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Die Onsigbare Pou (Afrikaans, Paperback): Zirk van den Berg Die Onsigbare Pou (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Zirk van den Berg
R275 R236 Discovery Miles 2 360 Save R39 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

In die 1980’s verower die sanger genaamd Ober die Afrikaanse musiektoneel.

Jare later belig sy vriend en agent, Sybie de Waal, Ober se lewensloop in ’n plakboek van woorde – van hulle skooldae af, deur die jare toe Obermania die publiek beetgepak het, tot die terreurdaad toe alles tot ’n einde kom.

Die onsigbare pou is ’n verhaal van ambisie en kreatiwiteit, roem en anonimiteit, vriendskap en verraad. In Zirk van den Berg se pittige, poëtiese vertelstyl.

Koöperasie-Stories (Afrikaans, Paperback): P.G. du Plessis Koöperasie-Stories (Afrikaans, Paperback)
P.G. du Plessis
R255 R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Save R36 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

PG du Plessis was een van Afrikaans se meestervertellers. En met Koöperasiestories wat ook as ’n televisiereeks uitgesaai is, het hy volksbesit geword. Hierdie heruitgawe is ’n keur van die gewildste humoristiese kortverhale oor die lief en die leed van die mense in die dorp Gezinasrus.

Flambojante karakters soos Veldsman, Genis, Vissertjie, Myta, Oom Botes en die Pieterses kruip ten spyte hulle stommighede en streke, diep in ’n mens se hart.

Hierdie heruitgawe van Koöperasiestories bevat 30 kortverhale en sluit onder meer die volgende ou gunstelinge in:

  • Skeef gelaai
  • Soontjie
  • Merk haar vir my
  • Die man wat so kon spu
  • Liefde is 'n winskoop
  • Dubbele kyk in die oog
  • Milky bar Eksterminasie
  • ’n Ruikertjie geelperskes
  • ’n Dier in pyn
  • Om ’n vrou aan te kleef
  • Die snorkmasjien
It Doesn't Have To Be This Way (Paperback): Alistair Mackay It Doesn't Have To Be This Way (Paperback)
Alistair Mackay
R310 R266 Discovery Miles 2 660 Save R44 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Spanning from present day until the near future, this novel tells the story of three men facing the rapid unravelling of their world, due to cataclysmic climate collapse.

Luthando’s environmental activism leads to a clash with the government. His life partner, Viwe, becomes embroiled in religious end-of-days fanaticism. And their friend Malcolm worries that his work in biotech augmentation will be used for sinister purposes.

A story about resilience and our capacity for love in the face of fear.

Helene de Kock Keur 7 - Ver Vlug Na More / Met Vandag Se Brood (Afrikaans, Paperback): Helene De Kock Helene de Kock Keur 7 - Ver Vlug Na More / Met Vandag Se Brood (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Helene De Kock
R280 R241 Discovery Miles 2 410 Save R39 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Twee vroeë romans deur een van Afrikaans se gewildste liefdesverhaalskrywers. Albei verhale speel af in die Vrystaatse Riemland, die heimat van die Bassons en Baumanns, twee families wie se geskiedenis deur vriendskap en intrige verweef is.

In Ver vlug na môre reis Eugene Basson na Europa om te gaan vasstel wat van sy gevoelens vir die mooi blonde Elsje geword het.

In Met vandag se brood is Renier, die jong dominee op Petrusdal, vasgevang tussen sy verstand en sy hart.

Liefde En Verlies (Afrikaans, Paperback): Malene Breytenbach Liefde En Verlies (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Malene Breytenbach
R110 R95 Discovery Miles 950 Save R15 (14%) In Stock

Twee broers, seuns van ’n skatryk volstruisboer, wil vir beeldskone Margaretha hê. Sy kies Michael, die erfgenaam, en John gaan veg in die Boereoorlog.

Later stort die veremark in duie en hulle is bankrot. Margaretha kry die geleentheid om te wys dat sy nie net ’n mooi gesig het nie.

