From the author of the 100,000+ copy-selling rom-com, Love to Hate You! No one makes you laugh like Jo Watson! 'I couldn't stop laughing ... this was outstanding' Goodreads reviewer If you love Sophie Ranald, Sophie Kinsella and Paige Toon, you'll LOVE Jo Watson! ................................................................................. That moment you catch your boyfriend in bed with another woman and then mistakenly get arrested. #awks Annie doesn't want to dwell on the fact that she walked in on her bf wearing nipple clamps on the day he was meant to propose to her. She just wants to move on - cue escaping to a tropical paradise. Life is dreamy on the beaches of Mauritius, until the nightmarish appearance of her ex and the 'other woman'. Faced with the enemy, Annie refuses to look like the sad, lonely single she actually is. She needs a decoy - and fast. Enter Chris, a sexy screenwriter who agrees to play her pretend boyfriend. But as a battle of the exes commences, the white sand, tropical heat and a pina colada (or five) might just be the cocktail for a real romance - and the adventure of a lifetime. ................................................................................. Don't miss Jo's laugh-out-loud rom-coms, Love You, Love You Not, Love to Hate You, Burning Moon, Almost A Bride, Finding You, After the Rain and The Great Ex-scape. Love funny, romantic stories? You don't want to miss Jo Watson: 'The perfect choice for fans of romantic comedies' Gina's Bookshelf 'It was amazing, it was hilarious' Rachel's Random Reads 'A brilliant read from beginning to end' Hopeless Romantics

Die privaat ondersoeker Renata Malan worstel steeds met die feit dat haar oupa en pa moordenaars is. Te meer omdat haar stiefpa, ’n sielkundige, in sy ondersoek na hierdie geval byna bo twyfel bewys het kinders erf hulle voorgeslagte se bose gene.

Renata bevind haar in ’n benouende posisie toe haar pa al hoe sterker verdink word van die reeksmoorde wat sy en haar kollega ondersoek. Hoewel die doodstraf destyds oor haar pa uitgespreek is, het hy op pad na sy teregstelling ontsnap en nou lyk dit of hy veel nader aan Renata woon en leef as wat sy gedink het. Eers wanneer hy agter tralies is, sal sy met haar lewe kan aangaan. Wel, in die sin dat sy dan sal kan bewys sy wil hom uit die samelewing verwyder.

Maar is die reeksmoordenaar inderdaad haar pa? En as dit nie is nie, hoekom kry Renata telkens ’n boodskap daaroor en waarom word die slagoffers op sulke strategiese plekke gevind?

The first book in the series following the life and adventures of Dr Sopwith Jones. The story explains why this South African bears such an unusual name, originated from the First World War fighter aircraft, the Sopwith Camel. We learn too how the Joneses, of Welsh heritage, migrated to South Africa and Sopwith’s introduction to the world of flying.

Armed with a doctorate in aeronautical engineering, Sopwith leaves formal employment and develops a solar-powered Cessna 172, which attracts the attention of a corrupt South African government employee, who tries to claim the design for his own benefit. Sopwith flees South Africa rather than loose his dream. The British Government, keen to benefit from his innovation, assists his flight, conveying him to England aboard an aircraft carrier. He barely escapes an attempt to shoot his plane out of the sky en route to the carrier over the Indian Ocean.

On board, he meets the love of his life, Lt Ali Murray, a dashing fighter jet pilot. But once in England and seemingly betrayed by the British Government, the newlyweds are forced to flee to Africa, where extremist guerilla groups, private security companies and the British armed forces pursue them.

Unwittingly exposed by South African Air Force pilot Chuma Sandile and Canadian civil engineering student Jules Demet, and tracked by Britain’s Project Oberon satellite programme, the Jones couple face up their adversaries with courage and passion.

Will they survive against the overwhelming odds? And will Sopwith reap the benefits of his groundbreaking invention?

Renata, ’n forensiese sielkundige, ondersoek ’n saak waarin ’n sestienjarige meisie gesterf het: volgens die polisie was dit selfmoord en volgens die oorledene se familie was dit nie. Renata glo laasgenoemde maar sy het bewyse daarvoor nodig.

'n Leeftyd Se Bekruip is ’n bundel verhale vol humor en avontuur. Dit gaan oor die te-voet-jag van kleinwild tot grootwild en strek oor verskillende lande en kontinente heen.

Dit gebeur nie aldag dat ‘n boer ‘n boek publiseer nie. Maar Dawie Strauss is nie ‘n gewone boer nie. Hy is ‘n boer én ‘n skrywer, ‘n jagter én ’n bewaarder.

