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.

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.

South African scriptwriter Paul Waterson is sent to Kenya to research a documentary film about Swahili culture.

It’s October 2001, and Paul has just been dumped. He spends time in Mombasa, Malindi and Lamu and falls in love with the place and the people. He becomes obsessed with finding the last remaining Mtepe dhow, which he hears is washed up on a beach in Somalia.

Piracy is in its infancy but Paul finds it very difficult to find someone to take him into Somali waters. Eventually he talks a dhow captain into the journey, but the entire group is captured by Somali pirates.

Navigating treacherous and adventurous waters, Whoever Fears The Sea is Justin Fox’s first novel.

Liefde is al wat vir die mens oor is

Daar onder raas die see toe Poppie Nel dié dag voor dominee Lukas Lucas op sy stoep staan in haar kuise lang romp. Sy moet glo met iemand praat sodat sy kan opstaan. Poppie is uit die kerk, maar die kerk is nie uit haar nie. Dit lyk egter nie asof sy wil nie – praat of opstaan nie. Lukas het ook nie regtig trek vir ’n pratery nie, sy eie pyn is nog vir hom te kosbaar. Maar hy het nou hierdie herderlike plig.

Só ontvou Poppie se verhaal. Dit begin in haar ouerhuis en in ’n saaltjie op ’n plot waar ’n pastoor openbarings kry en waar die Nels slaafse navolgers van sy leringe is. Dis net, die openbarings kom en gaan soos dit die pastoor ten beste kan dien. Langmourokke, manskoene, niks mooimaakgoed nie, studie is ook van die duiwel, uitgedink deur die bose wêreld daar buite. Die skade aan ’n meisiekind se siel ... Nou ja.

Uiteindelik berei Lukas ’n preek oor die liefde voor. Want dit is al wat daar vir die mens oor is.

Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee reimagines Daniel DeFoe's classic novel Robinson Crusoe in Foe. In an act of breathtaking imagination, J.M Coetzee radically reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe. In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave, Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion and, eventually, his lover. At last they are rescued by a passing ship, but only she and Friday survive the journey back to London. Determined to have her story told, she pursues the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe in the hope that he will relate truthfully her memories to the world. But with Cruso dead, Friday incapable of speech and Foe himself intent on reshaping her narrative, Barton struggles to maintain her grip on the past, only to fall victim to the seduction of storytelling itself. Treacherous, elegant and unexpectedly moving, Foe remains one of the most exquisitely composed of this pre-eminent author's works. 'A small miracle of a book. . . of marvellous intricacy and overwhelming power' Washington Post 'A superb novel' The New York Times 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 set during the South African apartheid, Age of Iron, winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year award is also available in Penguin paperback.

Hoe gemaak as jy vastrapplek moet kry tussen die Hemel en die Hel? Kliek. En jou lewe verander. Onomkeerbaar. So sal Markus Meyer en Regardt Muller, twee avontuurlustige vriende wat ná matriek by die Britse Weermag aansluit en as lede van die gerespekteerde 3 Valskermregiment in Afghanistan diens doen, weldra leer. Dit is egter eers wanneer stilte oor die slagveld neersif en die gevolge van konflik beredder moet word, dat die wáre vegters na vore sal tree. En daardie slagveld is nie noodwendig in ʼn oorlogsgeteisterde gebied waar die droë hitte iets lewendigs is nie; soms lê dit ook tussen kamerade, gesinslede en verál midde-in die liefde. Want selfs ʼn soen is by tye ʼn landmyn wat afgetrap word ...

Vegters is die merkwaardige verhaal van uitdaging, lojaliteit en deursettingsvermoë. ʼn Verhaal wat die leser deur drie valleie sal neem: van die Gamtoosvallei in die Oos-Kaap na die Sanginvallei langs die Helmandrivier in Afghanistan, tot die Vallei van ʼn Duisend Heuwels in KwaZulu-Natal waar die wêreldbekende Dusi-kanomarathon die twee vriende tot die uiterste sal beproef. Wees gereed om oorbluf te word. Hierdie boek is nie 'n Sondagmiddagpiekniek nie - dis `n ontsnappingsroete deur `n slagplaas. Vegters moet nie verwar word met 'n hedendaagse oorlogboek nie. Die kontraste tussen die drie wêrelde in die teks is hemelsbreed.

