Amidst a current tidal wave of negativity, Raising Champions emerges as a powerful and timely antidote for our country. Drawing from the personal journeys of three of South Africa’s most celebrated sports figures, Olympic gold medallist Chad le Clos, Bafana Bafana legend Shaun Bartlett, and 2007 Rugby World Cup winner CJ van der Linde, Raising Champions reveals how discipline, character, faith and having the right values can elevate ordinary youth into extraordinary leaders.

Written by life coach and author Myan Subrayan, the book serves as a motivational road map for parents, teachers, coaches and young people navigating today’s broken world. It delivers practical insights and powerful testimonies that prove our youth are not doomed to be another statistic. With the right mentorship and guidance, they can rise above their circumstances and become champions not just in sport, but in life.

This book is also a valuable resource for business leaders and organisations looking to inspire their teams with the timeless principles of commitment, perseverance and character. It challenges leaders to lead by example and equips them with insights that can ignite a culture of excellence and purpose within the workplace.

Raising Champions is a clarion call to a nation: it’s time to rebuild, one value-driven young person at a time.

This is a book about fairies. There’s only one problem … there are monsters hiding around every corner, just waiting to pull all sorts of silly pranks. Are there even any fairies in this book?

Drie van die die geliefde Ena Murray se heel beste speur- en spanningsverhale word hier byeengebring:

In Satan van Zimbabwe begin die intrige met 'n koerantberig oor 'n bloedlose lyk met erg verswakte organe. Kan dit die volmaakte moord wees, of is daar bonatuurlike kragte ter sprake? Êrens, verskuil in die mis tussen die mistieke Zimbabwe-ruïnes, lê die antwoord.

In Die man met die geel oë gee die werkgewers van geheime agent majoor Brand Böhm aan hom 'n unieke opdrag: dié aangewese "Suid-Afrikaanse James Bond" moet saam met 'n vrou van sy keuse een nag lank die stad rooi te verf, en hom in die proses so skandelik
gedra dat hy oneervol uit die weermag ontslaan sal word.

En in Onrus op Oshakati hoop dr. Linda Maartens sy kan die donker wolk wat oor haar professionele naam hang, ontvlug. Maar die verlede het ’n manier om 'n mens te agtervolg . . . Terreuraktiwiteite en dwelmsmokkelary vier hoogty – en kort voor lank word sy in ’n
web van misdaad vasgespin.

Wilson se lewe is, net soos haar naam, ietwat buitengewoon. Sy woon saam met haar ouers in 'n huis op wiele en moet elke paar maande na 'n nuwe dorp trek. Dit frustreer haar baie. Amper so baie soos Errol. Hy het onlangs besluit dat Wilson sy beste maat is en dat sy hom moet vergesel op vervelige uitstappies soos voëlkyk. Net toe Wilson dink dat Verkeerdevlei net so vervelig gaan wees soos al die ander klein dorpies waar sy al gewoon het, ontdek sy iets uitsonderlik - iets wat ten alle koste geheim gehou moet word. Maar dan raak dinge gevaarlik ... Iemand is daarop uit om wraak te neem, en niks en niemand gaan hom stuit nie - veral nie twee kinders nie.

Being a classic baker Martjie shares her passion for precision, and makes it doable with easy to follow steps, grounded on basic techniques and guidelines, sharing secrets few other baking books offer. Martjie guides you seemlessly from basic recipes, gradually giving you the confidence and experience to master the more difficult, technical ones.

A joy to read, and a feast for the eyes, it showcases an essential selection of quality recipes, helping you create a menu for every occasion. From Martjies legendary Meringue cake to her dark chocolate tart, she teaches you the art of the flakiest melt in your mouth pies, simple crumpets, french pancakes, basic tips and secrets. Perfect for the newly wed or anyone wanting to take their baking skills to the next level.

