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Die mistigheid is klam en koel en dwarrel in vlae teen haar vel. Sy sak weg daarin. Los daarin op. Die mis rol nog digter teen haar aan, begin haar versmoor. Sy asem die digte klamheid hortend in. Nou is dit ook binne-in haar. Sy stoei vir asem ... Die droomwip moes haar drome verklaar, maar sy weet steeds nie wat hulle inhou nie. Die runesteen moet haar beskerm, maar die eerste aand op die plaas in die Maluti's is daar ʼn moord. Die antieke manuskrip kan dalk haar toekoms verseker ... as sy oorleef.
Solitaire, Woestynroos, Droomland en Wilde klawer is ’n vierluik oor vier vroue wat deelgeneem het aan ’n Boer soek ’n vrou-kompetisie en hulle wedervaringe daarna. Wilde klawer is die vierde boek in die reeks en gaan oor McKenna Wilde wat ’n spesiale gawe het om deur aanraking te “sien”. Vir hierdie ekstrovert wat verkies om eerder op die ligter sy van die lewe te fokus, is dit eerder ’n vloek as ’n seen. ’n Brief van ’n onbekende vrou lei haar terug na haar geboorteland, Noord-Ierland. Hier word sy gekonfronteer met haar ma se donker verlede en die Wildes se betrokkenheid by die IRL (Ierse Republikeinse Weermag) se bloedige stryd teen Britse oorheersing. Maar dit is ook ’n reis na selfontdekking. McKenna leer sy kan nie van haarself en haar herkoms vlug nie. In haar soeke na selfaanvaarding word dit vir haar duidelik ’n vrou moet eers ’n man met haar hart kan vertrou voor sy hom met haar lyf vertrou. McKenna wat nog altyd weggeskram het van blywende verhoudings sien oplaas in dat intimiteit sonder liefde bloot ’n gejaag na wind is. In Portballintrae, ’n klein hawedorpie aan die Ierse Noordkus kruis haar pad met verskeie mense s’n wat haar nie noodwendig almal goedgesind is nie. Die Donovan-broers wat ’n pub in Bushmills besit. Die Engelsman James Fellowes wat navorsing oor the Troubles doen en die Suid-Afrikaner Tim Els. Tim Els,’n tandarts wat vir twee jaar in Noord-Ierland werk, is vasgevang in sy eie ongelukkige verlede. McKenna besef sy kan haar gawe gebruik om hom te help. Maar dit is moeilik om teen ’n spook vir ’n man se hart te baklei. Boonop is dit vir McKenna ’n vreesaanjaende gedagte dat sy haar leefruimte permanent met ’n man moet deel.
Dis 'n donker Karoonag en 'n bebloede vrou hardloop grondpad langs. Iets grusaam het gebeur en Siena weet sy moet by Seekoegat Primere Skool uitkom, daar sal sy veilig wees. Dis baie ver, drie dae met 'n donkiekar en sy is te voet. Hierdie roman vertel die verhaal van Siena, Boetie en Kriekie, wie se lewens sedert kinderdae nou verweef is. Soos wat Siena hardloop ontmoet lesers die mense in haar lewe: Boetie is verwilderd en verwaarloos, altyd besig met kattekwaad. Sy vriendskap met Siena laat hom egter sy selfwaarde besef. Kriekie is 'n wrak. Sy ma is 'n prostituut wat by die stilhouplekke langs die n1 werk en hy het skaars 'n huis. Wanneer sy ma, Dolly, nie terugkom nie, beland hy deur een vrou se goedhartigheid ook by Seekoegat Primere Skool. Die Karooskilpad se simboliese spore kan deur die hele roman gesien word. Siena se pa, 'n karretjiemens, het altyd gese dat 'n skilpad die wysheid van die antieke landskap in hom dra. Daar word geglo dat 'n skilpad slegs een traan in sy leeftyd stort, die oomblik wanneer hy sterf. Die skilpad se laaste traan is bekroonde skrywer Carol Campbell se derde boek oor die Karoo. Soos haar vorige werk fokus sy sterk op sosiale realisme, maar vir die eerste keer is hier ook magiese realisme, so eie aan die mense oor wie sy skryf.