Die leser word gelawe met die idiliese Gamtoosvallei, net om weer om sy gemaksone geruk te word na die hel van 'n oorloggeteisterde Afghanistan. Nog min het twee werelde so baie verskil waar die skrywer dit regkry om beide te versoen. 'n Nuwe blik word gegee oor die oorlog in Afganistan, uit die oogpunt van twee Afrikaanse soldate in die Britse leer. Dis'n verhaal van hoop en versoening. Dis mooi. Dis bitter. Dis `n emosionele wipplankrit. Daar is oomblikke van teerheid,maar voor jy te gemaklik raak, word jy aan die bek geruk deur die twee hoofkarakters se ervarings in Afghanistan. Maar dat dit jou gaan by bly en uit jou gemaksone ruk, is gewis.

Redigeerder Louis Esterhuizen - ”Hierdie werk is by verre een van die mees indrukwekkende tekste wat ek tot nog toe die voorreg gehad het om te hanteer.”

’n Nuwe novelle van die gewilde skrywer Jeanne Goosen verskyn binnekort by Hemel & See Boeke. Sneeu in die Karoo ’n uiters rare boek, waarin twee novelles verskyn: Eerstens Jeanne Goosen se beskrywing van ’n maand se verblyf in Nieu-Bethesda. Sy gaan juis na dié klein Karoodorpie om te skryf en neem haar huishulp, Agnes Morao, saam.

Om Agnes besig te hou, koop Jeanne vir haar ’n Croxley oefenboek en ’n pen. Agnes begin skryf oor alles wat sy in Nieu-Bethesda ervaar – en oor haar kinderdae – terwyl die eintlike skrywer, Jeanne Goosen, nie aan die werk kan kom nie.

Die verskyning van Agnes se boek – dit is ook die titel daarvan – in een band saam met Jeanne Goosen se novelle is heel waarskynlik ’n eerste in wêreldletterkunde!

Karl Louw, ʼn prokureur, word deur Helen Brodie genader om haar in ʼn regsgeding te verteenwoordig. Die regsaak veroorsaak dat Karl en sy vrou Wilma ook met ou wonde van die verlede gekonfronteer word: verraad, verkragting, die mag wat mans in ’n patriargale, chauvinistiese samelewing oor vrouens aanvaar.

Terwyl Karl en Helen veg om haar professionele reputasie te beskerm, worstel Wilma met haar eie donker skuldgevoel en probeer haar man se verlede ontrafel. Sy onskuldige en ietwat idilliese skoolromanse is die grondslag vir alles wat Karl glo van die liefde, verhoudings en intimiteit – en die rede waarom Wilma nie haar geheim met hom kan deel nie.

Hoe vergewe jy as daar nie om vergifnis gevra word nie?

Hierdie verhaal van liefde en geweld speel af teen die agtergrond van dwelmgebruik en bendegeweld.

Kara de Lange het as 10-jarige die skietdood van haar broer aanskou en dié emosionele trauma lei tot sowel emosionele- as huweliksprobleme. Sy en haar man, Johan, besluit dat sy ’n paar dae by haar vriendin Jackie op Montagu gaan kuier om meer perspektief te kry.

Hier ontmoet sy vir Armand, ’n skrywer wat aanvanklike sukses behaal het, maar wie jare laas ’n boek uitgegee het. Die wederkerige aantrekkingskrag tussen Kara en Armand is egter gekompliseerd. Sy worstel nog met die emosionele nalatenskap van trauma terwyl hy daarenteen uiters gesteld is op sy privaatheid, leefstyl en behoefte aan ’n ongekompliseerde, geroetineerde lewe. Hy bewaar sy emosies dig binne hom.

‘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.

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.

“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.

