Tjieng Tjang Tjerries and Other Stories received the HSS Award for Best Fiction Single Authored 2018 and was short-listed for the UJ Debut Prize in 2017.

Tjieng Tjang Tjerries and Other Stories documents the unique dialect and lives of the Gansbaai fishing community. Phillips’ stories reflect the natural disorder of daily life and explores how the impact of love and loss defines – and divides – families and communities. An award-winning collection of short stories and sketches set in the Overberg district.

In the author’s own words: “This book is a collection of my soul, who I am as a human being, and how I connect to the people I come from.”

“An impressive debut that brings across voices never heard before in South African English - not only in rhythm and timbre, but plumbing the unspoken. With such a remarkable ear, Jolyn Phillips is a young writer to watch.” – Antjie Krog

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.

“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.

“Pappa, die sterre is dieselfde hier.”

Milano Kaliempie is Mieta en Hennerik se enigste vlaktekuiken op die plaas Spookwerwe in die dorre Bo-Karoo. Hul buurman, Geelsuiker, leer Milano die geheime van die veld, ook jakkalsjag, en op die werf is dit Mieta wat soggens douvoordag brood inknie en die hartklop van hul bestaan is.

Dis wanneer juffrou Meintjies die dag met haar wit karretjie by die huis aankom, dat die hol kol op Mieta se maag kom sit. Want Milano was dan net die een dag laat vir skool. Maar juffrou Meintjies het ander nuus. Dis Geelsuiker wat raad gee:

“Jy moet nou gaan doen wat die regte ding is, Mieta. Daardie klong,” en hy wys na waar Milano die perd inspan, “vat nou die grootpad. Moenie hom in ’n klein kampie ingekeer hou nie.”

Die kinders van Spookwerwe is ’n roman wat soos die vaal stof van die Bo-Karoo oral inkruipplek kry en diep in jou hart kom lê. Dis ’n roman oor ma-wees, oor grootword, en oor verliese. Maar ook van weer vol word.

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?

Life wasn't always this hard for fourteen-year-old Mvelo, who lives with her mother, Zola in the shacks on the margins of Mkhumbane township.

There were good times when they lived with Sipho, Zola's lawyer boyfriend. But when the beautiful and mysterious Nonceba Hlathi arrives, Zola has to make a choice. She also has her pride. Now their social grants have been discontinued: the one for Mvelo being underage reared by a 31-year-old single mother, and the other for Zola because of her status. And there is also an elephant growing in their shack as the terrible thing that happened that night in the revival tent remains unspoken.

In her second novel, Futhi Ntshingila once again introduces us to a cast of strong women who have little, but are determined to shape their own destinies.

A new collection of short stories by one of South Africa’s most original writers, A Little Light is a timely and sensitive evocation of places, bodies, politics, regrets and hope, all revealed in tightly controlled and beautifully lit stories.

Mohlele’s daring writing is on full display with the publication of this volume.

Polisievrou Erica van der Linde het die perfekte manier om te sorg dat mense in die getuiebeskermingsprogram in Kaapstad versteek bly. Sy vermoor hulle. En wanneer die gewese kriminele oorgaan van ’n lewe van misdaad na dié van versteekte staatsgetuies, is daar niemand wat na hulle soek nie. Maar dan kry sy opdrag om Daniël Enslin te versteek, en so ’n getuie het sy nog nooit teëgekom nie.

En skielik is dit vir Erica ook ’n taak van lewe en dood, want nou ken Daniël haar geheim.

Wenner van die eerste KykNET-Rapport Boekprys in die Film-kategorie, nou tot rolprent verwerk.

Die verhaal van 'n slavin wat as die enigste oorlewende van 'n mislukte ekspedisie in die hart van Afrika haar terugtrek in die hol stam van 'n kremetartboom. In toenemende verlatenheid herleef sy haar vroeëre bestaan: hoe sy as kind in haar tuisdorp gevange geneem en weggevoer is, haar lewe in 'n hawestad aan die ooskus as dienares van verskillende meesters, haar reis saam met haar laaste eienaar en beskermheer, haar lewe in die kremetartboom.

