Abel finds himself in Bruges, with his friend and mentor Ignaz Bouts. Soon he is on the prowl again for skins with tattoos for his Cosmic Travels, now with Ignaz’s help.

In a Sleep Inn in Bez Valley, Ella Neser finds his tracks. But she also has her hands full with the murder of a corrupt official from Home Affairs, found frozen and naked, with his throat cut. A journalist suspects that he supplied South African documents to Muslim militants and other customers willing to pay.

The final part of the Abel-trilogy which began with The Skin Collector & The Skinner's Revenge.

’n Jong, roekelose joernalis ondersoek die moord van ’n regter. Dit lei haar na oud-Recces met griewe, oorlewingskampe, ’n geheime organisasie genaamd Die Beskermers, wraak, intimidasie en verskeie moorde.

Ella Neser is on compulsory sick leave after her close encounter with Abel Lotz’s scalpel.

Between therapy sessions and harp lessons, she ponders over the photographs of Abel’s four victims, dead set on catching him before he kills again. When a burglary results in the death of one of the victims, Ella returns to duty to catch the culprits. But she isn’t the only one on their trail.

Has Abel Lotz returned, or is there a new killer in Dorado Park?

Three women look back in old age at a past they shared, not always harmoniously - Emmeline Pankhurst, the formidable suffragette; her daughter Sylvia; and Helen, who was loved by Harry, the neglected son of Emmeline and beloved brother to Sylvia. Through the narrative of each woman flits the figure of Christabel, Mrs Pankhurst's favourite daughter - selfish, vain but irresistible. The three accounts, sometimes contradictory, sometimes confirmatory, reconstruct piece by piece the events surrounding Harry's death and the human entanglements behind, indeed at times driving, the public acts of the time.

Philida is gebaseer op historiese werklikheid en sluit wat tema en tydperk betref aan by een van Brink se vroeër romans, Houd-den-bek. Philida was ’n slavin wat tussen 1820 en 1835 op die plaas Zandvliet in die Drakenstein-distrik gewoon het. (Die plaas wat vandag bekend is as Solms Delta). Sy het ’n paar kinders gehad by Frans, die seun van Cornelis Brink, die eienaar van die plaas. Maar toe besluit Cornelis dat Frans met die dogter van ’n ryk Kaapse familie moet trou en dat dit beter is om Philida en haar kinders te verkoop.

Die roman begin waar Philida by die drostdy op Stellenbosch ’n klag teen haar baas gaan lê, ongehoorde optrede vir ’n slawevrou, optrede wat haar duur te staan kom: Philida en haar kinders word in 1833 deur Brink op ’n slaweveiling op Worcester verkoop. Die Britse regering stel kort daarna die slawe vry, maar Philida is vir vier jaar by haar nuwe eienaar, Meester de la Bat, ingeboek.

Die swaarkry en vernedering van baie jare het Philida egter gebrei en op ’n dag eien sy vir haarself vryheid toe. Saam met die Moslem-slaaf, Labyn, trek sy deur die barre Karoo na die verre Gariep – “die grote Gariep: hy is die hele land en die hele wêreld …die rivier in onse binneste. My Gariep…” dink Philida. “Hier in sy nabyte is ons almal saam.”

Philida is ’n versetsroman – maar dit is ook ’n bevrydingsroman. Dit demonstreer wat vryheid beteken, en óók wat aan die kern van baasskap lê. En alhoewel daar onthutsende tonele is, is daar ook oomblikke van teerheid en humor. En boweal, die stem van ’n meesterverteller.

’n Interessante aspek van die roman is dat Brink gebruik maak van geskiedkundige feite wat een van sy voorsate insluit.

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

UVusumuzi noNathi bakhule ndawonye eNquthu, eNondweni. UVusumuzi uthathwa umngani wakhe osekade asebenzela eGoli ukuba naye ezozama amatoho.

UPuleng uyadideka ngoVusumuzi osala naye emini lapha endlini.Umsiza kukho konke;izitsha,izimbali phandle; ukupheka, njll. UThobile uyehluleka ukuziba impunyela enguMthokozisi efuna ukumshada ngokuphazima kweso.

ULerato uhlezi eqasha esaluni yakhe abasazozama impilo lapha kwaNdongaziyaduma. UNonhlanhla uyehluleka ukulinda uVusumuzi akhulelwe emakhaya.UDiliza umthobanhliziyo kaNathi emsebenzini.

In his debut collection of award-winning stories, Nick Mulgrew tells fourteen subtly interlinked tales set along the Southern African coastline from Cape Town to Mozambique, in which relationships, dreams and even narrators die: where fields catch fire, towers implode and the shadows of the past grow long.

But even from the most uneasy corners – tourist traps, colonial purgatories and libraries for the blind – these stories offer small mercies: glimpses of faith, beauty, and the possibility of salvation, no matter how slight.

