Samuel has lived alone for a long time; one morning he finds the sea has brought someone to offer companionship and to threaten his solitude …

A young refugee washes up unconscious on the beach of a small island inhabited by no one but Samuel, an old lighthouse keeper. Unsettled, Samuel is soon swept up in memories of his former life on the mainland: a life that saw his country suffer under colonisers, then fight for independence, only to fall under the rule of a cruel dictator; and he recalls his own part in its history. In this new man’s presence he begins to consider, as he did in his youth, what is meant by land and to whom it should belong. To what lengths will a person go in order to ensure that what is theirs will not be taken from them?

A novel about guilt and fear, friendship and rejection; about the meaning of home.

Loving him could destroy her... High school teacher Cilla Stevens has always been different, especially in how she connects with animals. When she calms a stray dog during an incident at school, she's asked to help a nearby farm with a difficult horse. Cameron Rahl has had a very different relationship with animals since his mother died in a horse riding accident. But now he's inherited his family's farm, he's determined to never let anyone affect him that way again. Until he meets Cilla. He tries to stay away from the gorgeous horse whisperer with the potential to tame him, but something keeps pulling him close. And as much as Cilla tells herself she can keep it casual, she knows they're too connected to be 'just a fling.' Will Cilla's heart win out? Or will it take history repeating itself for Cameron to realise just how much he needs her?

Odette is a script writer for a popular TV soap opera. When she moves to the small Free State town of Nagelaten she hopes to leave her problems – of family, fraught relationships and experiences of crime – behind in Joburg. To the dwellers of Nagelaten, Odette appears to be escaping a painful break-up in a place she knows no-one – and won’t have to share her secrets.

When Odette begins seeing the local engineer, Adriaan, also an outcast in this small town, secrets begin to surface around the murder of Adriaan’s wife. Odette’s world begins to unravel, when her ‘troubled’ daughter, Mandy, is suspected of killing the baby she was au-pairing in the UK and soon comes to live with Odette, who has a secret of her own. It isn’t until Mandy befriends a strange man named Wolfie that Odette finally begins to question the mysteries of the small town.

Odette is forced to face her mistakes of the past and the truth of a murder long since buried with the dead. The Imagined Child is a carefully plotted ‘whodunit’ that combines Jo-Anne’s trademark lyrical style with tight suspense and will keep you guessing until the last page.

Kortverhale kan soms jou hart breek en weer aanmekaar sit, jou laat skaterlag, dieper oor die lewe te laat besin, en jou wegvoer na ander tye en plekke.

Stories vir die siel: Inspirerende kortverhale is ’n unieke versameling van kortverhale en saamgestel uit bydraes van bekende skrywers, asook verskeie debuutskrywers. Laasgenoemde het deelgeneem aan die LUCA kortverhaalkompetisie wat daarop gerig was om aspirantskrywers blootstelling te gee.

Die resultaat is ’n verskeidenheid van uiteenlopende stories wat om geloof wentel met die doel om hoop en lig vir die leser te bring.

In Stories vir die siel: Inspirerende kortverhale skuur debuutskrywers skouers met gevestigde name soos dié van Maretha Maartens, Bettina Wyngaard, Jeanette Ferreira, Elsa Winckler, Stefaans Coetzee, Louise Viljoen, Elize Parker, Tertius Janse van Rensburg, Hannes Barnard, Jeanette Stals, Malene Breytenbach, Jaco Versfeld, Alexa Steyn en Lizelle von Wielligh.

Set in the taxi industry, the story's main characters are a poor taxi driver, a wealthy taxi owner and the taxi driver's girlfriend.

Crime fiction featuring paranormal elements, The Last Stop combines gritty realism with the magical. It shows what happens between people in times of taxi violence and deals with themes of lust, betrayal and revenge.

The Last Stop is an engaging, clever, interesting and darkly enjoyable read with an incredible plot twist at the end.

Nadine Gordimer's subtle and detailed study of the forces and relationships seething in the South Africa of the day.

Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm. As the upheaval in Mehring's world increasingly resembles that in the country as a whole, it becomes clear that only a seismic shift in ideas and concrete action can avert annihilation.