As the head of Wits Mining, the last major mining company to do an empowerment deal, Max Sinclair has a mandate from the board and a clear directive: to sell a share of the company to a black consortium. Born and bred in the city that remains, at heart, a mining camp built on gold and the greed of men, Max is used to being a player in the high-stakes game of deals and political influence, and he keeps his cards close to his chest.

There is no shortage of takers for the deal. A shareholding spells possible riches for some – like Sifiso Lesibe, geologist and newest member of the board – and increased influence for others, such as the Pradesh family. Support for the deal from government is crucial, particularly when it comes to mining and mineral rights. Politics, power and money are an irresistible combination. Mistrust is everywhere and nothing is as it seems.

Former human rights lawyer Musa Madondo has seen the rise and fall of many a former comrade and he knows he is not immune to the tug of temptation. When Walter Berryman, a former client and friend, comes to Musa for professional advice, in fear of his life after having stumbled across evidence of large-scale industry collusion, he finds himself drawn into an underworld of intrigue and sophisticated espionage every bit as ruthless and deadly in the present day as it was during the country’s struggle for liberation. And in Johannesburg, as in politics, things change in an instant.

Bare Ground is the third book authored by Peter Harris. In a Different Time (2008; winner of the Alan Paton Non Fiction award) was about the 1980s and an extraordinary treason trial. The second book, Birth (2011), was about the extreme challenges that South Africa encountered in getting to and conducting the 1994 election. This novel, located in the cauldron of Johannesburg, is about the society we have become.

Twintig jaar lank wag Ester Gelderblom al vir ’n huis. In Oudtshoorn se sner­pende winter tree sy en haar vriendin Katjie aan om te sien of hulle name dalk dié keer op die regering se lys van nuwe huiseienaars verskyn. Ester droom van ’n tuiste vir haar dogter Liedjie, wat Sondae klawerbord by die Bless Me Jesus speel, en ’n plek waar haar man Neville weer op sy voete kan kom.

Maar korrupsie beduiwel alles: Vir omkoopgeld manipuleer amptenare die behuisingskema se waglyste. Wanneer Katjie se blyplek afbrand, neem die twee vroue die reg in eie hande en beset hulle twee leë huise. So sit Ester en Katjie ’n reeks gebeure aan die gang wat alles kosbaar in hul lewens sal bedreig.

’n Huis vir Ester is ’n verhaal oor gierigheid en mag en diestryd om geregtig­heid wanneer goeie mense besluit genoeg is genoeg.

Een familie, deels van Britse en deels van Boere-afkoms, ontdek dat hul lewens onlosmaaklik verstrengel raak deur die onverbiddelike gang van die geskiedenis.

Die Transvaalse politiek en die Britte se arrogante imperialisme sleur hulle mee in die Anglo-Boereoorlog van 1899-1902. Liefdes- en vriendskapsbande wat in die Trandvaalse bosveld en die sitkamers van Victoriaanse Engeland gesmee is, word op die slagvelde van Suid-Afrika getoets. Wanneer die formele fase van die oorlog oorgaan in die gruwelike beleid van die verskroeide aarde en ’n guerrillastryd, moet die familielede riskante keuses maak. Wintersrust is ’n bruisende verhaal vol hartstog en avontuur oor die individu se worsteling met magte buite sy beheer.

Sommige, wat deur wanhoop oorweldig word, oorleef nie. Ander moet ten slotte by ’n plek van vrede en vergiffenis uitkom.

(Hierdie is die Afrikaanse vertaling van The Runaway Horses)

'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.

House of Cards meets Homeland in this powerful and unputdownable thriller tracing a riot from its inception through to its impact one year on...

It's 4 a.m. and dawn is about to break over the Lovelace estate. Cathy Mason drags herself out of bed as she swelters in her overheated bedroom - the council still haven't turned the radiators off despite temperatures reaching the 30s. In a kitchen across London, Home Secretary Peter Whiteley enjoys the tea that his security detail left for him before he joins his driver and heads to Parliament, whilst his new police chief, Joshua Yares, clears his head for his first day with a run. All three will have reasons to recollect this morning as their lives collide over ten days they will never forget.