The Park (Paperback): Gail Schimmel The Park (Paperback)
Gail Schimmel 2
R199 R156 Discovery Miles 1 560 Save R43 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Rebecca doesn’t expect to make new friends at this stage of her life. But when she becomes mother to little Amy, she finds herself spending her afternoons in the park. There she meets other mothers: first flamboyant, fun Rose, and then single-mom Lilith, whose inner strength is tangible, and whose eyes never leave her toddler.

Very soon the women have formed a trio – the type of friends who feel at home in each other’s kitchens – and their daughters begin to behave like sisters. But Rebecca is about to learn that friendship is not always what it seems, and that sometimes you trust the wrong people. At exactly the moment when she needs to lean on them, one of her new friends harbours a shocking secret, and the other will turn on her in a way she could never have anticipated.

Her two park friends will change Rebecca’s life – and her family – forever.

Ivoor (Afrikaans, Paperback): Jaco Wolmarans Ivoor (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Jaco Wolmarans
R350 R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Save R49 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

’n Reeks geheimsinnige oorsese betalings aan weeskinders van die Bosoorlog het die Inkomstediens diep bekommerd. Dit dra die vingermerke van die ou SAW se koverte intelligensiegroep, Delta 40.

Tex se aandag is erg verdeel tussen dié saak en die selfdood van die Engelsman, ‘n oud-makker, wat uit gewetensbeswaardheid nooit aan ‘n vuurwapen gevat het nie. Met Carlos nou terug in Angola, probeer Tex die vreemde omstandighede van die Engelsman se dood opsy skuif en Helena met die naspoor van die geheimsinnige transaksies help.

Maar hy en Carlos se bosoorlog-verlede – en die spoor van ‘n ivoor-smokkelnetwerk wat hulle saam met die Engelsman in Angola oopgekrap het – bly opdring tot Tex dit nie meer kan ignoreer nie.

Vlug (Afrikaans, Paperback): Wilna Adriaanse Vlug (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Wilna Adriaanse
R340 R292 Discovery Miles 2 920 Save R48 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

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.

Maansiek (Afrikaans, Paperback): Gerda Taljaard Maansiek (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Gerda Taljaard
R20 Discovery Miles 200 In Stock

Die kortverhale in Maansiek verken 'n wye register: die Rooms-Katolieke geloof, charismatiese aanbidding, Afrika-mistiek, erotiek en moederskap, konflik tussen ras en geslag en sosiale status, spanning tussen die hede en die historiese, die sienlike en die onsienlike.

As basis vir sommige verhale dien 'n nugter koerantberig of tydskrifartikel uit vervloe dekades wat binne die verhaalkonteks tegelyk humoristies en ontstellend is.

Ander is gegrond op minder bekende aspekte van bekende figure of vertellings van onbekende vroue met uiteenlopende agtergronde.

Die Teenoorgestelde Is Net So Waar (Afrikaans, Paperback): Azille Coetzee Die Teenoorgestelde Is Net So Waar (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Azille Coetzee
R315 R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Save R44 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Lien, Katryn en Charlotte was jare lank beste vriendinne. Die vriendskap was van die begin af onwaarskynlik. Lien is heeltemal together, Katryn is temperamenteel en onvoorspelbaar. En Charlotte is die een wat stil-stil foto’s neem en skilder, en nooit ophou waarneem nie.

’n Vlymskerp en eerlike roman oor die verbintenis tussen drie jong vroue. ’n Aangrypende verhaal wat strek oor jare en skuif tussen kuns en seks, joga, vriendskap, lojaliteit en geheime. Deur die skrywer van In my vel.

The Polygamist (Paperback): Sue Nyathi The Polygamist (Paperback)
Sue Nyathi
R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

The Polygamist weaves a tale of four women whose lives become intertwined when they all fall for wealthy banking magnate Jonasi.

Seemingly indomitable, and oozing money, power and sex appeal, Jonasi is about to complicate all their lives forever.

