This African fiction book reflects a positive narrative towards African success – relates to aspiring entrepreneurs and those that aspire to be successful in life despite previously disadvantaged backgrounds.

The reader is invited to join Don Mthethwa on a journey through the interesting life of an African child who aspires to be a successful entrepreneur but faces obstacles as a result of succumbing to society pressures prevalent in African societies today. Readers learn about the journey of an entrepreneur from dusty ashes and the endurance that emanates from persevering to make it successful despite challenges.

The story features a real-life scenery on the type of relationships that influence an individual’s character in their pursuit of following a career path and envisaged success. It includes historic philosophies and myths that have over the times resonated with the ordinary African child on this phenomenon.

Against the backdrop of a world in flux at the start of a new century, Arctic Summer portrays the life of British writer E. M. Forster: his inner turmoil, his search for love and the story behind one of the greatest novels in English, A Passage to India.

In 1912, Forster follows his friend Syed Ross Masood to India. It is on this journey – travelling around the country while it is still under British rule – that the seeds of his novel are planted. But it will be another twelve years, and a second time spent in India, before his book is published. Between these two journeys lie the writing of an unpublishable novel, the outbreak of the First World War, and a long stay in Alexandria, where he has an unlikely affair with an Egyptian tram conductor. As we follow Forster across continents – stuttering, aching, his love mostly unrequited – Galgut captures with colour and exquisite delicacy the England, India and Egypt of the era.

Meticulously researched, Arctic Summer conjures the figure of Forster in all his contradictory genius, providing a fascinating glimpse into the creation of a masterpiece.

Lizzie de Villiers dink sy het haar man, Marthinus nie meer lief nie. Sy neem haar lewe en hulle huwelik van 28 jaar in oenskou. Wanneer het hulle uitmekaar begin dryf? Sal sy hulle ou liefde weer kan laat ontvlam? As sy nie kan nie, moet sy in hulle liefdelose, maar gemaklike huwelik bly, of moet sy maar haar eie paadjie stap? Marthinus stem nie met Lizzie saam nie. Volgens hom is daar niks verkeerd nie, en hy wil gewis he Lizzie moet bly, lief vir hom of nie. Die konflik tussen Lizzie en Marthinus veroorsaak konflik tussen Lizzie en hulle dogter Estelle, wat op die ouderdom van vier en twintig skielik soos n tiener optree. Beide Lizzie en Marthinus voel daar is fout, maar sy bly afsydig en byna vyandig, veral teenoor Lizzie. Lizzie se vertwyfeling bring haar egter nader aan die ander vroue in haar lewe. Hulle word groter bondgenote, elkeen met n unieke perspektief. n Geleentheid om afstand te kry tussen Lizzie en Marthinus duik op, en Lizzie gryp dit met albei hande. Sy bevraagteken gou haar oenskynlik onafhanklikheid, en Marthinus word gedwing om hand in eie boesem te steek. Sal hierdie huwelik die toets deurstaan?

'n Deerniswekkende verhaal van twee vroue wat elkeen op hul eie manier weer hul voete vind.

Wanneer Bea Klinge as jong boervrou op Leliepan aan die soom van die Namib aankom, glo sy dat sy hier vir haar, Kurt en hul kinders 'n oase van liefde sal kan skep. Ná 'n skokontdekking meer as vier dekades later kry Bea 'n miniberoerte en beland in 'n koma in die hospitaal.

Haar herstel bring Bea voor nuwe keuses te staan. Sy besef sy het haar vier dogters elkeen op 'n manier gefaal deur by Kurt te staan al het hy hulle hoe verontreg. Moet sy oop kaarte met hulle speel oor die donker geheim wat haar vasgevang gehou het in 'n liefdelose huwelik met 'n man wat haar soos 'n onderdaan behandel? Bowenal moet Bea besluit of sy die kans op geluk waarop sy destyds haar rug gekeer het gaan aangryp en vir een keer in haar lewe gaan doen wat reg is vir haar en nie vir ander nie.

Nel, haar rebelse laatlam, gaan soek haar heil in Johannesburg. Hier word sy as sukkelende aktrise met die donker kant van die vermaaklikheidsbedryf gekonfronteer. Sy raak betrokke in 'n toksiese verhouding met 'n invloedryke filmvervaardiger Buks Bothma en word die slagoffer van date-rape. Nel ontdek ook die skokkende waarheid omtrent haar herkoms.