Katrina Hunt has a disturbing secret. Since her earliest days fighting for survival in the poverty of a trailer park, she’s been able to sense moral corruption. And her gift is never wrong. This strange ability affects every relationship, for people have no way to hide from her.

Katrina harnesses her gift and sets it to work, sniffing out evil in positions of privilege and power. Yet she soon finds she is not the only one who can do it. On the far side of the world, a scientist cracks an algorithm that will forever change law-enforcement. His new scan can detect a person’s genetic propensity for wrongdoing, even before they act.

But what if the most corrupt man in the world, a political figure assuming ever higher office, is able to beat the scan? What if he alone can hide his true darkness? What if he is ... not quite human?

Katrina’s path will lead inexorably to confrontation with an immense power. But can she stop him, before it is too late for humanity?

Bettina is wyd bekend vir haar weeklikse rubrieke vir LitNet en as iemand wat opstaan vir reg en geregtigheid.

Sy het haar 50 gunsteling-meningstukke gekies en sê: “My rubrieke is nie bedoel om net nog 'n eggokamer te wees waar mense nét dit weerspieël sien waarin hulle glo nie. Juis nie. Wat ek hoop om elke week te doen is om mense aan die dink en aan die gesels te kry.”

Druppel baljaar saam met Mamma in die vlak water. Die dolfyntjie raak vriende met Leila, ’n dogtertjie wat saam met haar pa op ’n branderplank ry. Van toe af speel hulle elke oggend tog te lekker saam. Een vreeslike oggend draai daar plastiek om Druppel en Mamma, en hulle spoel op die strand uit. Leila kry hulle daar. Sy en haar pa doen alles wat hulle kan om hulle nuwe vriende te red.

In Troep! vertel meer as ’n honderd oud-troepe wat hulle onthou van diensplig: om op skool opgeroep te word, te gaan oorlog maak en twee jaar later weer huis toe te kom. Tussenin lê stories van varkpanne, tiekiebokse, twee-komma-viers, boeliebief, die DB, ryloop, pakkies, bosbussies, naweekpas, ratpacks, stof, Buffels, landmyne en skrapnel – en ook herinneringe van vriende, seuns en broers wat nie teruggekom het nie.

Bun Booyens voeg al hierdie stemme saam tot die verhaal van die uitsonderlike dinge wat duisende gewone seuns beleef het. Hierdie stories sal ’n snaar by veterane roer, en hul naastes help om te verstaan watter dinge hierdie mense vandag steeds met hulle saamdra – dit wat hulle onthou, maar ook dit wat hulle nie kan vergeet nie.

Danser bly saam met sy familie in die vlei. Die perde loop wild rond en is baie skaam. ’n Fotograaf neem foto’s van hulle vir ’n kalender. Die mense hou baie daarvan. Eendag bring die fotograaf ’n seuntjie in ’n rolstoel saam. Danser vergeet om skaam te wees. Hy doen allerhande lawwe dinge om die seuntjie te laat glimlag. Dit word ’n baie spesiale dag en die seuntjie belowe om weer te kom kuier.

Patat slaap elke aand styf teen Mamma in die berg. Vroegoggend begin die hele trop bobbejane kos soek. Partykeer is daar nie genoeg kos in die berg en op die strand nie. Dan moet hulle dorp toe gaan. ’n Kwaai man wil vir Patat en Mamma uit ’n lukwartboom jaag. Maar die vrou en dogtertjie wat daar woon, gee nie om dat hulle kom kuier het nie. Patat weet nou hulle het vriende in die dorp.

’n Pretdraf?
Dit klink na groot pret!
Minki kan nie wag om saam met haar twee beste maats deel te neem nie.

Maar Danika gaan ook vir die pretdraf inskryf en sy is van plan om te wen … selfs al beteken dit sy moet ’n nare poets bak om te sorg dat Minki-hulle nie die wedloop kan klaarmaak nie.

