Tshepo, a young student at Rhodes, has a difficult time keeping up with his own strange mind. He is absorbed in making sense of a traumatic past in a violent country and so when he finds himself at the Valkenberg mental facility it is perhaps not entirely due to “cannabis-induced psychosis”.

How is he to bring together the shattered pieces of his life? In the shady subculture of male prostitution Tshepo begins to find answers for the first time.

Discovering first his true sexuality, and then that sexuality is only a key to the greater realms of a hidden, mythical humanity, Tshepo can finally tap into the ancient powers that are his birthright.

In Julie 1905 kry Siegfried Bock van die Kaiserliche Landespolizei te kampe met ’n plaaslike boer se grudood, spoke uit sy verlede en ’n Berlynse besoeker wat ’n dodelike wrok koester. Hy worstel met Duits-Suidwes-Afrika se onstuimige politiek en ongenaakbare natuur. As hy geregtigheid wil laat seëvier, moet hy dít, asook strominge in sy eie gemoed, te bowe kom. 'Tweegevreet bied, soos sy voorganger, Die vertes in, spanning én stof tot nadenke.

Kassie het geglo sy speurderdae is getel ná die Medusa-pedofielsaak, en sy hartaanval. Maar ses maande tuis bring perspektief – hy is ’n speurder in murg en been. Terug by die Spookeenheid word hy en kollega Rooi Els dadelik by die diep kant ingegooi: Hulle moet ’n reeksverkragter vastrek – een wat sy slagoffers met ’n brandyster merk. 'Is die skuldige die man wat beskryf word as “’n weerwolf met die sperm van ’n wildehond”? Of lê die antwoord by die spesifieke merk wat hy op sy slagoffers laat?  

Jaco Diehl woon op Hermanus. Hy word getuie van 'n poging tot moord op sy buurvrou, en geleidelik word hy betrek by ander dade van geweld: eers op Hermanus, maar later ook op Somerset-Wes en eindelik in Kaapstad. Sy lewe is aan die disintegreer, en dit lyk nie of hy regtig omgee nie. Die hoofkarakter sleur ons al dieper mee in 'n doolhof. Wie is aanspreeklik vir die moorde, en wat is die waarheid? Of word ook die waarheid 'n storie, 'n verdoeseling wat nes Jaco nie vertrou kan word nie?  

Van Nigeriese rebellegroepe, dwelmsluikhandel uit Kaapstad wat raak aan die Taliban, en polisiemolle met duister geskiedenisse moet Kassie - posseël- en boeremusiekliefhebber, alleenloper-speurder met 'n ernstige waarskuwing op sy diensrekord - sin maak. Iemand het sleg geknoei, maar hoe hoog op strek die kwaad?

Wat is dit wat mense dryf om daardie fyn lyn tussen reg en verkeer doortesteek, welwetende dat hulle in die proses oor die krans gaan ry? Die karakters in Dryfveer is geen uitsondering nie.

'm Mpumalanga Wholesale Supplies spesialis word vermoor en Karl-Jan Schoeman ontbloot bedrog. Beleef die spanning saam met hom, Eileen Wessels wat die rekenaarskelm moet soek en kaptein Marcus Dube wat die kriminele ondersoek na die moord en 'n ontvoering lei.

Voeg hierby ʼn sluimerende romanse, 'n listige vrou wat bedreig voel, en die vonke spat.

Die De Vries-tweeling lyk eenders.

Jakob se oë kyk egter tot diep in Helena se siel en woel ongekende dinge in haar los – sóndige dinge. Hoe kan sy so aangetrokke tot hom wees terwyl sy verloof is aan sy broer, Daniel? Om enige misverstande te voorkom, besluit Helena om Jakob in die geheim te gaan ontmoet voor sy die volgende dag met Daniël trou. Dit loop uit op ‘n soen wat verbode begeertes in haar aanwakker en haar net meer verwar. Moet sy na Jakob luister en haar huwelik met Daniël afstel? Wanneer Helena en die De Vries-broers saam met ander emigrante die Kaapkolonie verlaat, bly haar hart egter na Jakob hunker. Boonop is dit onmoontlik om hom op die trek te vermy.

Sal sy en Jakob daarin slaag om hul liefde vir Daniël weg te steek? Nog belangriker: Sal sy haar hart te teenoor Jakob kan sluit?