‘n Boek wat op jou bedkassie of leunstoel, op jou see-handdoek of tydens jou vliegtuigrit op jou sal wag en sal sorg vir ‘n lekkerlees-avontuur. Sterre en kampvuur. Vriendskap en heimwee. Die bos róép…

Imelda Grys – sakevrou, kunskenner en miljoenêr – val na haar dood op die aand van ’n eksklusiewe Nuwejaarsete. Iemand het met haar stoelhysbak gepeuter, die hyser wat haar 24 meter en teen ’n helling van 33 grade tot by haar voordeur hoog teen die steiltes van een van Kaapstad se rykmansbuurte moes besorg.

Privaat speurder Vos moet die moordenaar vastrek. Sy en haar tweelingbroer, Deventer, was ’n gedugte span toe hulle destyds in die polisie was. Deventer verkies egter deesdae om gesond te eet en sy dae om te mediteer ... Maar sy suster weet wat hy na die ondersoek kan bring en watse knoppies om te druk.

Die moordenaar moes iemand in Imelda se binnekring gewees het, ’n gas dié aand toe sy vir oulaas met swier onthaal het. Was dit miskien een van haar twee kinders, Dennis en Sandra? Dennis se vrou, Fikile, of Sandra se metgesel, James? Wat het die Shanghaise sakevrou Jane Zhang aan tafel gemaak, en Jakkie Brits, die radiojoernalis? En hoe kom dit dat ’n eks-kollega van Vos en Deventer, Bradley Moynahan, ook daar was? Die lys verdagtes is kort, maar met nog lewens in gevaar is Vos en Deventer se tyd selfs korter.

Na Klaas se dood woon Sonja alleen op haar besproeiingserf langs die Oranjerivier. Ben is die "inkommer", die vreemdeling. Daar hang 'n wolk van stories om die aantreklike man van Nerens. Wanneer die twee middeljarige mense mekaar beter leer ken, word daar dinge wakker gemaak wat hulle albei geglo het nie meer bestaan nie. Die sluier word so effens gelig oor die aktiwiteite van die Franse Vreemde Legioen. Hierdie liefdesverhaal bevat 'n sterk skeut spanning. Dit bewys ook dat die erotiese nie net vir jongmense beskore is nie.

Joe Kitchen describes Sushi with Hitler as a “burlesque fantasy”. It is a delightful satire, written in Douglas Adams’ style, that pokes fun at everything but the kitchen sink. The author describes the book as “completely irrelevant” and its beauty lies precisely in the escape it offers from everyday problems. It questions the status quo on just about everything and none of society’s holy cows remain untouched. Be prepared to be treated to a myriad of intertextual jokes, involving everything from classical literature to pop music.

A story of two passionate people who share a shameful past and a tenuous present, this remarkable narrative follows headmistress Mohumagadi--of the elite Sekolo sa Ditlhora school for talented black children--and Father Bill, a disgraced preacher, as they are brought together again decades after a childhood love affair expelled them from their communities. Much to the dismay of her students, Mohumagadi hires Father Bill as a teacher, resulting in a battle of wills and wits for the hearts and minds of the children living in the shadow of revolution and change. Entertaining and thought-provoking, this unique account offers insight into the workings of African culture.

For years, it has been what is called a 'deteriorating situation'. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family - liberal whites - are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his native village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July - the shifts in character and relationships - gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites.

Nandi Nxumalo and Femi Adewoye are in love. But although the ladies at Nandi’s favourite hair salon drool over her tall, dark and super handsome boyfriend who has his own auto repair shop, there are others in her community who are less pleased that she, a Zulu woman, has fallen for a ‘foreigner’.

Nandi has to hide her relationship with her Nigerian boyfriend from her xenophobic father who would never allow them to date. But Femi is serious about her and wants to meet her parents. She is afraid of what her father might do when she introduces them. On the other hand, she doesn’t want to lose Femi. His ex-girlfriend Chichi is already trying to come between them.

When xenophobic attacks break out all over the country, Nandi and Femi do not escape unaffected. Nandi feels she has to do something – she can no longer be silent.

Geneviève van Vuuren, oftewel Jenny, se sprokieshuwelik word onverwags deur haar verloofde afgestel. Kwaad, hartseer en teleurgesteld besluit sy impulsief om saam met haar suster en swaer met ʼn kampeerwa deur Italië te gaan reis. Alles verloop goed, totdat die losbol wêreldreisiger, Reinhard Prinz, hulle op die laaste nippertjie vergesel.

