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Books > Local Author Showcase > Fiction - adults > Drama

Wantshontsha Inhliziyo Yami (Zulu, Paperback): Siyabonga JeffGeorge Ndwandwe Wantshontsha Inhliziyo Yami (Zulu, Paperback)
Siyabonga JeffGeorge Ndwandwe
R190 R176 Discovery Miles 1 760 Save R14 (7%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

UVusumuzi noNathi bakhule ndawonye eNquthu, eNondweni. UVusumuzi uthathwa umngani wakhe osekade asebenzela eGoli ukuba naye ezozama amatoho.

UPuleng uyadideka ngoVusumuzi osala naye emini lapha endlini.Umsiza kukho konke;izitsha,izimbali phandle; ukupheka, njll. UThobile uyehluleka ukuziba impunyela enguMthokozisi efuna ukumshada ngokuphazima kweso.

ULerato uhlezi eqasha esaluni yakhe abasazozama impilo lapha kwaNdongaziyaduma. UNonhlanhla uyehluleka ukulinda uVusumuzi akhulelwe emakhaya.UDiliza umthobanhliziyo kaNathi emsebenzini.

Johannesburg (Paperback): Fiona Melrose Johannesburg (Paperback)
Fiona Melrose
R485 R141 Discovery Miles 1 410 Save R344 (71%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

6 December 2013, Johannesburg. Gin has returned home from New York to throw a party for her mother's eightieth birthday; a few blocks away, at the Residence, Nelson Mandela's family prepares to announce Tata's death... So begins Johannesburg, Fiona Melrose's searing second novel.

An irascible mother, an anxious daughter trying to negotiate her birthplace and her past, her former lover, their domestic workers, a homeless hunchback fighting for justice, a mining magnate, a troubled novelist called Virginia - these are the characters who give voice to the city on a day hot with nerves and tension and history.

Set across the course of a single day, responsive to Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, Johannesburg is a profound hymn to an extraordinary city, and a devastating personal and political manifesto on love.

Glowfly Dance (Paperback): Jade Gibson Glowfly Dance (Paperback)
Jade Gibson
R300 R277 Discovery Miles 2 770 Save R23 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Through young Mai’s eyes, life is enchanting and full of beauty. She dances on her grandfather’s feet while he talks of freedom. But the world is hard and her mother is struggling. When Rashid arrives, he casts a deep shadow over their lives. Nothing is beyond her new stepfather.

They are desperate to escape from him, and their world becomes a constant battle for survival – one of fleeing, multiple identities, abduction and upheaval. Mai’s eyes not only witness the story of her mother, but also the poignant stories of the many women she encounters across different countries. Finally, Mai learns that, when freedom comes, it comes at a bitter price.

From Mexico to Scotland to London to North Africa, the West Indies and back again, Glowfly Dance is a powerful and haunting story of migration, resilience and, ultimately, hope.

Karoo Dusk (Paperback): Johan Vlok Louw Karoo Dusk (Paperback)
Johan Vlok Louw
R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

Billy’s dragon tattoo will attract strange looks in the Karoo town his family now calls home. It’s difficult to blend in when your father’s the new police colonel and your mother’s strung out on pills and wine.

Before Billy meets Suzan, who makes him dream in a sideways world, the gangster Ou Joe’s roadside brothel provides strange comfort to truckers and curious youths alike. Ou Joe plans to leave a legacy before staging his final showdown with the cancer growing in his belly.

After a brutal night, the colonel sets Ou Joe’s place in his sights and Billy must take a stand when good and evil are yet to pick sides.

In the style of a modern western, Johan Vlok Louw’s novel is filled with youth, cars and guns. The book is an uppercut to the chin, its prose as evocative as the Karoo landscape of its setting.

Sushi With Hitler (Paperback): Joe Kitchen Sushi With Hitler (Paperback)
Joe Kitchen
R200 R185 Discovery Miles 1 850 Save R15 (7%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Joe Kitchen describes Sushi with Hitler as a “burlesque fantasy”. It is a delightful satire, written in Douglas Adams’ style, that pokes fun at everything but the kitchen sink. The author describes the book as “completely irrelevant” and its beauty lies precisely in the escape it offers from everyday problems. It questions the status quo on just about everything and none of society’s holy cows remain untouched. Be prepared to be treated to a myriad of intertextual jokes, involving everything from classical literature to pop music.