Die derde bundel uit die beroemde verhoogkunstenaar Nataniël se gewilde rubriek in SARIE – na meer as 10 jaar, steeds een van die gewildste rubrieke in ’n Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif. (Baie lesers erken dat dit die eerste bladsy is waarnatoe hulle blaai in SARIE!)

In hierdie rubrieke deel Nataniël sy insigte met humor en eerlikheid en styl, en ’n aangrypende waardering vir die eenvoudige dinge wat ons lewens verryk en verruim. ’n Ikon wie se Kaalkop-wysheid en pittige sosiale kommentaar daagliks inspirasie en plesier kan bied.

Kaalkop 3 sluit in:

• 54 Kaalkop-rubrieke
• 19 SARIE-kosstories
• 5 voorheen ongepubliseerde verhoogstories
• Swanemeer: die ware verhaal

Two sets of cousins, Boer and Brit, find their destinies inexorably intertwined in the politics and mayhem that led up to and encompassed the Anglo Boer War of 1899-1902. From Transvaal to Victorian England, the cousins form strong bonds, which are tested on the battlefields of South Africa.

Martin de Winter, nurtured to lead his country of birth, Transvaal, into the twentieth century, instead finds himself excelling as a gifted young general, fighting a desperate war to keep his nation from ruins, all the while being haunted by his love for a British woman. James Henderson, cavalry officer, is forced by his father, a military aristocrat, to marry or face expulsion from his regiment. Bound for India, the regiment is diverted to South Africa to fight the Boers. James rides to glory and honor but is at the mercy of his loyalty to his country and his compassion for his Boer family.

In the drawing rooms of Cape Town and Pretoria, Stefanie de Winter, celebrated pianist, is viewed from both sides with suspicion. Fiercely loyal to her brother Martin but in love with a British officer, she embarks on a dangerous path to keep them both. Dr. Charles Henderson tends to the slaughter on the battlefields. He is devastated by the willful destruction of his adopted country, Transvaal, and anguished by the part his brother, James, plays in this. Karel and Rudolf de Winter, twin brothers devoted to each other and their horses to the exclusion of all else, fight a battle against the bullet that might separate them forever.

Through anger, injustice, and betrayal, the family discovers that there is a force stronger than war. They only have to call on it to find that love transcends all.

Following hot on the heels of the bestsellers Sex, Lies & Stellenbosch and Sex, Lies, Declassified, the much-anticipated final instalment in Eva Mazza's “sex-trilogy” promises to be the summer’s hottest read.

Like the most addictive of TV series, Sex, Lies & Alibis, with its many twist and turns will have readers turning pages to discover what finally happens to our heroine, Jen and the rest of the sometimes sexy, and always dysfunctional cast from Stellenbosch, with its penchant for impropriety and unapologetic wealth. By the time Jen gets to the final part of the trilogy, she's discovered that happy endings don’t always come in the form of a man, no matter how good the sex or how exquisite the backdrop. Despite trying to escape her past by flying to Monte Carlo, circumstances beyond her control force her to return to the Cape Winelands. Now it's time for Jen to confront the sex, the lies, the declassified scandals and uncover all the made-up alibis.

Deliciously steamy and scandalous.

Ellie se eerste ontmoeting met haar nuwe buurman, Simon, is allesbehalwe aangenaam. Reeds met die intrapslag dring hy daarop aan dat sy haar geliefde hond, Rudolf, van sy eiendom kom verwyder. Al hou hy nie van honde nie, voel sy steeds verplig om die nuwe intrekker touwys te maak op die dorp.

Simon keer terug na Bloubaai na twintig jaar in Hollywood as ‘n suksesvolle draaiboekskrywer. Al wat hy wil hê, is om uitgelos te word. Na ’n morsige egskeiding wat in die openbaar afgespeel het, sal hy enigiets doen om sy privaatheid te beskerm.

Maar Simon kom gou agter dat dit nie so maklik is om Ellie afgeskud te kry nie. Buitendien is hy nie meer so seker dis wat hy wil hê nie...

