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It is 1903. A lame and frail Malangana – 'Little Suns' – searches for his beloved Mthwakazi after many lonely years spent in Lesotho. Mthwakazi was the young woman he had fallen in love with twenty years earlier, before the assassination of Hamilton Hope ripped the two of them apart. Intertwined with Malangana's story, is the account of Hope – a colonial magistrate who, in the late nineteenth century, was undermining the local kingdoms of the eastern Cape in order to bring them under the control of the British. It was he who wanted to coerce Malangana’s king and his people, the amaMpondomise, into joining his battle – a scheme Malangana’s conscience could not allow. Zakes Mda's fine new novel Little Suns weaves the true events surrounding the death of Magistrate Hope into a touching story of love and perseverance that can transcend exile and strife.
Toe Cérie Château Monet erf, besluit sy om daar te bly. Hier is sy
geliefd en haar geheim is veilig. Arthur Arenberg, ’n welgestelde
hertog en Cérie se lojale jeugvriend, is bereid om met Cérie trou om
haar teen haar pa te beskerm.
Diana en Gerhard deel dieselfde droom, maar dit is beslis nie een wat
hulle saam kan uitleef nie. Dit is óf die een óf die ander se droom wat
gaan realiseer.
Retha Malan sien dokter Isak Vermeulen die eerste keer toe hy ontstoke
uit haar dosent se spreekkamer storm en haar amper onderstebo loop. Hy
hoor lat er dat sy hom ’n brombeer noem!
Celeste is die jongste kind en voel haar familie onderskat haar. Toe sy
hoor van ’n pos by ’n seunskoshuis op die kleinhoewe Hemel-op-aarde wat
dringend gevul moet word, gryp sy die geleentheid aan.Maar die
aantreklike Arno Hougaard meng met haar werk in en laat haar aan haar
vermoëns twyfel. Haar vriendinne beskou hom as ’n vangs, maar in haar
oë is hy sommer net ’n pyn. Gaan Celeste haar voete en liefde kan vind?
Denise vind nog haar voete in die Boland nadat sy uit ’n toksiese
huwelik ontsnap het. Dirk is ’n toegewyde polisieman, maar sy eksvrou
het hom oor ’n enkele fout in sy verlede finansieel afgepers.
Pandora se kruik is oop ...
Joseph Mabaso is used to his father Sobhuza’s long absences from the family home in Lusaka. Sobhuza is a freedom fighter and doing important work, and Joseph has learned not to ask questions. But when Chanda, his mother, disappears without a trace, leaving him and his siblings alone, Joseph knows that something is terribly wrong. And so begins a journey, physically arduous and dangerous and emotionally fraught, that no 14-year-old boy should have to undertake alone. Following the most tenuous of threads, Joseph finds some unlikely guides along the way: courageous Leila and her horses; Sis Violet and the guerrilla unit she commands; Mr Chikwedere, stonecutter and illicit trader; Madala at the Lesedi Repatriation Camp, who helps him find his voice; and Aunt Susie Juma, unofficial Zambian ambassador in Yeoville, Johannesburg, whose detective skills are legendary. As Joseph navigates unfamiliar and often hostile territory in his search for his parents, he is on a parallel journey of discovery – one of identity and belonging – as he attempts to find a safe house that is truly safe, a language that understands all languages, and a place in his soul that feels like home.
Ná haar lewe uitmekaar val, vlug Kate Ierland toe. Op die vliegtuig,
vang Flynn, ’n aantreklike rooikop Ier wat Afrikaans praat, haar onkant
met sy sjarme. In Ierland loop Kate weer in Flynn vas, maar toe sy
uitvind hy is die dorp se pier ewaaier sluit haar hart af.
Ná ’n bedrogskandaal, vernederende televisie-onderhoud en egskeiding, vlug Alma Roux die natuur in en word ’n veldgids. Op Thabayengwe, waar sy ’n trop olifante help rehabiliteer, voel dit net of sy haar voete weer vind toe Beyers Gunther opdaag. Hy is die man wat haar voor duisende televisiekykers verneder het en nou kom verfilm hy haar olifantprojek. Dan daag Alma se eksman boonop op en skielik is haar lewe in gevaar. Gaan sy die krisis kan ontlont en sal die volle waarheid oor Beyers uitkom?
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.
Kathleen Porter wil wegstap van haar familiegeskiedenis in Leydsdorp
maar John Perkins oortuig haar om hul voorsate se verhale in die
Bosvelddorpie te gaan naspoor. Al is daar net spoke oor.
Al wat Surika Breedt wil hê nadat haar kêrel haar vir ’n ander meisie
gelos het, is ’n rustige Kersvakansie by haar ouerhuis.