Told with the magpie’s eye for the vivid in the ordinary, and the surreal in the everyday, Stations presents a fresh, compelling and essential new voice.

Stories featured:
1) Athlone Towers;
2) Turning;
3) Posman;
4) Ponta da Ouro;
5) Stars;
6) Daughter;
7) Gala Day;
8) Die Biblioteek vir Blindes;
9) 1-HR FOTO;
10) Appreciation;
11) Mr Dias;
12) Restaurant;
13) Marianhill, in the Gardens;
14) Stations

You are cordially invited to a summer wedding!

Wedding season is an anthology of ten English short stories by some of ROSA's (Romance writers Organisation of South Africa) published authors. The short stories are all on the theme of summer weddings, but apart from the theme they have nothing in common. Each story will reflect the genre, heat levels and personal writing style of that author.

Die privaat ondersoeker Renata Malan worstel steeds met die feit dat haar oupa en pa moordenaars is. Te meer omdat haar stiefpa, ’n sielkundige, in sy ondersoek na hierdie geval byna bo twyfel bewys het kinders erf hulle voorgeslagte se bose gene.

Renata bevind haar in ’n benouende posisie toe haar pa al hoe sterker verdink word van die reeksmoorde wat sy en haar kollega ondersoek. Hoewel die doodstraf destyds oor haar pa uitgespreek is, het hy op pad na sy teregstelling ontsnap en nou lyk dit of hy veel nader aan Renata woon en leef as wat sy gedink het. Eers wanneer hy agter tralies is, sal sy met haar lewe kan aangaan. Wel, in die sin dat sy dan sal kan bewys sy wil hom uit die samelewing verwyder.

Maar is die reeksmoordenaar inderdaad haar pa? En as dit nie is nie, hoekom kry Renata telkens ’n boodskap daaroor en waarom word die slagoffers op sulke strategiese plekke gevind?

Clea Cilliers, student en entrepreneur, wag nie vir ’n djin in ’n lamp om haar wense te bewaarheid nie. Sy gebruik haar erfgeld om ’n baristafiets en koffiepitte te koop sodat sy aan haar oorbeskermende broers kan bewys sy kan op haar eie voete staan. Bedags is sy barista by haar koffiestasie in die middestad sodat sy saans lesings kan bywoon vir haar BA-graad.

Pierre Grundling se besigheidsaanbod wat die geleentheid insluit om ’n agtiende-eeuse dagboek in Afrikaans te vertaal, verander alles. Haar lewe raak so vervleg met die avonture van die dagboekskrywer en die ontstaan van die koffiekultuur, dat sy begin vermoed dat koffie dalk wel ’n towerdrankie is.

Van 1981 tot 2014 skryf Cecile Cilliers rubrieke vir Beeld, De Kat en Sa​rie. Deur die jare het sy etlike bydraes vir verskillende bundels gemaak, maar Die ou vrou en die priester is haar eerste eie kortverhaalbundel. Verskeie klassieke temas word onder die loep geneem: dit wat in 'n huwelik ongesê bly tussen man en vrou, die verwikkelde band tussen ma en dogter, die oorweldigende blindheid van 'n eerste liefde, en bowenal die uitdagings van oud word.

Die verhale spreek tot 'n breë gehoor. Baie leesbaar, met 'n diep menslikheid wat uit die stories straal.

From the bestselling author of The Girl From the Train, comes another compelling coming of age story of delayed love, loss, and reconciliation in WWII-era South Africa.

Lettie has always felt different from and overshadowed by the women around her– this friend is richer, that friend is more beautiful, those friends are closer. Still, she doesn’t let this hold her back. She works hard to apply her mind, trying to compensate for her perceived lack of beauty with diligent academic work and a successful career as a doctor. She learns to treasure her friendships, but she still wonders if any man will ever return her interest.

Marco’s experience in the second world war have robbed him of love and health. When winters in his native Italy prove dangerous to his health even after the war has ended, he moves to South Africa to be with his brother, husband to one of Lettie’s best friends. Marco is Lettie’s first patient, and their relationship grows as she aids him on the road back to restored health.

In the company of beloved characters from The Child of the River, Marco and Lettie find a happiness that neither of them thought possible. With that joy comes pain and loss, but Lettie learns that life—while perhaps a crooked path—is always a journey worth taking.

1782: In the bustling settlement at the Cape of Good Hope, traders, politicians, farmers and fortune-seekers compete for goods, land and power. It is here that Geert Baardwijk, a wealthy Dutch heir, finds himself drawn to Lena, a young slave he has inherited from his father.

Bartered and sold into slavery as a child, Lena pines for the Madagascan highlands from within the cloistered confines of her master’s townhouse. When Geert marries a woman from the upper strata of Cape society to preserve his wealth and status, he is forced to confront his own responsibilities and failings, as well as the true meaning of love and fatherhood.

