Manon Viljoen is ‘n jong advokaat en ywerige motorfietsryer. Sy word ingeroep om as amicus curiae die regter by te staan in ‘n moordsaak om ‘n regverdige uitspraak te lewer. Die beskuldigde is Charles Mouton, ‘n suksesvolle senior advokaat wat een oggend wakker word langs die bebloede lyk van sy vrou en van haar moord aangekla word. Hy weet nie wat gebeur het nie. Of so beweer hy. Hy weier om aan die verhoor deel te neem omdat hy glo die hof moet die waarheid soek. Dit val dus op Manon se skouers om die waarheid te soek en voor die hof te lê. Manon se aanstelling word bemoeilik deur die feit dat sy en regter Nantes Castel ‘n geskiedenis het. Die verhoor loop allerande draaie terwyl Manon na redelike twyfel soek en terselfdertyd haar gevoelens vir Nantes bevraagteken. Stel hy nog belang, of terg hy haar sommer net?

Vind Manon die waarheid waarna sy soek ‒ oor die identiteit van die moordenaar en ook oor Nantes se gevoelens vir haar? Of is daar redelike twyfel?

‘n Spanningsverhaal wat afspeel op ’n afgeleë plaas in Limpopo se Waterberg-distrik.

Adriaan Botha is angstig oor misdaad in Suid-Afrika en moedeloos oor sy loopbaan as argitek. Hy besluit om die land te verlaat, maar stel sy plan uit om eers ʼn belangrike projek te voltooi. Terwyl hy daarmee besig is, erf hy uit die bloute ’n plaas by sy oupa wat hy nooit geken het nie. Hy sukkel nog om dié nuus te verwerk, toe ’n insident met die kliënt se vrou hom dwing om die stad inderhaas te verlaat. Vergesel deur sy geliefde hond gaan skuil hy op die plaas.

Onderwyl Adriaan wag vir die stof om te gaan lê, wik en weeg hy om die plaas te verkoop - hy is immers oppad landuit! Maar spoedig raak hy al vaster verstrik deur ’n sameloop van gebeure. Alles begin toe hy ‘n reuse-swartmamba in die veld raakloop, want wat daarna gebeur, is ‘n tuimeltreinrit vol interessante karakters en onverwagse gebeure. As hy maar net vroeër rigti ng gekry het! Hoe de hel gaan hy lewend hier uitkom?

Sekondêre temas van belang is ekologiese aangeleenthede, kultuurhistoriese kwessies binne rasverband en geleentheid vir versoening. Die teenwoordigheid van die legendariese mamba vorm ʼn belangrike simbool in die verhaal.

Mamba is ’n roman wat die leser gaan oorrompel en enduit geboei gaan hou.

Liefdeskortverhale deur 27 bekende Afrikaanse skrywers om jou naweek op ’n romantiese noot mee te begin.

Laat die week en sy gewoel agter met dié stories uit die pen van Juanita Aggenbach, Bernette Bergenthuin, Henk Breytenbach, Malene Breytenbach, Alma Carstens, Alta Cloete, Leona Conradie, Trisa Hugo, Madelie Human, Jaco Jacobs, Anzil Kulsen, Kristel Loots, Cliffordene Norton, Susan Olivier, Didi Potgieter, Gerrit Rautenbach, Felicia Snyman, Cecilia Steyn, Dibi Symington, Louise van der Merwer, Santie van der Merwe, Nanette van Rooyen, Frenette van Wyk, Antoinette Venter, Louise Viljoen, Magdaleen Walters en Elsa Winckler.

A novel about two young men that fall in love under unlikely circumstances.

One of them has sworn off relationships to avoid turning out like his abusive father, while the other rediscovers himself. The book follows their journey as they navigate through their new found feelings.

It’s a fun, quirky read but also an intense emotional rollercoaster.

Struggling with integrating back into society after escaping her captor after five years of torture, sexual abuse as well as prostitution, Minenhle finds herself turning against the people who love her the most.

Haunted by dreams and memories of her torture and torment she turns to illegal substances in order to try and deal with the pain.

Monique and Ben Klein have been married for twenty years. They both know that they didn’t get married for all the right reasons, but they’re happy with the decision they made. They have a good life in a beautiful house, with three children who they adore.

It all worked out in the end.

