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In Suid-Afrika se onstuimige tagtigs raak Katrien Neethling bewus van ’n ander wêreld wat nog altyd daar was maar wat sy nie geken het nie. Kan mens net ophou om ’n Afrikaner te wees? Helaas nie. Soos ’n tolbos in die wind bly sy dwarrel tussen politieke woelinge en haar geliefdes wat behoudende boeremense is. Dit is ook die jare waarin die Voëlvry-toer konserwatiewe Suid-Afrikaners en hulle kinders tref met die gevleuelde woorde: “Ons is die mense teen wie julle ouers julle gewaarsku het.” Kort tevore het Wladek Kowalski die politieke woelinge in Pole beleef. Hy met sy digte bos hare en sy eie hartseer verhaal uit die ysige noorde. Ook hy betaal die prys van mense wat anders begin dink. En al is die verlange na sy geboorteland onhoudbaar by tye, kry hierdie hardekwas Afrikaanse meisie dit reg om hom teen sy sin te fassineer. En Katrien leer by Wladek wat die mooi Poolse woorde “moje kochanie” beteken.
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to daughter Lucy’s isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter’s influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.
Billy’s dragon tattoo will attract strange looks in the Karoo town his family now calls home. It’s difficult to blend in when your father’s the new police colonel and your mother’s strung out on pills and wine. Before Billy meets Suzan, who makes him dream in a sideways world, the gangster Ou Joe’s roadside brothel provides strange comfort to truckers and curious youths alike. Ou Joe plans to leave a legacy before staging his final showdown with the cancer growing in his belly. After a brutal night, the colonel sets Ou Joe’s place in his sights and Billy must take a stand when good and evil are yet to pick sides. In the style of a modern western, Johan Vlok Louw’s novel is filled with youth, cars and guns. The book is an uppercut to the chin, its prose as evocative as the Karoo landscape of its setting.
Dinge ontrafel vinnig wanneer iemand speuradjudant Storm van der Merwe se ma voor ’n trein op Paddington-stasie instamp. Storm moet Londen toe, al is sy tot oor haar ore met ’n moordsaak: Beebee Bukelwa Babu, befaamde Suid-Afrikaanse modeontwerper, lê leweloos in ’n luukse hotel op Hermanus. Hande om Storm te help met die ondersoek ná Beebee se dood is min, want protesaksie lê die dorp lam. Boonop sweep ’n charismatiese profeet die skare op tot ’n histerie. Storm besef gou nie net haar ma se lewe is in gevaar nie. Sy is ook ’n teiken. Intussen probeer haar ekskollega, Andreas Moerdyk, nou ’n privaat speurder, om ’n skaars rooi diamant van onskatbare waarde op te spoor. Van Londen se donker strate tot Antwerpen se diamantebeurs, van Port Nolloth se verlate kuslyn tot Storm se geliefde Hermanus, ontvou die storie in Irna van Zyl se derde misdaadroman teen die pas van ’n sneltrein.
Vywervrou? Nee, ‘n kaivrou. Dis wat sy is.
Luna Joubert se moed en vernuf word weer tot die uiterste beproef in Dag drie. Sy en haar medespeurder, Johan, vergesel vir Mike, ’n volbloed diepdekkingsagent, op ’n missie na Mauritius waar Mike met ’n informant kontak sal maak. Luna en Johan moet die skyn van gewone vakansiegangers vir hom help bewaar, maar niks loop volgens plan nie. Hulle eerste dag op die eiland lewer die lyk van ’n jong meisie op wat ooglopend vermoor is. Die informant laat nie van hom hoor nie en hulle word uit die bloute deur wildvreemde mense ‘bevriend’. Rooi ligte flikker toe hulle genooi word vir ’n visvang-uitstappie op ’n luuksejag. Luna het nie ’n goeie gevoel oor die eienaar van die boot nie, want hy is net ’n bietjie té gretig om hulle van naderby te leer ken. Nie alleen beland sy en haar twee kollegas in lewensgevaar nie; toe Johan verdwyn waag sy dit ook op baie dun ys om hom te probeer opspoor en dag drie eindig onvermydelik in ’n breekspul.
