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Op skool was sy dié meisie: mooi en gewild met skatryk ouers.
Ansone wou nog altyd boer en nou gaan daardie droom bewaarheid word.
Haar oorlede oom Simon het sy plaas aan haar bemaak en sy is reeds
verlief op daardie pragtige stuk grond: Die rondawel, die oopte, die
mooiste berge.
Jessica Rabbit probeer nie voorgee om iets te wees wat sy nie is nie.
Sy’s ’n uitlokkende vrou en klaar.
Die kunstenaar Marieke Marais gebruik ’n koffietafelboek waaraan sy
werk as verskoning om te vlug van haar manupilerende eksverloofde. Sy
gaan bly in afsondering in ’n berghuis om haar opdrag te voltooi.
When Laurence Waters arrives at his rural hospital posting, Frank, a fellow doctor there, is instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is not – young, optimistic and full of new schemes. The two become uneasy friends, while the rest of the staff in the deserted hospital view Laurence with a mixture of awe and mistrust. The town beyond the hospital is also coping with new arrivals, and the return of old faces. The Brigadier – a self-fashioned dictator from apartheid days – is rumoured to still be alive. And down at Mama’s Place, a group of soldiers has moved in with their malign commandant, a man Frank has met before and is keen to avoid. Laurence wants to help – but in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present, his ill-starred idealism cannot last. In gleaming prose Damon Galgut has created a literary thriller out of an unlikely friendship. The Good Doctor is a gripping novelistic high-wire act
Irma het ’n bakkievrag probleme. Daar is haar eks-verloofde, ’n
sukkelende trekker en ’n koei wat dringend mediese hulp benodig.
Claire Odendaal moet geld verdien vir haar verdere grade om sielkundige
te word. Sy word ’n au pair vir die moeilike stiefdogter van wewenaar
Adrian Lawrence, eienaar van ’n landgoed en ’n tegnomaatskappy.
Five very different women... Cape Town is home to each one of them. Surrounded by its mountains and seas, but also by the struggles and difficulties of a young post-transformation country, each one lives out her separate life. Then fate begins to intertwine their lives through a series of circumstances... Faith, who has taken on a job as part-time receptionist in Bethany’s practice, is physically abused by her manipulative and controlling husband. Between Bethany and Rafiqah, the detective who investigates her case, they manage to persuade her to prosecute him and this involves the legal help of Lindiwe, the public prosecutor. But Lindiwe’s nightmare past means that her involvement in cases of abuse can never be totally objective. Ayesha, who teaches Bethany’s young daughter notices subtle changes in the little girl’s behaviour and, together with Faith, makes a shocking discovery. The Silence of the Shadows is a novel about the strength and frailty in each of us, the recognition that at different times we can be either the helper or the helped and that it is totally acceptable to be both.
Klippe, messe en pyle uit ’n kruisboog: Die vreemste – en wreedste –misdaadtoneel in Kaptein Nicci de Wee se loopbaan. Dan moet sy en haar nuwe taakspan boonop bontstaan om saam met die nimlike Blackie Swart ’n internasionale insident te voorkom. Ook op haar lessenaar: die dood van twee jong meisies. En die angswekkende vermoede dat al hierdie sake met mekaar verband hou. Met soveel kinkels in die kabel soos dooies in die staatslykhuis, moet Nicci-hulle alles tot hul beskikking inspan om ’n nuwe hel af te weer: van ’n rekenaarfundi, tot stiletto’s en selfs ’n paar petrolbomme. Gou kom Nicci agter die monsters wat haar lewe en dié van haar kollegas bedreig, is gevaarliker as Ramoth, vlymskerp polisiefotograaf Stella Jansen se mak Komododraak. In Jagter, haar derde Nicci de Wee-riller, draai Bettina Wyngaard al die krane oop.
Samantha Loots se man verlaat haar vir sy sekretaresse nadat sy nie vir
hom ’n kind kon gee nie.
Karolien Watermeyer het haar eie patisserie in Kaapstad en geniet haar
lewe. Dis net die liefde wat kort. Niemand kon haar nog laat voel soos
Stefan Bosman wat haar op haar sestiende verjaardag gesoen het nie.
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.
San-Marie Crafford se drie vriendinne is getroud met die mededirekteure
in ’n maatskappy. Nou is die vierde direkteur, Jacques Myburgh, skielik
heeltyd onder haar voete. Sy weet uit ervaring gelukkige eindes bestaan
nie en stel nie belang in romanse nie.