From the author of the 100,000+ copy-selling rom-com, Love to Hate You! No one makes you laugh like Jo Watson! 'I couldn't stop laughing ... this was outstanding' Goodreads reviewer If you love Sophie Ranald, Sophie Kinsella and Paige Toon, you'll LOVE Jo Watson! ................................................................................. That moment you catch your boyfriend in bed with another woman and then mistakenly get arrested. #awks Annie doesn't want to dwell on the fact that she walked in on her bf wearing nipple clamps on the day he was meant to propose to her. She just wants to move on - cue escaping to a tropical paradise. Life is dreamy on the beaches of Mauritius, until the nightmarish appearance of her ex and the 'other woman'. Faced with the enemy, Annie refuses to look like the sad, lonely single she actually is. She needs a decoy - and fast. Enter Chris, a sexy screenwriter who agrees to play her pretend boyfriend. But as a battle of the exes commences, the white sand, tropical heat and a pina colada (or five) might just be the cocktail for a real romance - and the adventure of a lifetime. ................................................................................. Don't miss Jo's laugh-out-loud rom-coms, Love You, Love You Not, Love to Hate You, Burning Moon, Almost A Bride, Finding You, After the Rain and The Great Ex-scape. Love funny, romantic stories? You don't want to miss Jo Watson: 'The perfect choice for fans of romantic comedies' Gina's Bookshelf 'It was amazing, it was hilarious' Rachel's Random Reads 'A brilliant read from beginning to end' Hopeless Romantics
Wanneer ʼn man doodgeskiet word deur sy vrou in hul pragtige huis in die noordelike voorstede, besef die bure dat hulle dalk nie die oënskynlike gelukkige paartjie langsaan baie goed geken het nie. Stories oor MJ en Emilee loop skielik die buurt vol, stories wat net so uiteenlopend is soos Salemstraat se inwoners. Almal, van die oud weermagman Stefaans tot die mooie Russiese Natasja, onthul ’n nuwe blik op die paartjie. Dit val grootliks op die skouers van dr. Ann, afgetrede psigiater, en Liz, die jong prokureur met ’n voorliefde vir hoëprofiel-egskeidings, om uit te vind watter stories waarheid inhou en wat blote bog is. Maar hoe dieper hulle grawe, hoe meer geheime word verklap, en een ná die ander kom die middelklas geraamtes uit die instapkaste getuimel. Een ding is egter seker: Satan het nog altyd in die suburbs geskuil.
The family – that small circle of beings where love should flourish – can be an arid and alienating territory where hatred and violence may ignite. On the surface, Small Circle of Beings, the novella which gives its title to this collection, concerns a family living what would appear to be an idyllic life. When the couple’s only child falls ill, tension and strain begin to take their toll, and the hairline cracks and fissures in his parents’ relationship gradually widen and split open until a marriage that seemed solid and secure falls irretrievably apart. Galgut’s economy of style and his chilling gift for understatement and the macabre are nowhere more eloquently displayed than in this gripping story. The same sensitive and atmospheric writing can also be seen in the shorter stories – ‘Lovers’, ‘Shadows’, ‘The Clay Ox’, and ‘Rick’.
Vastrap. Our very own nuclear testing site, so far into the desert that the Russians and the Americans don’t even have a clue about it. You don’t mess with an Afrikaner, not if you don’t want to get a proper klap. An unauthorised nuclear blast beyond belief at Vastrap Airbase outside Upington not only winds up the Americans, but also launches Africa’s first spacecraft. Propelled by an engine harnessing the power of a nuclear bomb never disarmed in the eighties, the rocket leaves Earth without its pilot or crew. But how did this spaceship, designed by the previous government to extend the Afrikaner’s history as a nation of pioneers, survive? And more pressingly, who’s working its joystick? Small-time journalist Greg Hall sets out to uncover the details of the ship that has captured the world’s imagination. In the wreckage of the blast, he discovers a man badly burnt and almost dead. A man who has an alarming story to tell and a frightening plan of his own. Funny and thrilling, The Space Race twinkles with its author’s humour and trademark irony.
Koos Sas, Khoi plaaswerker op Touwsrivier smag na die vryheid wat sy voorouers gehad het. Terwyl hy dros van sy werk op die plaas, kom hy tot die besef dat Suiderlike Afrika nou opgedeel is in plase wat aan individuele eienaars behoort. Britse imperialisme en die mag van die gereg bring hom in botsing met die samelewing. Kort voor lank word hy berug in die kolonie. Sy situasie word oornag gekompliseer met die ontmoeting van ‘n Khoi meisie wat self opsoek is na vryheid. Die soeke na vryheid word vererger deur Koos se miskenning van die mitologie van die Khoi, wat hom op ‘n dwaalspoor plaas.