Al wat Geneviève met Reinhard in gemeen het, is die feit dat hulle albei as kinders deur ʼn ouer verlaat is. Nie een van hulle vertrou die teenoorgestelde geslag nie en is ook nie van plan om van mening te verander nie. Al probleem is die aantrekkingskrag wat vinnig duidelik raak. Geneviève en Reinard is nie blind vir hul gevoelens nie, maar ook nie gereed om dit met mekaar te deel nie. Is die vrees vir verwerping sterk genoeg om in die pad van hul geluk te staan?

Who can stop a maniacal Russian and his private army? Surely not a handful of Cape Town gangsters and an Investment Banker/ex-scuba diving instructor. Submerged is an international thriller traversing the pirate-controlled waters off the Horn of Africa, the lethal world of Russian organized crime, the buzzing financial capital London, the Rhino slaughter fields of South Africa, the decadence concealed below the brittle veneer of the beautiful City of Cape Town with its adjacent Cape Flats ganglands and the icy, shark-infested waters of the Atlantic.

During a high-risk scuba dive at one of the deep dive-sites of the Red Sea, Sophia Popova, a beautiful but troubled Russian heiress, fails in her suicide attempt. A love affair develops between her and her rescuer, dive instructor Leon Jacobs, and she arranges that Leon, also a bright economics graduate, joins a major Investment Bank in London. The Bank is owned by Russian billionaire and Sophia’s father, Bogdan Popov, who made it big from political favouritism, corruption and innovative methods of getting rid of competitors. The love-sick and gullible Leon soon starts drowning in the international syndicated crime world of Popov whose motto is: ‘Deal or Death’.

Meanwhile, Franklin Benjamin, a notorious Cape Town gangster, but now retired, tries to live a sober life as a commercial fisherman in a small village off the West Coast of South Africa. But when Franklin’s and Leon’s paths cross and, after a series of shocking events disrupt the peace and quiet of Franklin’s world, he has to make the impossible decision whether to rise up from his hibernation and mobilise his gang.

Will Leon escape with his life from the global-reaching claws of Popov? And where will Sophia find the courage and strength to slay the inner demons ruling her existence?

In the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, SA, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. The Sergeant, whose job it is to sort the local people by colour, and thereby determine their fate, peers at the boy, then sticks a pencil into his hair, as one did in those days, waiting to see if it stays there, or falls out before he gives his verdict: 'He's very odd, this Jimfish you've hauled in. If he's white he is not the right sort of white. But if he's black, who can say? We'll wait before we classify him. I'll give his age as 18, and call him Jimfish. Because he's a real fish out of water, this one is.'

So begins the odyssey of Jimfish, a South African Everyman, who defies the usual classification of race that defines the rainbow nation. His journey through the last years of Apartheid will extend beyond the borders of South Africa to the wider world, where he will be an unlikely witness to the defining moments of the dying days of the twentieth century.

Part fable, part fierce commentary on the politics of power, this work is the culmination of a lifetime's writing and thinking, on both the Apartheid regime and the history of the twentieth century, by a writer of enormous originality and range

In the title story Away From the Dead we meet Isaac Witbooi, a farm worker, who has to come to grips with losing everything including the graves of his entire deceased family. In After Spring a couple takes a holiday but we're drawn into the issue of identity: Even if they hadn't heard us speaking English earlier, they would have known our foreignness simply by sight. It is visible to them in our facial features, the way we wear our clothes, our hair. The fact that we are third and fifth generation South Africans respectively matters little to them. Making Challah is a touching picture of an ageing woman, and it uses the baking of challah as a wonderful metaphor of passing time. Ridwaan and Chadley are On the Train, a seemingly routine journey but somehow a dog has been acquired and it's been Chadley's first time to kill. Find out how it felt to be Andries Tatane who, on 13 April 2012, died during a service delivery protest in Ficksburg, South Africa. In the Narrative of Emily Louw, a true story, a young woman regrets not having given something to old Emily after listening to her sad story: At the second, a policeman had looked at the blanketed child, her worn face and bleeding feet and he had smirked, as though to indicate that her husband had left by choice and couldn't be blamed for his departure. Next is a thoughtful reflection on being called Muzungu when a white South African woman visits Uganda. From Dark is a rallying call to remember that illegal mining causes the deaths of hundreds every year. Zama-zamas (Zulu for 'chancers') live underground for months at a time, dying in police raids, fires, cave-ins and poor conditions. A young couple's outing goes horribly wrong in At the Seaside. Grandmother's great big wicker picnic basket, which was supposed to be a treat, takes the blame. An 'informal settlement' of zinc shacks on the flatlands sets the scene in Allotment. Warda Meintjes and her husband struggle to survive. A great stadium for the World Cup is being built but Warda's unborn child stops moving. The homeless were being rounded up by police, placed in trucks, driven out into the countryside and dumped. 'Thank God we're spared that,' one woman said. 'Don't fool yourself,' another replied. 'That is us. It has already happened to us.' In The Shark Mia's very sense of being gets overtaken by events. A dark story leading on to Development, darker still, but thought-provoking, and about what it is to be human. The Wall is almost surreal and deals with growing old on the street. Alletjie lives with her husband Jan Bakker and Solly, her disabled brother, next to an old mine built by Cornish miners in the 1880s. Their circumstances are a cut above those of Warda and her husband, yet, 'living on the old goats and chickens and a disability grant was never enough', and Alletjie who 'does everything' thinks it isn't fair, 'the mine owned her this future for herself'. Resurrecting again exerts a certain surreal appeal. A father takes to his bed because of a crushed pigeon or is it a metaphor for a crushed soul in the office? His son is told to pray but is there going to be a resurrection?