Die Einde van die Storie (Afrikaans, Paperback): Santie van der Merwe Die Einde van die Storie (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Santie van der Merwe
R250 R234 Discovery Miles 2 340 Save R16 (6%) Ships in 7 - 11 working days

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?

Eggo's (Afrikaans, Paperback): Vita du Preez Eggo's (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Vita du Preez
R300 R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Save R19 (6%) Ships in 7 - 11 working days

'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.

The Inside Out Man (Paperback): Fred Strydom The Inside Out Man (Paperback)
Fred Strydom
R376 Discovery Miles 3 760 Ships in 5 - 7 working days

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.

Dinge Van 'n Hond (Afrikaans, Paperback): S.P. Benjamin Dinge Van 'n Hond (Afrikaans, Paperback)
S.P. Benjamin
R300 R180 Discovery Miles 1 800 Save R120 (40%) Ships in 5 - 7 working days

Aan die einde van elke jaar word daar op Gatlek, Dawid Fourie se plaas, feesgevier. ʼn Soort danksegging, kan jy sê. Dawid beloon sy werkers vir hul harde werk, en hulle betoon hul dankbaarheid op ʼn manier waaroor daar ná die tyd nie veel uitgewei word nie.

Dit was tydens die nag van die laaste groot vleisbraai dat dinge vir Dawid en Gatlek begin skeefloop het.

Jan-Vlok, Dawid se seun, sit nou verbitterd sonder ʼn erfplaas. Sy pa swyg oor Gatlek terwyl hy sy dae vul met grafstene maak in sy agterplaas. Totdat sy mal oom Outa oor die verlede begin praat en niemand hom meer kan ignoreer nie.

Dan is daar Bettie Rondganger. ’n Alleenloper. ’n Vrou wat wil voorthol om van haar verlede te vergeet. Sy gee haar lyf vir Jan-Vlok, maar ook vir Klippies, sy jeugvriend wat aan die werkerskant van die plaas grootgeword het. Sy en Klippies ken immers die etiek van die vullishope waar hulle nou ʼn bestaan moet maak.

Maar wat het werklik daardie aand op Gatlek gebeur?

Dinge van ’n hond is ’n roman oor vergeet, maar ook oor onthou. En die besef dat ’n mens jou nooit rêrig van jou verlede kan losmaak nie.

Age of Iron (Paperback): J. M. Coetzee Age of Iron (Paperback)
J. M. Coetzee
R275 R254 Discovery Miles 2 540 Save R21 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

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.

Mad Honey (Paperback): S.J. Naude Mad Honey (Paperback)
S.J. Naude
R300 R277 Discovery Miles 2 770 Save R23 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

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.

Drie Vroue en 'n Meisie (Afrikaans, Paperback): Hans Du Plessis Drie Vroue en 'n Meisie (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Hans Du Plessis
R320 R300 Discovery Miles 3 000 Save R20 (6%) Ships in 7 - 11 working days

“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.

Wanneer Bloekoms Dans (Afrikaans, Paperback): J.M. Gilfillan Wanneer Bloekoms Dans (Afrikaans, Paperback)
J.M. Gilfillan
R293 Discovery Miles 2 930 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

‘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.

The Third Reel (Paperback): S.J. Naude The Third Reel (Paperback)
S.J. Naude 1
R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

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.

Adder (Afrikaans, Paperback): Christelle van Rooyen-Wessels Adder (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Christelle van Rooyen-Wessels 3
R320 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Save R25 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

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 ...

Kroonwild (Afrikaans, Paperback): Henk Breytenbach Kroonwild (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Henk Breytenbach
R310 R291 Discovery Miles 2 910 Save R19 (6%) Ships in 7 - 11 working days

'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.

Om Weer Te Droom (Afrikaans, Paperback): Elsa Winckler Om Weer Te Droom (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Elsa Winckler
R200 R188 Discovery Miles 1 880 Save R12 (6%) Ships in 7 - 11 working days

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.

