A week before her wedding Janien Steyn is found dead, grotesquely arranged on a bike in her wedding dress, with a long red bridal train in her wake, as if in mid flight. Retired policeman Jaap Reyneke asks Sarah Fourie, a hacker with a criminal record and zero social skills, to help solve the case.

Janien was a successful artist and business woman, and on the point of marrying her university sweetheart.

Was it suicide or murder? Why was her body arranged so carefully, almost artfully? And why did she wipe her computer’s memory so thoroughly before her death?

Die Kapenaars Hester Human en haar argitekman, André, het besluit om ’n verwaarloosde huis op ’n plattelandse dorp in Frankryk te koop en te restoureer as ’n vakansiehuis. ’n Jaar in Provence sal hulle en hul twee kinders, Manon en Emile, net goed doen.

Maar net voordat hul jaar in Provence aanbreek, gebeur daar iets tragies wat die Humans se lewe vir altyd verander.

Die huisrestourasie gaan voort, maar die gesin spartel om te verwerk wat gebeur het.

In this haunting tale of love and learning, the existential chaos of a life ravaged by circumstance takes on a rhythm of its own, one bound by loss and loneliness, but also an intelligent awareness of self. Sometimes melancholy, sometimes brutal, occasionally funny and infuriating, a journalist-comrade-lover caught up in the shade and shadow of politics and social injustice faces treachery and betrayal on every level.

Set against the backdrop of a cityscape that taunts and tantalises, this is where love fails and passion wanes, “where suffering has no meaning”, where an individual escapes death only to find himself confronted with choices wrought by remorse and retribution, by conscience and character. And yet, with all trauma, there is a distinct musicality to the lyrical unpacking that follows a string of small things …

Wanneer spraakstramme skaapboer Jada Olivier op sy Karooplaas Erfdeel met die bewustelose, gebroke liggaam van ’n vreemdeling aankom, sluit hy die ketting van die plaashek en raak ’n gevangene van sy besluit.

“Die Onsigbare is ’n rare spin van die tradisionele plaasroman . . . bevestigend, andersmakend en uiteindelik vierend.” – Frederik de Jager

“’n Mens moet dit verwelkom as ’n profetiese roman van ons tyd.” – Kerneels Breytenbach

One morning Laine wakes up to discover that the man she's been married to for 15 years has been secretively living out a monstrous lie. Her world is tilted on its axis. Now she must unstitch her existence, and peck through the pieces of her past...

Just as Laine thinks she's reached the end of uncovering all the bitter truths, a child appears who demands her attention. This small, fierce person forces her to see the horror and ignites the tiniest flame of hope within.

A brilliant debut novel.

The enemy is in our waters . . .

July 1941

Having left England to join his father in the South Africa, Lieutenant Jack Pembroke has found a new home – and a new love – in Cape Town and is put in command of a small, anti-submarine flotilla at the Royal Navy base in Simonstown. He has precious little time to train his men, and prepare his ships, for the arrival of deadly Nazi wolf packs – U-boats sent by Admiral Dönitz from bases in France to cripple the Cape convoy route. With the Mediterranean all-but closed to maritime traffic, and Rommel’s forces rampaging through North Africa, this sea route is vital to supplying Allied forces in Egypt at a critical point in World War II.

Everything will hang in the balance with the arrival of the enemy in South African waters. Gruppe Savanne comprises five long-range Uboats under the command of Fregattenkapitän Wolfgang Brand, a hardened veteran, who will stretch the Cape’s defences to the limit. On board he carries a South African spy and ardent Nazi, who is to be landed on the West Coast to start a campaign of sabotage, assassination and rebellion bent on toppling the pro-British government of Prime Minister Jan Smuts.

With the spy safely ashore, and the Cape Peninsula under attack, Jack must now escort a convoy to Durban with the U-boat pack lying in wait. So begins a cat-and-mouse game that will push Jack and his men to breaking point. The Wolf Hunt is the second book in the thrilling Jack Pembroke series, each of which is a stand-alone story.

This is indeed a story of mercy - and the redemption it offers.

On the eve of his retirement, Spokes Moloi, a police officer of spotless integrity, investigates one final crime: the possible murder of Emil Coetzee, head of the sinister Organisation of Domestic Affairs, who disappears on the same day a ceasefire is declared and the country's independence beckons. In following the tangled threads of Coetzee's life, Spokes raises and resolves conundrums that have haunted him, and his country, for decades under colonial rule. In all this, he is staunchly supported by his paragon spouse, Loveness, and his unofficially adopted daughter, the unorthodox postman Dikiledi.