Hierdie bundel is ‘n postmoderne spanningsverhaal in epiese digvorm in die voetspore van moderne tekste soos Awater en The Waste Land. Dit vertel die verhaal van die verset van ‘n baie gewone man teen sy mislukkings en teen die magte wat sy lewe beheer – ‘n verset waarin hy hom gaandeweg laat verlei om ‘n bomplanter te word. Die sentrale temas van liefde, verraad en vergelding word uitgespeel in ‘n ryk intertekstuele verwysingsveld.
Paula Swart het baie empatie met die pasiënte by die kliniek waar sy ’n
arbeidsterapeut is. Vir haar kollega se vriend Derick het sy egter nie
ooghare nie, al het sy hom nog nie eens ontmoet nie. In haar oë is hy
’n swakkeling en vir sy soort het sy nie tyd nie.
Ná emosionele terugslae sukkel Kelly Logan, internasionaal bekroonde
skrywer, om haar nuutste misdaadroman te voltooi.
Ná twee jaar op haar eie is Lelanie oortuig sy is oor haar verslawing
aan haar vervreemde man, Adam. Tot hy aangestel word as die besturende
direkteur by die maatskappy waar sy werk.
Karla is ’n sorgvrye en kreatiewe bakster. Regardt is ’n vlieënier en
’n perfeksionis. Tog is hulle vriende. Toe Regardt vir Karla vra om
voor te gee om sy verloofde te wees, ter wille van sy sterwende oupa,
sê sy ja.
The enigmatic and darkly compelling Harry O'Connor, better known as Badger, is back in a fourth gripping crime thriller from Amanda Coetzee. This time the Major Crimes detective must pit his skills and wits and his dedicated team against a deadly sniper whose dark past in Afghanistan and South Africa has come back to haunt the streets of Bedford as they explode in an unprecedented drug war. The ex-sniper from the British Armed Forces is a suspect in a series of killings and, despite the unusual affinity that Badger feels for the man, he must put aside his own devastating personal loss to track him down - from the rooftops of Bedford to the diamond auctions of the North West province in South Africa - to prevent the body count from climbing any higher.
Ben Lategan is hard en verbitterd teenoor vroue ná talle
liefdesteleurstellings. Lienke het self ook al baie seergekry in die
verlede.
In a moment of weakness, lawyer Ian Brand sends out a tweet; it changes his life irrevocably. Thuli Khumalo, Fallist leader on a campus that stinks of petrol and teargas, must choose between betraying her father and forsaking her principles. Snaar Windvogel, once the little violin girl of Matjiesfontein, is now in transition under the knife of Piekenier Leqluerck, plastic surgeon and fossa impresario. These colourful characters populate a carnivalesque landscape where the only certainty is that the Mother City’s mysterious crossbow killer will strike again . . . while Twitter gangs spread suspicion, truck drivers are attacked on national roads, and Number One meets with gang leaders – all under the watchful eye of the Institute for Encouragement in a nameless city in China. An astonishing novel documenting the turbulent time in which we live, where issues such as privacy and identity, fake news and fact, and race and ethnicity inflame passions. Translated by Henrietta RoseInnes.
“Hy voel hoe haar klein hande soekend onder sy hemp probeer inkruip. Hy
staan net ’n aks van haar af terug en trek sy hemp met een beweging oor
sy kop voor hy haar weer tot styf teen hom aantrek en hy weer haar mond
opsoek. Haar knieë knak liggies en hy trek haar stywer teen hom om haar
te steun. So deur die soen du hy haar terug na die groot bed toe. Haar
oë rek groot toe hy haar optel en op die bed neer sit. “Ek sal niks
doen wat jou ongemaklik maak nie. Ek belowe. As my hande te verdwaal,
vat dit weg. As jy
ongemaklik voel en wil stop, sê my. Ek is in jou hande.”
In her debut collection of short stories, Lindiwe Nkutha takes us through the minds of people you may overlook on an ordinary day: The wayward neighbour you vaguely remember seeing every day as a child until the day he vanished. The face you see every weekend at the local drinking hole, you exchange a polite nod but know little about, not even her name. The young woman who is caught between her faith and her love for a woman. Their lives are untidy, tainted with the pain, joy and violence as they share with us stories they wouldn't share with anyone else. Nkutha's words weave in and around the weights we drag behind us from one place to another, with a sensitivity and wit required for such vulnerabilities and intimate moments.
Tien jaar gelede het hy haar hart verniel. En hier, sonder waarskuwing,
stap hy weer in haar lewe in – met daardie ontstellend sexy
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