Die Ompad Terug (Afrikaans, Paperback): Helena Hugo Die Ompad Terug (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Helena Hugo
R245 R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Save R34 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Ná ouma Leen en oupa Koen se dood besef Jessie dat sy en Janine nie langer op die Weskus sal kan oorleef nie. Sy kry werk in Roodepoort en oortuig Janine om saam te gaan met die belofte van ’n nuwe toekoms.

Janine belowe Bennie dat sy eendag na hom toe sal terugkom. Die nuwe omgewing is alles behalwe gemaklik en hulle is finansieel nog slegter af. Janine se egskeiding word op die langebaan geskuif. Hul lewe verander drasties as die meenthuis se geiser ingee, die Oosthuizens langaan intrek en Werner Hougaardt, die eienaar van die meenthuis vir Janine begin ruikers stuur.

’n Dag se uitstappie saam met Werner bring twyfel in haar hart oor Bennie. So ’n ryk man sal beter as Bennie kan sorg. Jessie se ou studentevriend daag op en Werner se ware motiewe word oopgevlek. Friedrich se dogter, Christine, bied aan om Janine se saak pro bono te doen.

Huweliklokkies lui vir Jessie en Friedrich en Bennie daag onverwags op om Janine weereens van sy liefde en trou te verseker.

Nine Hours (Paperback): Lukhanyo Sikwebu Nine Hours (Paperback)
Lukhanyo Sikwebu
R295 R254 Discovery Miles 2 540 Save R41 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Naomi Mandisa Nel leads a secret life as a vigilante assassin, making sure justice is served where the system has failed to bring criminals to book. It is a life her policeman fiancé knows nothing about.

Now she has been recruited to join a team of operatives on a risky mission to save schoolgirls who have been kidnapped by terrorists in Northern Mozambique. They have a window period of only nine hours to infiltrate the enemy camp deep in the Doente Forest and extract the girls before they are moved and might disappear forever. Before the terrorists grow stronger and succeed in their plan of toppling the government. Meanwhile, Aisha Ezekwesili, one of the abductees, has a daring escape plan. But if she fails and is recaptured, she will surely be killed...

Filled with adventure and suspense, Nine Hours is a novel about courage and justice that will keep you reading with bated breath until the very end.

Om Alleen Te Gaan (Afrikaans, Paperback): Nicole Jaekel Strauss Om Alleen Te Gaan (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Nicole Jaekel Strauss
R300 R258 Discovery Miles 2 580 Save R42 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Die verhaal van Cato van Johannesburg, wat in haar middeljare op ’n hartsreis na die Nyl gaan ná ’n ernstige verlies. Op haar tog word sy vergesel van ’n Egiptiese artefak, wat trouens een rede vir die reis is – dié antieke klein klipskilpadjie moet huis kry.

Vroeg in haar Nylbesoek ontmoet sy vir Da’oud, ’n jong Koptiese Egiptenaar op ’n eie lewensveranderende sending. Sy familie is intens geraak, oor etlike generasies, deur sosiopolitieke onrus en ongeregtigheid, met 2011 se onlus op die Tahrirplein as onlangse laagtepunt.

Op hul bootvaart op die Nyl ontmoet dié twee ietwat ongemaklike vriende ’n bonte verskeidenheid soekers en swerwers, en die terugkeer van die skilpadartefak na sy plek van heenkome word ’n simbool vir die afleggings en totruskom wat Cato en jong Da’oud, op sy eie, verskriklike manier, moet deurmaak – elkeen alleen.

’n Roman vir die fiksiefynproewer.

Swimming With Salamanders (Paperback): Shiloh Noone Swimming With Salamanders (Paperback)
Shiloh Noone
R395 R309 Discovery Miles 3 090 Save R86 (22%) In Stock

As much as this compendium of short stories is fantasia, the title came from a hallucinogenic experience where the author swam in a drinking well with hundreds of Salamanders, and the strange events that followed. The book is enriched with fifty tales from the in between, which range from stories of the Great War to Tiger hunting in India; from adventures in the Kalahari with The San to the Anglo Zulu War. They all have a strange hook in the swell of Roald Dahl.