Kort voor lank lyk dit of die pretdraf glad nie meer pret gaan wees nie …

Soms lê ek in my bed, my lyf opgekrul om herinneringe aan hom, totdat dit voel asof die woonstel se dak oplig en die mure wegval en ek omhels word deur die nag se fluweelsagte duisternis. Dan dryf ek uit my lyf, tot in die buitenste ruim waar my ouers glo al vir dekades lank saam met ruimterommel en stukkies meteoriet, al om en om ’n hemelliggaam sweef.

Op my boekrak staan ’n geraamde foto van hulle, geneem net voor hul laaste ruimtesending. Hul gesigte is stroef, asof hulle geweet het dit is hul laaste missie.

Of dalk het hulle net in die son gekyk.

Mila Kozlowa is ’n Moskouse psigoterapeut wat tydens beradingsessies sit en fantaseer oor geroosterde salm en seks.

Sy dink ook aan haar kinderjare – sprokiesagtige besoeke aan ’n afgeleë hut in ’n berkewoud saam met haar ouma Babusja. Nou is Babusja oud en verswak en Mila is verantwoordelik vir haar. Wat steek haar ouma vir haar weg? Waar is Mila se ouers? Het hulle regtig tydens ’n ruimtereis verdwyn?

Intussen ontmoet Mila ’n Suid-Afrikaner wat sy oorlogtrauma met haar deel en kort voor lank begin die skeidslyn tussen werklikheid en fantasie vervaag. Waar eindig die droom en begin die realiteit? En vir hoe lank kan ’n mens jou eie leuens glo?

Pickle sleeps tightly against Mama every night in the mountain. Early every morning, the whole troop of baboons start searching for food. Sometimes there isn't enough food in the mountain and on the beach. Then they have to go to the village. A mean man wants to chase Pickle and Mom out of a marula tree. But the woman and little girl who live there don't mind that they came to visit. Pickle now knows they have friends in the village.

Whisper lives in a circus. Even though she's just a cub, the lion tamer already starts teaching her tricks. Whisper's heart is sore. She doesn't want to do tricks like Mama and be in a cage. Mama tells Whisper that they come from Africa and were born to be free. They are rescued from the circus and taken to South Africa. There they are free to climb trees and roll in the grass.

Minki se verjaardag is om die draai.
Sy mag kies – wil sy ’n present hê of ’n partytjie hou?

Minki wil baie graag haar kamer mooi maak … maar sy wil ook nie die kans laat verbygaan om vir haar maats ’n lekker partytjie te hou nie!

Twee spesiale besoekers by die skool krap egter al haar planne
deurmekaar … en gee haar ’n baie oulike verjaardag-idee.

Maar dit lyk of Danika haar bes gaan doen om te sorg dat Minki ’n goor verjaardag het …

Smiley plays with Mom in the shallow water. That day the little dolphin becomes friends with Leila, a girl who rides a surfboard with her dad. From then on, they play together every morning, having a great time. One terrible morning, there is plastic wrapped around Smiley and Mom, and they wash up on the beach. Leila finds them there. She and her dad do everything they can to save their new friends.

From bestselling South African author Penny Haw comes a new historical fiction tale inspired by the story of groundbreaking paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, in a sweeping, dual-timeline story of intergenerational friendship, a meditation on the beauty of the natural world, and a celebration of the women who pave the way for those to come.

It's 1983 and seventeen-year-old Grace Clark has just lost her mother when she begrudgingly accompanies her estranged father to an archeological dig at Olduvai Gorge on the Serengeti plains of Tanzania. Here, seventy-year-old Mary Leakey enlists Grace to sort and pack her fifty years of work and memories.

Their interaction reminds Mary how she pursued her ambitions of becoming an archeologist in the 1930s by sneaking into lectures and working on excavations. When well-known paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey commissions her to illustrate a book, she's not at all expecting to fall in love with the older married man. Mary then follows Louis to East Africa, where she falls in love for a second time, this time with the Olduvai Gorge, where her work defines her as a great scientist and allows her to step out of Louis's shadow.

