What About Meera tells the tale of Meera Narain, a twenty-two-year-old woman from Durban who escapes her abusive arranged marriage to run away to Dublin, where she takes up a job as a care-giver at a school for autistic children.

After years of abuse at the hands of her doctor husband, Meera’s fractured and damaged psyche sends her spiralling into a doomed relationship with Ian Gallagher, the father of one of her autistic patients. The obsessive affair uncovers frightening truths about Meera’s childhood on a farm in rural KwaZulu-Natal, setting her on a destructive path of alcoholism and hallucinations. It is in this dangerous state that Meera commits a horrifying act and is ostracised from the world where she thought she would find happiness.

Pulsating with life and colour and a considerable amount of black humour, What About Meera is the gripping story of a woman’s attempts to rise above her circumstances and take control of her fate.

Gia's brother Nico is different from other boys. And being different can be dangerous in Gia's world.

Cape Town is no longer the haven for magical refugees that it once was. The Purists want to get rid of all magic and the newspapers are full of dreadful stories about the Belle Gente, the magical terrorists.

None of this concerns Gia, until the Special Branch - police who investigate the illegal use of magic - come knocking at her door, looking for Nico. When Gia turns to her parents for help, she finds only more secrets. Then she realises that she was the one who put her brother in danger.

What if a story came to life? If the characters stepped off the page and into our world?

Cape Town in winter is a harsh place to be homeless. Rebecca has to keep her people safe until she finds a way to get them back into their story.

She turns to her sisters for help but finds that they have secrets of their own. And Rebecca's gun-packing neighbour is getting far too interested in her strange visitors.

Terwyl die 17-jarige Marta se pa in haar arms sterf, vra hy haar om na haar ma om te sien. Sy vertolk hierdie belofte letterlik en verlaat die skool. Marta verwerf 'n diploma in haarkappery en begin 'n haarsalon in haar tuisdorp, sodat sy haar ma kan versorg. Mettertyd kring haar dienslewering wyer uit: na die ouetehuis in Lambertsbaai en werk by die kerk. Sy en haar Ma het 'n roetine van Bybellees en bid in die aand, maar dis net nog 'n plig en hul gebede steek vas by afgerammelde rympies. Sy neem haar kort-kort voor om haar lewe beter in te rig, maar dit gebeur nie. Eendag word dit alles te veel vir haar - die dag toe haar blinde bewondering vir Deon Swanepoel haar in groot verleentheid bring.

Dit is Marta se verhaal en hoe sy uit 'n web van pligpleging, onderdrukking, skewe waardes en onmoontlike drome bevry word.

Hierdie treffende verhaal van onvervulde drome, leë werke en liefdelose pligplegings wat geen bevrediging bring nie, maar net hartseer en verwyte, wys dat alles omgedraai kan word wanneer mense tyd maak vir Jesus. Deur sy vergifnis en sy liefde te aanvaar, kan jy met dankbaarheid die toekoms tegemoet gaan.

In Die vrou in die spieël word die hoofkarakter een oggend wakker . . . en ontdek dat sy niks kan onthou nie, nie eens haar eie naam nie. En toe ’n lang, aantreklike man skielik die kamer binnestap, noem hy haar Ansie, ’n naam wat sy in haar diepste wese wéét nie hare is nie!

In Die oujongnooi van Polkadraai gebruik Silpa haar besonderse grimeertalent om haarself ’n volle twintig jaar ouer te laat voorkom – sy beeld ’n middeljarige oujongnooi uit wat aansoek doen om die pos van huishoudster vir twee jong kinders. Maar sy het nie rekening gehou met die streng dog aantreklike pa van die kinders nie.

En in Die kleine kring lig Henda se verloofde haar ’n maand voor hul troue in dat hy ’n ander vrou liefhet. Om aan die lewe te bly aanvaar sy ’n pos as huishoudster op Brakrivier, maar die opset waarin sy haar bevind is veel anders as wat sy haar dit voorgestel het . . .

A contemporary fantasy set in Cape Town, South Africa.

Rebecca never expected to meet a witch, least of all in a second-hand bookshop in Mowbray. Surely she had nothing to fear from an old lady holding a box of children's books. But on the train home Rebecca collapses and is rushed to hospital, deep in a coma.

Rebecca's sisters, Pippa and Anmarie, are confronted by a frightening mystery: her body might be in the hospital bed, but where was Rebecca?