Hierdie belangrike Afrikaanse roman is reeds in verskeie ander tale gepubliseer, o.m. in Engels deur J.M. Coetzee. Die Italiaanse vertaling word bekroon met die Grinzane Cavour-prys in 1988 en in 1995 word die Franse vertaling verwerk vir die verhoog en opgevoer in die Thèâtre de l'Ante in Parys.

"Solank Afrikaans bestaan, sal dié boek waarskynlik die essensie daarvan bly verwarm." – Antjie Krog

“I am his first wife.”

Is that how low you think of me? You think I will run and rat you out to Raymond? Let me tell you something, Raymond is not my husband without you. He needs you, he inhales and exhales because of you, he adores you, Anelisa, because you are his first wife.

It all began with the anger of Laduma, the Thunder God, and the birth of a special child with strange, flickering eyes. This is the tale of a rural family – Mabena, Mantombi and their grandson Duma – who are exiled from the ancestral home and thrown into the turmoil of township life. They take Duma to Boekenhout, on the outskirts of a city, where Mabena, the grandfather, becomes a bridge between the past and the present, the urban and the rural.

The harder Mabena tries to keep the values of the past alive, the more intrigued and bedazzled Duma becomes by urban life and jazz music. The introduction of the apartheid homelands policies forces the family to return to their old village, where Duma is to be initiated into manhood. We Shall Not Weep is a beautifully written lyrical novel about a traditional African community in change, swayed by the forces of modernity and political change.

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.

Oor net twee dinge is Rakie Bouwer seker: Haar broer is as kind dood, en sy moet uitvind hóé.

Die soektog stuur haar op verborge paaie na haar verlede – waar familiegeheime gevaarlik lê en skuil. Intussen daag haar tweelingsuster, Mara, ongenooid op . . . Wat probeer Mara wegsteek en hoekom?

Terwyl Rakie desperaat probeer om antwoorde te kry, loop sy die gevaar om haarself te vernietig. Want eindelik is die skrikwekkendste vraag van almal: Wat is donkerder as jou eie bloed?

Wanneer Josua een middag vir Eva de Winter in ’n Rotterdamse koffiewinkel ontmoet, voel dit vir hom onwerklik dat ’n begaafde regsgeleerde soos sy in ’n verhouding sou belangstel.

Maar sy getuienis vroeër in ’n hofsitting interesseer haar – dit lei tot verdere afsprake, en algaande word hulle vriende. Dis eers ná hul huwelik voltrek is dat Josua begin begryp daar is iets onpeilbaars aan Eva.

Hoeveel raaisels het sy van hom weerhou, en wat hy slegs d.m.v. obskure soekenjins oor haar kon naspeur?

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.

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...

And they didn't die dramatises the heroism of Jezile, a young rural woman. Her story also depicts the emergence of collective resistance by rural women in South Africa of the 1950s and 60s. Above all it is a story of redemption in the strength and vitality of one woman who will not allow intense suffering to deplete her humanity. The author draws upon her relationship with the 'very strong, very proud' women who raised her and her knowledge of their history to create a novel that is sensitive, human and political.

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.

"I am the Shadow of the Lion. The one who will survive deaths without number. The one who has lost everyone. The one wounded and betrayed. I am not the Lion. He is dead. I am his Shadow. I am his revenge."

Amkela has always fought beside his older brother Nenkani, the Lion of the West and last hope of their people against the invading Karaphi Empire. But when they are betrayed and hunted by Imperial airships, Amkela is offered power and revenge by an imprisoned being of visions and vines called dreaming-what-is-to-come.

Thrust from his brother's shadow, Amkela must lead his people to freedom while keeping secret the terrible price he's paid.

When the shadow of the Empire falls across him, will Amkela be strong enough to save his people? Will he be strong enough to survive?

A taut and unsparing novel about a community plagued by violence, drugs, corruption, and prejudice—but where love and justice prevail.