Carla Vitale’s dream is shattered when her boss and mentor, Nial Townley, disappears and his luxury vehicle is found in a crevice at the bottom of Chapman’s Peak. She turns to Daniel Le Fleur, a hacker, to help her get her life back.

Geloof en mag sorg vir 'n dodelike kat-en-muis speletjie...

Nadat die biljoenêr, Nico Cohen, die stigter van die Nikolaïete ʼn berugte internasionale geloofsorde, sterf, erf sy twintigjarige dogter, Michaela ('n loskop sosiale vlinder), sy posisie. Die oorblywende direkteure van die Orde, waarvan die hoofkantoor in Kaapstad gesetel is, die Groot Ses, stuit vir niks om te sorg dat hulle in beheer bly nie - ook nie vir moord nie. Dit gaan 'n eks-taakmaglid kos om die rykmansdogter te help om die orde se geheime oop te vlek. Josh Young het sy eie redes waarom hy die onaantasbare maatskappy se onderduimshede wil ontmasker. Saam moet hulle die Orde se geheime Alfadokument opspoor. Dis hulle enigste kans om te wys watse onheilighede werklik agter die sukses van die Groot Ses skuil. Die soektog neem hulle op 'n gevaarlike ekspedisie regoor Europa met ʼn moordenaar kort op hul hakke. Min weet hulle hoeveel bose geheime hulle gaan ontmasker.

"I am unleashed from my mother’s womb while she is choosing tomatoes at Ralphs. My birth is one of her favourite stories to tell." This is how the reader is introduced to Jane, the main protagonist, in Alex van Tonder’s new novel, A Walk at Midnight.

Jane is a complicated character who readers will empathise with as the novel moves between past and present, revealing some very dark secrets. Secrets that daren’t be spoken of. Van Tonder’s wit, sarcasm and sharp characterisations make for compelling reading.

Her Twitter bio states, "All that we see and seem is but a screen grab from someone else's WhatsApp", and in this carefully crafted psychological thriller, all is not what it seems. A ‘griplit’ novel at its best, Alex van Tonder captures domestic suspense at its finest.

Die vraag wat die Romeinse digter Juvenalis 2000 jaar gelede gevra het, word vandag steeds onbeantwoord gelaat: Wie sal toesien dat die bewakers bewaak word?

Aella O’Malley is bevorder na bevelvoerder van die speurtak op Opathe sedert die dramatiese gebeure in Dowe gode. Dis nou eers ’n week en sy moet nog gewoond raak daaraan wanneer mense haar as kolonel aanspreek.

Sy sukkel steeds om die dood van haar geliefde Roel te verwerk en is getraumatiseer deur Whistler se verraad. Sy ontvang besoek van ’n afgevaardigde van ’n presidensiële kommissie van ondersoek na korrupsie in die strafregstelsel – op die presiese tydstip wat ’n plaaslike landdros dood in sy motor gevind word. Hy is tereggestel.

Aella is verplig om kontak te maak met majoor Christophe Leblanc om haar te help om data te herwin ten einde die ondersoek te bespoedig. Leblanc is ’n Fransman van Interpol wat Suid-Afrika toe gestuur is om uit te vind wat van die geld word wat Europa vir renoster bewaring skenk.

Terselfdertyd word twee renoster stropers koelbloedig voor kolonel Alexander MacLachlan op die verre noordelike grens van die provinsie doodgeskiet. Hy arresteer die moordenaar op die toneel. Sy saak word beduiwel toe die moordenaar homself om die lewe bring.

Hoe hou die moord op ’n landdros en die teregstelling van twee renoster stropers met mekaar verband? Die ondersoek lei O’Malley en MacLachlan na mekaar, met skokkende gevolge.

Die ondersoek is egter ook ’n helingsproses vir O’Malley. Deur die harde werklikheid van ’n moordondersoek leer sy dat die dooies die dooies moet begrawe en dat hoop nooit ydel kan wees nie.

Wandering in Cape Town, Leke stalks people, steals small objects, and visits doctors and healers in search of a cure. But he isn't sure what ails him--loneliness, or the family curse.