Hierdie verhaal van Leon van Nierop is ’n fenomeen wat oorspronklik die lig gesien het as radiovervolgverhaal (1979), toe ’n roman geword het (1983), daarna ’n televisiereeks (1985) – en nou word dit in Oktober vanjaar uitgereik as rolprent, die eerste “Boere-noir”.

Leon het self die draaiboek geskryf, en dít het hom geïnspireer om weer hierdie roman te skep! Dit is dus ’n totaal nuwe roman wat tot stand gekom het, met dieselfde geliefde karakters as destyds, maar geplaas in die hier-en-nou van hedendaagse Suid-Afrika.

Die mooi jong Sonja Daneel beland in Hazyview in ’n motorongeluk. Sy herwin haar bewussyn, maar ly egter aan geheueverlies. Sy herstel by die skouspelagtige Hotel Njala, en raak betrokke by die intriges en lotgevalle van ’n formidabele familie wie se lewens onlosmaakbaar verbind is aan dié onheilspellende hotel.

Voeg hierby geraamtes uit Sonja se eie verlede wat spoedig hul opwagting begin maak en die tafel is gedek vir ’n heerlike, spannende storie wat lesers nie sal kan neersit nie.

In a place near Mozambique where no one knows the boundary, drought is changing everything.

Tens, then hundreds of people seek refuge in a forgotten outpost where a clinic is run by lonely souls of uncertain training nuns staunchly determined to serve. But the inundation soon becomes too much for them, and there is no help from outside. Within the small community of outcasts a plan takes shape that is as outrageous as it is inspired.

The illegal adventure that follows is a humanitarian act of heroic proportions, yet unsung in the greater world. And in its wake unanswered questions remain: what is it that lies just beyond our reach; why can we not take the final step towards each other?

Bundu is about the people and the animals of Africa at the height of their beauty and the depth of their despair. It is a love story and a meditation on the mystery of our powers and the limitations that we share with our brothers, the animals.

On a winter's afternoon Gertruida returns to Kiepersolkloof after her mother and father’s funeral in town. Her heart rejoices. They were not her mother and father. They were Abel and Susarah. People who walked with God. At the same time walking arm in arm with Satan. She was never their precious little crowned plover. When she still wished to run after dragonflies in her mummy’s garden, Abel had brutally stolen her innocence and threatened her with the fork-tongued leguan that walked by night. Child-woman who danced naked in front of the window in the moonlight while Susarah slept behind drawn curtains. Or was she awake? She closes and locks the gate to the farm-yard. In years to come she will have to pilot her own life. But she only knows how to hate; love has no meaning to her. Her boundaries were destroyed. The only place of solace and dignity that ever belonged to her was the hidden stone house she had built in a secluded kloof. In the house on the ridge Mama Thandeka sits with a sorrowful heart. For fifty three years she had watched a black blanket slowly descending upon Kiepersolkloof. At night she is deeply troubled because there are many things that she regrets. Years ago she was little Abel's black mama, and when she should have spoken up, she thula-ed. Now the time for speaking up has gone by. All that remains is to call the spirits of the papas and mamas to come closer so that she can speak to them: Sit down, listen carefully. Then, with iNkosi as her witness, the truth will flow from her tongue. And on Monday she hopes to shuffle down to the farm-yard with her notsung kierie to cherish Gertruida against her soft mama-bosom for a while. Even though Gertruida does not want to be held by anyone.

Trencherman is the story of Marlouw's life-changing return to a post-apocalyptic South Africa - but it is also a voyage into the self.

One stormy nignt in Australia, Marlouw receives a call from his sister to save her son from 'that bloody country'. Handicapped by a clubfoot and a prudent spirit, Marlouw nevertheless answers what he perceives to be the call of destiny. In a journey recalling that of Marlow in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, he departs for Africa. Marlouw's quest is to find his adventurer nephew, Koert, and to return him to the safety of Melbourne. There are rumours that Koert has ended up on the old family farm, now owned by the former workers, and that he has built himself an empire as the King of Meat.

Venter portrays a turbulent, ruined South Africa where the socio-political landscape is riven by factions, and the infrastructure is in ruins after a massive explosion in the south of the country. As the Journey progresses, the primal fear that haunts Marlouw and has devastated his people is relentlessly exposed.

