Die winde van politieke verandering waai oor Hamerplein – daar waar die forse beeld van Raadslid Hamersma nou al so lank die rigting aanwys. Dit dwarrel oor die rivier, oor die skeidslyne van die verlede; pluk aan al wat ’n hoë boom is en laat ewe veel stof opstyg uit prominente posisies en obskure hoekies: Die burgemeester. Marumo. Snor de Beer. Rian Roux. Kryg Roelofse. John Oudemann. Bos Fourie. Mal Mary. Maryville. Die Wishbone. Die kloktoring …

Tien jaar later moet die joernalis Wessel Wessels ’n storie aanmekaarsit uit die legkaartstukkies van dié revolusie in die kleine, en leer hy vinnig dat dit nie noodwendig demokrasie is wat die dorpsinwoners tot vrees of stilswye gedwing het nie; dis eerder die pad soontoe en terug wat die probleem is.

’n Slim, boeiende satire oor ’n land wat Suid-Afrika kon wees (maar nie noodwendig is nie) – en karakters wat jou bure kon wees (as hulle nie so pynlik op jouself getrek het nie).

One morning, a stranger arrives in the town of Golden. No one knows who he is or where he came from…

His name is Theo and he's arrived there by chance – or has he? He visits the local coffeehouse, where ninety-two pencil portraits hang on the walls, portraits by a local artist of the people of Golden. He begins purchasing them, one at a time, and putting them back in the hands of their 'rightful owners'. With each exchange, a story is told, a friendship born, and a life altered.

A story of seeing and being seen, Theo of Golden is a beautifully crafted novel about the power of creative generosity, the importance of wonder to a purposeful life, and the invisible threads of kindness that bind us to one another.

Originally published in 2023.

Essays on Karl Jaspers, Rosa Luxemburg, Pope John XXIII, Isak Dinesen, Bertolt Brecht, Randall Jarrell, and others whose lives and work illuminated the early part of the century. Index.

Joshua and Lily know it from the moment they set eyes on one another: here is someone who shares their gift. Here is another time traveller.

Over the years they grow more adventurous, taking ever greater risks even after their twins, Tommy and Eva, are born. One day they depart and never return, and the children are left to deal with their grief alone.

Tommy takes refuge in the past, but when he falls in love with a woman from a different era, his fragile ties to the present day look set to disappear forever.

Heartfelt and hopeful, weaving through decades and across continents in incredible prose, The Moon Represents My Heart is an unforgettable debut about the bond between one extraordinary family, and the strength it takes to move forward.

Dekades lank het Peet van Jaarsveld sy bokplaas Syferfontein in die Karoo met 'n ysterhand bestuur. Na die afsterwe van sy eggenoot leef hy in toenemende isolasie van sy kinders en die gemeenskap en probeer homself probeer oortuig dat sy dade en ongenaakbare houding teenoor ander verantwoord is.

Tydens Geloftenaweek in 1960 gebeur daar enkele dinge op sy plaas wat sy ouderdom, eiesinnigheid en verval onder die vergrootglas plaas. Syferfontein is die noukeurige en vaardige bestekopname van die herinneringe, denke en drome van ’n bejaarde man en vertel die verhaal van die uiteindelike ondergang van ’n patriargale Afrikaner oor die tydsverloop van 'n enkele naweek.

In hierdie tragedie waarin Peet van Jaarsveld van sy verlede rekenskap neem, wys outeur Cas Wepener ons 'n wereld en 'n denkwyse wat op makabere manier sowel vertroud as vreemd is.

The darkly comic killer debut novel of 2026. Picked as a book to look out for by Vogue, Esquire, Marie Claire, The New Yorker, Stylist, Elle and Glamour.

The first time, Yrsa doesn’t intend to kill. But the Cambridge professor sitting opposite has manipulated her friend, stolen her research. When she flicks the bee into his Sanpellegrino, she thinks he’ll get a nasty sting.

Then he’s dead. And Yrsa, who – let’s face it – has been bored for a while, is alive. It’s a sweet feeling, finally having some control.

Comic, sexy, addictive, unpredictable, Honey is about the not-always-righteous path of taking justice into your own hands.

An experimental novel by George Orwell, featuring a chapter written entirely in dramatic form.

Owami has been happily married for years, until she gets blindsided by her husband’s infidelity. She is pressured into staying in the marriage even though their relationship never fully recovers.

On the other side of Johannesburg, Akani is experiencing marital problems of his own. Having left his job to start his own company, his usually supportive wife becomes less so the moment she becomes the breadwinner.

And then, fortuitously, Owami and Akani’s paths cross. They begin a passionate relationship, one that their respective marriages can’t put asunder. Meanwhile, in a restaurant, a man and woman are flipping a coin to determine who should be killed first by the hitman they’ve hired . . .

