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Laaste Kans (Afrikaans, Paperback): Marita van der Vyver Laaste Kans (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Marita van der Vyver
R350 R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Save R38 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

’n Groep vriende kom die eerste keer in vyf-en-twintig jaar bymekaar om Adriaan se sewentigste verjaarsdag te vier.

Een vir een maak die gaste hul opwagting by Adriaan en Yvette se strandhuis in die Weskus. Sommige bring hul kinders en die uitbundige gelag van kleinkinders saam. Sedert hulle mekaar laas gesien het, moes party lewensmaats en drome vaarwel groet; ander het nuwe liefde en betekenis gevind. En dan is daar Yvette wat haarself nie sover kan kry om vir almal van háár reis te vertel nie.

Laaste kans is ’n hoogs leesbare roman oor vriendskap wat die tyd deurstaan het. Marita van der Vyver skryf met haar kenmerkende insig en humor oor ontheemde mense, die komplekse verhouding tussen ouer en kind, en die eise wat die tyd aan menswees stel.

The Lion Conspiracy (Paperback): Peter Hain The Lion Conspiracy (Paperback)
Peter Hain
R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From South Africa to Zanzibar, from Kenya to Britain, activists are battling to save lion prides, today more threatened by extinction than rhinos and elephants, as a result of illegal wildlife trading. Having thwarted murderous poachers in The Elephant Conspiracy, the Veteran, Thandi and Mkhize are back battling to save lion prides from being killed for their claws, teeth and bones. As the demand for lion parts soars, impoverished local communities are being incentivised to poach, and the fight against this illegal plunder becomes ever more vicious.

Struggling to defeat the international criminal syndicate responsible for poaching, the team find themselves embroiled in mafia-style smuggling, illicit night flights, tense shoot-outs, and an encounter with a protégé of Vladimir Putin.

Hemel En Aarde En Ons (Afrikaans, Paperback): Zirk van den Berg Hemel En Aarde En Ons (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Zirk van den Berg
R320 R286 Discovery Miles 2 860 Save R34 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Dat die dokter wat mynbaas Hans-Peter Kranz aangestel het al die tyd ’n vrou is, het die dorpenaars op Kolmanskop vroeg in die twintigste eeu heeltemal oorhoops. Dokter Alexandra Stackelberg kom om die x-straalmasjien by die diamantmyn te bedryf – nie bloot om mediese redes nie, maar ook om diamantdiewe vas te trek. Haar werk raak ’n morele dilemma en twee mans ding mee om haar aandag, terwyl oorlogswolke op die horison saampak...

Soos Kolmanskop se mense deur die sand sif na diamante, so sif een van hulle later jare deur herinneringe, op soek na sekerheid en die waarheid agter een van hulle se dood.

Hemel en aarde en ons is ’n whodunit met ’n konsepsuele kinkel, ’n verkenning van identiteit, bewussyn, verwording en vergetelheid.

Die Oseaan Tussenin (Afrikaans, Paperback): Jeanette Stals Die Oseaan Tussenin (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Jeanette Stals
R300 R277 Discovery Miles 2 770 Save R23 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Oorlog verswelg die Boererepubliek. Huise word verwoes, landery word verbrand, en vroue en kinders in konsentrasiekampe aangehou.

Pieter Nel lei ’n kommando bittereinders in ’n desperate opstand teen die Britse ryk. Hulle offer alles op vir ’n vrede wat dalk nooit gaan kom nie, vir ’n huis wat hulle dalk nooit weer gaan sien nie.

Intussen moet Katrina Nel baklei om haarself en hul kinders aan die lewe te hou namate die toestande in die konsentrasiekampe al hoe hagliker word. Hier word haar lewe onlosmaaklik vervleg met dié van die ander vroue, die hanskakies wat die vyand help om die kampe te bestuur, en die Engelse offisier wat haar hart wil wen.

Wag daar lewe of liefde anderkant die oorlog?