As Zakes Mda's fifth novel opens, the seaside village of Hermanus is overrun with whale-watchers--foreign tourists determined to see whales in their natural habitat. But when the tourists have gone home, the whale caller lingers at the shoreline, wooing a whale he has named Sharisha with cries from a kelp horn. When Sharisha fails to appear for weeks on end, the whale caller frets like a jealous lover--oblivious to the fact that the town drunk, Saluni, a woman who wears a silk dress and red stiletto heels, is infatuated with him.
The two misfits eventually fall in love. But each of them is ill equipped for romance, and their relationship suggests, in the words of "The Washington Post, " that "the deeper, darker concern here is not so much the fragility of love, but the fragility of life itself when one surrenders wholly to the foolish heart."

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.

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.

The focal point of the novel is the small town of Soutbek. Its troubles, hardships and corruption, but also its kindness, strong community and friendships, are introduced to us in a series of stories about intriguingly interlinked relationships. Contemporary Soutbek is still a divided town - the upper town destitute, and the lower town rich, largely ignorant - and through a series of vivid scenes, the troubled relationship between Pieter Fortuin, the town's first coloured mayor, and his wife Anna is revealed. In so many ways the past casts a long shadow over the present, not in the least through the unreliable diaries of Pieter Meerman promoted by Pieter Fortuin and Professor Pearson, a retired white historian. They give us a unique insight into the lives of the seventeenth-century Dutch explorers, and hint at a utopian society, suggesting that Soutbek is the birthplace of assimilation and integration. The blossoming friendship between Anna, Sara, a foundling, and Willem, Pieter Fortuin's nephew, is unsettled by David, Anna's and Pieter's son. His father has bought David a bright future, but when he comes back from boarding school David appears alienated from his father and from his old friend, the former gardener Charles Geduld, just as Anna starts to accept him as her son. Is there hope, or are we left with Willem's conclusion that 'he would spend the rest of his life working off the debt of his family's poverty'? A moving story that paints a thought-provoking picture of life in contemporary South Africa.

"A dark and terrifying novel presenting a mythical account of the development of evil through the history of Southern Africa."--Seattle Times. This ferocious new novel by one of South Africa's visionary writers is a post-colonial reimagining of the Book of Revelation--an unholy epic that reenvisions the catastrophic violence of European "civilization" as a hooded rider who spreads slaughter across the African continent--a work that is as unnerving as it is intellectually provocative.

Elle and Brent Mullen have it all: two delightful children, more than enough money and a perfectly-restored Victorian home in the plush green suburbs of Cape Town. But appearances can be deceiving.

Brent’s business decisions continue to disappoint, embittered by mistrust and entitlement. Elle - a social worker by choice - is unhappy, trying (and failing) to bridge the divide between two worlds of privilege and poverty. Until she meets her next case, Ethan who, at twelve-years-old, has seen it all. Born into a family of gangsters, life through his eyes reveals a pained struggle to defy his father’s expectatations.

In a city run by gangsters, Elle, Ethan and Brent find themselves drawn into a web of betrayal, where a wicked plot twist reveals how far each will go to get what they want.

1001 nagte, 1001 wonders, 1001 gevare.

Wanneer Herman Swart se tweelingsuster Herma onverwags sterf, val ’n deel van hom weg. Hy raak toenemend eensaam en onttrek in ’n wêreld van ou films. Hy sien haar in sy eie spieëlbeeld en hoor haar op ongeleë tye. ’n Bykomende traumatiese ervaring versplinter sy wêreld finaal en Herman verval in ’n diep koma. Hy bevind homself binne-in ’n avontuur, ’n nagmerrie, ’n wêreld waarin droom, fantasie, film, vervolgverhale, musiek en die gotiese ineenvleg. In hierdie vreemde, magiese realisme beweeg hy tussen plekke, ontmoet verskeie karakters en word weggelok deur die prinses, ’n meisie wat baie aan Herma herinner.

François Bloemhof het al plaaslik en wêreldwyd vir talle literêre eerstes gesorg, maar met hierdie unieke lees-luister-en-kyk-ervaring oortref hy homself. Die duisend en eerste nag het geen geduld met ou, veilige storiegrense nie.

Robyn het alles wat ’n meisie kan begeer. As sy net verlief was op die man waarmee almal verwag sy gaan trou. Eers toe Connor in haar lewe verskyn, weet sy wat sy misgeloop het.