Een moord in die familie is erg genoeg, maar twee in een week raak bisar. Soos Kain en Abel het Bart en Jakes Brink nie liefde vir mekaar nie. Bart is talentvol, aantreklik, sportief en populêr. Maar hy is inherent sleg, ʼn opperste skelm met geen genade vir sy medemens nie. Jakes is onaantreklik, vol skete en kwale, sonder uitstaande talente, behalwe dat hy ’n finansiële sukses van sy lewe gemaak het. Jakes is nie verbaas wanneer Bart een aand brutaal vermoor word nie, want hy het baie vyande gehad. Tog is die familie geskok om te hoor dat die speurders vermoed die moordenaar is een van hulle. Die tweede moord enkele dae later skep selfs meer vrae. Is die moordgeen in die familielede se DNS? Of lê die motief vir die moorde in ʼn familiegeheim? Die moorde is oënskynlik impulsief en sonder voorbedagte rade gepleeg en die speurders sit met min leidrade. Hoe vind hulle die moordenaar tussen die drie sibbe en vier kleinkinders? Veral aangesien die forensiese bewysstukke min is en dit weke neem om te ontleed. Die twee Brink-susters lewer kommentaar op die sosiale situasie van die hede en die verlede, maar ken nie die donker geheime van die familie nie. Die kleinkinders is die volgende geslag en weer eens gaan die leser wonder watter DNS hulle geërf het.
Toe Claire die krat met leë drankbottels ontdek, skiet haar gemoed
vol. Sy is tot sterwens toe moeg vir haar man se drinkery en
verlaat hom tydelik deur te ontsnap na haar huis by die see. Aan
die ander kant dra sy swaar aan haar aandeel aan Kris se probleem.
Al sê haar shrink nou ook wát, Hanna weet sy werk basies as prostituut. Om uit haar nagmerrie-verhouding en -werk by Pretoria se goorste prokureur te ontsnap, kry Hanna werk as Engelsonderwyser in Moskou – met die raad en hulp van skrywer-karakter Fransi Phillips, wat self in Moskou Engels gee en Hanna as storiekarakter wil inspan. Daar gekom, is een van Hanna se eerste Skype-leerders die onweerstaanbare Nureyev lookalike Wolf79, ’n skeepsmagnaat en man van formaat. Maar sy’t dan juis Rusland toe gevlug om haar as professionele vrou te kom bewys, nie om halsoorkop verlief te staan en raak nie! En wat voer Phillips anyway in die mou met haar Hanna-karakter? Om nie te praat nie van die doos van ’n verloofde wat Hanna in Pretoria agtergelaat het . . . In hierdie verruklike stadsprokie vir grootmense gaan die leser verras word, lê van die lag, dalk ongemaklike nuwe gedagtes dink, en régdeur tonekrul-lekkerkry vir die mees oorrompelende romanse nóg.
Moles is nie ongekend op Verlatenfontein nie. Moord ook nie. Inteendeel. Die Strandveld loop dik van die stories. Veral stories oor Verlatenfontein en die tyd toe die Brewisse daar gebly het. Oor Bert Brewis en sy humeur en oor sy beeldskone Engelse vrou. Ook oor hulle twee dogters – die oudste te vaal om hubaar te wees, die jongste ’n bottende skoonheid. En oor die woede wat so sterk deur die gene van hierdie luisterryke, vooraanstaande familie loop. Ras Erasmus ken feitlik elkeen van hierdie Verlatenfontein-stories soos oorvertel deur sy ouma Kate. Op haar doodsbed laat sy hom drie beloftes aflê. Die kans doen hom voor om hierdie beloftes na te kom toe hy ’n kwotasie moet uitwerk vir die restourasie van die opstal op Verlatenfontein nadat dit vir die vierde keer in honderd en twintig jaar net halfpad afbrand – raaiselagtig genoeg, telkens op ’n betekenisvolle datum. Maar hy het nie rekening gehou daarmee dat daar ’n huurpag op ’n gedeelte van die plaas bestaan nie. Die huurpag is duur gekoop – nie soseer met geld nie, maar met ’n veel duurder kommoditeit. Eers toe Georgie Rabie Verlatenfontein toe moet vlug ná ’n twiet wat haar baie suur bekom het, hoor sy wat die ware storie is agter die huurpag wat haar peetma hou. ’n Huurpag waaragter Ras Erasmus aan is, en nie net hy nie.