Blou Moord (Afrikaans, Paperback): Francois Bloemhof Blou Moord (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Francois Bloemhof
R320 R300 Discovery Miles 3 000 Save R20 (6%) Ships in 7 - 11 working days

Maart 1981. Ludo Labuschagne gaan saam met sy ma, haar vriend, oom Dippie, en ’n paar ander na ’n private eilandjie tussen Durban en Madagaskar. Die wegbreek word geborg deur Una Steenkamp, ’n ryk weduwee. Nog voor hulle op die eiland kom, word haar seun Ederik oënskynlik in Durban vermoor. Almal wat hom ken, glo egter Ederik is bloot nog kwaad oor ’n onlangse stryery en dat hy wel daar aangesit sal kom.

Intussen sit Ludo vas op die eiland saam met:
Attie Steenkamp, ’n predikant en Una se swaer
Christoline, die predikant se swaarmoedige vrou
Janneman, hulle seun wat sy been op die grens verloor het
Annetjie, hulle polities bewuste dogter
Toon van der Lugt, ’n selfingenome akteur
Suné Louw, ’n jong meisie wat deur Toon onderhou word
Cor Mocke, ’n ruwe weermagvriend van Ederik
Miguel Pedrito, Una se handyman
Inez, sy vrou en die kok-huishoudster

Dié spul, dertien in totaal, is nie lank op die eiland nie voor iemand sterf. Almal glo egter dit was selfdood – behalwe Ludo. Twee sulke vreemde gebeure kan nie toeval wees nie. Wanneer daar skielik nie meer petrol vir die motorboot is nie én die man wat elke dag van die vasteland af moet kom nie opdaag nie, is dinge vir Ludo duidelik: Hulle is saam met ’n moordenaar op die eiland vasgekeer en daar gaan binnekort nog koppe rol.

Love Stories For Ghosts - A Collection Of Hopeful Stories About Living, Dying And Falling In Love (Paperback): Alex Latimer Love Stories For Ghosts - A Collection Of Hopeful Stories About Living, Dying And Falling In Love (Paperback)
Alex Latimer
R360 R332 Discovery Miles 3 320 Save R28 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

An evil man is reincarnated as a terrible smell and over time falls in love with a woman. A stranger arrives at the door of a heavenly house, but unlike everyone else there, she will only live once. A person dies and goes to a place where all living things go – a menagerie of animals roaming an endless meadow – and he finds love in familiar faces. A mother and a son reunite in a heaven that is also a hell – depending on how you see it. Two people die on the moon and live undead through eons, moving through the phases of love while watching the lights on Earth flicker out.

Leo (Afrikaans, Paperback): Deon Meyer Leo (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Deon Meyer 3
R375 R175 Discovery Miles 1 750 Save R200 (53%) In Stock

'n Student se dood in die berg by Stellenbosch lyk verdag. 'n Oud-recce vermoor as 'n boodskap. Aan iemand: Hou julle bekke. 'n Korrupte politikus se lyk in die sandkuil van Arabella se sestiende putjie. Met 'n onontsyferbare kode daarby. 'n Mooi veldgids, gewerf as 'n heuningwip vir die grootste dollar-rooftog in die land se geskiedenis. En staatskapers wat elkeen van die ondersoeke saboteer.

Jy't 'n koel kop nodig om dit alles te ontrafel, om die enorme druk te kan hanteer. Jy moet kalm en gefokus en nugter wees. Maar Bennie Griessel se kop is nie koel nie. Hy's bedruk. Bekommerd. Bevrees. Want op 12 Junie moet hy trou, 'n datum wat op hom afkom soos 'n sneltrein. En hy's glad nie reg vir dié ding nie. Dis 'n resep vir 'n ramp.

Griessel en Cupido is terug. Hier kom moeilikheid, GROOT moeilikheid.