Alles wat ’n meisie maar kan begeer, dit het Robyn. Skoonheid, kreatiwiteit, geld en ’n gesogte beroep. Boonop kan sy binnekort die vrou wees van ’n man wat self skatryk is en met die huwelik sal haar gesin se sakebelange verder bevorder word. Dis nou te se as hulle kan ooreenkom oor ’n troudatum, iets waartoe sy haar tot dusver nog nie kon bring nie omdat sy heimlik nie seker is of sy op hom verlief is nie. In hierdie kritieke stadium verskyn Connor asof uit die niet in haar kantoordeur. Hy wil he sy moet ’n ontmoeting met haar pa vir hom reel. Eers toe Robyn nie daarin slaag nie, besef sy haar pa het al die jare ’n geheim in hom omgedra, iets wat reelreg bots met die etiek wat hy Robyn en haar susters ingeprent het.

Die gevoelens wat Robyn vir Connor begin ontwikkel het, is gewoon ’n onmoontlikheid want hy blyk haar pa se aartsvyand te wees en sy wil ook nie haar pa geruineer sien nie. Toe gebeur die ondenkbare en haar lewe verander in ’n oogwink in die soort bestaan wat sy haar nooit eens sou kon voorstel nie. Nie dat sy ongelukkig is nie, maar so ...?

Toe Lilihanna se kêrel haar in die openbaar afsê, maak Sebastian haar ’n aanbod: As sy as model sal optree in ’n advertensie vir sy spa , kry sy ’n gratis oormaaksessie en ’n week se pamperlang daarby.

Lilihanna stem in, en gou is sy en Sebastian smoorverlief. Die enigste vlieg in die salf is sy beeldskone assistent wat duidelik self ’n oog op Sebastian het.

Lilihanna moet besluit of sy gaan toelaat dat ’n misverstand hulle liefde kelder, en of sy vir hul geluk gaan veg.

Joernalis Gemma besoek die plaas Sangrose om ’n artikel oor ’n argeologiese vonds te skryf. Julien, die eienaar van Sangrose, se vrou het die labirint gevind en kort daarna haar lewe geneem.

Julien blameer homself vir haar dood en wil haar nagedagtenis onaangeraak bewaar. Tussen rose en dorings stamp Gemma en Julien koppe.

Hulle sal saam die waarheid in die oë moet kyk en verwerk, want net dan sal hulle weer vry en heel kan word – ook om ware liefde te kan aanvaar.

Alex kraai al lank koning by die jaarlikse kompetisie vir swaarvoertuigbestuurders. Hy kan ’n vragmotor toe oë parkeer. Hierdie jaar sit ’n petite blondine egter vir hom ore aan.

Stella Kleynhans gaan haar pa se vervoerbesigheid erf en is vasberade om haarself by die jaarlikse kompetisie te bewys. Maar Alex de Koker daag haar elke keer uit om moeiliker draaie met ’n vragmotor uit te voer.

Maar wat haar die meeste ontstel, is die toertjies wat haar hart uithaal wanneer hy naby haar kom!

Isobel Raadt se suiwer stem laat mense stom. Ná ’n traumatiese gebeurtenis en ’n onverwagte swangerskap, kies sy nie bitterheid nie, maar liefde en hoop – selfs al moet sy haar baba weggee sodat dié ’n beter lewe sal hê.

Dis Isobel se stem wat die musiekvervaardiger Markus Meyer eerste bekoor, maar haar situasie verwar hom.

Terwyl hy sukkel om sin te maak van pyn en geloof, is dit juis Isobel se stil deursettingsvermoë wat hom leer dat God steeds goed is.

Sonia is mal oor haar werk as vlugparamedikus. Maar sy moet noodvlugte in gevaarlike omstandighede uitvoer en sukkel om die regte man te ontmoet.

Tydens ’n donderstorm in die Drakensberge word sy gestrand saam met Adriaan Reuters, ’n aantreklike besigheidsman. Hul wêrelde verskil hemelsbreed, tog eindig hulle in mekaar se arms op.

Sonia probeer die voorval afmaak as ’n sameloop van omstandighede, maar sy kan Adriaan nie vergeet nie. Dan kom sien hy haar met ’n versoek wat sy nie kan weerstaan nie.

Dariyah moet terugkeer na haar erfplaas in die Noordkaap, want sy het geen ander heenkome nie. Alles het egter op die plaas verander. Nou móét sy eenvoudig Addersholte se onbeskofte nuwe plaasbestuurder, Cuhan, aanvaar.

Dariyah is die regmatige eienaar, maar Cuhan steek ’n stokkie voor elk van haar planne. Sake verander egter toe die eerste reën neersak en hulle ’n vurige soen deel.

Toe die son weer uitkom, probeer Dariyah haarself oortuig niks het verander nie.