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.
Meet Tannie Maria - recipe writer turned crime fighter - and before she has time to take her Venus Chocolate Cake out of the oven, our glorious heroine finds herself embroiled in another mystery. In this wonderful sequel to Recipes for Love and Murder, Slimkat the bushman finds his life under threat and Tannie Maria is determined to find out who wants to kill him. But her boyfriend is keen to keep Tannie out of danger, and she's pretty sure he's hiding something so Tannie has mysteries of her own solve . . . Blending a perfect whodunnit with lovable characters, Sally Andrew really does have the perfect recipe for a crime series.
Jy is te naby aan die water,” fluister Paul. “Babers slaap in die modder. Hulle sal wakker word as jy op hulle trap.” Paul en Dominique se sorgelose kinderdae op ’n Vrystaatse plaas is vir ewig verby wanneer hul ouers se linkse politiek die skoollewe op die dorp onmoontlik maak. Hulle word weggestuur na kosskole in Natal. Paul is ’n belowende jong digter, sy suster sy vertroueling. Maar Paul is vol woede en sy ontwaking word ’n afwaartse spiraal. Hulle vlieg London toe om die bedrukking van Suid Afrika te ontsnap, maar hy gaan ook sy dood tegemoet. Dominique Botha se roerende debuutroman is ’n elegie vir die lewe van haar kleintyd en haar verlore broer. Die boek is op ware gebeure gebaseer.
Lira kan feitlik enige gebreekte ding mooi of bruikbaar maak, maar met liefdesverhoudings vaar sy minder goed. Veral waar daar kinders betrokke is. Sy het geen benul hoe om ʼn ma te wees nie. Tog het sy geglo sy sal iets kan uitwerk wat waarde toevoeg tot Frank en Debbie se lewe. Dit is egter die een upcycling-projek waarin sy jammerlik misluk het. Sy beland op Vywerbaai waar sy ʼn winkeltjie vir haar upcycle-produkte wil oopmaak. Die finansiële risiko's wat sy neem is enorm en teenspoed bly nie uit nie, maar sy bly vasberade - upcycle gaan sy haar lewe upcycle. Lira wen die kosbare vriendskap van drie eiesoortige vroue en die respek van ʼn vierde, maar verloor haar hart aan die verkeerdste man denkbaar - een met ʼn sterwende vrou en ʼn kind wat Lira haat. Die legende van die vywervrou van Vywerbaai word die tema van Lira se winkel, maar hou ook ʼn waarskuwing in: Ter wille van sy kinders, sal ʼn man sy taaibosspies deur ʼn vywervrou se hart druk en haar visstert gaarmaak sodat hulle kan eet. Maar soos haar vriendin Corali sê: “Ons vywervroue laat ons nie fokken opvreet nie. Deur geen man, vrou of kind nie.” Met die Vywervrou-trilogie, keer Chanette weer terug na vroue se lewensuitdagings. Die Vywervrou-legende word die stramien vir respektiewelik Lira, Mirre en Corali se verhale.
A pianist falls grandly, helplessly in love in this elegant new novella from the twice-Booker Prize winner. The Pole tells the story of Witold Walczykiewicz, a vigorous, white-haired pianist who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his Barcelona concert. Although Beatriz, who is married, is initially unimpressed by Wittold, she soon finds herself pursued and ineluctably swept into his world. As he sends her letters, extends countless invitations to travel, and even visits her husband's summer home in Mallorca, their unlikely relationship blossoms, though only on her terms. As the power struggle between them intensifies -- Is it Beatriz who limits their passion by controlling her emotions? Or is it Witold, trying to force into life his dream of love?
Fleur (1938), 'n Malherbe met suiwer Hugenotebloed in haar are, is die eienares van 'n verwaarloosde wynplaas en 'n groot hoop skuld, maar sy weet min van wynmaak en niks van wingerde nie. En dan kom Christiaan Davel aan in die vallei. Hy weet alles van wingerde en wyn af en laat haar hart skoon op galop gaan, maar hy is 'n Transvaler en boonop lief vir iemand anders.