In time, Mary and Grace learn they are more alike than they thought, which eventually leads them to the secret that connects them. They also discover a mutual deep love for animals, and when Lisa, an injured cheetah, appears at camp, Mary and Grace work together to save her. On the morning Grace is due to leave, the girl―and the cheetah―are nowhere to be found, and it becomes a race against time to rescue Grace before the African bush claims her.

From the acclaimed author of The Invincible Miss Cust and The Woman at Wheel comes an adventurous, dual timeline tale that explores the consequences of our choices, wisdom that comes with retrospection, and relationships that make us who we are, based on the extraordinary real life of Mary Leakey.

Humbug lives with his family in the marsh. The horses roam wild and are very shy. A photographer takes photos of them for a calendar. People really like the photos. One day the photographer brings a boy in a wheelchair along. Humbug forgets to be shy. He does all sorts of silly things to make the boy smile. It becomes a very special day and the boy promises to visit again.

Showcasing African Gothic at its finest, this hypnotic novel tangles together classic texts of madness and female rebellion alongside elements of the jingoistic novels of Victorian adventurer H. Rider Haggard. The result is an extraordinary reinvention of colonial and patriarchal perspectives.

The unnamed narrator spins a web back through a century of colonial possession – political, spiritual and mental – to imagine the stories of conquest and captivity, control and disruption, from the perspective of the women and men ‘half-broken’ by the stigmas attached to race and mental illness. Equally ‘half-broken’ are those dehumanised by their insane greed for dominion and treasure.

With trademark compassion and complexity, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu balances the humanity of her characters against the cruelty of empire, making for a spellbinding and literally haunting account of love and magic.

Moord aan boord van die Leonardo

Forensiese patoloog Madelein Blignaut het al te veel dood in haar loopbaan gesien. Ná nog ’n ontstellende hofsaak besluit sy om ontvlugting te gaan soek op die Leonardo, ’n luukse passasierskip wat deur die verre ooste vaar.

Daar ontmoet sy ’n groep fassinerende Suid-Afrikaners: Die bekroonde pianis Tibor Lindeque wat kort-kort bekommerd vir haar kyk en ’n aantreklike kulkunstenaar Helmut Coleman wat gou vir haar onweer-staanbaar raak.

Wanneer hulle op Okinawa afklim, vertel Tibor vir haar die inwoners van hierdie eiland word oeroud. “Daar is nie dood op Okinawa nie.”

Maar hy is verkeerd. Kort voor lank tref hulle die een na die ander medepassasier se lyk aan. ’n Storm dwing hulle na dieper waters toe, en dan besef Madelein daar is ’n moordenaar op die Leonardo. Wie is dit? Wat wil hulle hê? En, meer belangrik, wie’s volgende?

This book is not about what you need to stop doing to lose fat – because focusing on what you should not do is enough to make you not want to start at all. In 40KGs LIGHTER, Mandy Meyer shifts the focus to what you can start doing today, without feeling
overwhelmed.

Mandy has not only lost 40 kilograms – she’s successfully kept it off for several years, something most people struggle to do. After countless rounds of yo-yo dieting, pub crawls, 3 am cheesy fries, and starting fresh every Monday, she finally cracked the code to
sustainable fat loss.

In this down-to-earth, humorous, and no-nonsense book, Mandy shares the mindset shifts, powerful lessons, and everyday strategies that helped her stop starting over each new week and build a healthy lifestyle that finally stuck.

Packed with personal stories, practical tips, and straight-up truth bombs, you will get to grips with the real science of fat loss – and more importantly, how to create a way of eating and exercising that works for you.

Whether you’ve got five kilograms or 50 to lose, this book will help you ditch the diets, break free from restrictions, and build a healthier life on your own terms.

Get ready to unlock sustainable weight-loss tools for real people, ready for real change.