A provocative collection of short prose, varying in style from suburban-realist to surrealist.

Kuit transmits the elusive strangeness of daily life in a deceptively matter-of-fact tone, spiked with bursts of rage, humour, and unmarked detours.

It's a black Karoo night and a young woman, covered in blood, is running along a deserted dirt track. A terrible thing has happened and the woman, Siena, has to reach Seekoegat Primary School at the end of the track, the only place she knows that is safe. It's a long way to run, a three-day ride on a donkey cart.

This is the story of Siena, Boetie and Kriekie, whose lives intersect as children and who meet again as adults: Boetie is a boy running wild. Deprived and neglected he is always up to mischief but his friendship with Siena gives him self-worth. Kriekie is a basket case. As the child of a prostitute working the truck-stops along the n1 he has no home. When his mother, Dolly, doesn't come back, a small act of kindness by a woman running a shop at the truck-stop sees him end up at Seekoegat Primary. Plodding steadily through each chapter is the spectre of the ancient Karoo tortoise. Siena's father, Pa, a karretjiemens, reveres the tortoise as a creature that holds within it the wisdom of the ancient landscape and that cries only one tear when it dies. The Tortoise Cried Its Only Tear is award-winning author Carol Campbell's third book on the Karoo.

Like her previous work this story is a piece of social realism but, for the first time, Campbell introduces hints of magical realism - which is very much in keeping with the world view of the people she writes about.

Jan Wentzel, verhaleredakteur van Die voorpunt, kry te make met Marié Hurter, ’n aspirant-skrywer wat maar net nie wíl aanvaar dat haar liefdesverhaal afgekeur is nie. Jan het hoë ideale en neem sy werk ernstig op, maar ’n probleem ontstaan. Hoe gemaak as hy nou ook ’n ogie op Marié het? Of voer dié ondeunde rooikop iets in die mou?

In Die rooikop en die redakteur en ander stories bring H&R vroeë verhale deur een van Afrikaans se belangrikste skrywers in een band byeen. Vóór die Sestiger-beweging, etlike literêre pryse en internasionale aansien het André Brink sy loopbaan begin as skrywer van humoristiese stories en spannings- en liefdesverhale in gesinstydskrifte. Die vermaaklike stories in dié bundel het gedurende die 50's in die tydskrifte Die huisgenoot en Die brandwag verskyn. Dié bundel kombineer Brink se eiesoortige sin vir humor met ’n tikkie nostalgie – perfek vir ’n ouer én nuwe geslag lesers. Saamgestel deur Cecilia van Zyl, voormalige verhaleredakteur van Die huisgenoot.

Wanneer Emma Louw ná ’n motorongeluk haar bewussyn in die hospitaal herwin het sy geen idee wie sy of die aantreklike vreemdeling is wat langs haar bed waak nie. Daniel Swart slaag egter daarin om haar gerus te stel: Sy is au pair vir sy seuntjie Neal en volgens die dokter is haar geheueverlies net tydelik. Emma is geskok wanneer Daniel haar vertel dat hulle ’n liefdesverhouding het hoewel hy getroud is. Hy oortuig haar om saam met hom terug te keer na sy plaas Omdraai. Op die plaas begin Emma geleidelik grepe uit haar kinderdae onthou, maar oor haar volwasse lewe is daar steeds ’n donker sluier getrek. Emma besef gou dat sy meer as blote fisieke aantrekkingskrag voel vir die man wat haar met soveel geduld en deernis versorg. Die emosionele verbintenis tussen hulle verdiep en omdat Emma hom vertrou, is sy bereid om sy seksuele fantasieë saam met Daniel uit te leef. Maar gaan hierdie ’n duur les wees?