Die Oorkant (Afrikaans, Paperback): Annemarie van Niekerk Die Oorkant (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Annemarie van Niekerk
R350 R265 Discovery Miles 2 650 Save R85 (24%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Twintig jaar gelede moes Ada haar geboortegrond, Bloukoeniekraal, noodgedwonge verlaat. Nou keer sy terug na die geheime van haar kinderjare wat aan die oewers van die getyrivier lê.

Deur haar skryfwerk probeer Ada die skimme van die verlede tem. Maar hoe word jy vry van ’n verlede wat steeds hier rondspook?

Undercover Honeymoon (Paperback): Jo Watson Undercover Honeymoon (Paperback)
Jo Watson
R305 R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Save R76 (25%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

When Private Investigator Lizzy Brown is hired to follow a cheating spouse, the last person she expects to run into is Cameron Anderson: the man she dated for a grand total of 6 hours, and the real reason she left the Police Academy all those years ago. Something Lizzy definitely isn't still bitter about.

Cam, tasked with a money-laundering case, never thought he'd find himself once again squaring off with Lizzy - and most certainly not in a romantic and glamorous Seychelles resort. But when their separate cover stories are put at risk, the pair are soon forced to masquerade as a honeymooning couple to cover their tracks.

Faking a marriage with your ex is bad enough, but when Lizzy and Cam find themselves tangled in a criminal conspiracy bigger than their bitterness, they realise that their relationship lie might be the only thing keeping them alive.

But as old feelings resurface, are they really just playing the part?

Vier Susters (Afrikaans, Paperback): Gerda Taljaard Vier Susters (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Gerda Taljaard
R340 R314 Discovery Miles 3 140 Save R26 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Op Broedersdraai tree vier susters aan vir ’n stille skermutseling. Dit is 1945. In Europa woed die Tweede Wêreldoorlog; in Suid-Afrika die stryd tussen Sap en Nat, tussen die Rooilissies en die Ossewabrandwag.

Ivy, die jongste, smag na ʼn onbevange lewe, ʼn ander werklikheid waarin haar liefde vir ʼn vrou aanvaarbaar sal wees. Sy skaar haar by die Stormjaers wat Smuts en sy oorlog in die wiele probeer ry.

Sophié staan by die regering; haar eggenoot se ambisie en loopbaan hang daarvan af.

Beatrice hunker na haar man, al het sy hom doodgewens.

Terwyl elkeen die struwinge van die tyd aan eie lyf ervaar, is dit Kietie wat verder as haar drie susters sien.

Maar dit is die koms van Domenico Valente, ’n Italiaanse krygsgevangene, wat die spanning op die spits dryf.

Gerda Taljaard se Vier susters is ’n priemende roman wat die tradisies van beide die historiese en die plaasroman omkeer.

Ontvoer (Afrikaans, Paperback): Constant van der Merwe Ontvoer (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Constant van der Merwe
R350 R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Save R38 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Ekspolisieman George Ekermans sien hoe ’n meisie in ’n bakkie ingedwing word en hy sit die voertuig onmiddellik agterna.

Die ontvoerder ontglip hom egter en al leidraad is ’n eienaardige goue hangertjie wat die meisie laat val het.

Wanneer George in sy soeke na die meisie te naby aan die waarheid kom, word sy eie lewe en dié van die twee vroue vir wie hy omgee, Elena en Carla, bedreig.

Sal hy die meisie uit die kloue van ’n bose netwerk kan red voordat dit te laat is?

Judaskus (Afrikaans, Paperback, 2de Uitgawe): Rudie van Rensburg Judaskus (Afrikaans, Paperback, 2de Uitgawe)
Rudie van Rensburg
R355 R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Save R38 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Iemand se beendere word gevind op ’n stortingsterrein...

Skielik moet kaptein Kassie Kasselman nuut dink oor moordsake van jare gelede, en die moorde kom vinnig opmekaar. Tussendeur die aantreklike nuwe buurvrou wat Kassie aan die swymel het, en sy enorme posseël-meevaller weens nóg ’n sterfte, moet hy uitwerk waarom ’n geheimsinnige witboordjie-bende van binne uitgeroei word.

