’n Versameling woorde oor die verleidelikste ding op aarde: Sjokolade!

Die mensdom se emosionele verhouding met sjokolade is legendaries. Van suikersoet tot bittersoet, van donker tot melk – dié lekkerny bied ons oor al die eeue heen troos, terapie, hedonisme en loutere plesier. Sjokolade was nog altyd ’n simbool van belofte, versugting, verlange en sensualiteit.

In Soete Sonde ondersoek bekende skrywers en nuwe stemme die tekstuur van sjokolade in al sy heerlike vorme – van lewensredder tot moordwapen. Daar’s komedie, satire, sensasie, tragedie, die absurde en fantasie. Sommige stories daag jou uit, ander verskuif grense en baie laat jou tot in jou kiewe lekkerkry. Die samesteller van die bundel is Lizz Meiring, aktrise, vervaardiger, skrywer en selferkende plesiervraat, hedonis en sjokolis.

Kinta is omgekrap. Met moeite het sy haar losgemaak van haar eenvoudige agtergrond en familie, en nou dwing ’n ou man in ’n komatoestand, ’n pa wat sy kwalik ken, haar terug in die geselskap van haar halfbroer Abe met die bose glinstering in sy oog, ’n swendelaar wat alles verteenwoordig waarvan sy probeer wegkom. Maar van almal wat besoektyd opdaag, is dit Gustav van As wat dit vir Kinta die moeilikste maak om soos voorheen voort te gaan.

In this award-winning novel, Finuala Dowling explores the fleeting and often so complicated moments of happiness in any household. Margot is a late-night talk radio host – the perfect job for an outspoken insomniac. Her home in Kalk Bay is crowded with wonderfully evocative characters such as her teenage daughter, Pia, and the three men in their lives. Finally there’s her mother, Zoe, once the acclaimed author of a quirky self-help volume with the same title, but now increasingly senile.

Fleur de Villiers is nie ’n kenner van rugby nie. Wanneer haar ou pel Maurice Kumalo haar vra om ’n biografie oor die Springbok-rugbykaptein Katstert Nel te skryf, is sy om die minste te sê teësinnig. Haar voorliefdes in die lewe behels eerder fynere dinge, soos ondersoekende joernalistiek, goeie kos en wyn. Wat op aarde weet sy van rugby, so op die vooraand van die Wêreldbekertoernooi in die jaar 2025?

Daar wag ’n groot verrassing op Fleur. Want in die domein van Jaap Schvantch en sy eggenoot Krystle, aan die hoof van Corpus Christi se kolossale besigheid (deesdae is die kerk en rugby één), is daar ’n klankie in die lug. En Fleur, ervare joernalis wat sy is, kry gou snuf in die neus.

Hond se gedagte is ’n hoogtepunt in Kerneels Breytenbach se oeuvre. Dit is ’n roman wat spreek tot rugbykenner én rugbyleek. Want wat is rugby anders as ’n metafoor vir die lewe – net een span kan wen, en nie almal volg altyd die reëls nie..

Dumped at the altar, shame and the bitter taste of rejection drive a teenage girl from the sheltered rural lands of Swaziland to the hard streets of Johannesburg. Forsaking the riches of her former life, she manages to build herself up from bartending to the respectable offices of a reputable law firm. Her tranquility is shattered when the same arrogant devil who almost drove her to suicide through his rejection, comes back into her life, claiming and marking her as his wife.

Nomaswazi is forced to come back home a prodigal daughter when her father's health takes a turn for the worst. Her father had always cocooned her from the harsh truths of her birth but even he couldn't protect her from the revelations which awaited her in the rustic hills of Maphalaleni.

Growing up in a Northern Transvaal town during the State of Emergency in the 1980s, Ben Aronbach doesn’t fit in anywhere. Among the predominantly Afrikaans, Christian inhabitants, he is the Jewish kid, but in the Jewish community he is the boy from the family of lapsed shul-goers. Even though he is learning Hebrew for his bar mitzvah, he feels like an outsider learning a foreign language.

Then Ben meets Leo Fein, a man who knew his father before he died. When Leo includes the boy in his schemes, Ben feels exhilarated. Little does he know the far-reaching impact that Leo will have on the Aronbach family’s life.

It is only years later, in the run-up to the 1992 Referendum, that Ben gets a chance to confront the charlatan . . . but he also has to face his own guilt over his family’s downfall.

Set during two important moments in South Africa’s history, Lucky Packet is told with humour and poignancy.

