Salome veg al tien jaar teen haar begeerte om huis toe te gaan, maar nou dwing haar pa se beroerte haar terug. Tien jaar is ’n lank tyd, dink Salome. Lank genoeg om die aantreklike Morné te vergeet − maar die hart volg nie tyd nie.

From the moment 26-year-old Tristan Hansen steps out of the shower and onto the roof garden of his Maboneng loft, Toyboy pulsates with eroticism. The air is hot and humid, and there’s a Joburg thunderstorm brewing on the horizon. The first flashes of lightning illuminates Tristan’s spectacular flat and the riches it contains: gifts of thanks from his many clients, tokens of their appreciation. Because Tristan is an angel of pleasure, an exclusive escort to Johannesburg’s rich and powerful women. And he is one of a kind.

At how the enigmatic Tristan were trained in the art of lovemaking his clients can only guess. He seldom speaks of those who helped him shake off the strictures of his conservative mother who had to raise him on her own when his father committed suicide. Christina, his first love, and their story set far off in a small Italian village, he also keeps to himself.

But how did Tristan end up here? Who were those women who taught him all he knows? And who is the mystery caller who keeps on phoning and whose calls are filled with menacing silence?

Twenty years ago, Leon van Nierop published his Afrikaans bestseller Plesierengel. Toyboy, published in Afrikaans and English, is its prequel.

The Harvard Wife is the portrayal of the modern career woman. Her struggles in relationships, marriage, divorce and motherhood. It’s a story about a woman who finds herself in an unhappy marriage and while running away from her problems on safari with her best friend she runs into the one that got away. Things spiral downwards from there for her marriage but through it all, divorce and almost losing her child, she finds herself and grows.

Carl Lourens keer terug na Kaapstad se Noordelike Voorstede om sy jonger broer te red uit die kloue van Die Dieretuin:

Maxie Tredoux, die vrou met die styfgetrekte gesig

haar seun Leo met sy liefde vir geweld

en haar dogter Mandie met die speelse, onrustige geaardheid.

Niks gaan maklik en eenvoudig wees nie, besef Carl toe hy by die Tredoux se nuwe onheilighede ingeruk word. En dinge raak self snog erger toe die meisie op wie hy verlief is ook by die spel betrokke raak.

Anouk se hardkoppige ouma veil haar in ’n e-pos aan haar gunstelingskrywer, Dexter Buys, op. Gelukkig sal sy nooit die man ontmoet nie. Maar Dexter is haar vriendin se nuwe swaer. Waarom voel Anouk afgehaal omdat hy haar nie herken nie?

A collection of modern romances:

In Beauty and the Broker, Melody Nyathi works as a beauty therapist at the plush Imbali spa but dreams of owning a beauty spa for the everyday woman. When she falls for insurance broker Thabiso Gumede he encourages her by making an offer that few could refuse. Does he believe in her dream or is he motivated by jealousy?

In Written in the stars, Masedi Goanabokoa meets the musician Pelo Sebata. Masedi and Pelo are both dealing with painful pasts that keep them from moving forward. Soon they will discover that they have been brought together by forces stronger than them.

In Three Dates, professional ballroom dancer Lesedi Moatlegi believes that her dance partner Nicholas is her perfect match: on and off the dance floor. Except he only sees her as a dance partner with ‘benefits’. Reluctant Lesedi agrees to give investment banker Tshepo Motsei a chance. Will he be able to prove himself after just three dates?

MacKenzie skep goeie aantreklike en intelligente vir-altyd-helde vir haar blog. Maar in haar wêreld is hierdie mans so skaars soos hoendertande ... Of so dink sy totdat sy Scheepers Rossouw in die stempuntry ontmoet.

As the head of Wits Mining, the last major mining company to do an empowerment deal, Max Sinclair has a mandate from the board and a clear directive: to sell a share of the company to a black consortium. Born and bred in the city that remains, at heart, a mining camp built on gold and the greed of men, Max is used to being a player in the high-stakes game of deals and political influence, and he keeps his cards close to his chest.

There is no shortage of takers for the deal. A shareholding spells possible riches for some – like Sifiso Lesibe, geologist and newest member of the board – and increased influence for others, such as the Pradesh family. Support for the deal from government is crucial, particularly when it comes to mining and mineral rights. Politics, power and money are an irresistible combination. Mistrust is everywhere and nothing is as it seems.