The unidentifiable remains of a body are discovered in a field in Shadow Heights, a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. Ley, the youngest detective at her precinct, is assigned the case. Soon after, Ley receives a phone call saying that Carl, a friend struggling with a meth addiction, has gone missing after being linked to the Drug King of Shadow Heights. Meanwhile, a local church group believe they are cleansing the area by burning sinners, starting with homosexuals.

The search for Carl leads the reader through the vibrant lives of the residents of Shadow Heights to experience the problems plaguing the neighbourhood but also to feel the love and acceptance found among friends and family in the shadows of everyday life. A pioneering work of fiction in which the dispossessed tell their own stories, In the Shadows is a haunting yet hopeful novel that wrestles with the demons of a community where lives intersect through ruthless brutality, but the bonds between people lead to justice being done.

Jock of the Bushveld is the classic and much-loved story based on the true experiences of Sir Percy Fitzpatrick and his Staffordshire bull terrier, Jock. The story begins in the 1880s, at the time of the South African gold rush, when a young Fitzpatrick worked as an ox-wagon transport rider in the old Transvaal. There he came across a man who was in the process of drowning a puppy, the runt of the litter. He saved the dog and the story of his ever-faithful and loving companion was born.

First published in 1907, Jock of the Bushveld has been reprinted many times since. Now, with a fresh and engaging cover, and in a new handy B-format, this timeless South African classic retains the charm of the original story along with the original illustrations by Edmund Caldwell.

It will no doubt continue to be enjoyed by children and adults alike.

Dit is my storie, maar dit is ook die storie van elke ouer wat al 'n keer gestruikel het," se Saskia de Coster by geleentheid oor Nagouers. De Coster (1976 - ) is 'n prominente figuur in die hedendaagse Vlaamse prosa. Danksy haar optrede by verskillende kunstefeeste is sy geen onbekende in Suid-Afrika nie. Nachtouders (2019) is intussen reeds in meer as tien tale vertaal. Dit is die verhaal van "nie-biologiese ouerskap" waarby die sielkundige spanning uiteindelik maar te herkenbaar sal wees vir ook diegene wat al met "biologiese ouerskap" gekonfronteer is. Saskia word onder verswee teensinnigheid moeder saam met haar groot liefde en eggenote, Juli. Laasgenoemde dring daarop aan om 'n eie kind in die wereld te bring. Vervolgens raak 'n skenker betrokke, Karl, 'n Kanadese homo- vriend van Saskia. Terwyl die skenkerproses self nie sonder moeite en selfs skaterende humor verloop nie, raak duidelik dat dit ondanks die kliniese aard daarvan nogtans die individuele agtergrond van elk van die betrokkenes op die spel bring. Sake word op die spits gedryf wanneer die gesinn etjie Karl se moeder op die eiland Portes aan die Kanadese Weskus besoek, 'n van die moderne wereld afgeslote plek bewoon deur 'n vergrysende hippie-gemeenskap en 'n afkerige Indiane-groep. Ouerskap, liefde en die stryd om individuele lewensruimte bly onderliggend aan die gebeure met alle eienskappe van 'n riller. Hoewel die hooffiguur ook Saskia heet en die boek eienskappe van 'n ego-dokument het, is dit 'n meesleurende roman wat uitnooi tot 'n besondere leeservaring.

Alex het 'n teorie oor chaos. Waar hy ookal gaan, volg dit hom. Dis hoekom hy joernalis geword het en hom nou in Tanzanie bevind. By 'n troue iewers tussen Dar es Salaam en Arusha ontmoet Alex vir Ranna, 'n vryskutfotograaf met 'n bos swart krulhare, 'n t-hemp wat se Dr. Seuss is altyd reg, en 'n verlede waaroor sy nie praat nie. Alex wat lankal nie meer in Die Liefde glo nie, weet: dit is hoe dit voel. Maar dan haal die chaos hom in. Eers begin dit onophoudelik reen en paaie en dorpies spoel weg. En dan, wanneer die lyk van 'n Amerikaanse IT-biljoener op ’n strand uitspoel, word dit duidelik dat Ranna met rede haar verlede probeer begrawe. Waarom anders stel die polisie skielik in haar belang?