Wanneer Donna de Villiers en haar man Divan skei, moet hulle suksesvolle juweliersonderneming sowel as hulle huis in Tamboerskloof verkoop word sodat hulle bates verdeel kan word. Haar selfbeeld is aan skerwe na Divan se verraad en die eens suksesvolle juwelier wat pryse vir haar werk losgeslaan het se skeppingsdrang is daarmee heen.

Sy wil wegkom uit die kringe waarin sy en Divan beweeg het, waar almal nou oor haar vernederende egskeiding skinder. Donna swerf van kusdorp na kusdorp waar sy ontvlugting op haar branderplank en in die arms van surfers vind. Wanneer sy na amper ’n jaar die allerlaagste punt bereik, besef Donna sy is op ’n pad van selfvernietiging.

Donna moet weer van voor af begin en sy aanvaar ’n opdrag om ’n replika van ’n antieke hangertjie te maak. Dit neem haar na Minnaarshof, ’n spogplaas in die Riebeekvallei. Hier ontmoet sy vir Toit Minnaar.

Toit treur al meer as ’n jaar oor sy vrou se dood en hy neem ’n wilsbesluit om weer sy lewe op koers te kry. Hy aanvaar ’n uitdaging om deel te neem aan ’n realiteitstelevisiereeks, Boer soek ’n vrou. Wanneer die drie dames op die plaas kom kuier saam met die TV-span, begin die poppe dans. Daar is wedywering en katgevegte en Toit begin al hoe meer aangetrokke voel tot Donna.

Donna doen egter haar bes om gevoelens wat Toit in haar wakker maak, te onderdruk. Sy wil weer haar loopbaan op dreef kry én terugkry wat ’n man by haar gesteel het.

Inspector Albertus Beeslaar has left the ruthless city, only to have his hopes of finding peace and quiet in the Kalahari shattered by the brutal murder of artist Freddie Swarts and her adopted daughter. But Freddie's journalist sister Sara is not convinced that this was a typical farm attack. Amid a spate of stock thefts, Beeslaar must solve this high-profile crime, all the while training his two rookie partners, Ghaap and Pyl. After more murders, the disturbing puzzle grows increasingly sinister, as age-old secrets and hostilities surface, spurring the local inhabitants to violent action. No one is above suspicion, not least the mysterious Bushman farm manager and falconer, Dam. Weeping Waters is Maya Fowler and Isobel Dixon's translation of the Afrikaans bestseller Plaasmoord, a novel that peels away the layers of a landscape steeped in conflict, and hails the arrival of a bright new voice in South African crime fiction available in English.

Kruispad is die kern van Deon Opperman se groot TV-trilogie oor die Afrikaner se pad in Suid-Afrika. Dit beeld presies uit waar die groot verandering gekom en hoe die Afrikaner daarop gereageer het.

Die roman wentel om Sophia en Mariana, die twee dogters van ’n welgestelde boer, Soois van Rooyen, en sy vrou, Mart. Sophia is met die skatryk FG van den Berg getroud en Mariana met die arm, bekrompe Andries Landman. Terwyl FG en Andries albei hul ekonomiese status ná die verkiesing van 27 April 1994 verloor, sit hul onderskeie seuns, Klein FG en Henk, met die nalatenskap van apartheid.

Kruispad belig nie net die snykant van apartheid fel nie, maar boor ook diep in die problematiek waarmee die Afrikaner in die jare negentig moes worstel en toon hoeveel inbors en karakter dit verg om die juk van die verlede af te skud.

Vuurtoringwagter Hannes Harker word met sy vrou na ’n afgeleё eiland verplaas. Hy ontdek iets wat lank in die toring weggesteek was wat hom sy balans laat verloor, en hy val.

In die hospitaal vertel hy met rukke en stote aan verpleegsuster Rika sy lewensverhaal – van sy ma se geheimsinnige dood, van sy onbeheerbare jong vrou, Aletta, en van die verlate eiland waar net die vuurtoringwagters en ghwanowerkers woon. Dié twee groepe leef saam maar tog ook streng apart op een van die onherbergsaamste plekke op aarde. Met die aankoms van ’n karakter uit Aletta se verlede kom haar eie geheime onvermydelik aan die lig, net soos die pruttende spanning en onregte wat die ghwanowerkers so lank verduur het tot uitbarsting kom in ’n enkele, skokkende gebeurtenis.

Die Bewaker is die verhaal van twee geslagte vuurtoringwagters – mans verbete in hulle plig, en vroue wat saam met hulle in skrikwekkende afsondering leef. Dit is geskryf in die kenmerkende meevoerende styl waarvoor Marguerite Poland so bekend is, nou vir die eerste keer in Afrikaans.

’n Roman oor die krag van geheime, die krag van die liefde en die krag van stories.

As hy die finansiële state het, kan hy begin. Daarvoor het hy kontakte by al die belangrikste banke, sorgvuldig oor jare bymekaargemaak. Op sommige van hulle het hy ’n houvas omdat hy inligting oor hulle uitgesnuffel het.