Is dit dalk nié doodgewone bende-oorlog soos Kassie se kollegas glo nie? Wie kan die verraaier in hul midde wees − die een met die vlymskerp broodmes?

Elke warm leidraad lewer ’n koue lyk op, en Kassie en Rooi kan nie voorbly nie . . .

The Milk Tart Murders (Paperback): Sally Andrew The Milk Tart Murders (Paperback)
Sally Andrew 1
R330 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050 Save R25 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Who knew a Marilyn Monroe movie could kill you?

When Oom Frik of Oom Frik’s Fantastiques dies during a vintage movie screening in Ladismith, Tannie Maria and her policeman boyfriend Henk are on the scene. Ja, the old thrift-shop owner had a heart condition, but was there more to his demise? It’s rumoured that among Frik’s junk are valuable treasures, and the grumpy, paranoid old guy frequently altered his will. When a second body turns up, there’s a clue: a letter addressed to Tannie Maria asking for advice – and a milk tart recipe.

Fifty-plus agony-aunt Maria and feisty young journalist Jessie conduct their own treasure hunt and murder investigation. The police are looking for the perpetrator too, but the amateur detectives have unique skills, and Tannie Maria’s food is a powerful incentive to get people to talk.

Maria and Jessie step into deep danger, but all is not doom and gloom. Spring has arrived in the Karoo, and Henk and Maria discuss moving in together, even though his home is full of his late wife’s stuff. Maria knows food has a way of filling the dark spaces, for better or for worse. Perhaps, once the Klein Karoo crime-buster’s work is done, she might follow her own advice and try a healing recipe.

God's Pocket (Paperback): Sven Axelrad God's Pocket (Paperback)
Sven Axelrad
R340 R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Save R36 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A quarry. A crazy plan to run away and write a novel. From the author of the exciting debut Buried Treasure comes this coming-of-age story with a twist.

On the outskirts of Vivo, there is a cabin at the bottom of an abandoned quarry, barely visible from the roadside. With the help of his four best friends, Filo moves into this secluded place to write his first novel. He’s convinced doing so will change his life and save him from a soul-destroying career as an accountant.

The quarry, however, might not be as abandoned as it seems… What or who will Filo discover there? And what price will he pay for his art?

Philosophical, erudite, and sexy, God’s Pocket is a thought-provoking read that will haunt you long after you’ve finished the last page.

The Child (Paperback): Alistair Mackay The Child (Paperback)
Alistair Mackay
R330 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Save R35 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

After a mental breakdown costs him his job in New York, a young man returns to Cape Town.

He and his husband want to rebuild their lives and start a family by adopting a child, but the application forces him to confront his own past. As his life becomes enmeshed with that of his house cleaner and her toddler, his marriage begins to unravel and violence threatens to upend their new beginning.

Can he help them while finding a path to healing?

Death On The Limpopo (Paperback): Sally Andrew Death On The Limpopo (Paperback)
Sally Andrew 2
R330 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050 Save R25 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Tannie Maria might be the Karoo’s favourite agony aunt, but when it comes to matters of her own heart, she doesn’t have all the answers.

Why is she having trouble telling her beau – the dashing Detective Henk Kannemeyer with the chestnut moustache – that she loves him? There are other, more pressing problems too. A tall, dark stranger zoomed in on her Ducati motorbike: she is Zabanguni Kani, a journalist renowned for her political exposés, who, after receiving threats, must move in with Tannie Maria for safety. Who could tell that a trip to the country’s northern borders was on the cards?

The journey will plunge Maria and her friends into pools of danger, amid water maidens, murders, and Harley Davidsons. Ladismith’s famous crime fighter is back – with a tin of buttermilk rusks in hand – to restore eace from the Klein Karoo to the great Limpopo River.

Vlug Van Gister (Afrikaans, Paperback): Jan Bonthuys Vlug Van Gister (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Jan Bonthuys
R300 R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Save R19 (6%) Ships in 7 - 11 working days

Waarheen vlug jy as huis nie meer huis is nie?