Lex le Roux, 'n medeakteur en donkieboer bied haar 'n kontrak aan om die gesig te wees van sy velsorgprodukte wat uit donkiemelk vervaardig word. Nel gryp die geleentheid met albei hande aan. Ná die trauma waardeur Nel is, het sy tyd nodig om heel te word. Sy besluit om haar droom na te volg en 'n dramakursus in New York te gaan volg. Mettertyd ervaar sy die vreugde om haar pad boontoe te werk en nie te slaap nie. Sy kry dit reg om aan haarself te bewys dat Nel Klinge sonder hulp sukses kan behaal. Nel besef ook dat haar genesingsproses voltooi is en dat sy reg is vir meer as 'n vriendskapsverhouding met Lex.

Jazz painist Bent lives in squalor in Observatory. After a gig one night, the enigmatic Leonard Fry offers him a vast sum of money to play at a private party.

Bent accepts and duly plays the piano. After the guests have departed, Leonard Fry makes him a Faustian proposition: he, Leonard Fry, his appetites jaded by the pleasures his enormous wealth has afforded him, wants to undertake an experiment: he wants to lock himself in a bare room, containing only the most basic essentials, for a year. Bent’s role in this endeavour would be to live in Fry’s mansion for the year, passing Fry three meals a day through a slot in the door, without any other interaction, even – especially – if he begs to be released. When Bent locks Fry in the room, the strange trip begins.

But there’s a mysterious stranger lurking outside the house, and Bent soon begins to wonder who the real subject of Fry’s bizarre experiment is.

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.

Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace. As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magda's consciousness starts to drift and the line between fact and the workings of her excited imagination becomes blurred. What follows is the fable of a woman's passionate, obsessed and violent response to an Africa that will not heed her.

From South Africa to Iceland, rural Belgium and the Alps, the stories in Mad Honey radiate out to encompass the globe.

In Johannesburg a couple raise their son in leafy suburbia, while their cleaner’s child must face the inequities of their country head on.

Amid Reykjavik’s arctic landscape, a woman takes mad honey with the man who has left her for another, and spends a chilling night with a violent Russian and his companion.

And in New England two lovers face the cruelty of a host whose humanity has left him, while a mother takes pity on a street child she finds on a platform at Park Station.

Crowning this collection is a story cycle featuring a young Namibian and his Japanese friend, who spend a claustrophobic night in a chateau with a dark pool of glimmering eels – this after being pulled into a tragedy on the ski slopes of Italy.

Following on from his multi award-winning first collection, published in English as The Alphabet of Birds, SJ Naudé’s second collection of short stories disturbs, surprises and enthrals.

“Ek het vir prof ʼn storie om te skryf.” Só begin Drie vroue en ’n meisie toe die mooie Katryn een middag ná klas ongenooid voor die skryfkunsprofessor se lessenaar kom staan om hom in te lig dat hy haar familiegeskiedenis gaan skryf. Die ellendige saga en lotgevalle van drie generasies vroue wat by Katryn se grootjie in die miserabelheid van die delwerye van Miersehoop wat byna reeds uitgewerk is, begin.

Almal wat kom soek het na ’n diamant so groot soos ’n skaapkop, weet teen hierdie tyd die droom is aan ’t sterwe. Maar die hoop bly, die hoop bly ... En alles wat goed en sleg is, word soos die aarde uitgewerk onder dié wat volhard. Nypende armoede en hoogmoed, onnoselheid en opregtheid vermeng op die harde Noordwes-Hoëveld en verdring só alles wat goed kon wees.

Hieruit groei die verhaal van ’n weeskind wat nie kos of menswaardigheid gegun word nie, laat staan keuses. Daaruit ontvou nog ’n verhaal en daaruit nog een. En uiteindelik keer dit terug na waar dit begin het. Só word die verlede oopgebreek om in die hede lig vir die liefde te maak.

Toe skryf die professor oor Katryn se ma, haar ouma en oumagrootjie, sonder dat hy of sy kon voorsien dat hulle self deel van dié saga van dooie drome, armoede en vernedering sou word. Selfs die liefde is onvoorspelbaar op ʼn delwery tussen die mielielande van die wispelturige Hoëveld. Durf ons droom van ’n beter lewe waarin minagting nie langer verduur hoef te word nie?

Hans du Plessis is ’n geliefde naam in die Afrikaanse letterkunde. Sy historiese romans staan stewig in die hede gewortel en hy is bekend vir die bedrieglike eenvoud in sy verhale wat dieper waarhede dra – hy ken die mense oor wie hy skryf en dié waarvoor hy skryf. Du Plessis is ook bekend as digter, dramaturg en taalkundige.