“One of the best novels of recent years, and likely the most readable.” – Imraan Coovadia

’n Foonoproep uit Pollsmoor laat ’n navorser se lewe kantel. Só na aan hom was die vrou wat bel dat hy algaande die biblioteek, waar hy die eerste skepe aan die Kaap bestudeer, vir dié tronk se waglokaal verruil.

Gou kom hy agter dat dié plek is nie altyd so strak soos sy tralies nie: daar is ’n eertydse skipper wat hier vetkoek verkoop; ’n vrouebewaarder met jazz in haar stem; selfs karaoke-aande in die skaduwee van die lemmetjiesdraad.

Dieper en dieper word hy ingetrek by die lewens van diegene wat wag om ín- of uítgelaat te word. Net toe hy dink hy kan met sekerheid sê wie aan watter kant van die hoë mure staan, moet hy begryp dat verdriet bodemloos is.

In Theo Kemp se Strafjaart vervloei die strominge van ’n lewe met dié van die Suid-Afrikaanse werklikheid, waar hoop en wanhoop ’n maalkolk kan raak.

Drie sexy, sensuele en romantiese verhale deur drie gewilde skrywers: Anderkant die volmaan deur Ettie Bierman, Bambi en die boef deur Anita du Preez en Victoriavalle van liefde deur Lizet Engelbrecht. 

It's a black Karoo night and a young woman, covered in blood, is running along a deserted dirt track. A terrible thing has happened and the woman, Siena, has to reach Seekoegat Primary School at the end of the track, the only place she knows that is safe. It's a long way to run, a three-day ride on a donkey cart.

This is the story of Siena, Boetie and Kriekie, whose lives intersect as children and who meet again as adults: Boetie is a boy running wild. Deprived and neglected he is always up to mischief but his friendship with Siena gives him self-worth. Kriekie is a basket case. As the child of a prostitute working the truck-stops along the n1 he has no home. When his mother, Dolly, doesn't come back, a small act of kindness by a woman running a shop at the truck-stop sees him end up at Seekoegat Primary. Plodding steadily through each chapter is the spectre of the ancient Karoo tortoise. Siena's father, Pa, a karretjiemens, reveres the tortoise as a creature that holds within it the wisdom of the ancient landscape and that cries only one tear when it dies. The Tortoise Cried Its Only Tear is award-winning author Carol Campbell's third book on the Karoo.

Like her previous work this story is a piece of social realism but, for the first time, Campbell introduces hints of magical realism - which is very much in keeping with the world view of the people she writes about.

’n Verslag van Henry van Eeden se weeklange besoek aan die Silbersteins se groot landgoed om Salome, sy toekomstige bruid, te ontmoet. Elke dag lewer bisarre ervarings op en dit word vir Henry ’n inisiasieproses: hy moet sy onskuld verloor en kennismaak met die verweefdheid van die goeie en die bose.

When Lily Westwood dies of cancer, her family are plunged into grief and despair. However, it is not only the loss of Lily which causes their desolation - it’s honouring her dying wish that her husband, William, and twin sister, Frith, leave the UK to raise her daughter, Plum, in Lily’s beloved South Africa. Together, William, Frith and Plum must fulfil Lily’s last wish and confront the challenges this presents to each of them.

William, broken and remorseful, buys North Wind Manor, a decaying Edwardian house, and buries his misery in trying to restore the property to its former glory. As the three become immersed in this project, it is clear that William’s obsession with hiding the rot and decay of the mansion mirror his desperation to conceal the misdeeds and wretchedness of his past.

Lily’s identical twin sister, Frith, resents her loss of freedom as she finds herself caring for William and Plum in a damp, gloomy house and a city alien to her. Increasingly she frets over the impact this will have on her spirit and career as an artist. With enormous courage, Frith tries to carve out an identity for herself as her future becomes increasingly tenuous.

Eleven-year old Plum, sensitive, bright, and imaginative falls in love with North Wind Manor at first sight. Upon finding a century-old diary written by the manor’s former occupant, Plum becomes enthralled by the intrigue and history of her new home, so much so, that it consumes her every waking thought until she begins to believe the diary’s author is a spirit inhabiting the manor.

This compelling story interweaves between past and present to explore the twisted dynamics of a family brought closer by sorrow, regret, mortality, love – and an understanding that the truth is not always simple.

