Klara Francke het ’n donker geheim. Sy is vasgekeer in ’n giftige huwelik met die sadistiese Johan. Sy leef in konstante vrees vir haar eie lewe en dié van haar tienerjarige seun.

Wanneer Johan die nuwe ingenieur wat by die sonkragaanleg buite die dorp begin werk het vir ’n braai nooi, is daar onmiddellik ’n wedersydse aangetrokkenheid tussen Klara en haar man se kollega. Terwyl Klara worstel met haar onverklaarbare – en ontoelaatbare – gevoelens, spook speurder Basie Snyman en sy kollega om die moorde op twee jong meisies op te los.

Hulle weet hulle werk teen tyd wanneer ’n derde meisie verdwyn. Kort voor lank ontdek die speurders ’n skakel tussen die drie slagoffers: Klara Francke ...

After a dramatic sabotage attempt at a nuclear research centre near Jo’burg, PI Jade de Jong is hired by the likeable Ryan Gillespie to track down a missing employee believed to be involved. The target of her search is Carlos Botha, a skilled operative who may represent a major threat to national security.

Jade traces Botha to a rundown motel in the West Rand, but she’s not the only one looking for him. Someone has put a hit out on Botha. Jade is forced into an uneasy alliance with him in order to learn more. As she unearths the research centre’s dark secrets, she discovers the threat is so extreme its ramifications could reach across the globe.

Closer to home, if Botha learns who she really is, the consequences may be deadly.

Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee reimagines Daniel DeFoe's classic novel Robinson Crusoe in Foe. In an act of breathtaking imagination, J.M Coetzee radically reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe. In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave, Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion and, eventually, his lover. At last they are rescued by a passing ship, but only she and Friday survive the journey back to London. Determined to have her story told, she pursues the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe in the hope that he will relate truthfully her memories to the world. But with Cruso dead, Friday incapable of speech and Foe himself intent on reshaping her narrative, Barton struggles to maintain her grip on the past, only to fall victim to the seduction of storytelling itself. Treacherous, elegant and unexpectedly moving, Foe remains one of the most exquisitely composed of this pre-eminent author's works. 'A small miracle of a book. . . of marvellous intricacy and overwhelming power' Washington Post 'A superb novel' The New York Times South African author J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice for his novels Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K. His novel set during the South African apartheid, Age of Iron, winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year award is also available in Penguin paperback.

‘n Versameling kortverhale deur die bekende skrywer J.M Gilfillan. Die hooftema is verhoudings en die wyse waarop mense reageer op die vreugde en verdriet wat deel is van hierdie lewe.

Meestal gaan dit nie oor groot en aardskuddende gebeurtenisse nie, maar die klein dinge van elke dag. Die broosheid van verhoudings.

Die bundel het ook ’n ligter kant. So is daar byvoorbeeld ’n spookstorie, daar is ’n bietjie erotiek, en heelwat oor die krag van woorde.

Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in his Sunday Express Book of the Year award-winner Age of Iron. In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and the brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face to face with its true horrors: the hounding by the police of her servant's son, the burning of a nearby black township, the murder by security forces of a teenage activist who seeks refuge in her house. Through it all, her only companion, the only person to whom she can confess her mounting anger and despair, is a homeless man who one day appears on her doorstep. In Age of Iron, J. M. Coetzee brings his searing insight and masterful control of language to bear on one of the darkest episodes of our times. 'Quite simply a magnificent and unforgettable work' Daily Telegraph 'A superbly realized novel whose truth cuts to the bone' The New York Times 'A remarkable work by a brilliant writer' Wall Street Journal South African author J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice for his novels Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K. His novel, Foe, an exquisite reinvention of the story of Robinson Crusoe is also available in Penguin paperback.

Jazz painist Bent lives in squalor in Observatory. After a gig one night, the enigmatic Leonard Fry offers him a vast sum of money to play at a private party.

Bent accepts and duly plays the piano. After the guests have departed, Leonard Fry makes him a Faustian proposition: he, Leonard Fry, his appetites jaded by the pleasures his enormous wealth has afforded him, wants to undertake an experiment: he wants to lock himself in a bare room, containing only the most basic essentials, for a year. Bent’s role in this endeavour would be to live in Fry’s mansion for the year, passing Fry three meals a day through a slot in the door, without any other interaction, even – especially – if he begs to be released. When Bent locks Fry in the room, the strange trip begins.

But there’s a mysterious stranger lurking outside the house, and Bent soon begins to wonder who the real subject of Fry’s bizarre experiment is.