Na jare se afpersing, agterdogtigheid en alkoholmisbruik, slaan Emma se man, Gert, haar byna in die hospitaal in. By hom kan sy nie verder bly nie, dit sal haar lewe kos. Sy vlug vanuit hulle klein myndorpie in Mpumalanga met nie veel meer as die klere aan haar rug nie. Maar waarheen en wat gemaak sonder geld, 'n werk, of familie wat haar kan ondersteun? So kies Emma koers Kaap toe, en bid vir die beste.

Die tog suid is angstig en eensaam, en uiteindelik gee haar motor die gees naby Stilbaai. Nes dit lyk of haar gebede op dowe ore val, kom 'n plaaslike boer, Dewald, tot haar redding. Noodgedwonge nooi hy haar om by hom op die plaas te bly terwyl sy wag vir die kar se herstel. Maar iets skort op Dewald se werf; die plaas boer agteruit, die olyfboorde is oorgroei, en die foto's van hom as gelukkige jonggetroude staan nog die huis vol. Dewald is te jonk om 'n wewenaar te wees, maar dis sy lot in die lewe.

Vir hom bring Emma se aankoms nuwe lig, vir haar kan hy die heenkome wees wat sy nog altyd gesoek het. Maar as hulle die liefde wat tussen hulle ontstaan wil kans gee, gaan albei eers moet vrede maak met die verlede. Want Gert het nog nie vir Emma laat gaan nie, en oudvriendin Julia wil vir Dewald hê, en sal doen wat sy moet om hierdie onverwagse inkommer uit die weg te ruim.

Vlug van gister is 'n hartroerende verhaal van tweede kanse en oorbegin wat lesers weer sal laat glo in ware liefde.

Bloedlelie (Afrikaans, Paperback): Jeanette Ferreira Bloedlelie (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Jeanette Ferreira; Narrated by Veronica Geldenhuys
R320 R300 Discovery Miles 3 000 Save R20 (6%) Ships in 7 - 11 working days

In die somer van 1838 vertrek die Voortrekkerleier Piet Retief en sowat 100 man na die Zoeloekoning Dingaan om oor grond vir die trekkers te onderhandel. In die laer by Doornkop wag sy vrou Magdalena op hulle terugkeer. Die afloop van hierdie sending na Dingaan is wyd opgeteken as die Slag van Bloedrivier.

Byna 180 jaar later is Hanna op soek na wat ook al Magdalena nagelaat het. Vroeg in hierdie soektog loop Hanna haar vas in ’n plaasmoord waarvoor sy nie antwoorde het nie. Bitter min is bekend oor Magdalena en haar lewe ná 1838, buiten haar brief in 1841 aan haar skoonfamilie. In Pietermaritzburg staan haar huisie vandag nog, nou ’n klerewinkel.

Kort voor haar dood in 1854 besoek ’n handelaar haar in Potchefstroom en staan in sy boek ’n paragraaf aan haar af.

Al wat ons het, is vandag en elke mens vertel ’n storie anders. Van ver af is niks soos dit vir ons lyk nie.

“Bloedlelie is ’n merkwaardige en belangrike roman uit die pen van ’n vaardige, gesoute skrywer. Verskriklike en weersinwekkende gebeure sowel as hedendaagse politieke kompleksiteite en strydpunte word met ’n seker hand uitgebeeld. Tegelykertyd is hierdie roman die verhaal van Magdalena Retief, die grootliks onbesonge vrou van Pieter Mauritz Retief.” - Helene de Kock

Bloedspoor (Afrikaans, Paperback): Maria Prinsloo Bloedspoor (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Maria Prinsloo
R235 R217 Discovery Miles 2 170 Save R18 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Irma Mulder is 'n erkende oorlogjoernalis. Sy verhuis terug na Suid Afrika na 'n bomaanval wat die lewe van een van haar kameramanne geëis het. Nou woonagtig in 'n klein toeristedorp, Nelspruit, skryf sy vir die plaaslike koerant.