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

When zoologist Magrieta Prinsloo is put on the wrong antidepressant, her head comes unstuck. She insults the head of her department, and impulsively resigns from her job. She accepts a position at the Bureau for Continuing Education, with the inscrutable Markus Potsdam as her boss. When he disappears one morning, matters become very complicated. Winterbach's extraordinary gift as a novelist, and uncanny understanding of the human psyche, are again as evident as ever.

This is the 3rd novel featuring protagonist Sopwith Jones, but the first published in South Africa. The first 2 were first published in England, proving distribution in SA difficult. Those two novels will be republished in South Africa in due course.

,P> The President of South Africa survives an attempted assassination. Jones, together with other helpful and colourful characters, the likes of Withers and Dr Njoli become involved in protecting him. In evading the faction responsible for the attempt and who are intent on taking over the government once the President has been disposed of, they take refuge in the Northern Cape.

Their whereabouts are detected, necessitating a move to the Langkloof. A further attempt is made on the President’s life but is thwarted, enabling the President to be returned to Johannesburg, but having to remain in hiding.

Convincing the leader of the faction, Spade Mapeti, that he is supportive of their ideology, Jones manages to meet with him at a game lodge in KZN but is exposed for who he really is.

Original and forceful, At Fire Hour delivers Bheki Makhathini, a South African character study for the ages.

Suspected of betraying the ANC, the young poet leaves home for exile in 1976, and until his return home after the unbannings in 1990, Bheki writes the story of a revolution – an unfinished one.

Gilder allows Bheki the freedom to deal with the big ideas of art and love, freedom and struggle in a shrewd and vivid way, the result being an unforgettable and deeply moving tale.

It is 1989, a high point of hope in South Africa’s political history. The nation is abuzz with rumours of Nelson Mandela’s imminent release, the dismantling of guerrilla camps and the possibility of peace.

A band of exiled People’s Army soldiers returns to South Africa. After years in Angola they think the change they have been fighting for is finally about to become a reality. They have been ordered to carry and deliver a sealed trunk to an unspecified destination. It is a mission that makes them a target as different parties set out to separate the men from the trunk and its mysterious contents, setting the stage for several fierce conflicts.

The Texture of Shadows explores a world of hardened guerrilla fighters, corrupt police officers, ex-political prisoners and the victims of abuse of a system of bannings and beatings. But there are also cracks in this steel-edged world that hope, love and beauty can fill as the reader is swept up in the story of Chaplain Nerissa Rodrigues and her fellow soldiers.

Everybody’s favourite agony aunt and crime fighter Tannie Maria needs some counselling advice of her own. Lingering troubles from a previous marriage still sit heavy on her, while fresh worries about Slimkat, a local man whose fight for his people’s land threatens his life, keep her up at night. Tannie Maria seeks out counsellor, jokily known to all as “the satanic mechanic”. Straight out of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and from hot-as-hell Hotazel, Ricus fixes both cars and people.

But Maria’s counselling tune-up switches gears when a murder flings her straight into Detective Henk Kannemeyer’s investigation. Not only is she dating the dashing Henk, she now has to work beside him: a potential recipe for disaster.

Blending an intriguing mystery with characters as lovable as the setting of the rural Klein Karoo, this book is Sally Andrew’s delightful, warm-hearted sequel to Recipes for Love and Murder.

Sipho is a “young blood”, a young man of the school-going generation caught up in a world of money, booze and greed.

Living in Umlazi, Durban, he is seventeen, has dropped out of school and helps out at his father’s mechanic shop during the day. But odd jobs underneath the bonnets of wrecked cars do not provide the lifestyle his friends have.

A fascinating look into the emotional landscape of car hijackers – by a vibrant new voice in South African literature.

Pandora se kruik is oop ...

Ná ’n liefdesteleurstelling en ’n moeilike inperktyd, is Emma uiteindelik reg om weer uit haar dop te kruip. Net betyds vir baas Wim se aanloklike aanbod: ’n Projek neem hom Midde-Ooste toe en hy kort haar ondersteuning. Binnekort verdaag Emma na Siprus onder die voorwendsel om by haar suster te gaan kuier.

Maar die skone Siprus is nie net kristablou waters, sonnige strande en Griekse oudhede nie. Emma is immers daar om internasionale geldwasnetwerke oop te vlek, en gou ontdek sy dat die gevaar nader is as wat sy of Wim besef.