Abandoned by his birth mother, losing his adoptive mother to cancer, and failing to connect with his distant adoptive father, Leke--a troubled young man living in Cape Town--has developed some odd and possibly destructive habits: he stalks strangers, steals small objects, and visits doctors and healers in search of friendship. Through a series of letters written to him from prison by his Nigerian father, a man he has never met, Leke learns about the family curse--a curse which his father had unsuccessfully tried to remove.

Leke's search to break the curse leads him to strange places.

Yewande Omotoso is an architect with a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. This is her debut novel and was first published in in 2011 and was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Fiction Prize.

ʼn Feministiese roman vir konvensionele vroue Kantelpunt is die boekstawing van Nellie van der Merwe (gebore Petronella Jacoba van Aarde) se wederopstanding. Nellie is pas 50, ʼn konvensionele, wit, Afrikaanse vrou wat haar lewe lank gedoen het wat almal van haar verwag – sy het stilgebly. Met haar stilte het sy haar plek gekoop in haar huwelik, haar gesin, haar familie, haar werk, in die kerk, in die land, in die samelewing. Maar dan ondergaan sy ʼn histerektomie, en haar wêreld kantel. Sy is losgesny van die ding wat van haar ʼn vrou gemaak het, en daarmee saam raak sy bevry van die stilte.

Sy begin haar stem terugeis, soms met verreikende gevolge, soms teen ʼn ontsettende prys. Sy word gedwing om alles wat sy tot dusver as gegewe aanvaar het te ondersoek, en in die proses moet sy nie net die mense naaste aan haar se aandeel in haar stryd erken nie, maar ook haar eie aandadigheid aan haar lot bepaal. Met elke insident, elke veldslag en elke gesprek tree sy verder weg van die geskiedenis en die konvensies wat haar stom gehou het, en kom sy nader aan die vrou wat sy van die begin af veronderstel was om te wees – die een met wie sý in vrede kan saamleef.

“Daar bestaan by my geen twyfel dat Kantelpunt nog meer suksesvol as Oorlewingsgids vir ’n bedonnerde diva sal wees nie. Dis die soort verhaal wat elke Afrikaanssprekende behoort te lees – vroue en mans.” – Chanette Paul

Nie vir sensitiewe lesers nie.

Isabella voel nie soos die tradisionele beeldskone heldin wat jy op ’n silwerskerm gaan raaksien nie, want sy is ietwat sag om die kante en haar hare het ’n onbuigbare wil van hul eie. Sy besluit die tyd het aangebreek vir opwinding en avontuur, want sy wil nie meer stry teen die knaende begeerte in haar om skaamteloos aan die ontvangkant van ’n man se hartstogtelike liefde te wees nie.

Sy vlug uit die stad om van haar oorbeskermende ouers weg te kom en asem te skep in die oop ruimtes waar niemand vir haar voorskryf wat om te doen nie. Isabella soek ’n man wat haar voete onder haar gaan uitslaan en sy is vasbeslote om hom te kry. Iemand wat haar gaan liefhê vir wie sy in al haar volrondheid is. Tydens haar soektog ontmoet sy ’n hele paar mans wat nou nie almal eintlik as goeie mans met suiwer intensies beskou kan word nie. En wie is die geheimsinnige man wat oral onverwags opduik en pal op haar spoor bly?

Maar toe gebeur die ondenkbare tydens ’n gesinskrisis wat opduik. Al die geraamtes wat uit die kas begin tuimel dwing Isabella om tot stilstand te kom en die waarheid in die oë te staar. Sommige antwoorde kan ’n vrou net op haar knieë by die Here kry. Hulle sê die waarheid maak vry en die liefde bedek ’n menigte van sondes. Miskien sal die kronkelpaaie van Isabella se lewe haar ook na liefde en vryheid lei sodat selfs ’n verlore woestynblom soos sy kan blom.

“Sy vingers glip teen haar voet op tot by die soom van die jeans wat sy aanhet.

Hy kyk op na haar. Terwyl hy stadig regop kom, beweeg hy sy hande bo-oor die jeans teen haar bene op. Stadig kom hy regop en vou sy hande om haar middel. In die sagte lig van die woonkamer blink haar oë. “Doug ...”