Lennet Loots is ’n alleenloper wat woon op ’n lappie grond in Baardskeerdersbos waar hy boer met groente en vrugte, en dagga. Jare gelede was hy ’n rekenmeester wat ’n voorstedelike bestaan gevoer het, maar iewers langs die pad het hy alles opgegee. ’n Ontroerende debuutroman – die relaas van ’n jong man wat verkies om eerder in ’n karavaan van hand tot mond te lewe as om die waarheid te konfronteer.

oe arriveer kort voor die draaipunt van die millennium in New York. Tot sy verbasing wag Nina hom by die backpackers in. Nina, wat nooit eintlik Joe se iets was nie. Nie rêrig nie.

Hy ontmoet ook vir Michael, ’n verloopte Suid-Afrikaanse Jood met absurde drome vir homself en sy lendelam fiets. O, en dan is daar Elrike, wat Joe se gedagtes lees nog voordat hy hulle kan bedink.

Dié drietal word die spil waarom alles draai in Wat het geword van Dinsdag?. Dis ’n roman wat verdigsel en waarheid vervleg, nes die kunswerke van twyfelagtige waarde wat Joe produseer. Enersyds is die roman ’n terugblik op drie onstuimige dekades in Johannesburg, en andersyds ’n verhaal van een man se leuens wat hom inhaal – oor sy kleintyd, oor drome van roem wat hy skaars kan onthou, maar bowenal oor Nina.

’n Fyn afgeronde, skerpsinnige roman oor selfontdekking, heimwee en verlies.

Bailey Kellerman verlaat Suid-Afrika finaal ná nog ’n liefdesteleurstelling deur haar eerste liefde, Adam. Hulle het ’n aan-en-af-verhouding sedert hulle jong dae, maar Adam verneuk haar gereeld en kom nie tot trou nie. In London trou sy met ’n Fransman, maar word ook deur hom in die steek gelaat.

Terwyl sy oorsee is, word haar ouers wreed in hul huis in Johannesburg tydens ’n rooftog vermoor. Haar broer, Zak, daag woedend by haar huis op en dring daarop aan dat sy terugkom Suid-Afrika toe. Hy verwyt haar ook dat sy nie by die begrafnis was nie, min wetend wat haar omstandighede daardie tyd was.

Sewe maande later is Bailey terug in Suid-Afrika, maar iewers is daar ’n slang in die gras. Hoekom het haar pa nie die kluis tydens die rooftog vir die rowers oopgemaak nie? Wat is in die toegesluite kluis? En gaan Adam weer amok in haar lewe kom maak?

Keira en die mense van Walkers Village leer ons dat elke mens 'n kans het om oor te begin. Dat elke mens die reg het om oor te begin.

Vir die inwoners van Walkers Village is Keira se manier van dinge doen aanvanklik baie vreemd en ongehoord. Maar Keira verstaan dat regte mense regte probleme het. En ook dat regte mense soms so 'n bietjie hulp nodig het om die regte probleme op te los. Al klink dit aanvanklik vreemd en ongehoord. Saam met Keira leer ons om te verstaan dat die lewe nie altyd regverdig is nie. Dat goeie mense se paaie soms met donker siele se paaie kruis. Dat ons nie altyd kan kies wie ons pad kruis nie, maar dat ons wel kan kies hoe ons daai pad van ons stap.

Want hoe jy jou pad stap, is wat saak maak. Nie hoe jy jou storie vertel nie.

Leon van Nierop se blitsverkoper Plesierengel verskyn twintig jaar gelede en dit is in hierdie boek waar duisende lesers vir Tristan Hansen ontmoet, ’n engel van plesier, ’n manlike prostituut waarvoor Johannesburg se rykste vroue duisende rande betaal.

Dit is egter nie die volle verhaal nie: hoe het die enigmatiese Tristan tot hier gekom? In Katelknaap kry die leser ’n blik op die vroue wat hom gevorm het en van genot geleer het. Veral saam met een vrou, ver weg in Positano, ’n dorpie in Italië, kon hy hom loswikkel van die beklemming van sy konserwatiewe ma wat hom ná sy pa se selfmoord alleen grootmaak.

Maar dit was ook nie die laaste beklemming nie. Op die vooraand van Tristan se 27ste verjaardag vind ons hom in sy luukse dakwoonstel in Maboneng, onrustig ná ’n vreemde foonoproep vol dreigende stilte. Terwyl hy kan voel hoe hy deur ’n verkyker dopgehou word en dat die afloerder met iets anders as begeerte na hom kyk, reik sy herinneringe terug na gelukkiger dae in Positano, en na sy opleiding in die kuns van liefdemaak.