Or did it?

Monique has become obsessed with being the perfect wife and mother. Her sense of self is attached to the compliments she receives from friends and relatives. From her appearance to her home to her children, nobody is allowed to see the cracks. They might be normal for other people, but not for Monique. Ben knows that he gave up on a part of himself and his dreams when he married Monique. He’s an actuary, working for a corporate, and not the artist that he longed to be. He ignores as best he can the difference in their thinking. If anyone asks, he is happy.

Their daughter Rosie is struggling with her friendships and the daunting world of teenage parties. But with a strict mother like Monique, she knows that even if she gets frustrated, Monique’s rules will keep her safe.

Until Ben meets Daisy. And Rosie meets Margie. And everything starts to fall apart.

Die nuwe Afrikaanse prosaboek is ’n viering van verskeidenheid. Dit bied ’n verruimende, vars blik op die Afrikaanse kortverhaal met sowel klassieke verhale deur welbekende skrywers asook voorheen ongepubliseerde verhale deur nuwe stemme. Jan Rabie, wat in die laat-1950’s die kontoere van die literêre landskap verlê het met sy soms absurde, soms filosofiese, soms politieke “prosas”, dien as inspirasie. 

'n Vuur brand in Kassie Kasselman se binneste. Reeds as groentjiespeurder het hy geleer dat jy altyd afsydig moet staan van 'n saak, anders maak jy oordeelsfoute. Maar hierdie saak krioel in sy binneste soos 'n bondel giftige slange. Die gedagte aan die kinders, aan wat hulle moet meemaak . . . En die slagoffers gil desperaat om hulp. In Medusa boor Van Rensburg 'n nuwe, donkerder aar oop vir ons geliefde speurder kaptein Kassie Kasselman.

Wanneer Kassie Kasselman die verdwyning van 'n ekskollega begin ondersoek, is dit duidelik dat hier meer as net 'n dwelmverwante verdwyning skuil. Hoe lyk dit dan of dit verband hou met die ontvoering wat sy kollega Rooi Els se vrou se werkplek getref het?
Van die Kaapse ganglands tot die Kruger-wildtuin met sy renosterstropers; tussen 'n verslonsde Bolandse hoewe met 'n grieselige visdam en die glans-en-skanswêreld van diplomasie moet Kassie sy pad voel-voel vind - of Rooi se vrou is visvoer.

Bessie Botha, deesdae weduwee Botha, woon saam met haar broer, Willem, op ’n kleinhoewe buite Bloemfontein. 1974 was tot dusver nie ’n goeie jaar nie, en om alles te kroon is oorlede Stefaans se welgestelde broer en sy jong neus-in-die-lug vrou op pad om te kom
kuier.

Bessie ontferm haar oor al wat kind en dier is in die gemeenskap. Sy meng ook graag by ander se sake in wanneer dit lyk asof Dominee of Gezina, die nuwe voorsitster van die sustersvereniging, nie hul kant bring nie.

Wanneer die veertienjarige Annatjie de Villiers weer een Sondag ná kerk langs die treinspoor staan en flikkers gooi vir al wat ’n treindrywer is, besluit Bessie om die meisiekind ’n boek in die hand te stop sodat sy kan léér waar babas vandaan kom.

Bessie se hangkasbiblioteek is propvol heimwee en humor, met uiteenlopende karakters net so kleurryk soos die boeke in Bessie se spaarkamerhangkas. Madelein Rust op haar beste!

Cape Town, South Africa. Retired police chief Piet Pieterse has been murdered, necklaced in fact. A tyre placed round his neck, doused with petrol, set alight. An execution from the apartheid era and one generally confined to collaborators. Who would target Pieterse this way, and why now?

Veteran cop Schalk Lourens is trying to forget the past. But Pieterse was his old boss and when Schalk is put on the case, he finds the past has a way of infecting the present.

Meanwhile, it's an election year. People are pinning their hopes on charismatic ANC candidate Gideon Radebe but there's opposition and in this volatile country, unrest is never far from the surface.

Schalk must tread a difficult path between the new regime and the old, between the personal and the professional, between justice and revenge.

This investigation will change his life, and could alter his country's future.

