen Te Gaan (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Nicole Jaekel Strauss
R340 R319 Discovery Miles 3 190 Save R21 (6%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Die verhaal van Cato van Johannesburg, wat in haar middeljare op ’n hartsreis na die Nyl gaan ná ’n ernstige verlies. Op haar tog word sy vergesel van ’n Egiptiese artefak, wat trouens een rede vir die reis is – dié antieke klein klipskilpadjie moet huis kry.

Vroeg in haar Nylbesoek ontmoet sy vir Da’oud, ’n jong Koptiese Egiptenaar op ’n eie lewensveranderende sending. Sy familie is intens geraak, oor etlike generasies, deur sosiopolitieke onrus en ongeregtigheid, met 2011 se onlus op die Tahrirplein as onlangse laagtepunt.

Op hul bootvaart op die Nyl ontmoet dié twee ietwat ongemaklike vriende ’n bonte verskeidenheid soekers en swerwers, en die terugkeer van die skilpadartefak na sy plek van heenkome word ’n simbool vir die afleggings en totruskom wat Cato en jong Da’oud, op sy eie, verskriklike manier, moet deurmaak – elkeen alleen.

’n Roman vir die fiksiefynproewer.

Die Heelal Op My Tong (Afrikaans, Paperback): Anoeschka Von Meck Die Heelal Op My Tong (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Anoeschka Von Meck
R300 R277 Discovery Miles 2 770 Save R23 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Daar is ’n kluis in ’n winkeltrollie op die dak van Wille Willemien se 4×4.

Want sy en haar sus is op pad. Richtersveld toe. Om tussen Eksteenfontein en Khuboes hul pa se kluis – en sy sneeujas – nou ná sy dood oor ’n afgrond te boender.

Terwyl die twee vroue reis, ontvou die verhaal van Willemien en haar pa:

’n Storie oor ’n Afrikaanse Al Capone, ’n man wie se duister sakeondernemings nie net tot die grense van Suid-Afrika beperk was nie. In Palm Springs dra sy lyfwagte koeldrank vir die fbi-agente aan vanwaar hulle sy huis dophou. Vroeër jare moet Willemien in haar pa se kattebak wegkruip terwyl hy sake in verlate parkeerareas doen. Ná sulke uitstappies was haar beloning altyd ’n lekkerny, en só word haar lewenslange stryd met kos aangevuur.

Van Kaapstad na San Francisco en selfs Sri Lanka, met ’n wavrag vol seks, drugs & rock ’n’ roll, tref Anoeschka von Meck se nuutste roman jou soos ’n reusegolf en spoel sy die verhoudings oop wat van ons denkende, spirituele wesens maak.

Michael K (Paperback): Nthikeng Mohlele Michael K (Paperback)
Nthikeng Mohlele
R299 R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Save R28 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

‘Those in the know claim Michael K disembarked from a diesel-smoke-spewing truck one overcast morning, looked around, and without missing a beat, chose a spot where he set down a small bucket (red, burnt and disfigured) that contained an assortment of seedlings, some fisherman’s twine and a rudimentary gardening tool – probably self-made.’

How is it that a character from literary fiction can so alter the landscapes he touches, even as he – in his self-imposed isolation – seeks to avoid them? How is it that Michael K, bewildered and bewildering, can remain so fragile yet so present, so imposing without attempting to be so? In this response to JM Coetzee’s classic masterpiece, Life & Times of Michael K, Nthikeng Mohlele dabbles in the artistic and speculative in a unique attempt to unpack the dazed and disconnected world of the title character, his solitary ways, his inventiveness, but also to show how astutely Michael K holds up a mirror to those whose paths he inadvertently crosses. Michael K explores the weight of history and of conscience, thus wrestling the character from the confines of literary creation to the frontiers of artistic timelessness.

Anelisa - 21st Century Polygamy: Book 3 (Paperback): Busiswe Precious Khumalo Anelisa - 21st Century Polygamy: Book 3 (Paperback)
Busiswe Precious Khumalo
R307 Discovery Miles 3 070 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

“I am his first wife.”

Is that how low you think of me? You think I will run and rat you out to Raymond? Let me tell you something, Raymond is not my husband without you. He needs you, he inhales and exhales because of you, he adores you, Anelisa, because you are his first wife.