Permanent Removal is a beautifully written political thriller focusing on the nature of justice, truth, betrayal, socio-political and ethical quandaries, complicity and moral agency. The novel introduces readers to a cast of players whose destinies intertwine in a particularly gruesome murder. The novel is set in apartheid South Africa and the start of the Rainbow Nation. South African security forces set up a roadblock to intercept a car near the city of Port Elizabeth. Two of the four anti-apartheid activists in the car were secretly targeted for assassination. The police abducted the four and murdered them in cold blood. Their burnt bodies were found later near the Port Elizabeth suburb of Bluewater Bay. These murders are one of apartheid’s murkiest episodes. On the day of the funeral, President PW Botha declared a State of Emergency. It was the beginning of the end. Works such as Jacob Dlamini’s penetrating and discursive Askari and the recent publication on Eugene de Kock as state sanctioned perpetrator of various evils will be complemented in no small measure by this intriguing fictionalised exploration of political executions and culpability/loss during the apartheid heyday.
Liefde vra soms van jou om onmoontlik dapper te wees. Teen haar beterwete nooi Mieke vir Boeta in haar huis en haar lewe. Sy het nie geweet van haar man se vorige verhouding of sy kind nie. Hoe kan sy Boeta kwalik neem vir sy pa se vergrype as jongman? Buitendien, Boeta hou almal se harte in die holte van sy hand. Mieke leer dat die mense wat jy liefhet soms van jou vra om onmoontlik dapper te wees. Dat seerkry en heelword verskillende kante van 'n munt is. En dat almal uiteindelik die koestering van huis en huismense nodig het.
Elkeen wat vra, ontvang, elkeen wat soek, vind, en vir elkeen wat klop
sal oopgemaak word.
A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee was 'finding his feet as a writer'. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee - a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him, former friends and colleagues. Thus emerges a portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward, bookish individual, regarded as an outsider within the family. His insistence on doing manual work, his long hair and beard, and rumours that he writes poetry evoke nothing but suspicion in the South Africa of the time.
’n Fratskoeël het hulle dit genoem. Die een wat hulle nefie, Jaco, in
die voorkop net bo sy oog getref het. Sy ouers het die drie niggies vir
sy dood verantwoordelik gehou.
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.
In die stormagtige jare voor en tydens die Groot Trek raak drie vroue
se lewe vervleg in ’n stryd om voortbestaan. Lojaliteit word getoets en
inbors word beproef.
Liewe Here, ek verstaan nie. Help my.
Paola Dante is a driven project manager employed by a large multinational information technology corporation who reads war strategy books for relaxation. In general she prefers computers to people with their random uncontrolled emotions. Long ago she made a decision that matters of the heart were inherently messy and should be kept at arm’s distance. But her husband had surprised her; she had no resistance against Daniel. Now she sees herself as a survivor who has successfully moved on from the traumatic events and terrible truth surrounding her husband’s sudden disappearance years before. But the truth is that ever since the night he walked out on their marriage back to his old ways she’s found it hard to get on with normal life. An unlikely and ill-equipped mother, she stands alone between their adopted daughter Simone and the criminal kingpin who wants the teenage girl for his own ends and has set the savage wolves on her. To save her daughter - and herself - once and for all, Paola will face her every fear, her every mistake, and the past she thought she’d finally processed and left behind.
’n Plaaslike spioenasie wipplankrit.. Robert Ferreira is in die pekel. Sy vrou Sylvia het spoorloos verdwyn. Hy is seker haar Portugese familie, die Monteiro’s van Rossetenville, het iets daarmee te doen. Om dinge te vererger vereis sy bevelvoerder in die Suid-Afrikaanse Veiligheidspolisie, dat hy deelneem aan een laaste geheime sending, al is dit teen sy wil… Dit het alles begin met die kaping van die passasierskip, die Santa Maria, in Kabinda. Watter rol het die Amerikaners en Mossad gespeel? En die Russe, waar pas hulle in? Wat van die vermiste koevert, waarvoor almal bereid is om te moor? Robert sal enige-iets doen om sy vrou te vind. Sy bevelvoerder, met al sy kontakte, weet dalk net waar sy is. Hy het dus geen keuse om die laaste sending aan te pak nie. Die vraag is: steek sy vrou dalk ook iets weg? Net tyd sal leer… Die leser word deel van Robert se sending na plekke soos Siprus, Portugal en Beiroet, waar hy vir Julia Breytenbach, ’n Britse SIS-agent ontmoet. Daar is ook ’n aantal ander rolspelers om die gevaarlike Ursula Scheider vas te trek; sy wat die ontwykende koevert in haar besit het. Sal hulle haar kan vang voor die inligting in die verkeerde hande beland, met katastrofiese gevolge vir Suid-Afrika? Ook: gaan Robert sy gevoelens vir Julia in toom kan hou?
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.