‘n Versameling kortverhale deur die bekende skrywer J.M Gilfillan. Die hooftema is verhoudings en die wyse waarop mense reageer op die vreugde en verdriet wat deel is van hierdie lewe.

Meestal gaan dit nie oor groot en aardskuddende gebeurtenisse nie, maar die klein dinge van elke dag. Die broosheid van verhoudings.

Die bundel het ook ’n ligter kant. So is daar byvoorbeeld ’n spookstorie, daar is ’n bietjie erotiek, en heelwat oor die krag van woorde.

Twenty-two-year-old Etienne is studying film in London, having fled conscription in his native South Africa. It is 1986, the time of Thatcher, anti-apartheid campaigns and Aids, but also of postmodern art, post-punk rock, and Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Adrift in a city cast in shadow, he falls in love with a German artist while living in derelict artists’ communes. When Etienne finds the first of three reels of a German film from the 1930s, he begins searching for the missing reels, a project that turns into an obsession when his lover disappears in Berlin. It is while navigating this city divided by the Wall that Etienne gradually pieces together the history of a small group of Jewish film makers in Nazi Germany. It is a desperate quest amid complications that pull him back to the present and to South Africa. However, his search for the missing film continues. Ambitious and cosmopolitan, the material of SJ Naude’s The Third Reel is as disparate as the cities in which the book is set. Architecture, cinematography, sex, music, illness, loss and love all collide in this exquisitely wrought, deeply affecting novel.

An extraordinary, ambitious, globe-spanning novel about what we owe our consciences.

Fleeing her moribund marriage in Cape Town, Beth accepts a diplomatic posting to Shanghai. In this anonymous city she hopes to lose herself in books, wine, and solitude, and to dodge whatever pangs of conscience she feels for her fealty to a South African regime that, by the 21st century, has betrayed its early promises.

At night, she hears the sound of typing, and then late one evening Zhao arrives at her door. They explore hidden Shanghai and discover a shared love of Langston Hughes–who had his own Chinese and African sojourns. But then Zhao vanishes, and a typewritten manuscript–chunk by chunk–appears at her doorstep instead. The truths unearthed in this manuscript cause her to reckon with her own past, and the long-buried story of what happened to Kay, her fearless, revolutionary friend…

Connecting contemporary Shanghai, late Apartheid-era South Africa, and China during the Great Leap Forward and the Tiananmen uprising–and refracting this globe-trotting and time-traveling through Hughes’ confessional letters to a South African protege about the poet’s time in Shanghai–How to Be a Revolutionary is an amazingly ambitious novel. It’s also a heartbreaking exploration of what we owe our countries, our consciences, and ourselves.

'n Wit man soos Paul is so goed soos kroonwild ... In die vorige bedeling was Paul van Heerden se lewe een van gemak: groot huis in Pretoria se vooraanstaande woonbuurt, vanselfsprekende bevordering in die werk, welvaart en voorspoed. Toe kom die opstande en die grondbesetting. Nou word die Volksrepubliek van Azanie deur Die Party regeer. Alle wit mense is Weskaap toe verban. Die wat in Azanie wil werk, word toegelaat, maar word onderwerp aan dieselfde vernederende praktyke wat gedurende die Apartheidsjare beoefen is. Paul se vrou en kinders sit in 'n tentekamp in die Kaap, hy bly in 'n hostel en sukkel om sy werk te behou. Paul het egter 'n plan: hy begin met mampoer smokkel. Kort voor lank het hy 'n weldoener en sakevenoot in Thabo Ntombela, mampoerstokers en verspreiders. Maar in Azanie wil elkeen sy deel hê en 'n wit man soos Paul is so goed soos kroonwild.

Hierdie versameling kortverhale bied 'n histeriese kykie op alledaagse situasies: 'n tango-les in die platteland; die tannie so "eenvoudig soos 'n ses-stuk legkaart"; 'n besoek aan 'n tandarts en sy assistent wat meer as net 'n spreekkamer deel. Lloyd Zandberg se debuut is 'n boek vol deernis en humor, met vriendelike gebruiksaanwysings vir mense wat nie so goed lees nie. Kyk een keer deur sy oe na die lewe, en niks sal ooit weer dieselfde wees nie.