Die Jare Tussen Ons (Afrikaans, Paperback): Jozine Botha Die Jare Tussen Ons (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Jozine Botha
R290 R249 Discovery Miles 2 490 Save R41 (14%) Ships in 7 - 11 working days

Elaine vlug weg van haar verloofde, Alex sonder enige verduideliking.

Haar geheim bly haar eie want as Alex ooit moet uitvind sal dit sy lewe ruïneer, of so glo sy. Sy het geen ander keuse as om met Ben van Staden, die rykmanseun van Bloemfontein, te trou nie.

Die jare wat volg is verwonde jare gevul met vrees en verwyt. Elaine verloor haar geloof in ‘n liefdevolle God en dit is net wyn wat haar help om soms te vergeet. Maar haar liefde vir Alex bly ’n brandende vuur in haar binneste wat nie geblus kan word nie.

Skielik, ná sewe jaar, staan Alex weer voor haar en sy besef dat God tog alles ten goede kan laat meewerk vir die wat Hom liefhet. Maar, sal Alex haar ooit kan vergewe vir die onreg wat sy aan hom gedoen het?

Die Swerfjare Van Poppie Nongena (Afrikaans, Paperback, Film Uitgawe): Elsa Joubert Die Swerfjare Van Poppie Nongena (Afrikaans, Paperback, Film Uitgawe)
Elsa Joubert
R350 R328 Discovery Miles 3 280 Save R22 (6%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena vertel die lewensverhaal van ’n swart vrou teen die agtergrond van apartheid. Hierdie hartverskeurende, tog inspirerende roman word steeds beskou as een van die beste romans wat Afrika in die twintigste eeu opgelewer het.

Kaleidoskoop (Afrikaans, Paperback): Anna S. Ahllers Kaleidoskoop (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Anna S. Ahllers
R10 Discovery Miles 100 Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Die dag toe Pappie die kaleidoskoop stukkend gekap het, het ’n paar van die gekleurde skywe ver weggespat en in die lang gras gaan skuil. Later, nadat die ouman weg was poskantoor toe, het hy die stukkies gaan bymekaar maak – ’n paar geles, ’n mooi groene en ’n klompie bloues en perses. Die res was gewone spieëltjies en hy het net ’n paar daarvan opgetel. Maar daar was bitter min van sy droom oor.

Hy voel die hitte van daardie dag se woede deur hom spoel. Sien weer die arend teen die lug draai en die skelm blink van die paar stukkies glas in die lang gras. Dan ontspan hy. Sy lewe was nooit heel nie. Altyd in stukke. Tronk was sy voorland – soos Pa voorspel het …

NOU gaan Schoeman huis toe.

MAAR sal hy nou die liefde en aanvaarding kry waarna hy smag, of sal hy steeds nie goed genoeg wees nie …?

KALEIDOSKOOP is ‘n historiese roman wat die verhaal van Schoeman en sy familielede vertel. Die besonderse verhaal van lief en leed sal jou as kieskeurige leser enduit boei.

Sex, Lies & Stellenbosch (Paperback): Eva Mazza Sex, Lies & Stellenbosch (Paperback)
Eva Mazza 8
R315 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Save R20 (6%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Based on true events, Sex, Lies & Stellenbosch uncovers what really goes on behind closed doors in the seemingly up-standing community of Stellenbosch, one of South Africa’s wealthiest small towns, where 3,400 dollar millionaires live (before they invested in Steinhoff shares). Written as fiction to protect the innocent, the book exposes the explosive dark truths of the Winelands’ elite.

All is revealed through the eyes of stay at home mom, 49-year-old Jen, who is the wife of John, a renowned wine farmer and businessman. Jen, like many of her privileged friends, lives a charmed life provided by her husband, in exchange for conjugal sex and obligatory wifely gratitude. When Jen stumbles upon her playboy husband in a compromising position with his sexy employee, things fall apart. Jen is forced to choose between leaving her marriage, jeopardising her standing and stability in the community or turning a blind eye to his infidelity. The book follows Jen’s passage to self-discovery and self-fulfillment, while other characters’ perspectives move the story forward as each is privy to (and eventually reveals) at least one ‘truth’ or ‘lie’ which Jen must face.