“As jy nie wil hê ek moet jou soen nie, is nou die tyd om weg te stap.”

Vir ’n oomblik staar hulle na mekaar. “Malligheid, absolute malligheid,” prewel sy voor sy sy hemp in haar hande vasgryp en hom nadertrek.

Dis al waarvoor hy gewag het. Hy buk af en gryp haar lippe met syne vas. Haar rose- en nartjiegeur vou om hom en half bedwelmd, glip sy hande onder haar T-hemp in. Satyn. Sag. Maar dis nie genoeg nie, lank nie meer nie.

Mieke stap tussen sy bene in, trek-trek aan sy hemp. Hy wil haar help, maar hy is te besig. Eers toe die gespe van haar bra los is, lig hy sy kop en pluk sy hemp oor sy kop.

“Ek wil jou sien. Ek moet jou sien,” hyg hy, sy hande op die onderkant van haar T-hemp. Sy lig haar arms op.

“Bliksem ...” Hy lig die hemp oor haar kop, trek haar bra eenkant toe. Met ontsag, vou sy hande om haar sagte kurwes. “Hierdie ... ek droom al ’n week lank hiervan,” fluister hy.

Mieke se suster Fleur vra of sy haar swaer wat sy vrou verloor het, kan kom help met sy baba. Mieke stem in, maar op die vlug na Kaapstad beland sy langs ’n sexy rooikop.

Wewenaar Doug Sutherland is aangetrokke tot die groenoog donkerkop langs hom op die vlug. Hul vurige omhelsing op die lughawe, het egter onverwagse gevolge, want Mieke is die nuwe au pair wat na Doug se baba moet kom kyk.

Gaan hulle mekaar weer in die oë kan kyk?

Lija is ’n meisie van Joods-Romeinse afkoms en die aangenome dogter van Pontius Pilatus. Sy bevind haar in ’n gereëlde verlowing met Silva, ’n Romeinse tribuun. Eers dink sy hy is nes al die ander Romeinse mans, harteloos en ongenaakbaar.

Tot haar verbasing begin liefde egter in beide van hulle harte vir mekaar ontwaak ...

Silva en Lija het uiteenlopende gevoelens oor die man wat die Jode soveel hoop gee en die Romeine omkrap. Lija glo die man wat hulle die messias noem bring genesing en ’n nuwe begin. Sy skaar haar by die Selote om wapens uit ’n Romeinse arsenaal te steel om die skaal van gesag te laat kantel. Sy doen dit met die wete dat dit Silva se lewe ook in gevaar kan stel, maar haar oortuigings vuur haar aan. En Silva doen die onvergeetlike ... hy is deel van die groep soldate wat die Jode en Lilja se hoop – die messias – kruisig.

Albei is diep seergemaak en ontnugter deur die ander se optrede en die vertroue tussen hulle lê aan skerwe. Is hulle liefde vir mekaar vir altyd verlore? Of sal Lija en Silva vanuit die as kan opstaan en vir hul liefde veg ...

When the body of a Bushman is discovered near the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the death is written off as an accident. But all is not as it seems.

An autopsy reveals that, although he’s clearly very old, his internal organs are puzzlingly young. What’s more, an old bullet is lodged in one of his muscles … but where is the entry wound? When the body is stolen from the morgue and a local witch doctor is reported missing, Detective ‘Kubu’ Bengu gets involved. But did the witch doctor take the body to use as part of a ritual? Or was it the American anthropologist who’d befriended the old Bushman? As Kubu and his brilliant young colleague, Detective Samantha Khama, follow the twisting trail through a confusion of rhino-horn smugglers, foreign gangsters and drugs manufacturers, the wider and more dangerous the case seems to grow.

A fresh, new slice of ‘Sunshine Noir’, Dying to Live is a classic tale of greed, corruption and ruthless thuggery, set in one of the world’s most beautiful landscapes, and featuring one of crime fiction’s most endearing and humane heroes.

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.

‘Akwaba ndandingambonanga’, uvakalisa ukuzisola uFikile.