Lizet Vos ontdek tydens die opruim van haar vermoorde suster se woonstel Marina se kluitklaplys. Hierna probeer sy om alles op dié lysie te doen - al is al die gewaagde, gevaarlike dinge eintlik heel teen haar aard. Haar eie drome skuif sy ver agtertoe. Totdat haar broer Evan se lewe met dié van Anya Breedt verstrengel raak. Nou vorm Stephen en sy dogtertjie Soekie deel van familiekuiers. Stephen spartel om na sy vrou se dood die balle in die lug te hou; hy het geen tyd vir ʼn donkerkop met blou oë wat hom hinder nie. Soekie mag dalk in Lizet se klas wees, maar hy is vasbeslote om juffrou Vos te vermy. Na ses maande kan hy egter die uitnodiging om klasbesoek te doen nie verder ignoreer nie. Vir die lewe om sin te maak, moet Stephen en Lizet beide opnuut hulle eie drome ontdek.

Karen werp haarself in ‘n binnenshuise ontwerp-wedstryd na die geboorte van haar baba, om van haar skuldgevoel oor die destydste dood van haar gestremde broer te vlug. Sy glo haar ouers neem haar steeds kwalik oor haar broer se dood en vertrou haar nie met haar eie kind nie. Sy reis met baba en al na Mali, waar sy hoop om die inspirasie vir haar wedstrydinskrywing te vind.

Grietjie se loutering is die aangrypende verhaal van ’n weduwee wat haar inkomste as tydelike huiswerker verdien in Grabouw. Sy sukkel om kop bo water te hou, maar haar geloof dra haar. Wanneer haar seun deur ’n provinsiale rugbyspan gewerf word, het die gesin hoop op ’n beter lewe.

Grietjie se geloof word getoets wanneer ’n tragedie die gesin tref.

“Ek weet wanneer ek eendag by die punt kom waar ek weer met die Here kan praat met vrymoedigheid, dan wag Hy vir my. En wanneer dit voel ek kan nie meer nie, dan dra Hy my. Maak nie saak wat ek verloor nie, ek het Hom altyd. Wat meer wil ek hê?”

The second book of the Many Shallows series.

Milena, head strong yet sickly, spends her days confined to her bed. Her chronic illness has always prevented any chance of her marrying until, much to her dismay, a suitor finally takes interest. A prisoner in a pink room, it seems that Milena’s fate will be dictated by her family’s expectations. Or does an alternate future lie with Opal, a young maid from a mysterious world?

Many Shallows reimagines the lives and afterlives of Franz Kafka’s three great loves: Felice, Milena, and Dora. Rather than side notes in the famous writer’s life or vehicles for his desire, these women are reincarnated as the protagonists of their own surreal, macabre worlds.

Milena is the protagonist in The Windmill, the second book in the Many Shallows series. The Windmill explores the complex themes of body dysmorphia, sexuality and tradition.

After a thirty-year absence Christopher Turner returns to Paris. He is here to extricate his best friend’s son from the mercenary machinations of some Parisian gold-digger – or so it is assumed, at home in South Africa. Christopher, with melancholy memories of Paris, is deeply ambivalent about the city; and, as for the young Eric, Christopher remembers him as a brutish lout with little to recommend himself.

But both the city and the young man take Christopher by surprise: far from having been corrupted by the place, Eric turns out to have been immeasurably improved by it. The spoilt son has become a considerate and attentive host with charming manners. Furthermore, as Christopher is gradually introduced to Eric’s associates, he finds to his dismay that he likes them – above all, the beautiful Beatrice du Plessis, in her day a supermodel, now the mother of a young daughter apparently destined to follow in her mother’s footsteps. And Paris exerts her spell anew …

As Christopher comes to know and enjoy this ambiguous world, he finds his moral categories challenged: is beauty a trap for the innocent young, or a self-validating, even ennobling attribute of a fully lived life? Responding to the gentle appeal of Beatrice, he feels ever more strongly that the young man’s place is in Paris with her, rather than on his father’s farm in Franschhoek. But Eric has ideas of his own …

Exploring, as in the widely applauded Lost Ground, the tensions between the fatherland and a larger world, Michiel Heyns turns an ironic eye on the most seductive city on earth, and traces with humour and insight the invisible furies of the heart.