Spanning more than eighty years, Softness Of The Lime tells of traditions old and emerging, at a time in the Cape when competition for ownership of everything – including people – was at its peak. Drawing on the history of her own ancestors, Maxine Case mesmerises with this compelling story of passion and integrity, love and betrayal.

Internationally acclaimed, prize-winning thriller writer Deon Meyer has been heralded as the King of South African Crime. In Thirteen Hours, morning dawns in Cape Town, and for homicide detective Benny Griessel it promises to be a very trying day. A teenage girl's body has been found on the street, her throat cut. She was an American--a PR nightmare in the #1 tourist destination in South Africa. And she wasn't alone. Somewhere in Cape Town her friend, Rachel Anderson, an innocent American, is hopefully still alive. On the run from the first page of Thirteen Hours, Rachel is terrified, unsure where to turn in the unknown city. Detective Griessel races against the clock, trying to bring her home safe and solve the murder of her friend in a single day. Meanwhile, he gets pulled into a second case, the murder of a South African music executive. Griessel's been sober for nearly six months--156 days. But day 157 is going to be tough. A #1 best seller in South Africa and a finalist for the CWA International Dagger, Thirteen Hours is an atmospheric, intensely gripping novel from a master storyteller.

Komies, hartroerend, meditatief, verruimend! Hierdie kick-ass roman bied ’n priemende blik op twee parallelle reise: ’n man en ’n vrou elk op soek na die oorsake van ’n broer en ’n suster se ondergang.

Na ’n onthutsende oproep van ene Josias Brandt, vertrek Karl Hofmeyr teësinnig om sy broer, Iggy, wie se kop skynbaar uitgehaak het, te hulp te snel. Karl – heavy-metal-fan de luxe – se reis word vertraag deur sy obsessies wat hom in verskillende situasies lelik kniehalter.

Maria Volschenk word op ’n dag oorval deur ’n groot leegte. Sy reis na die Wes-Kaap op ’n sending waarteen sy lankal opsien, in ’n poging om hierdie beleërende leegte af te weer. Die twee verhaallyne vloei saam op ’n onwaarskynlike stadsplaas iewers in Kaapstad, waar die broer, Ignatius Hofmeyr, in ’n bitter tweestryd met die onpeilbare Brandt-kêrel gewikkel is.

'n Storie van begin, weer begin en óórbegin ...

Carla Kasselman se lewe val uit mekaar nadat haar man reg in eie hande neem, 'n onnoembare daad pleeg en die skuld op haar pak. Hy neem alles van haar af weg, eers haar babaseuntjie, en daarna pers hy haar af om hul blonde krulkopdogtertjie af te teken. Lewensmoeg en sonder hoop vlug sy na Sannasklip, 'n eenvoudige Weskusdorpie waar die eksentrieke tante Doreen haar op haar voete help.

Die lewe raak weer draaglik, en aangenaam voorspelbaar, totdat 'n weerbarstige grootwildjagter se Landie sonder brandstof voor haar voordeur gaan staan. Carla ontdek dat die lewe bestaan uit probeer en wéér probeer, en dat die liefde nie wag op 'n uitnodiging nie, maar hom ongenooid tuis maak wanneer hy so voel.

Meer as twintig jaar later sien sy weer haar dogter, maar Mignon is gebroke, verslae en sonder 'n wil om voort te gaan. Carla bring haar saam Sannasklip toe, maar sal haar verhouding, en die dorp se kalm ekwilibrium Mignon se donkerte kan absorbeer? Hoe is dit dan dat sy nie die bedorwe, depressiewe entjie mens wat net soos sy lyk, herken nie? Skuldgevoelens en verwyte verteer ma en dogter en dreig om hulle te verswelg. Is daar lig aan die einde van die tonnel? Of dalk binne Sannasklip se vuurtoring waar die aantreklike besigheidsman, Bernard Bartman, besig is om 'n restaurantkoninkryk te vestig?

Mignon ontdek dat sy meer is as die lappop wat haar pa geskep het en dat sy in staat is om lief te hê en liefgehê te word. Vergifnis word onvermydelik en die verlede se donker geheime verloor hul krag.

Upturned Earth is set in Namaqualand, the copper mining district of the Cape Colony, during the winter of 1886. William Hull arrives at the town to take up the position of magistrate, a position that no one else wanted to accept because of the bleak and depressing locale. He finds that the town is run by the Cape Copper Mining Company and the despotic mine superintendent, Townsend. Meanwhile, Molefi Noki, a Xhosa mining labourer, is intent on finding his brother who was sent to jail for drunkenness and has yet to be released. Set against the background of a diverse community, made up of white immigrants, indigenous people and descendants of Dutch men and native women, we are given insight into the daily life of a mining town and the exploitation of workers, harsh working conditions and deep-seated corruption that began with the start of commercial mining in South Africa in the 1850s and which continue until now. While Upturned Earth is a novel about the past, its concerns are very much founded in the present.