A cold case for Captain Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido of the Hawks elite police unit - not what they were looking for. And a difficult case, too. The body of Johnson Johnson, ex-cop, has been found beside a railway line. He appears to have jumped from South Africa's - perhaps the world's - most luxurious train, and two suspicious characters seen with him have disappeared into thin air. The regular police have already failed to make progress and others are intent on muddying the waters.

Meanwhile in Bordeaux, Daniel Darret is settled in a new life on a different continent. A quiet life. But his skills as an international hit-man are required one more time, and Daniel is given no choice in the matter. He must hunt again - his prey the corrupt president of his homeland.

Three strands of the same story become entwined in a ferocious race against time - for the Hawks to work out what lies behind the death of Johnson, for Daniel to evade the relentless Russian agents tracking him, for Benny Griessel to survive long enough to take another huge step in his efforts to piece together again the life he nearly destroyed - and finally ask Alexa Bernard to marry him.

The Last Hunt shows one of the great crime writers operating at the peak of his powers. (Released as Prooi in Afrikaans)

Twenty-two-year-old Etienne is studying film in London, having fled conscription in his native South Africa. It is 1986, the time of Thatcher, anti-apartheid campaigns and Aids, but also of postmodern art, post-punk rock, and Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Adrift in a city cast in shadow, he falls in love with a German artist while living in derelict artists’ communes. When Etienne finds the first of three reels of a German film from the 1930s, he begins searching for the missing reels, a project that turns into an obsession when his lover disappears in Berlin. It is while navigating this city divided by the Wall that Etienne gradually pieces together the history of a small group of Jewish film makers in Nazi Germany. It is a desperate quest amid complications that pull him back to the present and to South Africa. However, his search for the missing film continues. Ambitious and cosmopolitan, the material of SJ Naude’s The Third Reel is as disparate as the cities in which the book is set. Architecture, cinematography, sex, music, illness, loss and love all collide in this exquisitely wrought, deeply affecting novel.

A year ago Patrick Winter, a young South African, was sent to Namibia to complete his military service and to defend his country against ‘terrorism’. Now he is back, to meet Godfrey, his mother’s freedom-fighter boyfriend, and to witness the country’s first free elections.

But Patrick needs to confront and process much more than a country in transition, and in doing so he is forced to revisit his past and to face the pain and the demons that haunt him.

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.

'n Wit man soos Paul is so goed soos kroonwild ... In die vorige bedeling was Paul van Heerden se lewe een van gemak: groot huis in Pretoria se vooraanstaande woonbuurt, vanselfsprekende bevordering in die werk, welvaart en voorspoed. Toe kom die opstande en die grondbesetting. Nou word die Volksrepubliek van Azanie deur Die Party regeer. Alle wit mense is Weskaap toe verban. Die wat in Azanie wil werk, word toegelaat, maar word onderwerp aan dieselfde vernederende praktyke wat gedurende die Apartheidsjare beoefen is. Paul se vrou en kinders sit in 'n tentekamp in die Kaap, hy bly in 'n hostel en sukkel om sy werk te behou. Paul het egter 'n plan: hy begin met mampoer smokkel. Kort voor lank het hy 'n weldoener en sakevenoot in Thabo Ntombela, mampoerstokers en verspreiders. Maar in Azanie wil elkeen sy deel hê en 'n wit man soos Paul is so goed soos kroonwild.

Through young Mai’s eyes, life is enchanting and full of beauty. She dances on her grandfather’s feet while he talks of freedom. But the world is hard and her mother is struggling. When Rashid arrives, he casts a deep shadow over their lives. Nothing is beyond her new stepfather.

They are desperate to escape from him, and their world becomes a constant battle for survival – one of fleeing, multiple identities, abduction and upheaval. Mai’s eyes not only witness the story of her mother, but also the poignant stories of the many women she encounters across different countries. Finally, Mai learns that, when freedom comes, it comes at a bitter price.

From Mexico to Scotland to London to North Africa, the West Indies and back again, Glowfly Dance is a powerful and haunting story of migration, resilience and, ultimately, hope.

Koos se nuutste roman soos net hy dit kan skryf, maar ook meer.

Dit is ‘n donker komedie gebore uit die wanhoop en isolasie van die afgelope twee jaar se grendeltyd.

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.

Stela word aangestel om ’n moeilike tiener tuis te onderrig. Maar Pavo (oftewel, die plek van poue) is nie ’n doodgewone plaas nie. In die plek van ’n plaashuis vind Stela ’n stokou kasteel. Met ’n dwerg as butler, ’n preutse huishoudster wat aandring daarop om almal “Master” en “Juffrou” te noem, ’n Sjinese kok en ’n meester wat van bui verwissel soos die weer, kriewel haar ruggraat.