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?

This inspirational novel is for all those who see one side to life; it's time to open your eyes to both sides of the coin.

Impi was born during the Mozambican civl war and was abducted to join renamo as a child soldier. He also participated forcefully in all mutilation and killing activities.

In hierdie bundel sal jy vergeefs soek na voorspelbaarheid. Want die liefde het vele gesigte, en nie almal is mooi nie.

Kerneels Breytenbach, Christine Barkhuizen Le-Roux, Erika Murray-Theron, Helene de Kock, Keina Swart, Jaco Jacobs en vele meer skryf oor die liefde in al sy vele gedaantes: moederliefde, onvoorwaardelike liefde, gewelddadige liefde, verbode liefde, erotiese liefde, liefde tot die dood toe ...

Want die liefde verdra alles, maar die liefde het dikwels tande.

When Karl wakes up in a dilapidated house on the outskirts of a South African mining town, he does not know who or where he is, but it’s clear that the townsfolk know him.

Next door lives a ten-year-old boy, Henry. Henry’s father is a violent drug-dealer, his mother helpless in protecting them against him. A gap in the hedge between the two houses allows Henry to slip into Karl’s yard, and Karl and Henry strike up a gentle friendship as glimpses of Karl’s troubled past and his time in the army emerge.

When a drug deal goes wrong, Henry’s mother is killed. His father unceremoniously dumps her body in a disused mineshaft, but a murder investigation ensues after the body is discovered. All is not as it seems, however, and in a powerful climax the real connection between Henry and Karl is revealed.

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.

Hierdie versameling kortverhale bied 'n histeriese kykie op alledaagse situasies: 'n tango-les in die platteland; die tannie so "eenvoudig soos 'n ses-stuk legkaart"; 'n besoek aan 'n tandarts en sy assistent wat meer as net 'n spreekkamer deel. Lloyd Zandberg se debuut is 'n boek vol deernis en humor, met vriendelike gebruiksaanwysings vir mense wat nie so goed lees nie. Kyk een keer deur sy oe na die lewe, en niks sal ooit weer dieselfde wees nie.

In the irreverent tradition of her best-selling Death by Carbs, Paige Nick rounds up a fresh herd of sacred cows in another hilarious local satire. But this time it’s Number One who gets the treatment.

When ex-president J Muza is released from prison on medical parole for an ingrown toenail, his expectations of a triumphant return to power and admiration are cruelly dashed. His once lavish Homestead is a rotting shell, his remaining wives have ganged up on him, the Guptas have blocked his number, and not even Robert Mugabe will take his calls any more. And he just can’t seem to get his plans for world domination off the ground. Muza is banking on his memoirs full of fake news to pep up his profile, but his ghostwriter, a disgraced journalist, has problems and a tight deadline of his own. What Muza’s not banking on is a fat bill for outstanding rates on The Homestead, and a 30-day deadline to pay back the money, before the bailiffs arrive to evict him.

Is Muza a mastermind, or simply a puppet who fell into the wrong hands? Who is really playing who? What are his remaining wives up to, and will they stay or will they go? And how will he ever pay back the money? Can the ghostwriter make his deadline before he winds up dead? Or are both men destined to be homeless and loathed forever?

Adéle Bothma ken die woord “kanker” maar al te goed. Met vernietigende vraatlus het die siekte haar liggaam opgeëis. Gelate gee sy haar oor aan die versorging van haar twee dogters, San en Bella, in haar ou huis in die dorpie Vergenoeg. Siekte en die dood bring hulle in direkte kontak met hulleself, en mekaar. Konfrontasie is onvermydelik tussen die vrypostige Bella – chanteuse in Parys – en die verantwoordelike San, wat haar eie geheime dig hou.

Vergenoeg is ‘n oorrompelende roman oor moeders en dogters, oor die soet en dit bitter van die lewe en die dood, en die onlosmaaklike band tussen susters.

Single mom Delilah’s life goes up in smoke when her Grade 6 daughter – star pupil Daisy – isn’t made Head Girl. The honour goes to Rosie Roberts, Daisy’s nemesis. But when Rosie is pushed off the second-storey balcony at school, accusing glances are cast at Daisy…

Did she push Rosie, and to what lengths will Delilah go to clear her darling daughter’s name?

This laugh-a-minute book features a delicious PI named Jonty, a closeted ex-husband married to a LBW (“Little Blonde Wife”), and a dashing widower who presides over Daisy’s disciplinary hearing – all the reasons why Delilah will be trending