Winner of the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award for 2015. Dub Steps has a strange long aftertaste. It is science fiction with ordinary characters trying to understand what it is to be alive. People have gone, suddenly, inexplicably, and the remaining handful have to find each other and start again. In that new beginning they wrestle with identity, race, sex, art, religion and time, in a remarkably realistic, step-by-step way. Nature comes back, Johannesburg becomes wonderfully overgrown, designer pigs watch from the periphery walls, and the small group of survivors have to find ways of living with their own flaws and the flaws of each other. The aftertaste comes from the surprisingly real meditations in the middle of the end: after all simulated reality has gone, what human reality is left? There are no clichés in this book, but there is plenty of humour, originality and a gripping, unusual interrogation of the ordinary but really extraordinary fact of being alive.
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.
Kan sy nog enige sin in die lewe vind as dit voel asof haar slagaar
deurgesny is?
Life wasn't always this hard for fourteen-year-old Mvelo, who lives with her mother, Zola in the shacks on the margins of Mkhumbane township. There were good times when they lived with Sipho, Zola's lawyer boyfriend. But when the beautiful and mysterious Nonceba Hlathi arrives, Zola has to make a choice. She also has her pride. Now their social grants have been discontinued: the one for Mvelo being underage reared by a 31-year-old single mother, and the other for Zola because of her status. And there is also an elephant growing in their shack as the terrible thing that happened that night in the revival tent remains unspoken. In her second novel, Futhi Ntshingila once again introduces us to a cast of strong women who have little, but are determined to shape their own destinies.
Kristin Uys is a tough Roodepoort magistrate who lives alone with her cat. She is on a one-woman crusade to wipe out prostitution in the town for reasons that have personal significance for her. Although she is unable to convict the Visagie Brothers, Stevo and Shortie, on charges of running a brothel, she manages to nail Stevo for contempt of court and gives him a summary six-month sentence. From Diepkloof Prison, the outraged Stevo orchestrates his revenge against the magistrate, aided and abetted by his rather inept brother Shortie and his erstwhile nanny, Aunt Magda, who believes mass action will force the powers that be to release Stevo. Kristin receives menacing phone calls and her home is invaded and vandalised. Even her cat is threatened. The chief magistrate insists on assigning a bodyguard to protect her. To Kristin’s consternation, security guard Don Mateza moves into her home and trails her everywhere. Nor does this suit Don’s long-time girlfriend Tumi, former model and successful businesswoman, who is intent on turning Don into a Black Diamond sooner rather than later. And Don soon finds that his new assignment has unexpected complications which Tumi simply does not understand. In Black Diamond, Zakes Mda tackles every conceivable South African stereotype, skilfully (and with the lightest touch) turning them upside down and exposing their ironies, often hilariously. This is a clever, quirky novel that captures the essence of contemporary life in Gauteng and will resonate with all South Africans.
Meet the Mafus, a close-knit, traditional family with three daughters. As leaders of their church, The Kingdom of God, Pastor Abraham and his wife Phumla are guiding the community of Bulawayo in faith, while trying to keep the different branches of their family intact. Independent and feisty Xoliswa returns home, after a hiatus abroad, hoping for a fresh start and a chance to steer the family business; rebellious Yandisa has met the love of her life and is finally getting her act together; while dutiful newlywed Zandile is slowly becoming disillusioned with her happily ever after. The Mafus always present a united front, but as their personal lives unravel, devastating secrets are revealed that threaten to tear the family apart. For how long will they be able to hide behind the façade of a picture-perfect family?
In the Eastern Cape, Stephen (Malusi) Mzamane, a young Anglican priest, must journey to his mother’s rural home to inform her of his elder brother’s death. First educated at the Native College in Grahamstown, Stephen was sent to England in 1869 for training at the Missionary College in Canterbury. But on his return to South Africa, relegated to a dilapidated mission near Fort Beaufort, he had to confront not only the prejudices of a colonial society but the discrimination within the Church itself. Conflicted between his loyalties to the amaNgqika people, for whom his brother fought, and the colonial cause he as Reverend Mzamane is expected to uphold, Stephen’s journey to his mother’s home proves decisive in resolving the contradictions that tear at his heart. |
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