In her most magnificent novel yet, award-winning author Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu showcases the history of a country transitioning from a colonial to a postcolonial state with a deft touch and a compassionate eye for poignant detail. Linked to The Theory of Flight and The History of Man, Ndlovu's novel nevertheless stands alone in its evocation of life in the City of Kings and surrounding villages. Dickensian in its scope, with the proverbial bustling cast of colleagues both good and bad, villagers, guerrillas, neighbours, ex-soldiers, suburban madams, shopkeepers, would-be politicians and more, The Quality of Mercy proposes that ties of kinship and affiliation can never be completely broken - and that love can heal even the most grievous of wounds.

From bestselling South African author Penny Haw comes a new historical fiction tale inspired by the story of groundbreaking paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, in a sweeping, dual-timeline story of intergenerational friendship, a meditation on the beauty of the natural world, and a celebration of the women who pave the way for those to come.

It's 1983 and seventeen-year-old Grace Clark has just lost her mother when she begrudgingly accompanies her estranged father to an archeological dig at Olduvai Gorge on the Serengeti plains of Tanzania. Here, seventy-year-old Mary Leakey enlists Grace to sort and pack her fifty years of work and memories.

Their interaction reminds Mary how she pursued her ambitions of becoming an archeologist in the 1930s by sneaking into lectures and working on excavations. When well-known paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey commissions her to illustrate a book, she's not at all expecting to fall in love with the older married man. Mary then follows Louis to East Africa, where she falls in love for a second time, this time with the Olduvai Gorge, where her work defines her as a great scientist and allows her to step out of Louis's shadow.

In time, Mary and Grace learn they are more alike than they thought, which eventually leads them to the secret that connects them. They also discover a mutual deep love for animals, and when Lisa, an injured cheetah, appears at camp, Mary and Grace work together to save her. On the morning Grace is due to leave, the girl―and the cheetah―are nowhere to be found, and it becomes a race against time to rescue Grace before the African bush claims her.

From the acclaimed author of The Invincible Miss Cust and The Woman at Wheel comes an adventurous, dual timeline tale that explores the consequences of our choices, wisdom that comes with retrospection, and relationships that make us who we are, based on the extraordinary real life of Mary Leakey.

Captain Albertus Beeslaarhas had enough of the Kalahari. He is about to hand in his resignation, but before doing so he is sent into the heart of an ancient San community: an elder has died after being released from police custody and the San blame the police.

The small town of Witdraaiborders on the world-famous KgalagadiTransfrontierPark, where the last of the Kalahari San eke out a living. A violent attack on a German tourist has unsettled the whole town –a case that is rubbing up Beeslaar’snew colleague, Colonel KoekoesMentoor, the wrong way. She wants to turn her back on Witdraaiand the bad memories the place holds for her.

As the heat rises, all hell breaks loose: a policeman is murdered; deep-seated corruption is threatening a major land-restitution plan for the San; and a mysterious killer is prowling the red dunes. Amid all the controversy, KytieRooi, a cleaner at a luxury guesthouse in Upingtonand self-appointed protector of a strange street child, is fleeing into the deadly heat of the desert with her charge. In this world, places of safety are dangerously elusive.

Homeland is the translation of the Number One Bestseller Tuisland, Karin Brynard’s critically acclaimed and most ambitious novel to date.

Gaan hulle mekaar vind of vernietig?

Lucas Jordaan sluit sy bosveldlodge naby Hoedspruit nadat sy meisie onder raaiselagtige omstandighede verdwyn. Dan stop joernalis Renske du Toit voor Jagtersrus se hekke, gestuur deur ’n reistydskrif om oor die lodge te skryf.

Die aantrekking tussen hulle is dadelik tasbaar, al probeer albei dit ontken. Maar wanneer Renske begin stories hoor van die duiwel-in-die-bos wat glo sy eks uit die weg geruim het, ontdek sy ’n donker kant aan Lucas wat haar bang maak, maar ook bedwelm.

Intussen duik nog onheilspellende raaisels op. Wat steek hy vir haar weg? Hoekom waarsku almal haar oor hom? Wat beteken die hangertjie om sy nek? En wie stuur vir hom gedurig kriptiese, dreigende boodskappe?