Markus Gerlach en sy kameraad Domingos Magadzi vlug oor die grens van Suid-Afrika na die noorde van Mosambiek omdat hulle vrees dat hulle van die moord op drie mense aangekla sal word. Vir Phoebe Maritz, ’n kleindorpse joernalis, is dit ’n kans om eindelik ’n storie van internasionale belang na te jaag en sy sit die twee met die hulp van ’n veiligheidskontrakteur, Paul Fryer, agterna.

Sy hoop om ’n eksklusiewe onderhoud met Markus los te slaan en die waarheid te ontbloot. Maar Cabo Delgado, waar Markus wegkruip, word deur verwoestende terreur geteister en niemand is daar veilig nie.

Gou bevind Phoebe haar in die middel van ’n plofbare botsing tussen gevreesde insurgente, kastige filantrope, private militêre kontrakteurs, agente van internasionale olie-en-gasmaatskappye en – erger nog – ’n bloeddorstige reeksmoordenaar.

Ruby has to deal with the news of her father’s death and her sex scandal simultaneously trending on social media. Vimbai has been captured and Nosihle returns to Harare where her path crosses with Joshua, Shadow’s second in command.

Ruby is arrested and locked in the same cell as Vimbai. Will the two women be able to put aside their differences to survive this ordeal?

Rubies and Rain is a page-turner filled with surprise twists and turns.

Gabriel Laucus has lost his job and his parent’s home is about to be repossessed. Desperate and on the brink of financial ruin, he devises a risky insurance scam to salvage his crumbling life. This sets in motion a catastrophic chain of events.

Soon, Gabriel and his friends have a psychopathic hitman, a ruthless drug lord, and a relentless investigator on their tail. As Gabriel navigates a world of fraud and dangerous alliances, he must outwit his pursuers and confront the harrowing repercussions of his choices.

Deadly Benefits is a heart-pounding journey through the high-stakes game of survival. The price of one wrong move could mean life or death.

Talk of the Town by award-winning writer Fred Khumalo comprises short stories he wrote over many years. In this vibrant collection Khumalo explores identity and belonging through tales about African foreign nationals in South Africa, xenophobia, South Africans abroad, exiled comrades during apartheid, and past and current township life. At times hilarious and at times gut-wrenching, this is a collection that will move you.

THANDO Weber is a half South African and half Swiss nerdy girl with hopes of going to the best university in Switzerland like her father did. She is also the last surviving descendant of the Watchers of Realms, a powerful race of light beings who watch over the Milky Way galaxy. Her mission is to find her lower-self, and her higher-self to complete her triad, so that she may bond with them and be the next Dreamer – an interdimensional traveller and protector of the Earth Realm.

Tortured by the transformation of moving from human to Dreamer, THANDO hallucinates, sleepwalks, and suffers sleep deprivation, which destroys her dreams of tertiary education. On one mundane high school day, she loses consciousness and plunges into a coma, not from exhaustion but because she encounters her lower-self and higher-self simultaneously.

She starts her training to be a Dreamer, experiences challenges and travels through South Africa to find ways to release her latent superpowers. As she trains, the Kryona terrorises people around her to get to her. On her journeys through South Africa, she meets powerful creatures of old, ancient water spirits and primordial dragons who help her with her training. She is guided to traditional healers to assist her and comes across other traditional healers who betray her due to influence from the Kryona. Through her adventures, she learns about her mother’s Zulu culture and inches closer to her goal, but will it be enough?

When you are accustomed to the finer things in life -designer shoes, champagne, VIP lounges, exotic holidays abroad, a luxury penthouse, expensive wheels -what independent young woman in her right mind would want to let them go? Certainly not the beautiful, ambitious and super-streetsmart Bontle Tau, the girl who has used her good looks and winning charm all her life to get exactly what she wants.

The lifestyle doesn't come cheap, though, nor does maintaining the body that allows it (just ask Dr Heinz at the beauty clinic). Luckily, Bontle has a degree in MENcology, and there is no shortage of blessers at her penthouse door, eager to give her all the love and (financial) support she needs. Papa Jeff might be overweight and getting on a bit, and receiving some unwanted attention from the Hawks; and Teddy might not have fully come through for her on that messed-up tender business; but Mr Emmanuel, the Nigerian businessman with deep pockets and the possibility of conferring second wife statu could that be love?