Wanneer hy die dokumente voor hom het, begin die werklike kragmeting: sy stadige, planmatige, geduldige kyk met forensiese X-straalvisie na wat skelm rekenmeesters en regsadviseurs hulle base help verdoesel. Hy kyk nie net na wat daar is nie, maar ook na wat nie daar is nie. Hy voel die afwagting in sy maag. Dis soos wanneer ’n jagter die slot oopmaak en die patrone in die magasyn druk. Vir hom is só ’n finansiële dokument die reuk van forensiese geweerolie. Daar is geen waarborg dat hy sal tref of selfs ’n skoot sal inkry nie, maar dis die begin van die jag.

Roux Venske, hy is dié jagter. Finansiële knoeiers is sy prooi.

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.

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.

When lighthouse keeper Hannes Harker is posted to a remote island with his young wife, he discovers something long-hidden in the tower that causes him to lose his footing and fall.

Seriously injured, Hannes is evacuated to hospital and nursed back to health by Sister Rika, to whom he haltingly tells the story of his life: of his mother’s mysterious death, of his wild young wife, Aletta, and of the desolate island inhabited only by the lighthouse keepers and guano workers – two communities confined together, yet rigidly separated in one of the bleakest places on earth. With the arrival of a figure from Aletta’s past, her own secrets erupt into the present, just as the simmering tensions and injustices endured for so long by the guano workers erupt into a single, shocking act of violence.

Written in the exquisite, haunting prose for which Marguerite Poland is renowned, The Keeper is the story of two generations of lighthouse keepers – men obsessed by their duty to the light – and the wives who accompany them into a life of frightening isolation.

The Keeper is a novel about the power of secrets, the power of love, and the power of stories.

Set during the 2010 World Cup, Zebra Crossing explores myth and malice in the Mother City.

As excitement about the World Cup grows, so do xenophobic tensions. Consequently, George and fellow Zimbabweans Peter and David attempt to exploit Chipo’s albinism and local superstitions about the condition to make their fortunes amongst the illegal soccer betting rings that have sprung up along the city’s infamous Long Street.

Their plan is to get rich quick and leave, before the violent rumours that all foreign africans remaining in the country after the final soccer match will be attacked, come to fruition. However, their scheme has disastrous consequences.

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.

Nes ’n geslypte diamant het die waarheid baie kante. Hoe dit vir jou skyn, hang af van waffer kant af jy kyk. Magrieta Malgas, die kleindogter van ’n reenmaker en die half-Koranna Klein-Lit, word in die sewentigerjare vir die onwettige ontginning van edelgesteentes aangekla. Saam met haar onwaarskynlike medebeskuldigdes, ’n bejaarde en ’n gestremde, beweer sy dat hulle die rivieroewer slegs maar oopgeskiet het om 'n oorlede vrou se as te bere waar 'n groot vloed dit sal meesleur. "Weg … see toe." Susara Vermeulen, 'n ietwat onbeholpe verslaggewer, word Oranjerivier toe gestuur om die saak op te volg. Sonder haar redakteur se medewete neem sy Magrieta se verhaal, getik in die Afrikaans van daardie streek, en ’n raaisel na 'n versteekte skat, saam. Deurweef met liriese oomblikke en ou legendes, ontvou die storie van Ntatisi, die Matabele-krygsvrou wat ’n diamant op haar voorkop gedra en haar soldate vreesloos in die stryd gelei het. Soos die Oranjerivier in vloed edelgesteentes saamspoel, raak Susara se verhaal met Magrieta s’n vervleg en word dit ’n reis na kennis van die mistieke, die self en lotsverbondenheid in Afrika. Jeanette Ferreira oor Die engel en die bont bees: “Uit die metafore van ’n gesuurde brood en ’n rivier wat die oewers oorstyg, groei hier ’n wonderlik verbeeldingryke roman. So word feite die klein begin van groot mites wat eweseer oortuig, diep verweef in Ou Afrika en die vele tonge van Afrikaans. Uitsoek-Le Roux."

Award-winning novelist Michiel Heyns is back with a darkly comic tale.

When a young South African literary scholar, Michael Marcussi, is offered, via a Facebook contact, a house in the Tuscan village of Gianocini, he accepts with alacrity: this is just the space and quiet he needs to complete his study of Literary Representations of Tuscany.

But even before he has boarded his plane at Stansted Airport, things start vexing him: an obnoxious old man jumps the boarding queue, and Michael is given the evil eye by a belligerent bovver boy covered in tattoos. Nor is this to be his last meeting with these objectionable characters: they turn up in unexpected places, first in Florence and then in Gianocini itself, with a frequency that cannot be purely coincidental.

In the meantime Michael is pursuing his own extracurricular agenda, through the streets of Florence and the passages of the Uffizi, then through the medieval alleys of Gianocini, only to find himself the object of mysterious designs and the subject of some very disturbing paintings. Add to this the innocent but curious Wouter, the startlingly rude upper-class harridan, Sophronia, the beautiful but supercilious Paolo and a dog called Thanatos: the Tuscan sun never shone on a more bizarre mix.