Help! My Dorp Hou 'n Kunstefees! (Afrikaans, Paperback): Koos Kombuis Help! My Dorp Hou 'n Kunstefees! (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Koos Kombuis
R240 R222 Discovery Miles 2 220 Save R18 (7%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Koos se nuutste roman soos net hy dit kan skryf, maar ook meer.

Dit is ‘n donker komedie gebore uit die wanhoop en isolasie van die afgelope twee jaar se grendeltyd.

Per ongeluk (Afrikaans, Paperback): Lloyd Zandberg Per ongeluk (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Lloyd Zandberg
R347 Discovery Miles 3 470 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

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.

The Beautiful Screaming Of Pigs (Paperback): Damon Galgut The Beautiful Screaming Of Pigs (Paperback)
Damon Galgut
R290 R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Save R22 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A year ago Patrick Winter, a young South African, was sent to Namibia to complete his military service and to defend his country against ‘terrorism’. Now he is back, to meet Godfrey, his mother’s freedom-fighter boyfriend, and to witness the country’s first free elections.

But Patrick needs to confront and process much more than a country in transition, and in doing so he is forced to revisit his past and to face the pain and the demons that haunt him.

Grietjie Se Loutering (Afrikaans, Paperback): Bettina Wyngaard Grietjie Se Loutering (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Bettina Wyngaard
R290 R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Save R18 (6%) Ships in 7 - 11 working days

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?”

An Imperfect Blessing (Hardcover): Nadia Davids An Imperfect Blessing (Hardcover)
Nadia Davids
R314 Discovery Miles 3 140 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own.

She watches with fascination and fear as the national drama unfolds, longing to be a part of what she knows to be history in the making. As her revolutionary aspirations strengthen in the months before the elections, her intense, radical Uncle Waleed reappears, forcing her parents and sister Nasreen to confront his subversive and dangerous past.

Nadia David’s first novel moves across generations and communities, through the suburbs to the city centre, from the lush gardens of private schools to the dingy bars of Observatory, from landmark mosques and churches to the manic procession of the Cape Carnival, through evictions, rebellions, political assassinations and first loves. The book places one family’s story at the heart of a country’s rebirth and interrogates issues of faith, race, belonging and freedom.

An Imperfect Blessing is a vibrant, funny and moving debut.

Koljander (Afrikaans, Paperback): Carie Maas Koljander (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Carie Maas
R336 Discovery Miles 3 360 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

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.

Die Skilpad se Laaste Traan (Afrikaans, Paperback): Carol Campbell Die Skilpad se Laaste Traan (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Carol Campbell
R280 R259 Discovery Miles 2 590 Save R21 (7%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Dis 'n donker Karoonag en 'n bebloede vrou hardloop grondpad langs. Iets grusaam het gebeur en Siena weet sy moet by Seekoegat Primere Skool uitkom, daar sal sy veilig wees. Dis baie ver, drie dae met 'n donkiekar en sy is te voet. Hierdie roman vertel die verhaal van Siena, Boetie en Kriekie, wie se lewens sedert kinderdae nou verweef is. Soos wat Siena hardloop ontmoet lesers die mense in haar lewe: Boetie is verwilderd en verwaarloos, altyd besig met kattekwaad. Sy vriendskap met Siena laat hom egter sy selfwaarde besef. Kriekie is 'n wrak. Sy ma is 'n prostituut wat by die stilhouplekke langs die n1 werk en hy het skaars 'n huis. Wanneer sy ma, Dolly, nie terugkom nie, beland hy deur een vrou se goedhartigheid ook by Seekoegat Primere Skool. Die Karooskilpad se simboliese spore kan deur die hele roman gesien word. Siena se pa, 'n karretjiemens, het altyd gese dat 'n skilpad die wysheid van die antieke landskap in hom dra. Daar word geglo dat 'n skilpad slegs een traan in sy leeftyd stort, die oomblik wanneer hy sterf. Die skilpad se laaste traan is bekroonde skrywer Carol Campbell se derde boek oor die Karoo. Soos haar vorige werk fokus sy sterk op sosiale realisme, maar vir die eerste keer is hier ook magiese realisme, so eie aan die mense oor wie sy skryf.

Invisible Furies (Paperback): Michiel Heyns Invisible Furies (Paperback)
Michiel Heyns
R189 Discovery Miles 1 890 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

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.

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