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.

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

Leke is a troubled young man living in the suburbs of Cape Town. He develops strange habits of stalking people, stealing small objects and going from doctor to doctor in search of companionship rather than cure. Through a series of letters written to him by his Nigerian father whom he has never met, Leke learns about a family curse; a curse which his father had unsuccessfully tried to remove.

Bom Boy is a well-crafted and complex narrative written with a sensitive understanding of both the smallness and magnitude of a single life. Part of the narrative is presented through letters written by Leke's father, Oscar, to Leke's mother, Elaine; other sections are comprised of letters written by Oscar to Leke - letters which tell him about Oscar's early life in Nigeria and the origins of a family curse. A curse which resulted in Oscar being imprisoned. Through these letters, a wonderful feeling of traditional Nigerian beliefs and customs are brought to both Leke and the reader.

The pages of this novel are filled with the simple difficulties of living - coming to terms with death, with ourselves, with others, with loneliness, independence, trust - these are dealt with by Omotoso in a careful and nuanced manner.

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.

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.

Haar tyd op Winburg raak ’n ontdekkingstog deur die dorp se verlede en haar eie verbintenisse daarmee. Sy verken bywonerstentedorpe ná die Anglo-Boereoorlog, kyk saam met die vroue van 1901 in die naghemel op na die Groot Komeet, hoor van die vloek wat Christiaan de Wet oor Winburg uitgespreek het. Daar is die monument wat haar ma se buurvrou en dié se seuns ná ʼn plaasmoord begin bou het – die mees onwaarskynlike monument ooit. En haar ma se oppasster, wie se grootjie in die swart konsentrasiekamp was, praat ook saam.

Wanneer Yachin, Margo se Israeliese geliefde, op besoek kom om haar terug te vat na hul tuiste in Israel, is die besluit – waar hoort ek? – nie meer so eenvoudig nie. Monument is die verhaal van die Vrouemonument in Bloemfontein, en van ander monumente: dié van klip en marmer, maar ook die monumente wat Suid-Afrikaners – die vroue in die eerste plek – in mekaar se menswees gebou het.

Een plaas. Een familie. Een bloedlyn. Sewe geslagte.

In 1838 vlug Pieter de Witt uit die Oos-Kaap na Natal om ná maande van uiterste ontbering op die walle van die Tugelarivier ’n hoekpaal in te kap en sy plaas af te tree. Hy noem die plaas Donkerland. Dit is hier waar sewe geslagte De Witts die wel en wee van ’n ontluikende volk beleef: die Groot Trek, die stryd teen die Zoeloes, die Anglo-Boereoorlog, Groot Depressie, 1948-verkiesing, Grensoorlog, Soweto-opstande en die oorgang tot ’n demokratiese Suid-Afrika. Vir honderd agt-en-vyftig jaar leef die De Witts die triomf en die smaad van die geskiedenis op ’n enkele stuk grond uit; ná sewe geslagte begin dit deurskemer wat dit beteken om in hierdie aarde ’n hoekpaal in te slaan en ’n plaas af te tree.

Donkerland is die eerste aflewering in Deon Opperman se Afrikaner-trilogie.

’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.

Tristan Hansen is 'n man wat R15 000 per nag vra en die land se mees invloedryke en wêreldwyse vroue soveel plesier gee dat hulle terugkom vir meer. Maar wanneer een van sy kliënte haar eie lewe neem, verander die plesierengel in 'n doodsengel, en bely sy kliënte die een na die ander wat agter toe deure gebeur het. Maar waarom doen hy dit? Beslis nie net vir die geld nie. 'n Sielkundige, Erika Hamilton, ontmoet hom toevallig. Albei van hulle bied op beroepsvlak verligting van neurose, onvervuldheid en frustrasie - die een op akademiese wyse, die ander met lyflike plesier. Wat gebeur wanneer hulle ontmoet?

After his heart bypass operation, former champion-athlete Christian Lemmer needs to take stock. When a Cape Flats gang begins to target him, this becomes vitally important.

Christian commutes between Johannesburg and Stellenbosch, where he returns at weekends to his amnesiac wife Christine and his confrontational son Siebert. But he also has a hideaway that no one knows about, a flat in Sea Point where his drug dealer meets him, and a Swazi prostitute becomes his confidante.

And in Matjiesfontein the staff of the Lord Milner Hotel and the local pigeon breeders are in a state of excitement with the approach of the Southern Cross Derby - the most important event in the Karoo's pigeon racing calendar. But other things are afoot in Matjiesfontein as well, things in which the lives of the Lemmers are soon to become involved, from the arrival of the Piss-Man to the disappearance of prodigy Snaartjie Windvogel who, it is said, bewitches her father's pigeons with her violin playing.

The Lemmers come to the village to try to unravel one mystery, only to find themselves caught up in another.

Ignatius Smit sterf by geboorte op Woensdag, 3 Maart 1982 op Katima Mulilo in Namibie se Kaprivistrook. Omdat Ignatius se ouers die sendingpaar is, word hy begrawe op 'n afgelee plek in 'n bos, naby die graf van magistraat Trollop wat aan koors in Barotsiland gesterf het.