Die klein Bram Fischer word gebore uit drome en beelde, met die geloei van Bloemfonteinse osse in die agtergrond. Hy sien die spoke van Paul Kruger en Jopie Fourie, asook die van Hendrik Biebouw, die eerste Afrikaner. In hierdie roman skryf Francois Loots 'n kreatiewe, fiktiewe weergawe van Afrikaner-kommunis en struggle-held Bram Fischer se lewe. Die leser word gedompel in Fischer se leef- en gedagtewereld, in die spanninge en avonture van die jong radikaal. Saam met Fischer, gaan ’n mens ondergronds. Wat is ’n mens se diepste gedagtes wanneer jy jou vermom? Wanneer jy soos 'n verkleurmannetjie in nuwe identiteite moet inglip? Of wanneer jy tronk toe gaan? Na die strome drome, word Fischer geteister deur die demone van absolute eensaamheid. Maar wat deur alles bly staan, is sy onwrikbare liefde teenoor sy beminde Molly, wat hom kom verlos uit sy laaste droom. Soms is dit slegs deur die lens van fiksie wat mens iets van die ware geskiedenis kan agterhaal.

Vastrap. Our very own nuclear testing site, so far into the desert that the Russians and the Americans don’t even have a clue about it. You don’t mess with an Afrikaner, not if you don’t want to get a proper klap.

An unauthorised nuclear blast beyond belief at Vastrap Airbase outside Upington not only winds up the Americans, but also launches Africa’s first spacecraft. Propelled by an engine harnessing the power of a nuclear bomb never disarmed in the eighties, the rocket leaves Earth without its pilot or crew. But how did this spaceship, designed by the previous government to extend the Afrikaner’s history as a nation of pioneers, survive? And more pressingly, who’s working its joystick?

Small-time journalist Greg Hall sets out to uncover the details of the ship that has captured the world’s imagination. In the wreckage of the blast, he discovers a man badly burnt and almost dead. A man who has an alarming story to tell and a frightening plan of his own.

Funny and thrilling, The Space Race twinkles with its author’s humour and trademark irony.

Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in his Sunday Express Book of the Year award-winner Age of Iron. In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and the brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face to face with its true horrors: the hounding by the police of her servant's son, the burning of a nearby black township, the murder by security forces of a teenage activist who seeks refuge in her house. Through it all, her only companion, the only person to whom she can confess her mounting anger and despair, is a homeless man who one day appears on her doorstep. In Age of Iron, J. M. Coetzee brings his searing insight and masterful control of language to bear on one of the darkest episodes of our times. 'Quite simply a magnificent and unforgettable work' Daily Telegraph 'A superbly realized novel whose truth cuts to the bone' The New York Times 'A remarkable work by a brilliant writer' Wall Street Journal South African author J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice for his novels Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K. His novel, Foe, an exquisite reinvention of the story of Robinson Crusoe is also available in Penguin paperback.

1989. In Johannesburg blaker 'n growwe en rowwe klein koerantjie, Vryheid op Vrydag, week na week op sy voorblad die verhaal uit van die bloedige einde van apartheid. Stories wat die regering van FW de Klerk tot elke prys stil wil hou. En die manne van Sektor C, 'n geheime polisietaakmag, is op hulle spoor. Die redakteur wag in spanning op die groot storie - die Groot Storie - wat die regering tot 'n val gaan bring. Maar oorvloedige seks en geweld kom alewig in die pad, soos hulle gewoonte mos is. Bomskok is 'n tragiese rillerkomedie, 'n moordstorie en 'n kroegstorie. En alles behalwe 'n ware storie.

Liefde vra soms van jou om onmoontlik dapper te wees. Teen haar beterwete nooi Mieke vir Boeta in haar huis en haar lewe. Sy het nie geweet van haar man se vorige verhouding of sy kind nie. Hoe kan sy Boeta kwalik neem vir sy pa se vergrype as jongman? Buitendien, Boeta hou almal se harte in die holte van sy hand. Mieke leer dat die mense wat jy liefhet soms van jou vra om onmoontlik dapper te wees. Dat seerkry en heelword verskillende kante van 'n munt is. En dat almal uiteindelik die koestering van huis en huismense nodig het.

Klara Francke het ’n donker geheim. Sy is vasgekeer in ’n giftige huwelik met die sadistiese Johan. Sy leef in konstante vrees vir haar eie lewe en dié van haar tienerjarige seun.

Wanneer Johan die nuwe ingenieur wat by die sonkragaanleg buite die dorp begin werk het vir ’n braai nooi, is daar onmiddellik ’n wedersydse aangetrokkenheid tussen Klara en haar man se kollega. Terwyl Klara worstel met haar onverklaarbare – en ontoelaatbare – gevoelens, spook speurder Basie Snyman en sy kollega om die moorde op twee jong meisies op te los.

Hulle weet hulle werk teen tyd wanneer ’n derde meisie verdwyn. Kort voor lank ontdek die speurders ’n skakel tussen die drie slagoffers: Klara Francke ...