Boonop hang die kasteel vol skilderye van die vorige mistress wat selfmoord gepleeg het. Stela word toenemend geteister deur nagmerries en die gevoel dat sy dopgehou word. Sy word gewaarsku teen spoke en vermoed iemand krap in haar kamer waar sy gereeld pouvere kry. Loop haar verbeelding met haar weg, of moet sy ag slaan op waarskuwings oor Pavo en sy mense?

Plek van poue is ’n gotiese roman in die tradisie van Victoria Holt.

Chicago, 1931. A strange house gives serial killer Harper the power to travel through time; to hunt and kill his "shining girls'. They're bright young women full of spark - until he cuts it out of them, leaving clues from different times behind to taunt fate.

Kirby, the 90's girl, survives his attack and turns the hunt around. Tracing Harpers bloody trail of victims - from a glowing dancer in the 30's to a tough welder in the 40's and a bombshell architect in the 50's - Kirby is running out of time trying to solve an impossible mystery.

And Harper is heading towards her once again.

In Madelein Rust se sewende misdaadroman veg ’n forensiese sielkundige teen ’n demoon-uitdrywer maar ook teen haar eie demone. Sy word van ’n las verlig maar nie sonder dat sy verloor wat vir haar dierbaar was nie.

Hierdie is ’n omnibus bestaande uit drie van Marile Cloete se vorige Romanzas Man van min woorde, Man met ’n missie en Man van sy woord. Man van min woorde: Hy kan toor met honde en rekenaars, maar as dit by praat kom, verdamp Henri van der Merwe se woorde. Francesca is vasbeslote om deur die swygsaamheid te breek. Sy begeer een van die Duitse herdershonde wat hy teel, maar sy toets vir eienaarskap dop sy soos ’n klip. En haar selfbeeld is hoeka bitter broos na die Siebert-episode. Bowendien word haar frustrasie by die dag groter – as sy en haar galery-huis vol kunswerke nie goed genoeg is vir sy honde nie, sal sy in der ewigheid nie goed genoeg wees vir hul baas nie. Want helaas, sy begeer die swygsame Henri mettertyd baie, baie meer as sy lieflike honde. Man met ’n missie: Hy gaan haar nader trek, syne maak. Suutjies, sonder dat sy dit weet. Maar Lukas Bezuidenhout is ’n haastige man, geduld moet hy nog aanleer. Dis gewoonlik hy wat vir meisies weghol, maar die keer het hy sy moses teegekom. ’n Harder hardekwas as Mignon Grobbelaar kry jy nie. En tog, agter haar hardekwas-houding kruip ’n bang meisie weg, ’n kind-vrou met heeltemal te veel seer en bagasie. Daarom, weet Lukas, moet hy geduldig wees. Hy wil haar beskerm, laat veilig voel. Sy moet weet sy is as mens die moeite werd. En hy moet, nee, sal leer vasbyt; en hy wat lawwe Loekie Bezuidenhout is, kan leer om te wag. Man van sy woord: ’n Ouer en ryper Lourens – maar nog net so dodelik aantreklik soos lank gelede – is na twintig jaar onverwags terug en haar kind se gradeplegtigheid word vir Bianca ’n nagmerrie. Alles het mos verander en daar is nie meer vir hom ’n plek in haar lewe nie – of bluf sy haarself? Lourens is nie meer die impulsiewe jongman wat Bianca so hartstogtelik liefgekry het nie, en sy het ook met die jare ryper en meer volwasse geword. Dis net die onblusbare vonk tussen hulle en die honger na mekaar wat onveranderd gebly het ... Het daar te veel water in die see geloop of gaan hulle waag om hulle liefde weer ’n kans gee?

Leonie en Stefan is beste vriende.

Hulle was lank terug kortstondig in ’n verhouding, maar dit het nie uitgewerk nie. Nou is hy verloof aan haar beste vriendin, Olga.

Leonie wíl bly wees vir hulle en sy ís ... Of is sy besig om haarself te bluf?

Meet Tannie Maria: the loveable writer of recipes in her local paper, the Klein Karoo Gazette.

One Sunday morning, as Maria stirs apricot jam, she hears her editor Harriet on the stoep. What Maria doesn't realise is that Harriet is about to deliver a whole basketful of challenges and the first ingredient in two new recipes - recipes for love and murder.

A delicious blend of intrigue, milk tart and friendship, join Tannie Maria in her first investigation. Consider your appetite whetted for a whole new series of mysteries . . .

Grietjie se loutering is die aangrypende verhaal van ’n weduwee wat haar inkomste as tydelike huiswerker verdien in Grabouw. Sy sukkel om kop bo water te hou, maar haar geloof dra haar. Wanneer haar seun deur ’n provinsiale rugbyspan gewerf word, het die gesin hoop op ’n beter lewe.