Sy ma sukkel om sy dood te verwerk, omdat sy as geestelike leier verantwoordelik voel vir die vertroosting van die dorpsmense, wat net so platgeslaan is deur sy onverwagte dood. Jare later haal sy onverwekte dood haar in. Hierdie is haar, Leonette, se verhaal. Dis 'n verhaal van verlies en die verwerking daarvan, wat grootliks afspeel binne die militêre milieu - waarvan grenslewe 'n groot komponent is.

Baie jare later kry sy vertroosting deur berading en musiekterapie van 'n orrelsimfonie van Saint-Saens. Dit gee vir haar 'n visualisering van Ignatius se lewe na die dood. So kry sy volkome bevryding vir haar pynlike smart.

Nelson Jekwa: young, black, privileged. Named after Mandela, his future in the city of Cape Town blinks promisingly.

Bored and high, he and his friends play a game of risk. But what starts off as some edgy fun, evolves, spawning an entire social movement. The goal: to help Africa get out from the bottom of the world’s toilet.

While missions are being executed all over the continent, Nelson’s group plans ten heists to help pay back Africa’s debts to the West. But their game has spun out of control.

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.

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.

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.

’n Welder, ’n sjef, ’n finansiële bestuurder en ’n fortuinverteller saam op die lang pad met ’n boks human remains...

Om die as te strooi van ’n vriendin wat lank vooraf geweet het sy gaan doodgaan, is nie speletjies nie. Janine het gans te veel tyd gehad vir plannetjies maak en leidrade wegsteek vir hierdie laaste avontuur wat sy in as-vorm meemaak. Haar vier mede-avonturiers moet in ’n begraafplaas ronddrentel, die misterieuse Miskloof soek en teen kloktorings opklouter, om nie te praat nie van ’n vark met die naam Daisy wat dink die pad behoort aan haar. Die vier is mín lus.

Maar wat nie doodmaak nie, maak sterk. Vir dié vier vroue wat bittermin ooghare het vir mekaar, is die swaarste taak om agter mekaar se toe deure in te loer – daar waar alles beslis nié blink nie.

Einde ten laaste vind Sonja, Madie, Gerda en Karien egter dat dit makliker was om moeilik te wees vóór hul pienk Volksie se wiele uit die Kaap gerol h

What happened to Anna the moment after she pulled the trigger? After she looked her stepfather in the eye, and shot him, the man who sexually abused her and her sister for so many years?

Seven years after It’s Me, Anna, a publication sensation at the time of its release, the author revisits the story of Anna Bruwer. How does one seek forgiveness for murder? Or is retribution the only way to bring about justice? These are the questions Anna – and the writer – wrestle with.

This is an excruciatingly honest depiction of Anna’s life after her stepfather’s death: a novel filled with compassion, and ultimately hope.

Whom do you trust when nothing is as it seems?

In the aftermath of her mother's sudden death, psychologist Maria Petros confronts disturbing questions. What is the secret society that her mother frequented? Who is the philosopher Maria meets in a therapy session, and why is he pursuing her with such vigour? As she delves into her mother's strange life, she finds herself seduced... and facing grave danger.

When in Broad Daylight I Open My Eyes is set in a familiar yet sinister Cape Town. It explores, in evocative and erotic fashion, the extent to which people prey on one another.

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.

Boelie is Mister Fourie se oudste seun en erfgenaam; Persomi is die bywonerskind. Maar Persomi is slim, waarskynlik te danke aan haar onbekende biologiese pa. 'n Baie spesiale vriendskap ontwikkel tussen Boelie en Persomi, maar iets hou Persomi terug - waarom kan sy nie met oorgawe liefhe nie? En wanneer sy as baie jong prokureurtjie inwillig om die Indierwinkeliers se gedwonge verskuiwing in die hof te beveg, bring dit haar in direkte konflik met die gemeenskap - en met Boelie.

Three women look back in old age at a past they shared, not always harmoniously - Emmeline Pankhurst, the formidable suffragette; her daughter Sylvia; and Helen, who was loved by Harry, the neglected son of Emmeline and beloved brother to Sylvia. Through the narrative of each woman flits the figure of Christabel, Mrs Pankhurst's favourite daughter - selfish, vain but irresistible. The three accounts, sometimes contradictory, sometimes confirmatory, reconstruct piece by piece the events surrounding Harry's death and the human entanglements behind, indeed at times driving, the public acts of the time.

The background is the notorious 1971 case in which nineteen citizens of Excelsior in the Free State were charged with breaking apartheid's Immorality Act, which forbade sex between black and white. In an extraordinary alchemy of words into art, Mda tells the story of a family at the heart of the scandal ? of Niki, the fallen madonna, Popi, her daughter by an eminent white citizen of the town, and Viliki, the betrayed son, and of how they come to terms with the repercussions and find resolution in surprising ways.

By turns earthy, witty and tragic, this energetic novel deftly handles issues of racial identity, rape and revenge. It is also a brilliantly observed study of the inner workings of small-town South Africa, and the changes rural communities have undergone.