Former human rights lawyer Musa Madondo has seen the rise and fall of many a former comrade and he knows he is not immune to the tug of temptation. When Walter Berryman, a former client and friend, comes to Musa for professional advice, in fear of his life after having stumbled across evidence of large-scale industry collusion, he finds himself drawn into an underworld of intrigue and sophisticated espionage every bit as ruthless and deadly in the present day as it was during the country’s struggle for liberation. And in Johannesburg, as in politics, things change in an instant.

Bare Ground is the third book authored by Peter Harris. In a Different Time (2008; winner of the Alan Paton Non Fiction award) was about the 1980s and an extraordinary treason trial. The second book, Birth (2011), was about the extreme challenges that South Africa encountered in getting to and conducting the 1994 election. This novel, located in the cauldron of Johannesburg, is about the society we have become.

Die surfer-meisie Simone, die wulpse huisvrou Andrea en die gesofistikeerde weduwee Maggie is vreemdelinge vir mekaar. Maar op ’n dag wat die lewe hul al drie platgeslaan het, bring die noodlot hulle in ’n ou kombi byeen en so begin ’n onwaarskynlike maar besonderse vriendskap. Wie sou kon raai dat hul liefdes en verliese toe nie so verskillend is nie? Saam trotseer die drie vroue die hoogwater in hul lewe, hoe hakke en al.

Kassie Kasselman is kriewelrig. Sy lewe lank poeliesman gewees, maar wat hy nóú alles oor die SAPD lees . . . Hy't juis 'n ander werksaanbod. En dan kom hy teen die grieseligste booswig nóg te staan, en moet blitsig slim skuiwe bedink om die Pion van die bord af te vee. Spioenasie, wapenhandelkorrupsie en 'n moordenaar uit jou nagmerries . . .

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.

“Ek is die sondebok. Ek het dit gedoen.” So begin Rooi haring, ’n skreeusnaakse speurverhaal wat afspeel in die Suid-Afrikaanse restaurantbedryf. Hartman Swiegers, restaurantier en topsjef, word tydens die openingsaand van sy restaurant Tydloos vermoor. Sy bevrore liggaam word in ’n yskas gevind, met twee opgerolde harings as enigste leidraad. Watter van die uitsoekgaste is verantwoordelik? Of is die moordenaar dalk een van die kombuispersoneel? ’n Humoristiese whodunnit met verskeie kinkels.

Connected by more than their exquisite prose, Nick Mulgrew’s new stories delve into a world of killer eagles, tattoo removal parlours, hardcore punk guitarists-cum-auditors, turtle sanctuaries, plane crashes, amateur pornographers and biltong-makers – a world concurrently too strange and too familiar for comfort. A collection of startling imagination and sympathy – set primarily in South Africa’s least fashionable cities and suburbs – these stories maintain a precarious balance between rich comedy and despair throughout their explorations of grief, spectacle, sex, nostalgia, and the lives of animals, both human and not. With audaciousness met by trademark spiritual undercurrents and poetic flourish, The First Law of Sadness is confirmation of Mulgrew’s status as one of South Africa’s best contemporary exponents of short fiction.

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.

Ná emosionele geweld en die uitdaging van ʼn egskeiding, verander Andrea se lewe onomkeerbaar. Al die verwonding word in ʼn hofdokument vasgevang, maar sy kies om ʼn heel mens te word.

Een familie, deels van Britse en deels van Boere-afkoms, ontdek dat hul lewens onlosmaaklik verstrengel raak deur die onverbiddelike gang van die geskiedenis.

Die Transvaalse politiek en die Britte se arrogante imperialisme sleur hulle mee in die Anglo-Boereoorlog van 1899-1902. Liefdes- en vriendskapsbande wat in die Trandvaalse bosveld en die sitkamers van Victoriaanse Engeland gesmee is, word op die slagvelde van Suid-Afrika getoets. Wanneer die formele fase van die oorlog oorgaan in die gruwelike beleid van die verskroeide aarde en ’n guerrillastryd, moet die familielede riskante keuses maak. Wintersrust is ’n bruisende verhaal vol hartstog en avontuur oor die individu se worsteling met magte buite sy beheer.

Sommige, wat deur wanhoop oorweldig word, oorleef nie. Ander moet ten slotte by ’n plek van vrede en vergiffenis uitkom.