When thirteen-year-old Erin Dearlove has to move in with her aunt on Cape Town’s bustling Long Street, she struggles to adapt to her new life, harbouring a dark secret. But her friendship with their upstairs neighbour, Mr Devilskein, soon helps her to adjust. Like Erin, Mr Devilskein has something to hide: he is the keeper of six mysterious doors. He entrusts Erin with the key for one of these doors, and she discovers that they lead to infinite magical worlds. In wonder she explores an underwater paradise, the lost works of William Shakespeare, and a beautiful Chinese garden. During her adventures she meets a prisoner names Julius Monk, but Julius is not all he appears to be. The captive and his Book of Dooms prove dangerously enticing, and soon it is up to Erin to save the lives of those she’s grown to love. Devilskein & Dearlove is as sinister and intriguing as it is quirky and colourful. With inimitable storytelling flair, Alex Smith weaves an enchanting tale of friendship, adventure and magic.
Johannesburg is becalmed. A wave of New Age belief and an apparent cure for crime have radically altered South Africa’s political landscape. Jay Rowan has been hired to black out the windows of random vacant rooms. He’s trying to keepout of trouble, but he’s a pawn in political aide Kenneth Lang’s project Dark Windows. A mystical charlatan has convinced Lang’s boss that she can affect the ultimate transformation with a supernatural visitation, the Arrival, and Lang needs to prepare for its coming. When Jay and his married girlfriend Beth realise that someone has died in every room, political and personal tensions come to a head and Jay, Beth and Lang must confront the past they’ve been trying to avoid. Dark Windows is a moody, intelligent literary thriller.
Die Davelvroue bestaan uit sewe boeke: Tamara, Willemien, Annabella, Deborah en Isabelle, Maryn en Fleur. Die reeks, wat in 2006 verskyn het, word nou heruitgegee op aandrag van lesers. Benewens die kwessie van vroue se bemagtiging, spreek Die Davelvroue ook eg Suid-Afrikaanse en spesifiek Afrikaanse geskiedkundige kwessies op subtiele wyse aan, alhoewel die genre steeds fokus op vroue se belewing van die liefde. Tamara (1899 – 1902) speel tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog af en die romantiese vraag in dié boek is: Wat gebeur as twee mense grootgemaak is om te glo dat hulle broer en suster is, mekaar liefkry en teen die agtergrond van die chaos van oorlog moet probeer uitvind hoe sake inmekaar steek?
For Hannah, born from Nandi, and adopted by Patrick and Fiona, it is not so easy to work out who she really is. Is she the privileged daughter of an upper middle class British couple or is she an unwanted South African child who needed an adoptive family? How can she reconcile these two personas, especially when she looks so different from her adoptive parents? In her questioning mind, she appears to be not white enough for Britain, but not black enough for Africa. As she grows older, her identity issues become greater until they threaten to engulf her. Her parents, wanting to be faithful to a promise they made to her birth mother, but also desperately frightened of losing their child to her birth heritage, are not forthcoming when it comes to answering her questions. This makes her feel she can’t trust them and alienates her further. It is only when she re-establishes a connection with the country of her birth that Hannah starts to work through the issues that trouble her in her search to find the peace that appears to be so elusive.
Casey Olivier van Velddrif in die Sandveld aan die skilderagtige Weskus het alles: ’n goeie man, twee suksesvolle seuns en lekker kantoorwerk by die munisipaliteit. Dog, reeds van haar tienerjare smag sy na die groen gras aan die ander kant van die draad. Helaas ook na wat baie mense sal afkeur as onsedelikheid. Dit lê in haar gene. Afkomstig uit die geslag van haar ontugtige oumagrootjie, Anna Smit, kan sy beswaarlik beter vaar, verdedig sy haarself. Die roman begin in 1861, strek oor vier geslagte en eindig in 2020, die jaar van die groot Covid-19-pandemie – op ’n verrasssende hoogtepunt.
Toe luitenant Roelf Bester die Wiskunde-onnie Tron Marais byna katswink slaan het hy geweet daar kom moeilikheid ... Wat hy nie geweet het nie, is dat dié moeilikheid 'n verhoging en 'n verplasing sou insluit. kielik is hy nou kaptein Bester, bevelvoerder van die piepklein polisiestasie op Woudfontein, naby Knysna. Hier moet hy en sy twee kollegas na vermiste luislange soek, spanning tussen die pater en pastoor ontlont en ou tannies wat groot rewolwers rondswaai paai. Totdat Tron Marais as moontlike psigopaat in die Pik Botha Sanatorium, net buite Woudfontein, opgeneem word. Tron is verbitterd en woedend oor die onreg wat Roelf hom aangedoen het. Hy is geslepe en hoogs intelligent. En hy is besig om sy wraakplan vir kaptein Roelf te verfyn... |
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