Kristin Uys is a tough Roodepoort magistrate who lives alone with her cat. She is on a one-woman crusade to wipe out prostitution in the town for reasons that have personal significance for her. Although she is unable to convict the Visagie Brothers, Stevo and Shortie, on charges of running a brothel, she manages to nail Stevo for contempt of court and gives him a summary six-month sentence. From Diepkloof Prison, the outraged Stevo orchestrates his revenge against the magistrate, aided and abetted by his rather inept brother Shortie and his erstwhile nanny, Aunt Magda, who believes mass action will force the powers that be to release Stevo. Kristin receives menacing phone calls and her home is invaded and vandalised. Even her cat is threatened. The chief magistrate insists on assigning a bodyguard to protect her. To Kristin’s consternation, security guard Don Mateza moves into her home and trails her everywhere. Nor does this suit Don’s long-time girlfriend Tumi, former model and successful businesswoman, who is intent on turning Don into a Black Diamond sooner rather than later. And Don soon finds that his new assignment has unexpected complications which Tumi simply does not understand. In Black Diamond, Zakes Mda tackles every conceivable South African stereotype, skilfully (and with the lightest touch) turning them upside down and exposing their ironies, often hilariously. This is a clever, quirky novel that captures the essence of contemporary life in Gauteng and will resonate with all South Africans.
Sophia Joubert en haar skoonfamilie is na afloop van die Anglo-Boereoorlog weer vry om terug te keer na die verwoeste familieplaas – sonder vee en sonder kos. Geoffrey Doubell help die Jouberts om weer op hul voete te kom. Dié samaritaan is wel ’n halwe Engelsman, maar elke keer as Geoffrey na haar kyk, bruis Sophia se bloed en word haar wange warm. Haar eerste liefde lê egter begrawe in die grond van Natal en Sophia is diep gekwes. Sy sien ook in Geoffrey se oë ’n treurigheid wat nie wyk nie. Dié man ken ook verlies. Durf sy nou hoop op ’n tweede liefde? Op geluk by ’n man wat haar kan aanvul en verstaan? Daar heers egter onheilspellende spanning tussen die Jouberts en die inwoners van die buurplaas. Boonop wonder Sophia of Geoffrey werklik sy lewe met slegs een vrou kan deel, want sy is beslis nie die enigste een wat in hom belangstel nie.
What makes Pat Simmons, a retired engineer, give up his comfortable middle class living and wade across a crocodile infested river with a bicycle strapped to his back, in order to teach chess to schoolchildren at the Mission station?
Dit is 1950 en Pasgatyd in Oudtshoorn. Leah Abrams, ’n jong
entoesiastiese navorser in antieke tale, kuier by haar Joodse rabbi pa
en sy tweede vrou, Daniela. Hulle is albei navorsers oor, onder andere,
die geskiedenis van Israel. Maar daar heers konflik in die huis want
Leah wil gesels oor die Messias wie sy leer ken het in haar studies, en
haar Joodse gesin is nie ontvanklik daarvoor nie.
Dalk is hy hier. Besig om jou dop te hou.
Verpleegsuster Kira Louw gaan werk op die Sea Nymph-toerskip sodat sy
van ’n teisteraar af weg kan kom.
Voetstoots is ’n bontgejasde keur uit sestien jaar van Annelie se koerantrubrieke. Die temas is so wyd soos die Heer se genade. Rakende aan die torings van Babel wat ons bou. ’n Kind wat doodgeskok word terwyl hulle jagentjies speel. ’n Begrafnisbrief uit Holland. ’n Boer wat sy plaashek vir oulaas sluit. Toentertyd se poskoets en handsentrale. Die boks langspeelplate in die gryse se waenhuis. Die smart om ’n kind te begrawe. ’n Glips met bensien in die tamatieslaai. ’n Sywurmhart wat sy in haar Bybel bêre. Mense sonder ’n woord van eer. ’n Eensame oom wie se hondjie op ’n sypaadjie doodgebyt is. ’n Lys van moets en moenies vir dames uit 1944. ’n Boks papsakwyn wat suur geword het. Dis lag, huil, kwaadword, nostalgie, deernis, onbegrip en lewenswette saamgeryg in ’n kleurvolle lappieskombers. En Annelie is bedrewe met die rygnaald.
Toe Barbara se ouers sterf, moet sy haar graad in beeldende kunste
staak en uit haar skilder ye ’n bestaan maak.
In the spring of 1970, a Pretoria schoolboy falls in love with Muhammad Ali. He begins to collect cuttings about his hero from the newspapers, an obsession that grows into a ragged archive of scrapbooks. Forty years later, when Joe has become a writer, these scrapbooks both insist on and obscure a book about his boyhood. He turns to his brother Branko, a sound editor, for help with recovering their shared past. But can a story ever belong equally to two people? Is this a brotherly collaboration or a battle for supremacy? This is an intricate puzzle of a book by a writer of lyrical power and formal inventiveness. Against a spectacular backdrop, the heyday of the greatest showman of them all, Vladislavić unfolds a small, fragmentary story of family life and the limits of language. Meaning comes into view in the spaces between then and now, growing up and growing old, speaking out and keeping silent.
Slegs die dooies kan swyg soos die graf ...
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to daughter Lucy’s isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter’s influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.
Monica bewaar al vir meer as ses jaar lank ’n geheim wat maak dat sy
soms te koketterig optree teenoor Johan, haar broer se beste vriend. Sy
is vasbeslote dat hy nooit die rede mag uitvind nie. |
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