(Hierdie is die Afrikaanse vertaling van The Runaway Horses)

Ná ’n bitter ongelukkige huwelik bevind Anina, ’n enkelma, haar op Fynbos tot sy weer ’n pos in die stad kry. Haar toekomsplanne sluit nie in dat sy haar jeugliefde weer hier raakloop nie.

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

Dark traces is the English translation of Martin Steyn’s first suspense novel, Donker spoor. When a child is murdered, it always seems as if a light has been extinguished in a parent’s eyes. They find her decomposing body in the veld. A teenager. She was raped and tortured for days. She was hanged. She wasn’t the first. The South African Police Service’s Warrant Officer Jan Magson, estranged from his son and still grieving for his wife, is assigned to the case. He has to look the mothers and fathers in the eye. He has to answer their questions. And he can’t. Headlines question the police’s ability to protect the community from this evil. A newspaper prints a mother’s heart-wrenching letter to the killer. A father offers a substantial reward. And every time another lead reaches a dead end, Magson finds himself looking down at another dead girl. Winner of the 2015 ATKV Prize for Suspense Fiction, Martin Steyn’s Dark traces deals with two sides of homicide: sadistic murder and euthanasia: killing for pleasure and killing for love.

Op Pelgrimshoop, 'n weggesteekte dorpie in die voue van die Laeveld, waar die vlaktes wemel van skaap, gras en die oudste klipformasies in Suid-Afrika, daar vind Hannah de Witt haar voete weer na 'n verbryselende verhouding wat sy agterlaat in Pretoria. Ongeag die feit dat haar student, Elias Bart, die knorrige boer van Bartelheim, die man wat 'die ding het met die perde', aanvanklik nie wil saamwerk met waarvoor hy haar laat kom het nie: Om hom verder te kom leer. Die legendariese fete tussen Vliet Vorster, sy 4-manbende, en Bart dreig boonop om in 'n volskaalse konflik te ontaard want Vorster haat die 'bontspul' op Bartelheim. Vliet Vorster, voorste boer en burgemeester, wat elke Saterdagaand Die Oog leegdrink en Sondag voor in die kerkgestoeltes sit. Ondanks die dorp se opstand oor Hannah en haar skrywerbroer Abram se teenwoordigheid in die omgewing, die atmosfeer op die plaas wat maar styf is en Hannah se onwillige student groei die waarheid, teerheid en nederigheid - en Hannah leer 'n ander Elias ken.

Stellenbosch se studente is opstandig. Die dorp brand, en in Sophia se klein dog veilige huisie droom sy van Pompeii en wegloop, weg van elke dag se sleur by BoekWeb en haar man se speurderwerk. Wanneer haar klein Magriet wegraak en Sophia ontvoer word, moet sy egter spartel om uit die web te kom – haar kind moet van die spinnekop gered word. In Naomi Meyer se debuutroman word die Boland, SA en ons almal se brandpunte helder verlig.

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.

Die aand toe Alet op Karibib aankom, bereik haar lewe ‘n nuwe laagtepunt. Daar was ‘n paar. Haar pa se siekte, haar loopbaan wat agterweë gebly het, nog ‘n mislukte verhouding. Dis moord om weer haar pad te vind. Letterlik.

Professor Raymond Bogatsu is a determined man, hell-bent to trap her in. He wins her heart, he wins her love, then traps her in the shackles of a two is better than one setup. The trio covenant of not ME, HIM or HER but WE till the end of time.

Hierdie omnibus is ’n samestelling van drie van Madelie Human se vorige Romanzas, Om Ben lief te hê, Om Dirk te tem en Om Kobus te ken.

Om Ben lief te hê: Ben Louw het Leah een nag tien jaar gelede liefgehad ... en weggesmyt. Terug met haar praktyk as kindersielkundige op die plaas, is Ben weer daar. Haar hart en lyf swig opnuut, maar sy weet dis verniet.

Om Dirk te tem: Dirk Degenaar laat Marica keer op keer voel asof sy oor ’n afgrond tuimel, en hý moet gestraf word! Sy gee vir hom fisioterapie by sy huis, maar weet naderhand nie meer wie tem vir wie nie.

Om Kobus te ken: Toe Sureta hom bitter nodig gehad het, het hy spore gemaak, nou wil Kobus Hattingh huisie-huisie speel. Kwansuis om sy seun te leer ken. Maar dis te laat. Dié kans sal sy hom glad nie gee nie.