In die stormagtige jare voor en tydens die Groot Trek raak drie vroue se lewe vervleg in ’n stryd om voortbestaan. Lojaliteit word getoets en inbors word beproef.

Katrien is ’n sensitiewe waterverfskilder. Sy en haar man, Stefaans, wou vir hulle ’n lewe op ’n plaas op die Oosgrens maak. Maar toe teëspoed hulle tref, word hulle deel van Hendrik Potgieter se trek na die binneland.

Dina, ’n slavin, is Katrien se grootste vertroueling. Sy trek saam, haar liefde vir Stefaans ’n geheim wat sy ten alle koste moet bewaak.

Thabisa is deur haar man verwerp. Ook sý is deel van Katrien se kring.

Wanneer Stefaans by Piet Retief se noodlottige afvaardiging na Dingaan aansluit, onthou sy opnuut die onreg wat sy voorganger, Shaka, haar familie aangedoen het. In die loop van die geskiedenis laat hierdie drie vroue diep spore.

Koos Sas, Khoi plaaswerker op Touwsrivier smag na die vryheid wat sy voorouers gehad het.

Terwyl hy dros van sy werk op die plaas, kom hy tot die besef dat Suiderlike Afrika nou opgedeel is in plase wat aan individuele eienaars behoort.

Britse imperialisme en die mag van die gereg bring hom in botsing met die samelewing. Kort voor lank word hy berug in die kolonie. Sy situasie word oornag gekompliseer met die ontmoeting van ‘n Khoi meisie wat self opsoek is na vryheid.

Die soeke na vryheid word vererger deur Koos se miskenning van die mitologie van die Khoi, wat hom op ‘n dwaalspoor plaas.

It is 1206 AD, the year that Dini, the adopted son of Mudivi, the zivi of Mpemba Kasi, turns 12. There is joy and jubilation as Mudivi’s first wife falls pregnant, but the joy is short-lived when she gives birth to a baby girl with the same skin tone as Dini – a skin tone most abhorred in Mpemba Kasi.

Further South-East, in the Kingdom of Mapungubwe, the Lemba lived harmoniously with the Vhangona as one. The Lemba’s sacred drum, in the custody of their high priest, has been exploited by the king of the Vhangona to conquer other kingdoms. The king of Mpemba Kasi learns of the plan and intercepts the drum. Hadzhi and Mukoma, are determined to find their sacred drum and will not rest until it is returned home.

The journey is unkind, and as Hadzhi, with the same skin tone as Dini, finds himself alone in the journey, he is determined to enter the Kingdom of Mpemba Kasi to retrieve the drum. But the kingdom has not forgotten about the boy whose skin tone continues to scorn the kingdom’s divi through a girl he left behind.

As soon as Hadzhi enters the kingdom, a muddle of cheers and cries can be heard – jubilant cheers from the villagers as their whips pierce through the body tied to a pole, and a cry for help from a boy dying for the sins of the other who resembles his skin tone.

Gideon Lancaster, 'n Nieu-Seelander wat vir die Britte veg, infiltreer 'n Boerekommando. Hy word gou verstrengel in verwarrende lojaliteite wanneer hy die boeresoldate beter leer ken en boonop verlief raak op Esther Calitz, 'n eiesinnige Boeremeisie wat sy trou bo alle ander eis.

Tussen Esther en kommandant Jacob Eksteen, sy swygsame mededinger in die liefde en 'n man met swart-en-wit beginsels, vind hy sy weg met groot moeite. Die teenstrydige eise van trou en liefde dryf hom tot onbesonnenheid. Hy gryp die kans op 'n groot waagstuk aan toe 'n Britse bataljon gemobiliseer word om die oorlog tot 'n klinkende einde te bring.

Halfpad Een Ding is 'n meesleurende leeservaring, 'n liefdesverhaal en oorlogsavontuur neergepen deur 'n ervare, subtiele skrywershand.

Gideon Lancaster, a New Zealand soldier fighting for the British, infiltrates a Boer commando. He soon finds himself entangled in a confusion of loyalties as he becomes better acquainted with the men and, worse, falls in love with Esther Calitz, a Boer woman of considerable mettle who demands his loyalty over every other allegiance.

Between Esther and Commandant Jacob Eksteen, his taciturn rival in love and a man of clear black-and-white convictions, Lancaster navigates his way only with great difficulty.

So powerful are the conflicting demands of fidelity and love that he seizes a quixotic opportunity when a large British battalion is mobilised in what is to be the final triumph of the imperial forces.

The background is the notorious 1971 case in which nineteen citizens of Excelsior in the Free State were charged with breaking apartheid's Immorality Act, which forbade sex between black and white. In an extraordinary alchemy of words into art, Mda tells the story of a family at the heart of the scandal ? of Niki, the fallen madonna, Popi, her daughter by an eminent white citizen of the town, and Viliki, the betrayed son, and of how they come to terms with the repercussions and find resolution in surprising ways.

By turns earthy, witty and tragic, this energetic novel deftly handles issues of racial identity, rape and revenge. It is also a brilliantly observed study of the inner workings of small-town South Africa, and the changes rural communities have undergone.

Angelique van Olgen het op veertien al ’n onverskrokke gees. Nie eens ’n wilde seerower verskrik haar nie. Sy is net so ontembaar soos haar vlamrooi hare en sy laat geen man haar hiet en gebied nie. Maar dis moeilik om nie die knie voor die ewe formidabele aristokraat Graaf Dante de Péronne te buig nie. Hy bekoor haar, maak vreemde wilde begeertes in haar wakker en toets haar onskuld. Selfs toe hulle deur omstandighede verplig word om te trou behou Dante sy afstand. Hy gaan die Kaap sonder haar verlaat. Hy is op ’n missie en dit sluit haar nie in nie.

From the bestselling author of The Girl From the Train, comes another compelling coming of age story of delayed love, loss, and reconciliation in WWII-era South Africa.

Lettie has always felt different from and overshadowed by the women around her– this friend is richer, that friend is more beautiful, those friends are closer. Still, she doesn’t let this hold her back. She works hard to apply her mind, trying to compensate for her perceived lack of beauty with diligent academic work and a successful career as a doctor. She learns to treasure her friendships, but she still wonders if any man will ever return her interest.

Marco’s experience in the second world war have robbed him of love and health. When winters in his native Italy prove dangerous to his health even after the war has ended, he moves to South Africa to be with his brother, husband to one of Lettie’s best friends. Marco is Lettie’s first patient, and their relationship grows as she aids him on the road back to restored health.

In the company of beloved characters from The Child of the River, Marco and Lettie find a happiness that neither of them thought possible. With that joy comes pain and loss, but Lettie learns that life—while perhaps a crooked path—is always a journey worth taking.