Jen’s exposition of her husband’s infidelity inadvertently mirrors the underbelly of the patriarchal and often duplicitous community of the seemingly perfect Stellenbosch. Led by prominent wine farmers, international businessmen and renowned academics, business and private interests, even if ethically compromised, are staunchly guarded. The unfolding chapters irreverently explore both the emotional growth of the protagonist, Jen, as well as the moral ambiguities of the other players in the book.

In A Strange Room (Paperback, New Edition): Damon Galgut In A Strange Room (Paperback, New Edition)
Damon Galgut
R290 R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Save R22 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A young man makes three journeys that take him through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way – including a handsome, enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers and a woman on the edge – he is the Follower, the Lover and the Guardian. Yet, despite the man’s best intentions, each journey ends in disaster.

Together, these three journeys will change his whole life.

A novel of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, In a Strange Room is the hauntingly beautiful evocation of one man’s search for love, and a place to call home.

The Landscape Painter (Paperback): Craig Higginson The Landscape Painter (Paperback)
Craig Higginson
R180 R163 Discovery Miles 1 630 Save R17 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

It is winter in London in 1947. When Arthur Bailey, an elderly painter who lives alone, catches sight of a young woman, Felicity, about to move into the neighbouring bed-sit, he is stirred to recall in haunting detail a long-suppressed narrative.

The Landscape Painter is a double tale of obsession, betrayed trust and irrepressible hope, which emerges as Arthur’s story unfolds. As a young, brilliant landscape painter he travelled to South Africa in 1898 in pursuit of his best friend’s sister, the beautiful and mysterious Carwyn Hamilton. Carwyn’s subsequent shocking betrayal led Arthur down a dark path of humiliation and haunted him for the next fifty years.

As Arthur delves ever deeper into his most intimate thoughts and desires, the past and present come together in a series of surprising turns and parallels and we meet a range of memorable characters – from the malevolent German governess, Miss Klimt, to Carwyn’s flirtatious and increasingly senile grandmother, Mutti. Finally, Arthur is forced to confront Felicity with the irreducible damage done to him.

From the gold-crazed streets of early Johannesburg to the epic battlefields of the Anglo-Boer War, and the austerity of post-Second World War Britain, The Landscape Painter is a spectacular historical novel packed with wit and insight and crafted in Higginson’s lyrical and sinuous but surgical prose.

Asylum (Paperback): Marcus Low Asylum (Paperback)
Marcus Low 1
R260 R236 Discovery Miles 2 360 Save R24 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Barry James is detained in a quarantine facility in the blistering heat of the Great Karoo. Here he exists in two worlds: the discordant and unforgiving reality of his incarceration and the lyrical, snowy landscapes of his dreams.

He has cut all ties with his previous life, his health is failing, and he has given up all hope. All he has to cling to are the meanderings of his restless mind, the daily round of pills and the journals he reluctantly keeps as testimony to a life once lived. And then there’s an opportunity to escape.

But to escape what? And where to? Can there be a life to go back to? Is there still a world out there in the barren wasteland beyond the fence?

The History Of Man (Paperback): Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu The History Of Man (Paperback)
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
R340 R314 Discovery Miles 3 140 Save R26 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Emil Coetzee, a civil servant in his fifties, is washing blood off his hands when the ceasefire is announced.

Like everyone else, he feels unmoored by the end of the conflict. War had given him his sense of purpose, his identity.

But why has Emil’s life turned out so different from his parents’, who spent cheery Friday evenings flapping and flailing the Charleston or dancing the foxtrot? What happened to the Emil who used to wade through the singing elephant grass of the savannah, losing himself in it? Prize-winning novelist Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu traces Emil’s life from boyhood to manhood – from his days at a privileged boarding school with the motto ‘It is here that boys become the men of history’, to his falling in love with the ever-elusive Marion, whose free-spirited nature has dire consequences for his heart – all the while showing how Emil becomes a man apart.

Set in a southern African country that is never named, this powerful tale of human fallibility – told with empathy, generosity and a light touch – is an excursion into the interiority of the coloniser.

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