Hoe meer Renske hom leer ken, hoe sterker haar aangetrokkenheid, maar ook hoe groter die gevaar. Gaan hulle mekaar in hierdie waaghalsige stryd vol begeerte vind of vernietig?

Droomjagter is ’n erotiese spanningsverhaal vol kinkels wat jou om meer as een rede uitasem sal laat.

Vividly set against the backdrop of 19th century India and the British-owned sugarcane plantations of Natal, written with great tenderness and lyricism, Children of Sugarcane paints an intimate and wrenching picture of indenture told from a woman’s perspective.

Shanti, a bright teenager stifled by life in rural India and facing an arranged marriage, dreams that South Africa is an opportunity to start afresh. The Colony of Natal is where Shanti believes she can escape the poverty, caste, and troubling fate of young girls in her village. Months later, after a harrowing sea voyage, she arrives in Natal only to discover the profound hardship and slave labour that await her.

Spanning four decades and two continents, Children of Sugarcane demonstrates the lifegiving power of love, heartache, and the indestructible bonds between family and friends. These bonds prompt heroism and sacrifice, the final act of which leads to Shanti's redemption.

Journalist Alex Derksen’s new assignment in Tanzania should be easy, but he soon finds himself on the wrong side of the news.

It starts when he meets Ranna, a beautiful photographer with something to hide. When an IT billionaire washes up onshore after seasonal flooding, he finds himself at the center of an investigation.

Should he listen to his heart and help Ranna hide the bloody trail leading to her?

"Claire is less cynical. ‘Fall in love, if you must. But do your research. And meet his people early on. They’ll give you a sense of who he is.’ Solid advice. And ultimately, this is how I found myself on a flight to Bloemfontein one Friday afternoon."

An instant classic, the lies and betrayals of love and party politics are told in gorgeous prose with an ear for our time’s intimate and public language.

The Comrade’s Wife follows a turbulent marriage between a rising politician and an academic, told through her life and lens.

Dit is die tweede boek in die Zeus van Wyngaardt-reeks.

Hierdie keer word Zeus se buurman, Atif Dinali, se tienerdogter Tahina vermis. Zeus vermoed dat mensehandel en prostitusieringe iets met haar verdwyning te doen het. Sy ondersoek lei hom na die verleidelike Wildene du Bois, ’n courtisane wat eens op ’n tyd betrokke was by ’n mensehandelsindikaat.

Zeus besef egter gou dat hierdie saak maar net een tentakel van ’n groter monster is.

Following on from the critical acclaim of Those Who Live in Cages, Terry-Ann Adam’s latest book is a collection of short stories set in Eldorado Park, the site of Terry-Ann’s inspiration. Her sentences positively glow as she documents the wonders and sadnesses of everyday life. These rich and powerful stories confirm Terry-Ann Adams’ place as one of the brightest stars of new South African writing.

Everyday life in these stories centres can be pregnancy, death, getting the fahfee numbers from gran, what to wear to a matric ball if you are from Eldos and you want to look like Princess Diana. These stories are nothing short of miraculous and this fearless collection of stories takes the reader on an odyssey of love and grief.

Terry-Ann Adam’s peerless writing brims with fire and wonder. You will be provoked and you will exult. Above all, you’ll remember where you were when you read White Chalk.

Two problems. One fake dating solution. And a crash landing into love...

Things Pippa enjoys: her job, airplanes, synonyms and tropical fish.
Things Pippa does not enjoy: repeating patterns, tight clothes, people asking why she's single and school reunions.

After four months of only speaking over intercom, when air-traffic controller Pippa Edwards finally meets pilot Andrew Boyce-Jones face-to-face, they discover they've got much more in common than simply working at the same airport. In fact . . . they both need a date. Tired of every relationship ending before it's even begun, Pippa wants to evade the inevitable questions at her dreaded ten-year school reunion in Cape Town. And Andrew needs to get his well-meaning family off his back about settling down.

The solution seems simple. A pact - a fake dating pact - for as long as it's mutually beneficial. It's perfect.

Or at least it would be if their very real attraction wasn't about to make Pippa question everything she thought she wanted. . .

Wat doen ’n meisie wanneer sy haar verlowing verbreek en op dieselfde dag haar in ’n uiters aantreklike skrywer vasloop? Een wat haar uit die staanspoor van haar eks verloofde laat vergeet. Dis die dilemma waarin Miaan Swiegers haar bevind.