As joernalis word sy eensklaps by ʼn moord ingesleep. Die moordenaar betrek haar by elke daaropvolgende moord en speel 'n gevaarlike speletjie met haar en die polisie. Hoewel Irma alles in haar vermoë doen om die moordenaar te keer, is sy telkens te laat en raak dinge om haar vinnig donker.

Terwyl die polisie haar onder beskerming sit, weet sy dat hulle haar wil blameer vir die moorde. Ten einde haar eie onskuld te bewys, moet Irma nie net die polisie ontglip nie, maar ook die moordenaar wat haar fyn dophou. Hierdie keer weet sy dat sy nie net die sleutel tot alles is nie, maar ook dat sy die volgende slagoffer moet wees Hoe lank sal dit neem voor sy besef wie die moordenaar is? Gaan sy suksesvol wees om die volgende moord te stop? Sal die polisie daarin slaag om die reeksmoordenaar vas te trek voordat dit te laat is?

Goeie Dood Wat Saggies Byt (Afrikaans, Paperback): Ilse van Staden Goeie Dood Wat Saggies Byt (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Ilse van Staden
R92 Discovery Miles 920 Ships in 6 - 10 working days

Vir Hilda is veeartsenykunde 'n ongemaklike roeping, 'n pynlike passie, 'n tweesnydende swaard. Daar’s die hondekosadvertensie-stertswaaidae, waarop sy met algehele sekerheid weet dat sy 'n positiewe verskil maak. Daar’s egter ook die swart hond dae, die dae wanneer die reuk van bloed en mis en modder soos 'n vel aan haar bly kleef en sy katvoet oor haar skouer bly loer vir die dood wat in haar hande skuil. Moes sy nie maar eerder by prentjies teken gebly het en haar diereliefde op 'n spul troeteldiere uitgestort het nie? Wat sou haar oupa – of haar ma! – van sulke ruggraatlose ambisieloosheid se? As sy nie 'n veearts kan wees nie, wie is sy dan? In Ilse van Staden se meesleurende romandebuut word vrae rondom passie en plig; toewyding en perfeksionisme; idealisme en ontgogeling binne die raamwerk van 'n jong veeaarts se opleiding en toetrede tot die praktyk op onvergeetlike wyse ontbloot.

A Man Of The Road (Paperback): Milton Schorr A Man Of The Road (Paperback)
Milton Schorr
R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Author and actor Milton Schorr's second novel, A Man Of The Road, tells the story of Little Mikey, a young boy from the mythical West Coast town of Freeburg, who must one day set out on an epic cross-country hitch-hiking journey to Africa’s greatest city: Goldtown.

On his dangerous way he encounters characters from all sections of South African society, and from each he learns an aspect of what it is to truly be free, to live life as ‘A Man Of The Road.’

Flying Cows - And Other Traumas (Paperback): Philisiwe Twijnstra Flying Cows - And Other Traumas (Paperback)
Philisiwe Twijnstra
R240 R199 Discovery Miles 1 990 Save R41 (17%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

This collection of short stories explores the breadth of magical realism, speculative fiction and fantasy. Twijnstra portrays women succeeding in the face of brutality. The protagonists – black women – are thrust into magical, terrifying, spellbinding worlds., with stories set in the past, present and future.

Inspired by the haunting allure of Her Body and Other Parties, the raw intensity of Freshwater and the unsettling atmosphere of Intruders, these stories create a bold, darkly imaginative realm where survival is redefined and power is claimed on unexpected terms. Flying Cows and Other Traumas takes readers on a journey through surreal, unsettling worlds where the ordinary is disrupted by strange, malevolent forces.

In this collection, Twijnstra explores themes of family dysfunction, resilience and through a black feminist lens.

Set in black South African townships and imagined African kingdoms, the stories follow each protagonist through different stories where she faces brutality and emerge victorious.