Ukuthandana kukaFikile noNandipha kuqala ngendlela emsulwa kodwa ukudizwa kweem­fihlelo ekukudala ziqhushekiwe, uthando olungavumelekanga nezinto eziyindaba yakwamkhozi kushiya ubomi bamakhaya esi sibini, nkqu nabantu basemaMpondweni, butshintshe unaphakade.

Dis twee jaar ná ’n oudkollega Julia en haar seun Rudi se lewe hel gemaak het. Maar die inwoners van Kosmoslaan het herstel en aanbeweeg. Dit blyk op die oppervlak asof dinge weer vreedsaam is in Kosmoslaan.

’n Knorrige man met ’n fyn meisiekind en ’n hartseer verlede trek in Ida se huis in. Vanaf die eerste oomblik wat hy trompop in haar vasloop, ontwrig hy Julia se lewe. Watse verspottigheid laat haar nou skielik op twee-en-veertig in vervoering raak oor ’n befoeterde man? En wie saboteur haar en Rudi se eiendom skielik?

Ida voel en lyk soos ’n ou en halwe vrou na ’n ontdekking. En Alma se Jurie is deesdae so omgekrap dat niemand met hom kan huishou nie. Ellie en Justin smag steeds na ’n baba van hul eie na haar vorige miskraam, terwyl hul grootste wens soos ’n ryp perske in Hugo en Claire se skoot val. Ellie smee egter ’n onverwagse band met ’n kinderhuismeisie wat gereeld by Marella se teruggetrokke seun, Bouwer, kuier. En Bouwer is nie Marella en Lourens se enigste bekommernis nie. Marella voel deesdae nie haarself nie ... Boonop kom Klein-Lourens met groot nuus wat sy en Sabina se lewens kan verander.

Daar is dinge wat broei in Kosmoslaan en die vriende en families tot hulle uiterstes toets. Gelukkig is daar ook engele in Kosmoslaan.

"I wrestled with life and lost." So begins the story of Michael, a corporate lawyer known to his colleagues and associates as Sir Marvin, who picks his way – sometimes delicately, but more often in his own blundering way – through the unfathomable intricacies that make up a life: love and anger, humility and ambition, trust and distrust, selfishness and selflessness. A flawed individual with an acute understanding of the roads that must be navigated to achieve even the slightest insight into the human condition.

In this study in introspection, embroidered with lyrical prose and astonishing intuition, the hero, meditative and melancholic, is at once both tragic and comic.

This is a trilogy of Olive Schreiner's farm novels, Undine, The Story of an African Farm and From Man to Man.

The author was pitch-forked into prominence by the publication in 1883 of The Story of an African Farm, originally published under the pseudonym 'Ralph Iron'. The other two novels were published posthumously. Undine was in fact completed before The Story of an African Farm, and many consider From Man to Man, the book she cherished most, to be her best novel.

Karoo Moon is classic Africana by South Africa's first internationally recognised author; and each of the novels has strongly autobiographical elements, helping the reader to understand a remarkable woman who went on to become an outspoken anti-colonial, pro-Boer campaigner during the Anglo-Boer War, South Africa's first feminist, and a prescient supporter of her disfranchised fellow citizens.

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.

One evening in early autumn, ten people drive into a tunnel through the Cape mountains – and find themselves trapped.

As their limited supplies dwindle, what do they do? Where can they go? What will they find?

Tunnel burrows deep into the psychologies and coping strategies that connect and disconnect these protagonists in a dark, tense and compelling human drama.

An urgent new novel, told through many eyes; a journey – terrific and mystical – through despair, memory, and love.

Toe rekenmeester Zelri Cloete se mededinger as afdelingshoof aangestel word op grond van al Zelri se harde werk, is Zelri woedend en ontnugter.

By haar broer op sy wildreservaat, Enigma, ontmoet sy vir Phillip de Necker, ’n aantreklike blonde veearts met die mooiste blou oë.

Phillip doen snaakse dinge aan haar. Hy maak haar woedend, laat haar lag en vir die eer ste keer in jare voel sy spesiaal. Sy’t nie liefde kom soek nie, maar sy kan dit ook nie ontwyk nie. Gaan die liefde die som van haar lewe laat klop?