Wat kom maak die superseiljag saans naby die seegrotte? Waar lê hulle plaaslike agent Nikos se lojaliteit? Weet die vissermanne dalk meer as wat hulle voorgee?

Skielik lyk dit asof Pandora al die wêreld se euwels opnuut vrygelaat het. As Emma ooit weer vir Wim wil sien, en hom wil vertel hoe sy oor hom voel, sal sy een stappie voor moet bly.

In haar derde boek soek Marie Spruyt in die antieke wêreld na liefde en hoop vir al ons moderne euwels.

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.

Lucky is 'n rentboy. Die vryhede wat die nuwe demokratiese bestel het, het hy nie benut om geleertheid te bekom nie. Al is hy begaafd. Hy het ook nie die politiek aangegryp nie. Al loop hy oor van charisma. Lucky vier sy vryheid op die direkste moontlike manier, naamlik met die lyf, en aan enigeen wat kan betaal - man, vrou, oud en jonk, boer en burgemeester - bied hy die ekstases van die lyf. En op die Karoodorp Santa Gamka versmelt al die opsigtelike verdeelthede ondergronds tot 'n poel kolkende begeerte. Wit en swart, bodorp en onderdorp, boer en plaaswerker, toeris en dorpenaar, wankel almal heerlik preker saam op die donker ondergrond waar Lucky sake roer.

Clayton kom steel Lida se hart in 'n oogwink. Dit was nie veronderstel om te gebeur nie. Sy wou dit beslis nie hê nie, maar hy het haar lewe binnegeval, gevoelens in haar aangesteek wat sy gedink het sy nooit weer sal ervaar nie, en 'n passie aangevuur wat sy nooit geweet het bestaan nie.

As die huidige MotoGP-wêreldkampioen, leef Clayton permanent op die dun rand van adrenalien. Of dit nou óp of áf van die baan is, alles wat hy wil hê is reeds syne: sukses, gewillige vroue, en al die media-aandag wat 'n sportster van kan droom. Hy het alles, behalwe vir Lida. Sý is die uitsondering, want vir die eerste keer val 'n vrou nie voor sy voete nie. Hul chemie is onmiskenbaar. Hul aantrekkingskrag is magneties. Maar vir Lida bly Clayton te veel van 'n risiko. Al probleem is dat daar iets aan Clayton is waarvan sy nie kan, of wíl, wegloop nie.

Myne stel die leser bloot aan die opwindende wêreld van MotoGP Dit is die derde titel in die nuwe Romanza Stoom afdeling wat fokus op warmer liefdestonele vir lesers wat meer erotiese liefdesverhale verkies.

Joernalis Cecile se humeur is net so warm soos haar vlamrooi hare en kaptein Ruan de Wet laat dit elke keer opvlam. Cecile is nuut by die plaaslike koerant en niks gaan haar keer om die scoop te kry oor die diefstal van die blou diamante nie.

Dit plaas haar egter direk in die spervuur. En dan dreig haar hart boonop om sag te word om Ruan.

Gaan hy haar hart kan vasboei of gaan sy weereens eerder vlug as veg?

Kapteins Griessel en Cupido wil van meet af aan nie dié docket hê nie. Die een van Johnson Johnson, oud-poliesman, sy lyk gekry langs die treinspoor anderkant Drie Susters. Want die saak is weke oud. Yskoud. Opgeneuk deur die SAPD, afgedwing op die Valke. Twee passasiers op die wêreld se luuksste trein – waaruit Johnson klaarblyklik gespring het – is spoke. En die arrogante beamptes by die BBP-Beskermingseenheid lieg soos tannetrekkers. Oor kardinale inligting.

Negeduisend kilometer noord leef Daniel Darret sy nuwe, eenvoudige lewe in Bordeaux. Tot Ronnie May opdaag, en hom vra om nog een keer te jag. Sy prooi is die staatsgekaapte president van sy tuisland. Want dít is wat Daniel in die ou dae gedoen het, toe hy ’n laksman vir die Stasi en KGB was.

Kan die Valke die gemors betyds ontrafel om die sluipmoord te keer? Kan Daniel die meedoënlose Russiese agente ontglip wat hom tot elke prys wil elimineer? En gaan Bennie dit alles oorleef om eindelik vir Alexa Barnard te vra om te trou?

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.