It’s rare to find a compendium of short stories these days that captivate the mind with intrigue, as you go back for more and more. The stories leading up to the epitaph hook are truly creative and within the pages are clues to life and secrets revealed, the ultimate book to be beside your bed, as a story a night will hook like ‘Scheherazade and 1001 nights’

Die Getuienis (Afrikaans, Paperback): Francois Smith Die Getuienis (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Francois Smith
R280 R241 Discovery Miles 2 410 Save R39 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Hulle albei het dit tog vertel. Dit is wat sy onthou toe sy tussen ’n klomp papiere die uitdruk van ’n ou e-pos van haar kry. Hoe Vader hulle Ventershoop toe gestuur het en toe alles voorsien het, selfs die kar, die petrol. Maar hulle het ooreengekom dat hy ook – in sy woorde – van die wonder sou getuig het. Wat het daarvan geword?

Die getuienis is ’n egpaar se verslag van ’n reis. Dit is die verslag van drome en visioene, van wonderwerke en vloeke, van bloedverwantskappe en sluimerende woede.

Die Waarde Van Stil Bure (Afrikaans, Paperback): Zelda Bezuidenhout Die Waarde Van Stil Bure (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Zelda Bezuidenhout
R315 R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Save R44 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Magdaleen Verster probeer die stukke van haar lewe optel na die dood van haar tweelingsuster, Misha. Wanneer sy ’n onwaarskynlike vriendskap smee met haar eksentrieke buurman, die wetenskaplike Darius Achenbach, bevind sy haar in die opwindende maar omstrede wêreld van stamselnavorsing.

Asof Misha haar aksies vanuit die dood rig, vind gematigde Magdaleen dat sy skielik bereid is om groot risiko’s te neem. Sy kan haar suster nie terugbring nie, tog kan sy moontlik ’n verskil aan ander se lewens maak. Wat begin as ’n onbaatsugtige projek, vang haar gou vas in geheime bedrywighede waarvan sy min verstaan. Wie is so angstig om Darius se navorsing te ontspoor? Of wil hulle dit dalk vir hulself toeëien?

Alles kom teen ’n prys. En soms is die prys van een mens se lewe ’n ander mens se dood.

The Second Verse (Paperback): Onke Mazibuko The Second Verse (Paperback)
Onke Mazibuko
R320 R253 Discovery Miles 2 530 Save R67 (21%) In Stock

The second verse of any song has to be more killer than the first. Always. The rhythm has to slap. The lyrics must be on point. The feeling intense. And the impact mad-definitive. It’s just the way it is. In the same way, if you do well once in life, then you always have to be better from that point onwards. No doubt.

East London, aka Slummies, circa 1998. Bokang Damane is a dreamer and an outsider with mad problems. Things only get worse when everyone thinks he wants to off himself just because he wrote an essay on suicide. Really? Talk about d.r.a.m.a.

Life at the moment is just a sorry son-of-a-checklist of insolvable problems. Problem #1: Not black enough for the black kids and too black for the white kids. Yep, that’s what happens when you attend a mad-pompous all boys’ college and live in the burbs. Problem #2: Family finances are a joke – they can’t even afford Bokang’s initiation. Now he can’t get props like any decent Xhosa man. Problem #3: An alcoholic, gambling attorney for a father who expects the world to bend to his will.

What’s a man gotta do? Apart from freaking the hell out?

Bokang just wants to rap, sketch and be left alone. Everyone keeps yacking on about Bokang reaching his true potential but everyone keeps getting in the way.

So what happens?

Boy meets girl. It wouldn’t be much of a story otherwise.

Man Down (Paperback): Irma Venter Man Down (Paperback)
Irma Venter
R350 R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Save R49 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Ranna Abramson wants to disappear. But she knows she can’t keep running when a former enemy tracks her down in Mumbai with dire news: her onetime lover, journalist Alex Derksen, has disappeared back home in South Africa.

Torn between her desire for him and fear of a homecoming, Ranna knows she’s the only one who can find him. But only two things in South Africa would welcome her—the inside of a cell or the bottom of a grave. There, to the police she’s the prime suspect in three murders. To the press, she’s the Black Widow serial killer.