After the sophisticated comedy of The Typewriter’s Tale and Invisible Furies, and the poignant ironies of Lost Ground, Michiel Heyns here returns to the broader comedy of The Reluctant Passenger, in a scintillating tale of love, revenge and trippa.

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.

Tydens ’n skoolreünie kom die lewe van ’n groep Suid-Afrikaners onder die loep.

Dit is twintig jaar ná demokrasie, en die land neem die nuwe bedeling in oënskou. Demokrasie het vryheid vir baie beteken, maar vir hierdie groep het dit ook beteken dat die lewe waarvoor hulle voorberei is, oornag verdwyn het. Is nostalgie vir ’n verlore wêreld hul enigste uitkoms?

’n Pakkende kontroversiële roman.

What makes Pat Simmons, a retired engineer, give up his comfortable middle class living and wade across a crocodile infested river with a bicycle strapped to his back, in order to teach chess to schoolchildren at the Mission station?

Paul du Toit het hom in die Verenigde Koninkryk kom vestig nadat hy Suid-Afrika tien jaar tevore onder 'n wolk verlaat het. Nou is hy geskei en middeljarig, verstrengel in 'n vervelige werk en 'n sukkelende verhouding.

Hy aanvaar dus geredelik 'n maklike – of so dink hy – opdrag van 'n ryk Londense finansier wat hom na Suid-Afrika terugneem. Maar die land het verander, en die terrein is verraderlik.

Skielik moet Paul nie net met die skaduwees van sy eie lewe veg nie, maar ook met die versteekte magte wat Suid-Afrika beheer.

In die oomblik voor hy homself om die lewe bring, hersien Desmond die pad wat kon lei tot hier. Om homself en sy lot te verander moes Danie Fourie meer doen as ontsnap uit ’n tronk. Hy moes uitstyg en Desmond Faure word, homself herskep ver weg van Krugersdorp. Hy moes sy siel verkoop, iemand ompraat, sy verlede verbloem, sy geluk maak swaai soos Pretty Woman. Hy moes ’n ander kitaar leer slaan.

“Country song for ever lost its soul, when the guitar player turned to rock ’n roll ...”

Maar in die donker kantlyn van menslike gedrag val gewone reëls gou weg. Dit kos ’n kenner om deur die mooi afwerking te sien. Probleem is, soveel sonde laat homself nie sommerso afskud nie. En Desmond weet hy is steeds Danie, maak nie saak wat nie. Almal aanvaar sy nuwe persona. Almal hou van hom. Hy raak selfs verlief.

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.

Charlie Human’s Apocalypse Now Now is a rip-roaring addition to the bout of ex­cellent speculative and other genre fiction by South African authors like Lauren Beukes, Sarah Lotz, and S.A. Partridge. The main character is Baxter Zevcenko, a 16-year-old kingpin of a schoolyard pornography syndicate. Baxter is razor-sharp, and darkly funny, and the novel dazzles with extremely quotable one-liners.

All hell breaks loose when Baxter’s girlfriend Esmé is kidnapped and he is plunged into Cape Town’s supernatural underworld. An unusual tooth found at the scene of Esmé’s disappearance leads Baxter to the door of supernatural bounty hunter Jackie Ronin. Together they set out to rescue Esmé and cross paths with a West African glowing man; the notorious Queen of the Nightwalkers; and a bent weapons-chemist named Basson. Baxter’s sudden immersion in the paranormal leaves him with little time to realise that he is about to become the final cog in Basson’s master plan – one that could create an apocalypse that will obliterate the world.

Apocalypse Now Now is a laugh-a-minute, entertaining and interesting book that will be enjoyed even by readers new to the genre. It’s fantastic in every sense of the word, will be published in the United Kingdom and South Africa simultaneously, and marks the beginning of this young writer’s promising career.

Sacrificed is the English translation of Offerlam. The Congo, 1961: A man is murdered in cold blood and his beloved is left for dead. Fifty-three years later, Caz Colijn receives a phone call that tears her out of her reclusive life. In Belgium, where she tries to trace her and her daughter’s family origins, it becomes clear that that country’s colonial past has had as much impact on her life as the apartheid years in South Africa did. The phone call Professor Luc DeReu receives is less traumatic, but he too is ripped out of his familiar orbit when the woman he blames for his father’s premature death re-enters his bland existence. In the meantime, Erevu and his grandson must trace the nkisi taken from them more than five decades ago in order for them to fulfil their holy mission. When the paths of this group of people cross, it leads once again to murder.

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

An eminent, aging Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him, troubled by Australia’s complicity in the wars in the Middle East,it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: how should a citizen of a modern democracy react to their state’s involvement in an immoral war on terror, a war that involves the use of torture?

In the laundry-room of his apartment block he encounters an alluring young woman. When he discovers she is between jobs, he claims failing eyesight and offers her work typing up his manuscript. Anya has no interest in politics but the job provides a distraction, as does the writer's evident and not unwelcome attraction toward her.

Her boyfriend, Alan, an investment consultant who understands the world in harsh neo-liberal economic terms, has reservations about his trophy girlfriend spending time with this 1960's throwback. Taking a lively interest in his affairs, Alan begins to formulate a plan that will have far-reaching consequences for all involved.

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

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.