Paola Dante is a driven project manager employed by a large multinational information technology corporation who reads war strategy books for relaxation. In general she prefers computers to people with their random uncontrolled emotions. Long ago she made a decision that matters of the heart were inherently messy and should be kept at arm’s distance. But her husband had surprised her; she had no resistance against Daniel. Now she sees herself as a survivor who has successfully moved on from the traumatic events and terrible truth surrounding her husband’s sudden disappearance years before. But the truth is that ever since the night he walked out on their marriage back to his old ways she’s found it hard to get on with normal life.

An unlikely and ill-equipped mother, she stands alone between their adopted daughter Simone and the criminal kingpin who wants the teenage girl for his own ends and has set the savage wolves on her.

To save her daughter - and herself - once and for all, Paola will face her every fear, her every mistake, and the past she thought she’d finally processed and left behind.

The focal point of the novel is the small town of Soutbek. Its troubles, hardships and corruption, but also its kindness, strong community and friendships, are introduced to us in a series of stories about intriguingly interlinked relationships. Contemporary Soutbek is still a divided town - the upper town destitute, and the lower town rich, largely ignorant - and through a series of vivid scenes, the troubled relationship between Pieter Fortuin, the town's first coloured mayor, and his wife Anna is revealed. In so many ways the past casts a long shadow over the present, not in the least through the unreliable diaries of Pieter Meerman promoted by Pieter Fortuin and Professor Pearson, a retired white historian. They give us a unique insight into the lives of the seventeenth-century Dutch explorers, and hint at a utopian society, suggesting that Soutbek is the birthplace of assimilation and integration. The blossoming friendship between Anna, Sara, a foundling, and Willem, Pieter Fortuin's nephew, is unsettled by David, Anna's and Pieter's son. His father has bought David a bright future, but when he comes back from boarding school David appears alienated from his father and from his old friend, the former gardener Charles Geduld, just as Anna starts to accept him as her son. Is there hope, or are we left with Willem's conclusion that 'he would spend the rest of his life working off the debt of his family's poverty'? A moving story that paints a thought-provoking picture of life in contemporary South Africa.

A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee, now a major motion picture starring Robert Pattinson and Johnny Depp For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire whose servant he is. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he finds himself jolted into sympathy with their victims-until their barbarous treatment of prisoners of war finally pushes him into a quixotic act of rebellion, and thus into imprisonment as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians, J. M. Coetzee's third novel, which won the James Tate Black Memorial Prize, is an allegory of the war between oppressor and oppressed. The Magistrate is not simply a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times; his situation is that of all men living in unbearable complicity with regimes that elevate their own survival above justice and decency.

Suspenseful, moving novel about the nomadic karretjiemense of the Karoo.

It’s been 15 years of hiding for Muis. Now, with the Karoo veld so dry, Kapok, her man, insists on pointing their donkiekarretjie to Leeu Gamka, the one place Muis never wants to see again. Miskiet is waiting for her there and is going to make her pay for what she did.

Little Witpop is excited. Town means she can watch TV and maybe go to school, while her brother Fansie hopes there will be more food for him and their baby sister, Sponsie. Their return unleashes the devil and has them desperately fleeing. But the police can’t help if you don’t have papers to prove that you were born.

Vividly showing the invisible people of the Great Karoo, Carol Campbell’s thrilling novel brings the nomadic karretjiemense to life.

Permanent Removal is a beautifully written political thriller focusing on the nature of justice, truth, betrayal, socio-political and ethical quandaries, complicity and moral agency. The novel introduces readers to a cast of players whose destinies intertwine in a particularly gruesome murder.

The novel is set in apartheid South Africa and the start of the Rainbow Nation. South African security forces set up a roadblock to intercept a car near the city of Port Elizabeth. Two of the four anti-apartheid activists in the car were secretly targeted for assassination. The police abducted the four and murdered them in cold blood. Their burnt bodies were found later near the Port Elizabeth suburb of Bluewater Bay. These murders are one of apartheid’s murkiest episodes.

On the day of the funeral, President PW Botha declared a State of Emergency. It was the beginning of the end.

Works such as Jacob Dlamini’s penetrating and discursive Askari and the recent publication on Eugene de Kock as state sanctioned perpetrator of various evils will be complemented in no small measure by this intriguing fictionalised exploration of political executions and culpability/loss during the apartheid heyday.