Keeping all her boyfriends happy and living a fabulous life is not without its challenges. With so many people clamouring for Bontle's attention -from her shebeen queen mother Gladys in Mamelodi, who is taking strain bringing up her teenaged brother, Golokile, on her own; to her girlfriends, Iris and Tsholo; not to mention her soon-to-be ex-husband, the ever-patient, ever-loving Ntokozo, Bontle barely has time to post on Instagram these days. Sooner or later something's got to give.

The fiery birth of a new star of South African fiction, Innards is an incendiary debut of linked stories that narrates the everyday lives of Soweto residents, from the early years of apartheid to its dissolution and beyond.

Set in Soweto, the urban heartland of South Africa, Innards tells the intimate stories of everyday black folks processing the savagery of apartheid. Rich with the thrilling textures of township language and life, it braids the voices and perspectives of an indelible cast of characters into a breathtaking collection flush with forgiveness, rage, ugliness and beauty.

Meet a fake PhD and ex-freedom fighter who remains unbothered by his own duplicity, a girl who goes mute after stumbling upon a burning body, twin siblings nursing a scorching feud, and a woman unravelling under the weight of a brutal encounter with the police. At the heart of this collection – of deceit and ambition, appalling violence and transcendent love – is the story of slavery, colonization and apartheid – and it shows in intimate detail how South Africans must navigate both the shadows of the recent past and the uncertain opportunities of the promised land.

Full to bursting with life, in all its complexities and vagaries, Innards is an uncompromising depiction of black South Africa. Visceral and tender, it heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.

Milla Roux is ’n veearts wat werk by ’n rehabilitasiesentrum vir sjimpansees in die DRK. Spoedig begin die skermutselings tussen regeringstroepe en rebelle-organisasies van die hele Kongo ’n gevaargebied maak, en kort voor lank is ook die rehabilitasiesentrum in die kruisvuur vasgevang.

Saam met drie klein sjimpansee-wesies slaan ’n gewonde Milla op die vlug, vergesel van die enigmatiese Graham Saunders van die organisasie Dokters sonder grense.

Vyf vooraanstaande sakemanne van Pretoria word koelbloedig met hul eie jagwapens vermoor.

Kaptein Alek Strauss, lid van die Fiskale se Spesiale Ondersoekeenheid, het nog nooit iets so gewetenloos teëgekom nie. Waar gaan die Woestynroos volgende toeslaan? Die Fiskale se forensiese speurwerk lewer geen leidrade op nie, en met elke grumoord word die moordenaar slinkser.

’n Senutergende krimi-debuut deur Marie Lotz – ’n skrywer wat die bloederige donker onder ’n blink oppervlak blootlê.

Gracie-Jane Coetzee se eerste kleinkind word gebore kort voordat die president die eerste inperking aankondig. Gracie is ’n skrywer en illustreerder van kinderboeke, en nie juis ’n konvensionele ouma nie. Sy verkies die geselskap van haar getroue basset-hond bo enige ander verhouding in haar lewe. Saans wanneer PTS haar tussen die mure van haar huis rondjaag en die gevoel van onheil soos ’n uil op die dak kom sit, dokter sy graag die kompulsief obsessiewe simptome met ’n glasie wyn of twee . . . 

Athol Fugard is South Africa’s most prominent international playwright. This is his only novel.

Tsotsi has been adopted as the Grade 11 official English novel in South Africa for 2016; a new generation will be exposed to Tsotsi and help it on its way to becoming a modern classic.

Blouwillestories is 'n keur uit Willem Theron se weeklikse rubrieke in Beeld, Die Burger en Volksblad die afgelope agt jaar en is geskryf in 'n humoristiese, tong-in-die-kies-trant. Dit handel hoofsaaklik oor die lewe in die Ou en Nuwe Suid-Afrika. Blouwillem vertel onder andere van sleepwabestuurstegnieke (of 'n tekort daaraan), snorkers in die Wildtuin, sonde met jou bure se honde en met jou honde se bure, bleskoppe en krullebolle, skooltake in die nuwe bedeling en treinry in die ou bedeling. Blouwillem se "skertse" sal geniet word deur mense van feitlik alle ouderdomme (die gesensorde verhale sal selfs die kinders vermaak) wat graag die humor in (soms ernstige) situasies raaksien en waardeer.