Despite her instinct to stay away, Ranna makes the journey. But the key to finding Alex lies in her painful past. And to uncover it, she’ll need to unravel a web of secrets tied to a long-forgotten crime.

Even if she finds Alex before it’s too late, Ranna must answer for past sins…or risk losing him forever.

Vin (Afrikaans, Paperback): Lien Botha Vin (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Lien Botha
R315 R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Save R44 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Vin is die verhaal van kunstenaar-kurator Vin Verster se geleidelike greepverloor op haar skeppende en skikkende omgaan met kuns, haar verhouding met haar argeoloog-man, en haar vermoë om in SA sielerus te voel. Deur twee dekades van oorsese kunsresidensies, voortslepende familiedrama en die benouende obsessie van ’n vyandiggesinde in die kunswêreld sien die leser met die oë van dié vindingryke kuns-vlugteling. 

The Wanderers (Paperback): Mphuthumi Ntabeni The Wanderers (Paperback)
Mphuthumi Ntabeni
R335 R288 Discovery Miles 2 880 Save R47 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Ruru’s father, Phaks, joined the anti-apartheid struggle in exile before she was born but never returned, preferring to stay in Tanzania. Years later, though he has passed away, Ruru goes in search of signs of his life in his adopted country.

She finds it in his widow and his ‘pillow books’ – journals he kept, coming to terms with his mortality.

Struck by the parallels with her teenage letters to her late mother, she reads to find answers to her questions: Who was he? Why did he not return?

Die Uil In Die Ysbos (Afrikaans, Paperback): Susan Coetzer Die Uil In Die Ysbos (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Susan Coetzer
R350 R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Save R49 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

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 . . . 

Suitcase Of Memory (Paperback): A'Eysha Kassiem Suitcase Of Memory (Paperback)
A'Eysha Kassiem 1
R305 R262 Discovery Miles 2 620 Save R43 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Bastian Bredenkamp is dead. But even the dead have secrets. From the grave, Bastian weaves together the extraordinary tale of his life. 

Bastian, the only heir to the Goedleven farm, suffers from a rare condition that allows him to remember everything that has ever happened to him.

When Khadeejathree comes to work for the family, Bastian is introduced to her daughter Rashieda, and a world he’d been sheltered from. But to love Rashieda means telling his secret: he is not who he appears to be. 

Voorouer. Pelgrim. Berg. (Afrikaans, Paperback): Ingrid Winterbach Voorouer. Pelgrim. Berg. (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Ingrid Winterbach
R385 R331 Discovery Miles 3 310 Save R54 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

’n Vrou, Katerina Steenkamp, haar oog ferm op die berg, gaan op ’n aanlyn dating site en ontmoet mense met onverwagse gevolge. ’n Man, sy kop vol apokaliptiese frases, patrolleer die strate sonder enige sigbare voorneme of doel. ’n Ander man hou die naghemel dop en wag op die koms van ’n elliptiese tuig. Nog ’n vrou, aan die einde van haar lewe, besin oor haar huwelik, en die lewens van haar drie susters. ’n Uitdagende roman, wat bowenal dui op vernuwing in Winterbach se werk. 

Moxyland (Paperback, Bonsella ed): Lauren Beukes Moxyland (Paperback, Bonsella ed)
Lauren Beukes
R240 R181 Discovery Miles 1 810 Save R59 (25%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Art-school dropout Kendra brands herself for a nanotech marketing program; Lerato, an ambitious Aids baby, plots to defect from her corporate employers; Tendeka, a hot-headed activist, is becoming increasingly rabid; and rogueish blogger, Toby, discovers that the video games he plays for cash are much more - the narrators of Moxyland are on a collision course that will rewire their lives and the future of Cape Town. Moxyland crackles with bold and infectious ideas, connecting a ruthless corporate-apartheid government with video games, biotech attack dogs, slippery online identities, a township soccer school, shocking cellphones, addictive branding, and genetically modified art.

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