The Dogs Of Vivo (Paperback): Sven Axelrad The Dogs Of Vivo (Paperback)
Sven Axelrad
R299 R245 Discovery Miles 2 450 Save R54 (18%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

"You can’t win it all. But everything, and I mean everything, can be lost."

Welcome to Vivo. Art, Maggie and Felix spend all their time at the Mean Monsoon, drinking and talking about making it big. Art loves Maggie but has a problem with his heart. Maggie loves music but can’t get a break. Felix, who’s currently homeless, loves everyone. But things are about to change for these three friends with the arrival of a well dressed and enigmatic stranger.

Playful, nostalgic, sexy, philosophical, original, stylish and just plain cool, The Dogs of Vivo has it all.

The Institute For Creative Dying (Paperback): Jarred Thompson The Institute For Creative Dying (Paperback)
Jarred Thompson
R340 R308 Discovery Miles 3 080 Save R32 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

You wouldn’t know it was there, the unnumbered house behind the iron-grille gate, just below the craggy rocks of Northcliff ridge. To the untrained eye the rambling property might seem neglected, with its tangle of trees and untamed indigenous bush. But there is purpose here, and a peaceful, subterranean, focus on all that withers and dies.

Five strangers – a model, a former nun, a couple in crisis, and an offender newly released from prison – have come here, to this place, to discover an end to life as they’ve known it. Placing their trust in their hosts, the Mortician and Mustafa, the five open their minds and bodies to an alternative experience. Not all of them will survive – or at least not in the way they imagined – but all of them will be shown the limits of their living.

The Institute for Creative Dying is vivid and visceral, unique in its bold and imaginative exploration of mortality and the interconnectedness of all forms of being.

Millwood (Paperback): Tom Cottrell Millwood (Paperback)
Tom Cottrell
R310 R249 Discovery Miles 2 490 Save R61 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Spanning 140 years from the Knysna goldfields to modern-day Johannesburg, Millwood is a South African family saga of murder, addiction and hard-won redemption. A literary crime novel about a generational curse – and a man who must choose between the bottle and the truth.

In 1876, on a remote claim in the forests above Knysna, English prospector Charles Osborne quarrels with Katjan, the Xhosa man who led him to gold. A single reckless act leaves Katjan dead and Charles haunted by a curse that echoes down the bloodline. Hyenas cry in the night. A family orchard rots from the inside.

Across the decades, in Germiston and Parkwood and the mine dumps of Johannesburg, the Osbornes learn to live with violence, silence and shame. Cedric drinks to forget what he has seen. Dorothy hides what she knows. Cousins Tom and Kevin grow up in the same shadow – one fuelled by running and ambition, the other drawn to speed, risk and the dark glamour of motorbikes.

In 2013, Tom gets the phone call he has dreaded all his life: Kevin has been found murdered in his own home.

Reeling from grief and guilt, Tom throws himself into a private investigation that pulls him into Johannesburg’s underbelly – pawn shops, bike auctions, a missing Norton Manx, corrupt deals and compromised policemen. The more he uncovers about Kevin’s death, the more the past begins to stalk him: the hyena, the orchard, the family stories no one will tell in daylight.

As the case drags on, Tom’s old companion – alcohol – stops being a comfort and becomes a noose. Soon he is fighting on two fronts: against whoever killed his cousin, and against the disease that is killing him. AA meetings, hospital wards, night runs through empty streets; a slow, painful climb back towards sobriety and the possibility of forgiveness.

Millwood is a layered, character-driven novel about generational trauma, addiction and recovery, set against the changing landscape of South Africa – from gold rush dreams to post-apartheid disillusionment. Part family saga, part psychological mystery, part story of spiritual reckoning, it will appeal to readers who enjoy literary crime, magical realism at the edges of everyday life, and novels that grapple honestly with the cost of survival.

For readers of South African literary fiction and family dramas with a dark heart – where meaning, endurance and redemption are fought for, not given.

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