Ná jare van ontbering vind Mina Afrika geluk in Whitewing Lodge, ’n gastehuis op die rotse naby Visbaai. In die moderne kombuis leef sy haar ten volle uit as sjef; sy raak al hoe meer betrokke by die interessantste mense. Dan verander 'n doodgewone aankondiging oor bykomende gaste vir middagete alles.

Skielik word dit weer nag vir Mina. En vir die mense naaste aan haar.

After his father’s violent death on a hot November day in the droughtstricken Free State, a young man leaves the derelict family farm with no plan, and with no way of knowing that his life will soon be changed for ever by two strangers he encounters on his journey south: a mute little girl who bears a striking resemblance to his late niece, and a troubled lawyer who detests the Cape wine estate she’s inherited from a father she despised.

Set in South Africa against the backdrop of a country in flux, The Safest Place You Know is a powerful story, rendered in meticulously crafted, lyrical prose, about redemption and recovery, and what it means to carry the past with you.

Professor Raymond Bogatsu is a determined man, hell-bent to trap her in. He wins her heart, he wins her love, then traps her in the shackles of a two is better than one setup. The trio covenant of not ME, HIM or HER but WE till the end of time.

As a daughter of Israel, Yehudit has always loved and trusted in Yahweh, the God of her people. But personal tragedy and the threat of a mighty enemy pose challenges to her faith. God is with her and will use her in her weakness to deliver an entire nation from evil. Accompany Yehudit on her journey from being a young girl defeated by tragedy to becoming a mighty warrior. Along the way, you will discover how the same God who strengthened her can heal your own wounds and shape your destiny.

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.

After an unexpected and diabolical farewell breakfast conversation with his father, Spud Milton returns to boarding school for his 1993 Matric year, his last as a schoolboy. Armed with a prefects’ tie and a raging libido, Spud soon discovers that being a large(ish) fish in a small pond has its fair share of challenges.

He finds himself embroiled in fighting for his own room, directing a house play where both lead actors refuse to learn their lines, and assisting in Vern Blackadder’s dramatic return from the dead with nothing more than a drip cord and a pair of oven gloves.

Amidst mounting pressure in the classroom and on the cricket field, Spud prepares to face down the most feared and dreaded challenge of them all – finding a date for the Matric dance.

In this hilarious final instalment of the Spud series John van de Ruit brings to a close his savagely funny blow by blow account of the agonies of growing up. The embarrassments, the thrills, the defeats, and the sheer -absurdity of daily life are wittily recorded in Spud’s unique voice as he prepares to make his own exit, pursued by a bear.

Nathan Lucius has a problem. Every time he thinks he’s got life by the scruff of the neck it just wriggles free. There are so many rules. So many things that should be said and done to keep everyone happy. And no one is happy.

But Nathan is a problem solver. And if he just tries hard enough, he will maybe, somehow, make someone, just one person happy. And then his friend Madge is diagnosed with cancer. She is dying. And she wants him to help her end it all.

Wasted is a pop culture Crime and Punishment set in a dark and twisted version of Cape Town – a novel that takes the reader into the very heart of what it is to be human.

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.

"As ek terugkom sal ek weer voorbeeldige Lize wees. Almal se staatmaker. Ek glo dat U my die bietjie vryheid gun." Met hierdie gebed roep Lize Lategan haar goeie Christelike opvoeding vaarwel. Sy is op 'n vliegtuig onderweg na Engeland vir die werksgeleentheid van haar lewe. Skaars een uur in die vreemde raak sy, jonk en onervare, egter hals oor kop verlief op haar gasheer, die nimlike Conrad Buckle. Sy het geen weerstand teen sy aanraking nie. Lize kies 'n afdraaipad en swenk met elke nuwe ondeurdagte besluit verder en verder weg van God en van die Lize wat sy eenmaal was. In die euforiese maalkolk van begeerte sien sy nie die waarskuwingstekens raak nie: Conrad bestel haar kos, kies haar klere en neem beheer van elke aspek van haar lewe. Maar sy laat hom begaan. Sy het hom mos lief. Totdat Conrad een aand sy hand vir haar lig en Lize se lewe onherroepelik verander...Afdraaipad is Elaine Marais se derde roman. Dit volg op haar debuutroman, Liefde vir Lienke, en haar tweede roman, Koesterkind. Elaine Marais kan beskou word as Suid-Afrika se eie Francine Rivers. Haar boeke is gemik op vroue wat al die veersagte tinteling van die liefde ervaar het, maar ook die wanhoop ken van onbeantwoorde liefde.