Alex Combrinck is boonop die ridderlike tipe en red haar uit ’n ongemaklike situasie. Eintlik meer as een keer. Hy nooi haar na sy ouers se hotel vir die kerstyd en teen haar beterwete stem sy in. Miaan durf egter nie vir die aantreklike Alex val nie, want sy het ’n verlede. Met drie verbreekte verlowings op haar kerfstok kan sy onmoontlik nie goeie trou materiaal wees nie. Sy erken dit ook prontuit. Wat haar betref hou die liefde nie vir altyd nie.

Sy waarsku Alex om nié op haar verlief te raak nie. Sy gaan dalk net sy hart breek. Of hy gaan luister is egter ’n ander saak.

Owami has been happily married for years, until she gets blindsided by her husband’s infidelity. She is pressured into staying in the marriage even though their relationship never fully recovers.

On the other side of Johannesburg, Akani is experiencing marital problems of his own. Having left his job to start his own company, his usually supportive wife becomes less so the moment she becomes the breadwinner.

And then, fortuitously, Owami and Akani’s paths cross. They begin a passionate relationship, one that their respective marriages can’t put asunder. Meanwhile, in a restaurant, a man and woman are flipping a coin to determine who should be killed first by the hitman they’ve hired . . .

All relationships are complicated. But if you had to make a choice, what would you decide: love, marry or kill?

’n Ligte spanningsverhaal met ’n tikkie liefde.

Nerien-hulle se huishulp vertel haar van kinderdae af van die nagreisiger. Sy kry dikwels nagmerries oor hom – ’n man wat haar in die donker agtervolg of langs die pad staan en duimgooi. Sy kan nooit sy gesig uitmaak nie. Op ’n dag besef Nerien dat die nagreisiger mens se gewete is – en dis onmoontlik om dit te ontvlug. Waarheen ook al jy gaan – jou gewete reis saam …

Die Nagreisiger het oorspronklik in 1995 as ’n tydskrifverhaal in Huisgenoot verskyn, en is in 2004 as roman gepubliseer. Hierdie boek is ’n verwerkte weergawe van die 2004-publikasie.

Hans het geen begeerte om ná soveel jare sonder sy geliefde Saartjie weer vrou te vat nie. Hy leef heel gemaklik alleen in Huis Madeliefie.

Maar alles verander wanneer ’n nuwe inwoner, Liefiediefie, in die ouetehuis land. Met haar Marilyn Monroe-gesiggie en Jane Fonda-lyfie veroorsaak sy ’n heidense herrie onder die mans en roer sy iets in Hans se gemoed los.

Nog ’n aantreklike nuwe inkommer, Janneman Vermaak, en Hans se nuwe buurman, kry egter al Liefiediefie se aandag. Hy het die ander inwoners ook gou onder sy duim met die opwindende talentkompetisies wat hy reël, waar groot prysgeld elke keer gewen kan word.

’n Verdere pen word in Hans se hart gedryf toe hy besef hierdie opperse snoeshaan het sy posisie as leidsman in die tehuis oorgeneem. Hy begin aanvaar dat ’n ou viool nie meer nuwe liedjies kan speel nie.

Maar die ou Hans van Kraaienburg ontwaak gou wanneer hy aan sy broek se naat voel daar vind ’n gekonkel by die talentkompetisies plaas . . .

Those who live on the surface desire what the darkness offers. In tough times, crime is the only thing that soothes their souls. It is the South Africa you choose not to see.

The constitution forms the backbone of the South African democracy, yet the youth bleed for it. What does South Africa truly have when its children are traded for a good time and tenders? It is an accurate reflection of the social decay under the leadership of President Cyril Ramaphosa. Are your children safe in this trauma-infested country?

Daphne Morgan's death results in two worlds colliding: Gibson Kente demands nothing more than respect for the bloodshed, while Tim Morgan seeks his mother. Treasure is caught in the crossfir eof hell and fury. She desires freedom, but Tim Morgan's business is blissful pleasure, camouflaged by revenge. Will Rita Thomas provide the answers to Treasure's prayers?

If you had a choice to worship two gods, would you sell your soul for money or freedom?

Will this curtain call be Treasure's last?

Die “roman” in die titel verwys na ’n spinnekop of baardskeerder, wat die teenwoordigheid van onheil, boosheid en gevaar verteenwoordig.

Die Klein Karoo se berugte reeksmoordenaar, Gert Bloubaard Swanepoel het in die 1800’s op die spogplaas Rietfontein in die Attaquas tussen Oudtshoorn en Calitzdorp geboer. Swanepoel se pa was ’n siener wat glo met ’n halwe helm gebore is. Hy het groot onheil gesien voor Gert se geboorte. Sy ma was ’n wrede, ongenaakbare en sadistiese mens wat plaaswerkers se kinders se mangels uitgeskep het met ’n rooiwarm teelepel, sonder enige verdowing.

Danie Gouws, akademikus van Stellenbosch, vertoef in die Klein Karoo om navorsing te doen oor kulturele gebruike en erfgoed. Waarin hy hom egter vasloop, is die spook van Gert Swanepoel: “Wat Danie Gouws nog nie weet nie, is dat Gert hom gister al sien aankom het toe hy in die pas oor die Gamka gery het.”

Want, in die woorde van die oplettende, diepsinnige petroljoggie Willem Marsman: “As jy klippers in dié deel van die wêreld omrol, dan hardloop daar sommer gou gevaarlike goete soos skerpioene oor die vlaktes of ’n romans wat jou jaag om in jou skaduwee te kom”.

Kan ’n mens oorlewering glo? Wie was Gert – voorslagboer, veedief, geweldenaar, moordenaar, minaar? Dit hang af met wie ’n mens gesels, want stories is plooibaar.

Almost fired for insubordination, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido find themselves demoted, exiled from the elite Hawks unit and dispatched to the leafy streets of Stellenbosch. Working a missing persons report on student Callie de Bruin is not the level of work they are used to, but it's all they get. And soon, it takes a dangerous, deeply disturbing turn.

Stellenbosch is beautiful, but its economy has been ruined by one man. Jasper Boonstra and his gigantic corporate fraud have crashed the local property market, just when estate agent Sandra Steenberg desperately needs a big sale. Bringing up twins and supporting her academic husband, she is facing disaster. Then she gets a call. From Jasper Boonstra, fraudster, sexual predator and owner of a superb property worth millions, even now.

For Sandra, the stakes are high and about to get way higher. For Benny Griessel, clinging to sobriety and the relationship that saved his life, the truth about Callie can only lead to more trouble.

Darlings of Durban follows the stories of four friends and how their lives intersect and influence each other.

Natasha owns a successful beauty company and is in a serious long-term relationship with the charming Sizwe. Natasha worries that his family will never truly accept her because of her mixed heritage. Does she even believe in marriage? Natasha often seeks the advice of her friend Sofia who's happily married with children. Sofia is the glue that holds the darlings together. The cousins, Farhana and Razia, both have their own complicated marriages. Farhana tries her best to support her husband in his harebrained schemes - even when it's to the detriment of her friendships. While Razia, the only darling in Johannesburg, feels stuck in her role as subservient wife to a husband whose attention is elsewhere.

All four women are navigating the complexities of love and life. But whatever life throws their way, the darlings always have each other.

Die Koors het byna almal gevat. Maar nie dertien jaar oue Nico Storm en sy pa, Willem, nie.

Deur ’n Suid-Afrikaanse landskap feitlik sonder mense, met al hoe minder blikkieskos in die verlate winkels, Koeberg-bestraling in die Wes-Kaap en al hoe meer moorddadige hondebendes – én mensebendes – swerf Nico en sy pa, op soek na ’n plek om die samelewing weer te vestig.

Wanneer hulle dit eindelik sover het by die ou Vanderkloof – nou Amanzi – met ’n groepie swerflinge wat saam van voor af wil begin, steek al die ou sondes van die mensdom kop uit. Gou is Amanzi op geloofs- en politieke lyne verdeel, en verdediging teen die swaar gewapende motorfietsbendes wat dwarsoor Suid-Afrika plunder en moor raak al hoe moeiliker. En wat van die geheimsinnige, yskoue Domingo, wat by Amanzi aangery kom op ’n motorfiets van sy eie en spoedig as paramilitêre leier ontpop – kan hý ooit vertrou word?

Dis nie lank nie, of moord kom inderdaad ook na Amanzi …

In Koors vertel die volwasse Nico Storm die verhaal van die moord op sy pa. Dit is ’n aksiebelaaide nuwe rigting vir Deon Meyer, met al die aspekte wat lesers van sy spanningsfiksie verwag en nog vele nuwe lekkertes daarby.