Ten Days takes an unflinching look at how lives are ruined and careers are made when small misjudgements have profound effects on frustrated communities and damaged individuals. Gillian Slovo's game-changing novel about political expediency and personal disenfranchisement is as page-turning as it is culturally significant.

In January 1991, when civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, two-thirds of the city’s population fled. Among them was eight-year-old Asad Abdullahi. His mother murdered by a militiaman, his father somewhere in hiding, he was swept into the great wartime migration that scattered the Somali people throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the world.

Serially betrayed by the people who promised to care for him, Asad lived his childhood at a sceptical remove from the adult world, his relation to others wary and tactical. By the time he had reached the cusp of adulthood, Asad had honed an array of wily talents. At the age of seventeen, in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, he made good as a street hustler. He also courted the famously beautiful Foosiya and, to the astonishment of his peers, married her.

Buoyed by success in work and in love, Asad put $1 200 into his pocket and made his way down the length of the African continent to Johannesburg, South Africa. And so began a shocking adventure in a country richer and more violent than he could possibly have imagined. A Man of Good Hope is the story of a person shorn of the things we have come to believe make us human – personal possessions, parents, siblings. And yet Asad’s is an intensely human life, one suffused with dreams and desires and a need to leave something of permanence on this earth.

Billy se draaktatoe sal skewe kyke lok op die Karoodorpie waarheen sy gesin verhuis. Dis moeilik om in te pas as jou pa die nuwe polisiekolonel is en jou ma haar pille saam met wyn sluk.

Voordat Billy vir Sue ontmoet, wat hom laat droom in ’n aweregse wêreld, bied die gangster Ou Joe se bordeel ’n vreemde troos vir trokdrywers én nuuskierige seuns. Ou Joe beplan om iets hier na te laat voordat hy sy finale geveg met die groeiende kanker in sy maag het.

Ná ’n bloedige nag is Ou Joe se plek in die kolonel se visier en moet Billy stelling inneem terwyl goed en kwaad nog kant kies.

In die styl van ’n moderne western is Johan Vlok Louw se roman vol driftige jonges, motors en gewere. Die boek is ’n vuishou in die maag; die styl so evokatief soos die Karoolandskap waar die verhaal afspeel.

It is a painfully hungover Saturday morning for two incorrigible small-town scallywags. Jeremy "Spikes" Vorster and his impulsive but charismatic sidekick, Zachary Post, decide to flee their previous night's regrets in search of adventure in the rural Transkei.

A run-in with a local taxi gang sets in motion a series of events that unravels a tense and violent misadventure as the two young rebels are forced to defend themselves at all costs.

What results is a gritty, uniquely South African undertaking, complete with sex, drugs and crawling paranoia.

At a prayer meeting on a cold Rotterdam night, the young clerk Aart Anthonij van der Lingen – a pale, sickly, hunchbacked ‘fish from the North’ – is held in the charismatic Reverend Johannes Kicherer’s thrall. Lured by Kicherer’s passion, he leaves his grey and loveless life to land at the Cape of Good Hope as a lay missionary in 1800.

But when the Missionary Society draws lots to determine where to send the new arrivals, Van der Lingen is sent east and Kicherer north. The hunchback missionary must make his own way in a place that, on the surface, God has forsaken – until, as the pitiless landscape and the blank faces of his would-be congregants strip Van der Lingen incrementally of his pride, he learns that he has nothing to give to the Africa that is ultimately his salvation.

Based on historical figures drawn from the Cape Town Church Archives, The Hunchback Missionary is a sweeping narrative of vanity and humility, of the sacred and the profane, of how Europe’s rampant strides across newly colonised Africa led to the abyss from which a continent still struggles, today, to retreat.