Grietjie se geloof word getoets wanneer ’n tragedie die gesin tref.

“Ek weet wanneer ek eendag by die punt kom waar ek weer met die Here kan praat met vrymoedigheid, dan wag Hy vir my. En wanneer dit voel ek kan nie meer nie, dan dra Hy my. Maak nie saak wat ek verloor nie, ek het Hom altyd. Wat meer wil ek hê?”

Die mistigheid is klam en koel en dwarrel in vlae teen haar vel. Sy sak weg daarin. Los daarin op. Die mis rol nog digter teen haar aan, begin haar versmoor. Sy asem die digte klamheid hortend in. Nou is dit ook binne-in haar. Sy stoei vir asem ... Die droomwip moes haar drome verklaar, maar sy weet steeds nie wat hulle inhou nie. Die runesteen moet haar beskerm, maar die eerste aand op die plaas in die Maluti's is daar ʼn moord. Die antieke manuskrip kan dalk haar toekoms verseker ... as sy oorleef.

Solitaire, Woestynroos, Droomland en Wilde klawer is ’n vierluik oor vier vroue wat deelgeneem het aan ’n Boer soek ’n vrou-kompetisie en hulle wedervaringe daarna. Wilde klawer is die vierde boek in die reeks en gaan oor McKenna Wilde wat ’n spesiale gawe het om deur aanraking te “sien”. Vir hierdie ekstrovert wat verkies om eerder op die ligter sy van die lewe te fokus, is dit eerder ’n vloek as ’n seen. ’n Brief van ’n onbekende vrou lei haar terug na haar geboorteland, Noord-Ierland. Hier word sy gekonfronteer met haar ma se donker verlede en die Wildes se betrokkenheid by die IRL (Ierse Republikeinse Weermag) se bloedige stryd teen Britse oorheersing. Maar dit is ook ’n reis na selfontdekking. McKenna leer sy kan nie van haarself en haar herkoms vlug nie. In haar soeke na selfaanvaarding word dit vir haar duidelik ’n vrou moet eers ’n man met haar hart kan vertrou voor sy hom met haar lyf vertrou. McKenna wat nog altyd weggeskram het van blywende verhoudings sien oplaas in dat intimiteit sonder liefde bloot ’n gejaag na wind is. In Portballintrae, ’n klein hawedorpie aan die Ierse Noordkus kruis haar pad met verskeie mense s’n wat haar nie noodwendig almal goedgesind is nie. Die Donovan-broers wat ’n pub in Bushmills besit. Die Engelsman James Fellowes wat navorsing oor the Troubles doen en die Suid-Afrikaner Tim Els. Tim Els,’n tandarts wat vir twee jaar in Noord-Ierland werk, is vasgevang in sy eie ongelukkige verlede. McKenna besef sy kan haar gawe gebruik om hom te help. Maar dit is moeilik om teen ’n spook vir ’n man se hart te baklei. Boonop is dit vir McKenna ’n vreesaanjaende gedagte dat sy haar leefruimte permanent met ’n man moet deel.

Dis 'n donker Karoonag en 'n bebloede vrou hardloop grondpad langs. Iets grusaam het gebeur en Siena weet sy moet by Seekoegat Primere Skool uitkom, daar sal sy veilig wees. Dis baie ver, drie dae met 'n donkiekar en sy is te voet. Hierdie roman vertel die verhaal van Siena, Boetie en Kriekie, wie se lewens sedert kinderdae nou verweef is. Soos wat Siena hardloop ontmoet lesers die mense in haar lewe: Boetie is verwilderd en verwaarloos, altyd besig met kattekwaad. Sy vriendskap met Siena laat hom egter sy selfwaarde besef. Kriekie is 'n wrak. Sy ma is 'n prostituut wat by die stilhouplekke langs die n1 werk en hy het skaars 'n huis. Wanneer sy ma, Dolly, nie terugkom nie, beland hy deur een vrou se goedhartigheid ook by Seekoegat Primere Skool. Die Karooskilpad se simboliese spore kan deur die hele roman gesien word. Siena se pa, 'n karretjiemens, het altyd gese dat 'n skilpad die wysheid van die antieke landskap in hom dra. Daar word geglo dat 'n skilpad slegs een traan in sy leeftyd stort, die oomblik wanneer hy sterf. Die skilpad se laaste traan is bekroonde skrywer Carol Campbell se derde boek oor die Karoo. Soos haar vorige werk fokus sy sterk op sosiale realisme, maar vir die eerste keer is hier ook magiese realisme, so eie aan die mense oor wie sy skryf.

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