Elkeen wat vra, ontvang, elkeen wat soek, vind, en vir elkeen wat klop sal oopgemaak word.

Vir die welgestelde sakeman, Adam Swart, is geloof egter nie so maklik nie. Dis juis hoekom sy dogter, Lea, en haar ma van hom vervreem is. Wanneer Lea se ma egter sterf, gryp Adam die kans aan om sy verhouding met sy dogter te herbou.

Hulle Wildekus-wegbreek het skaars begin wanneer ’n groep rondswerwende gelowiges reg langs hulle kom laer trek met ’n versameling voos en vodde karavane. Kort daarna, onder die wakende oog van hulle jong, imposante leier, begin die luidkeelse gesanik, nagtelike kruisvure en waansinnige seedopery. Dis alles net te veel vir Adam, en sy frustrasies loop oor in ’n ernstige kopstampery met Lea. Die volgende oggend is die karavane skoonveld. Sy dogter ook.

Hy moet vir Lea gaan vind as hy ooit weer vrede in sy gemoed wil hê. In die diep Transkei beland hy op die spoor van Die Lewende Vlees, ’n sekte swerwers wat daar tussen die heuwels hulle eie stukkie paradys probeer staanmaak. Maar elke swerwer het sy storie, elke
paradys sy slang.

Burnt out after years as a professional dancer, Ella Burchell moves to a small town on the KwaZulu Natal north coast hoping to rebuild her life. Things look up when she gets a job teaching dance to children at a for-profit private school.

But Ella hasn't reckoned with the cabal of private-school mums who run the Pines Academy as their own personal fiefdom. Circling into cliques at the school gates every morning, the mums are a force to be reckoned with.

Soon Ella is too busy fielding their demands to concentrate on her own troubles. Distraction arrives in the form of an attractive cricket coach, but Ella hardly has time to pay attention.

Fun, fast-paced and hilarious, this novel by an award-winning author skewers the world of private-school privilege.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. Maja Jellema is in Cape Town to do what she does best steal. Her new employer wants a certain item from a building in Long Street, and the only thing that stands between Maja and her prize is Hershel Bloch, the bumbling building manager. But what seems like the easiest job Maja has ever seen is about to get a whole lot more complicated . . . Will Maja be able to finish the job in time to save her no-good brother from large Dutch men with no sense of humour? Can Hersh turn his topsy-turvy world around before he gets fired from Black Enterprises for being the worst estate agent in the history of the universe? Will Surita finally make peace with her father and stop using her judo skills on people who just want to hug her? Can the rage-filled waitresses at The Peoples Republic the greatest socialist coffee shop in all of Cape Town produce even one cup of coffee without backchat? Only time will tell. And its running out. Fast-paced and slickly-written, Paradise is both an uproarious comedy about lawlessness and a serious allegory about bondage. Greg Lazarus once again presents a cast of engaging, believable characters, not least of whom is the adorable klutz, Hershel Bloch. Finuala Dowling

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.

’n Dekade of wat gelede het Marita van der Vyver soos ’n wafferse prinses van ’n verre land deur Frankryk gereis en ’n vreeslik verleidelike padda leer ken. Omdat sy so graag in sprokies wil glo, het sy gehoop dat as sy hierdie slim padda soen, hy in ’n prins gaan verander. Dis mos hoe sprokies werk.

En wat gebeur toe?

Saam met haar prins sit sy huis op in ’n Franse dorpie. Hulle gaan woon in ’n ou kliphuis in Rue de l’église – Kerkstraat. Dáároor skryf sy in In die hart van ons huis.

En wat gebeur nou?

Hulle trek. En nie waarheen nie . . . Na ’n plek wat bekend staan as Plek van die Paddas.

’n Fontein Voor Ons Deur is ’n reeks stories oor ’n verhuising – ’n Franse verhuising! Maar dit is dan eintlik stories oor dit wat die hart vasmaak aan ’n huis en sy mense; ook dit waarvan jy jou moet losmaak as jy verhuis. En daardie dinge wat altyd met jou saamtrek.

Een ding is seker: Of dit nou in Kerkstraat of Paddastraat is, soos Marita van der Vyver dit sien, bly die lewe ’n fontein bruisend met verrassings.

Sister-sister is the unforgettable story of twins, Thulisile and Sindisiwe Nxumalo, set in a dystopian near-future South Africa. In childhood, gregarious Thuli and stuttering, introverted Sindi, are inseparable. But the arrival of an uncle they never knew they had sets into motion a course of events that will destroy their relationship and, eventually, their lives. In the twins' world, petrol-driven cars have been banned, and diesel pirates sell illegally distilled b-diesel to fuel junks. An unspeakable illness has run wild, disseminating populations in poverty stricken rural areas, and creating a market for untainted girls. In the townships a new religion, led by The Black Preacher, urges women to become Mothers for a New Mankind, and only those with pure blood are allowed into the Believers fold. The novel is told in five parts, interweaving present and past as the twins unwind their tragic stories and find salvation in the most unexpected of places. The second novel from the highly lauded author of Gem Squash Tokoloshe.

He presses the button to activate the screen of the CCTV system: two sharply pointed dog's ears. A wolfhound; except that a wolfhound can’t reach that high. He keeps the button pressed in and peers at the blue-grey night scene of the pavement and the section of the road covered by the cameras at the gate. The dog’s head, abnormally large, stares back at him. There’s something about the hairiness of the dog hairs and the oddly impassive gaze of the dark pin-hole eyes that doesn’t seem quite right. And where’s the rest of the dog-creature’s body? He knows who it is even before the deliberately-gruffened voice comes over the intercom. ‘Matt,’ says the dog-muzzle, ‘it’s me. Please open up.’ Mattheus Duiker, the only son of Benjamin Duiker, the former owner of Duiker’s Motors, opens the gate of their Cape Town mansion to his lover, Jack. Disguised as a wolf, Jack invades the intimate darkness in which Matt is waiting for his father to die and for his own life to take off. Shiny-eyed at the prospect, the two young men sneak past the study where the old blind man, dwelling on melancholy attachments and sombre suspicions, sits listening for the footfall of death. Eben Venter’s novel is an unsparing investigation into the relation between a father and his son, into the disenfranchisement of a man who can glean scant wisdom from the past to equip him for life in a rapidly changing dispensation. Passionate. Disturbing. A masterly unravelling of the fragile thread of feeling – Eben Venter at the top of his game.

Amanda kry dit nie meer reg om aan Wim as net haar stiefbroer te dink nie. En as sy nie wilde hoop met moontlikhede verwar nie, is sy boonop op haar biologiese pa se spoor.

Die vyfde roman in die Geur- en Seisoen-reeks.

In the wild night hours, or during the heat of the day - whenever man's thoughts whirl feverishly - then truth and fantasy, the past and the future, life and death are indiscriminately mingled on Toorberg, home of the Moolman family. So the magistrate is to learn as he investigates the strange circumstances of the death of little Noah, child of grief, who was not entirely of this world. Every day the case becomes more complex, until it challenges the very foundations of the law. It seems as if the magistrate will have to judge an entire dynasty, both the living and the dead. Everyone's guilt has to be affirmed, or denied, and this means he will have to rip open the lives of all. The Moolmans are a tribe who have long since learned how to deal with their own. Parents cut children out of their lives, shunt them aside to live as stepchildren, scrag-ends of the clan, or as city-dwellers whose names are never uttered. The Moolmans cannot forgive; not when their tribal blood is betrayed.

Liewe Here, ek verstaan nie. Help my.

Terwyl Katinka probeer om die dood van haar man te verwerk, dring haar seun se veranderde gedrag uiteindelik tot haar deur. Sy is verslae en geskok deur die besef dat hy vasgevang is in omstandighede wat ook sy lewe kan beëindig. Wanneer vrees die oorhand kry, wend sy haar tot die Here. Here, U sê vir ons in Jesaja, die wat op U vertrou, kry nuwe krag, hulle vlieg met arendsvlerke. En Here, nou het ons sulke vlerke nodig.

Arendsvlerke vir Siebert is 'n eerlike maar deernisvolle verhaal van liefde en oorwinning uit die pen van ATKV Woordveertjiewenner, Elsa Winckler.

Hierdie boek is die eerste fiksie boek vir volwassenes uit LAPA Uitgewers se nuwe druknaam, LUCA, wat fokus op geestelike fiksie en niefiksie. Arendsvlerke vir Siebert fokus op die impak van die verlies van dood en ook hoe dwelmmisbruik 'n gesin beïnvloed.

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.

Deur hoeveel brandende hoepels moet Libbi nog spring voordat sy haar tribe vind?

Libbi de Lange is die langste meisie in die kontrei. In die hele wye wêreld, of so voel dit vir haar. Die lewe werk rof met iemand wat nie by die gewone inpas nie; die neiging is mos oral om die kop af te kap van ’n papawer wat aanhou uitstyg. As jy dan nog die dogter is van ’n pastoor van ’n volksvreemde kerk in die Knysnabosse, is die verleentheid groot en die hoop min.

Die nuwe millennium is op pad, die vrees vir die Y2K-virus ’n werklikheid. Libbi moet trou, en gou ook sodat sy die gespot oor haar van kan agterlaat. Nogal moeilik as jou dansmaat se kop deur jou boobs verswelg word.

Dis Flooze, haar kamermaat op universiteit, wat Libbi leer om haar eie identiteit te omarm en uitdagend anders te wees, om uit die soetkoekblik te klim. Die verlange na liefde bly egter knaag, die honger van die lyf ook. Toe word sy maar mevrou Libbi Landman – en sit steeds met ’n honger vir 51% meer as wat sy gekry het. Boonop vergemaklik haar vriend Beer se huiwering op haar drumpel glad nie sake nie.

Tydens Covid kry die komplikasies rondom haar liewe, halfheilige pa, Beer en haar gesin net kleintjies. Deur hoeveel brandende hoepels moet Libbi nog spring voordat sy haar tribe ontdek? Voordat die lang papawer kan blom?

Vywervrou? Nee, ‘n kaivrou. Dis wat sy is.

Omring met haar geliefde vywervroue, weet Marilyn sy is nie een van hulle nie. Sy is ʼn kaivrou, die waterwese wat mans en kinders die dieptes intrek en verdrink. Daarvan getuig haar hele lewe tot hier toe.

Met die pandemie wat die wêreld op sy kop keer en die ouderdom wat Marilyn al hoe meer bewus maak van haar sterflikheid, is dit seker nie vreemd om bestek op te neem van wat agter lê nie. So ver terug as daardie jaar toe sy Paul Avenant ontmoet het, en uiteraard ook die tragiese gevolge van dié ontmoeting.

Nie dat dit daarna veel beter gegaan het nie. Een onbesonne ding na die ander het sy aangevang tot sy hier op Vywerbaai beland het.

Sy was sowaar naïef genoeg om te dink die meetsnoere begin nou vir haar in die regte plekke val. Tot die dag voor die eerste grendeltydperk toe sy besef ‘n mens se sondes haal jou altyd in. Selfs sondes wat jy nie self gepleeg het nie ...

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.