Sy het gedink dit was verby; ’n hoofstuk van haar lewe wat afgesluit is, maar toe sien sy uit die hoek van haar oog die gestalte by die begrafnisdiens inloop: ’n lang, benerige man met ’n effens ongekoördineerde manier van beweeg. Lana raak oombliklik naar en lighoofdig van die skrik. Dit is asof sy in ʼn yskoue stilte inplons, tuimel deur die afsondering en bo-aardse stilte van water, en vir altyd net daar wil bly.

Lana sal mettertyd agterkom dat herlewing en die dood dikwels dieselfde skokeffek het, en dat dit dan bitter moeilik is om vas te stel wat die begin en wat die einde is.

Erika Murray-Theron stuur haar karakters met soveel intelligensie en subtiliteit op hul lewensweë dat Stippellyn die gewaarwording bring van ’n ontdekking van die lewe self.

In Banquet at Brabazan, Patricia Schonstein takes us to the heart of Cape Town's violent inner city. She weaves together a rich and consuming story of a secret love affair between a boss and his secretary who create a fantastical, theatrical life for themselves within the confines of her apartment. Their theatrical existence is intricately entangled with superb food, romance, a cappella, an angel, Shakespearean drama, reflections on South Africa's war in Angola, drug-money, a muti murder, visions of the Afterlife and various works of fine art with flashbacks to the wondrous A Time of Angels. In contrast to their contrived space, outside the apartment exists the real world of loneliness, xenophobia and crime that have come to mark post-apartheid South Africa. Patricia Schonstein deftly leads us through both worlds, allowing the lives of a small group of people, who have not met before, to intersect over a period of ten days at Brabazan Bar & Lodge, in Long Street, Cape Town. Here she reveals a poignant and beautiful patina of hope and love.

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?

Bare
Treasure is a naïve dreamer tossed into this unforgiving reality. Intent on supporting herself, she walks out of her dysfunctional family home in Westonaria and straight into the greedy heart of Jo’burg, disguised as the city of gold and black diamonds, to chase the illusion of fame and a happy ending. But living a life of luxury in a society of artificial human beings comes at a hefty price. She is wooed by a wealthy man who grooms her into a power-hungry machine... but is the pleasure worth the pain and endless sacrifices? What can she offer a man who has everything but a soul? As her life crumbles around her, can Treasure alter her fate before it’s too late?

Cradle Of The Hockey Club
Treasure desires nothing more than pure love from her Sugar Daddy but she is starting to see that he has deep-rooted, dangerous fetishes that go beyond greed and lust. She longs for a better life yet isn't sure how she will ever find that. The sacrifices placed in the hands of her tormentor are deadly. Slowly, day by day, she walks into the shadows and claws of death. Her love for materialism will alter the course of her life dangerously. But with her naive softness comes overwhelming feelings of unworthiness, fear and blood spills. She is catapulted back into the darkness, human traffic and organ sales. Terrified by the reality of her own naivete, Treasure becomes entwined and trapped in a world of darkness and a terrible kind of glamour. Will she ever see the light?

Ego
Tortured to the bone, Treasure Mohapi steps into a world that many haven’t seen in Sandton; the new way of life filled with millionaires and quick cash scams doesn’t come cheap. The young model seems too naïve for Sandton and her bloodsucking master stops at nothing to prove his power. Treasure finds herself face-to-face with the Devil who controls ministers, doctors and policemen. A secret society like no other in the history of Africa comes alive once again. As she is drawn into supremacy, the chains of material slavery keep following Treasure and her best friend Lintle Kente. After years of sexual entertainment and high flying, can their master let them go? With the increasing number of dead bodies, drugs and cults, will this love affair prove to be a way of life for many? The wives of the rich and famous have deep, dark roots too.

Mercy
"Look closely around you. Have you ever asked yourself what happens to all the girls who are in the system?" The savage, senseless murders of children and the youth. It carries Treasure’s story from Book 1 and ends with the fight for life between Paul and Tim Morgan. We look at the disappearance of young people, human trafficking, cults and mental illness in men. This story is inspired by real-life events and researched data from global social ills and Jackie looks into SA political faces that have sex scandals as part of her research.