A cryptic killer is cruising the streets of Johannesburg. He’s picking up young women to torture and mutilate, and it’s down to Captain David Majola and Warrant Officer Jason Basson to follow the trail of blood and find him.

Majola, plagued by cocaine and lost love, feels the need to prove himself after his early promotion; his partner Basson, imprinted by the bad old days, wishes he’d walked out on the SAPS years ago. Tensions between the two rise as the bodies pile up, and while newspapers and politicians hurl accusations and the taxi bosses threaten a devastating strike, Majola and Basson must face the demons of a crazy city.

Hierdie omnibus is ’n samestelling van drie van Mari Roberts se vorige Romanzas, Dans in die reën, Sprokiesprinses en Fasade van die hart.

Dans in die reën:

Nick du Toit was nog altyd sexy. Gevaarlik sexy.

Kleintyd het haar maats se leepoë oor hom haar geamuseer. Totdat Lillie se mond ook begin droog word het. Skielik was hy meer as net haar aangetroude neef, haar mentor, die ou wat haar beskerm.

Hy was die man wat sy liefhet.

Maar Nick is nege jaar ouer as sy. Wêreldwys. ’n Rokjagter.

Ná vier jaar op universiteit kuier sy weer by haar tante-hulle op die plaas. En Nick is daar. Sterk. Onweerstaanbaar. Onvoorspelbaar. Hy verwar Lillie, maak haar woedend … én haar bene lam. En sy weet sy moet liewer padgee, ás sy haar stukkende hart wil laat heel word.

Sprokiesprinses:

’n Maand voor haar troue word Zoë in die steek gelaat. Haar selfvertroue is daarmee heen. Sy twyfel aan haar vroulikheid, en haar selfbeeld is aan skerwe.

Die stappery in die Outeniqua moet help om haar kop skoon te kry, haar help heel word. Maar ’n groter probleem wag daar – Kian Richards. Om amper met ’n gay man te trou, was erg, maar om die bewerasie te kry naby ’n man wat vroumense so geniet dat hy hom nie laat bind nie, is onhanteerbaar.

Miskien moet sy ’n bietjie flirt, haar vroulikheid toets. Maar sy is nie opgewasse teen die intensiteit van haar gevoelens nie. Koelkop kan sy Kian nie hanteer nie.

Fasade van die hart:

Sy verfoei hom, kan dit nie eens verduur om naby hom te staan nie, wat nog te sê langs hom sit en wild uit die helikopter met dwelmpyltjies skiet.

Beate weet van Derrick de Winter se voete van klei.

Kleintyd was hy haar beste maat, haar held, totdat hy met Lucy begin uitgaan het ... en geweier het om die verantwoordelikheid van hul kind te dra.

Sy weet hy gryp onbetrokke na vroue soos stukkies dryfhout wat verbykom, en los hulle ewe vinnig.

Sy sal haar nie laat meesleur nie.

Maar die aand van die verpestelike rooi rok speel sy roekeloos saam, met gevolge wat selfs sy nie kon voorsien 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.

Jan Wentzel, verhaleredakteur van Die voorpunt, kry te make met Marié Hurter, ’n aspirant-skrywer wat maar net nie wíl aanvaar dat haar liefdesverhaal afgekeur is nie. Jan het hoë ideale en neem sy werk ernstig op, maar ’n probleem ontstaan. Hoe gemaak as hy nou ook ’n ogie op Marié het? Of voer dié ondeunde rooikop iets in die mou?

In Die rooikop en die redakteur en ander stories bring H&R vroeë verhale deur een van Afrikaans se belangrikste skrywers in een band byeen. Vóór die Sestiger-beweging, etlike literêre pryse en internasionale aansien het André Brink sy loopbaan begin as skrywer van humoristiese stories en spannings- en liefdesverhale in gesinstydskrifte. Die vermaaklike stories in dié bundel het gedurende die 50's in die tydskrifte Die huisgenoot en Die brandwag verskyn. Dié bundel kombineer Brink se eiesoortige sin vir humor met ’n tikkie nostalgie – perfek vir ’n ouer én nuwe geslag lesers. Saamgestel deur Cecilia van Zyl, voormalige verhaleredakteur van Die huisgenoot.

A collection of new and critically acclaimed stories by award-winning South African author Ken Barris. Here, Barris's work combines everyday events with the surreal and fantastical: the title story centres on a dog called Worm; in another, husband and wife quarrel over a plugless lamp; and in another, a man encounters a speaking baboon in his kitchen. Poised, lyrical and humorous, the stories in this collection concretise the human condition via the author's characteristically unfettered style.

Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart.