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Books > Local Author Showcase > Fiction - adults
Beeldskone Elzibi Nel, eks eerste prinses in ’n Mejuffrou Suid-Afrika kompetisie, het absoluut geen gemis in haar lewe nie. Sy is heeltemal gelukkig met haar vriende en haar gimnasium wat sy van haar huis af bedryf. Tot dokter Luca Cronje en sy twee seuntjies langs haar intrek. Haar hart klop dadelik vinniger, maar dis nie vir die aantreklike en arrogante pa nie, maar vir die twee seuntjies wat sonder ’n ma grootword. Opinies verander. Skielik is daar ’n gemis. ’n Leemte. Sy wens die kinders was hare. Dit raak erger toe Luca haar soen. Dit gaan nie meer oor die hondjie nie, maar oor die halsbandjie. Om Luca te besit is egter ’n onmoontlike droom, want haar beste vriendin het ook gevoelens vir Luca. Kies sy jare lange vriendskap of kies sy liefde?
“Vang jy hom onbehoeds van voor, dan lyk hy soos ‘n man wat nou net met ’n stok geslaan is. Maar hou hom dop uit die hoek van jou oog, dan bespeur jy die glorie van ’n slim man. ’n Mooi man.” George is gebore toe Jan Smuts dood is, word op ’n plaas in die Noord-Kaap groot, dien as aaspeloton in Angola, raak deurmekaar met die Baader-Meinhofbende in Duitsland, werk as joernalis tydens die noodtoestande in Kaapstad, maar op die ou end word hy ’n saboteur, ’n skaapsmokkelaar, ’n mal man, ’n boemelaar. Tussendeur kul en koggel George prokureurs, kopdokters, en vroue. Gedeeltelik bewolk is ’n pittige, aweregse debuutroman wat jou soos ’n vuishou in die maag slaan.
Ellie McKenna likes her new, quiet life in the countryside. She has time to reflect on the death of her dad, that fateful night at the police roadblock, and to recover from her physical and psychological scars - the result of her last mission. Here in her safe haven she even finds time to help out as church organist. But when they finally - inevitably - track her down, she knows that she'll need to find out who is looking for her, and why. The keenly anticipated sequel to Blindside.
As lykbesorger by White Lily Funerals het Seb al talle lyke gebalsem, organe teruggepak in lyfholtes, bene gekonnekteer en wasbleek gesigte gegrimeer vir die laaste besigtiging deur roubeklaers. ’n Mens het jou werk en jy doen dit, dit help nie om vir ander goed te wens nie, of hoe? Nietemin wens Seb wel af en toe vir die een of ander ingryping om hom los te ruk uit sy saai bestaan – nie net by die werk nie, maar ook tuis waar hy, sy vrou en tienerkinders verby mekaar leef. Eendag, toe die sterwende seuntjie Gawie en sy ma by die begrafnisondernemers instap, begin Seb tog in wense glo . . . “’n Fabel vir moderne tye. ’n Heerlike verhaal.” – Kerneels Breytenbach.
Henning van Aswegen skryf volkstories en kinderverhale oor die Vrystaat
se hartlike mense en interessante diertjies wat hy tydens sy ongebonde
grootwordjare langs Virginia se magtige Sandrivier teëgekom het.
In hierdie ambisieuse bundel word die leser op reis geneem. Na wêrelde van verstommende – dog onmiddellik herkenbare – tegnologiese vooruitgang. Waar bespiegeling en die magiese skouers skuur met die “alledaagse”. Waar waarheid en versinsel nie meer onderskeibaar is nie. Waar nuwe, onthutsende eksistensiële vrae opduik, en in gesprek tree met die oerbekende een: waar begin menswees, en waar eindig dit? Bot is ’n verrassende debuut wat ’n eiesoortige staanplek in die Afrikaanse verhalewêreld kry.
Ricardo woon in Kewtown saam sy ma, ouer broer, Anton, en sussie, Tracy, wat deurmekaar is met die gangster van die blokke, Capone. Maar voor Ricardo sy oë uitvee, is beide sy ma en broer oorlede, en eindig hy op in ’n wendyhuis agter op Capone se jaart. Hoe moet hy maak, as hy nie eers vir sy girlfriend, Mentha, ’n bord warm kos kan aanbied of ’n Sealy Posturepedic vir hulle kan koop nie? ’n Meesleurende bildungsroman deur die bekroonde skrywer van As die Cape Flats kon praat.
Op skool was sy dié meisie: mooi en gewild met skatryk ouers.
Die wêreld van die gemarginaliseerde is ’n eensame plek, sou Jakkie Duvenhage spoedig ontdek. Die bewuswording van sy “andersheid” dompel hom in ’n lewe wat wipplank ry van skoonheidstitels en aanvaarding tot skokterapie en huisgeweld. Deurentyd voel hy die druk van staande te probeer bly teen die sosiale diskriminasie wat sy lewenswyse ontlok. En dan word hy by ’n reeks sinistere moorde betrek...
True Love e ratwa kudu! Ziggy D o tumile ka nakwana – go kwagala morethetho fela diyalemoyeng gomme e galagala le diphatlalatšing tša segwera. Efela katlego ye kgolo e tla le sekgopi, kgononelo le lonya. Le ge a lebane le kotsi, Ziggy D o gapeletšega go šireletša bokgabo bja gagwe le seriti sa gagwe le go lemoga gore tshepagalo e a šomelwa.
Jessica Rabbit probeer nie voorgee om iets te wees wat sy nie is nie.
Sy’s ’n uitlokkende vrou en klaar.
Luzuko Goba, a South African studying at Oxford, navigates the worlds of the undocumented, and the people living on the margins of life in Oxford, England. His father, a former political exile, has just died, and Luzuko is weighing up his father’s life of sacrifice and the price they both paid for freedom back home. This is a book about wayfarers, out of time, and on the wrong side of the UK’s department of immigration. They are the paperless. Sweeping and soulful, Buntu Siwisa observes the hidden and exceptional modern lives of migrant Africans in England in this beautiful debut.
Dianne is divorced but for the sake of her two daughters she lives next to her ex-husband, sharing a joint double garden. Good for the girls but what about her? How can she move on if Alan and his new fiancée are always around? Her post-divorce romances have stalled: Andile, her lover turned friend, and Faye, her secret Tinder date turned sometimes lover. Both Andile and Faye want more but Di is not sure what she wants. Her daughters were not thrilled with the idea of her with a boyfriend, will they freak out if their mom has a girlfriend? Is it even worth introducing them if Faye might turn out not to be the one for her? But when Dianne’s eldest daughter deals with homophobia at school, Dianne feels compelled to speak out and be honest about who she is. With the support of her friends Kari, Lily, Shelley and now Shireen, she might just have the courage to do it. But what will the fallout be?
Emile de Jongh, kroonprins van die modelplaas La Rhône, is ’n gesogte vangs onder die vroue in En die klippe sal uitroep. Miempie Rust, die distrik se nuwe verpleegsuster, is egter nie beïndruk met Emile se sjarme nie. Sy verlang eerder na reg en geregtigheid – veral vir die plaaswerkers. Was Louis Mocke se erfporsie die lokaas vir sy blitshuwelik met Santie Marais in Verworpe silwer? Hoekom is sy broer, Darius, so bekommerd oor Santie se toekoms? Boonop daag Louis se vorige liefde op met ’n seuntjie aan die hand. Voor Santie al die legkaartstukkies inmekaar kan skuif, tref ’n ramp die Eloffsdallers. Karien Saayman swig voor die getroude dr. Arnold Lutz se glimlag in Die uurglas loop leeg. ’n Huwelik met Hannes Eksteen word ’n reddingsboei uit die stormwaters van begeerte, tot hy in ’n ongeluk beland. Hannes se dokter, Christian Willems, ontwikkel ook gevoelens vir Karien. Dinge word verder gekompliseer wanneer Arnold ’n wewenaar word.
Na vele mislukte verhoudings, staan privaatspeurder Willem Vasbyt Loriet uiteindelik op trou. Dankbaar dat hy die groot stao kan neem viirdat hy 40 is, pak hy die taak aan om van seker aandenkings ontslae te raak. Dan gebeur daar skielik 'n klompie dinge bykans tegelyk. Hy sien 'n man raak wat hy nie kan plaas nie, maar glo dis ;n skelm wat hy tevore teëgekom het en wil hom graag identifiseer en weer ondersoek.
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.
Much-maligned blogger Jacob Lynch, aka Brodie Lomax, has been called many things: Professional douchebag, The king of fratire, Tabloid Maverick, Mr Misogyny, Revenge porn Romeo, That sex-tape guy and Assholepreneur. And now he can add 'Multi-millionaire' to that list. With the renewal of his reality TV show as well as his eight-figure book deal, life is good for New York's most notorious blogger. But he's suffering from a serious bout of writer's block, and the distractions of endless parties, drugs and meaningless sex are not helping. Trapped within his life of excess, he is teetering on the edge, the next stop: rehab. So Jacob flees the city for an isolated hunting lodge in Alaska where he can focus on getting his manuscript done, once and for all. When the mysterious beautiful Alicia unexpectedly emerges from the icy landscape, he knows he shouldn't invite her in, but pretty young things have always been his greatest weakness. The next day Jacob wakes up chained to a bed, and that's when things take a turn for the terrifying.
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?
When the former assassin, Zikhona, wakes up next to a dead body in an affluent Johannesburg suburb, she knows of only one person who can clean up her mess, uncle Zenzele. The incident unravels ghosts of the past, forcing the Z Gang to crawl out of their Mozambican hideout. It is not only Zikhona’s situation that is intricate but the gang’s wealth back home is threatened by the torching of their taxis. They are also about to lose their millions through the elaborate laundering syndicate of a murderous underworld mobster while also nursing a terminally-ill member. Zenzele resorts to the only thing he knows best – guns, treachery and dark powers – while unleashing his battle-hardened gang to fend off the police and the underworld mobsters chasing Zikhona hell-bent on forcing her back into her contract-killing past. Her marriage to a flamboyant Nigerian pastor hits the skids. With fewer friends and desperate to save their millions, Zenzele is forced to tap deep into the reserves of old connections, where loyalties still hold. His knack to keep everyone in his debt reaches its pinnacle. Staying alive would take ingenuity, conniving, outsmarting the SAPS crime intelligence and a Police Minister, desperate to save his political career. However, discovering that their enemies are closer to home than they had thought is the ultimate betrayal.
Sopwith Jones abandons his solar-powered aircraft after an accident that kills his wife Ali, for a new life as a private investigator in partnership with the beautiful lawyer Zelda Maartens. Together they undertake — with some help from Sopwith’s old friend Withers and his daughter Kelly — a stalled investigation into the murder of a Cape Town husband and wife. Their enquiries soon land them in the middle of the illegal cigarette and money laundering trade as they earn the ire of Moosa Davids. Davids is the leader of the criminal syndicate, who, with the help of the violent Cobra gang, corrupt government officials, police officers, and business people to do their bidding. Will Sopwith find love in the aftermath of his beloved Ali’s demise, will he and Zelda survive the attention of the ruthless Davids and the Cobra gang, and will they solve the mystery of the murder of the Constantia couple?
’n Reeksmoordenaar jag by stormweer, en Rooi en Kassie moet hom vastrek. Die Hartedief kom met moord weg, en dan is Kassie se volle aandag ook nie eintlik by die saak nie, want hy is smoorverlief op ’n aanvallige mede-seëlversamelaar. Vlerksleep is nie vir sissies nie. Om sake vir hom en Rooi te vererger word hul baas daarvan verdink dat sy hul ondersoek in die wiele ry, en Kassie moet haar onskuld bewys. Intussen word Kaapse vroue vermoor wanneer daar onweer broei.
Bloemfonteinse speurder Sollie Mthembu en sy vrou, Nyandi, verwag hul tweede baba. Nes baba Naledi in haar buik, groei Nyandi se inkopielys van dag tot dag. Terwyl dié sersant planne beraam om naweekuitstappies na Mimosa Mall met sy kredietkaart te ontduik, sluip daar snags ’n psigopaat deur die strate van Harrismith wat kleuters met roomyse uit hul ouerhuise weglok en ontvoer. Wanneer die oorskot van ’n verminkte vierjarige in ’n Fruitti Tutti-roomyskarretjie in die vroeë oggendure aan die voet van Platberg ontdek word, besluit kaptein Maartin Brummels om Parkweg se bulhond saam te sleep vir die ondersoek. Sollie lyk dalk na ’n bedeesde ou wat op die vreemdste tye oor sy eie woorde struikel, maar as hy iets beetkry, laat los hy nie. Sidney Gilroy se debuutroman, Klikbek, is 2019 met groot lof deur resensente en krimi-lesers ontvang. Almal stem saam dat beide skrywer en speurder Sollie ’n groot aanwins tot die Afrikaanse krimikorpus is.
When Thuli reveals her secret - that she can see up to seven days into the future - to seasoned local journalist Helen, the latter is highly sceptical of the student's claims. But as Thuli truly believes that #FeesMustFall protest leader, Hector, will be assassinated by a sinister force, Helen starts to look into the matter. And what she finds is some very odd behaviour by the police sent to “keep the peace” on campus. Police sent by Noné, South Africa's President and Most Impressive Leader, who wants no trouble from pesky students while she plans the launch of her zoo of creatures with extraordinary abilities. One thing is certain: If what Thuli has seen is true, they have only seven days to change the future …
Koos se nuutste roman soos net hy dit kan skryf, maar ook meer. Dit is ‘n donker komedie gebore uit die wanhoop en isolasie van die afgelope twee jaar se grendeltyd. |
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