All relationships are complicated. But if you had to make a choice, what would you decide: love, marry or kill?

Soois Swart bedryf sy sukkelende koerantjie op die dorpie Erdvark in die Knersvlakte waar die afwesigheid van moderne tegnologie groot uitdagings aan hom stel. Met die naderende munisipale eleksie vermenigvuldig sy kopsorge.

Vir die eerste keer in ’n dekade word die regerende BA Minus deur twee ander partye teengestaan. Burgemeester Duimpie du Plooy dreig om sy kompos-onderneming se advertensies uit die koerant te onttrek indien hy ontevrede is met wat Soois skryf.

Soois moet ’n koorddans uitvoer tussen goeie joernalistiek en beriggewing wat nie aanstoot gee nie. Geensins ’n maklike taak nie, gegewe die talle strydpunte – die brandenste een die afwesigheid van spoeltoilette op die dorp. Die BA Minus is vurige kampvegters vir die
behoud van kleinhuisies en die opposisie driftige voorstanders vir vernuwing.

Wanneer ’n horingadder in ’n kleinhuisie sy tande in ’n kwesbare deel van ’n inwoner slaan, klap die eerste eleksieskoot amptelik. Van daar af gaan dit doller as kopaf.

Ná ’n meteoriet op ’n plattelandse dorp neerstort, kom soek ’n komponis inspirasie vir die klankbaan van ’n wetenskapsfiksiefliek. Hy loseer by ’n astronoom wat navorsing oor gravitasiekolke doen. Haar agtjarige seun praat nie.

Die astronoom wil van haar verlede ontsnap. Die komponis het ’n toekoms wat hy nie wil trotseer nie. In die onmoontlike “nou” ontstaan ’n aarselende verhouding tussen dié twee beskadigdes; wentel hulle om mekaar met kragte wat tot vernietiging óf vernuwing kan lei.

Op 25 is Rebecca Fagan in besit van 'n regsgraad, 'n rugsak, 'n groot mond en baie guts.  Sy het twee jaar lank druiwe gepluk in Frankryk, in Italië op 'n olyfplaas gewerk en in Duitsland was sy 'n kelner.  Maar nou is sy terug in Suid Afrika en sy soek 'n “regte” werk.  Toe sy hoor dat Julian Hoffman, derde geslag erfgenaam van ‘n multibiljoenrand-maatskappy, op soek is na 'n persoonlike assistent, besluit sy om aansoek te doen.  Wie nie waag nie, sal nie wen nie, is haar leuse.

The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 2019

Full of her trademark mix of unforgettable characters and heart-breaking secrets, The Butterfly Room is a spellbinding, multi-generational story from Sunday Times bestseller Lucinda Riley.

Posy Montague is approaching her seventieth birthday. Still living in her beautiful family home, Admiral House, set in the glorious Suffolk countryside where she spent her own idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and raised her own children, Posy knows she must make an agonizing decision. Despite the memories the house holds, and the exquisite garden she has spent twenty-five years creating, the house is crumbling around her, and Posy knows the time has come to sell it.

Then a face appears from the past – Freddie, her first love, who abandoned her and left her heartbroken fifty years ago. Already struggling to cope with her son Sam’s inept business dealings, and the sudden reappearance of her younger son Nick after ten years in Australia, Posy is reluctant to trust in Freddie’s renewed affection. And unbeknown to Posy, Freddie – and Admiral House – have a devastating secret to reveal . . .

Brenda has always worked hard to fit in – from her school days, when her talent in athletics gave her access to a richer world, to marriage to her soulmate, which bound her to that world.

It’s hard to know how much of her discomfort comes from the ongoing presence of Denver in her life. From the time when they were the two fastest girls in the athletics team, through years of marriage and parenthood, Denver has always offered friendship, worthy competition … and simmering resentment.

When Brenda realises that Denver is a threat to her family’s wellbeing, there’s nothing she won’t do to protect them. And Denver will do anything to protect herself. After years of rivalry, who will cross the finish line first?

* * WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 * *

Life on our planet as you've never seen it before

A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day.

Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction.

The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part - or protective - of it. They begin to ask, what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?

A stunning debut novel following five women from three generations of a once illustrious Iranian family as their lives are turned upside down

Meet the women of the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they're nobodies.

First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose, who remained in Tehran despite the revolution. She is kept company by Niaz, her young, Islamic-law-breaking granddaughter. In America, Elizabeth’s two daughters have built new lives for themselves. There’s Shirin, a flamboyantly high-flying event planner in Houston, who considers herself the family's future; and Seema, a dreamy idealist turned bored housewife languishing in Los Angeles. And then there's the other granddaughter, Bita, a disillusioned law student in New York trying to find deeper meaning by giving away her worldly belongings.

When an annual vacation in Aspen goes wildly awry and Shirin ends up being bailed out of jail by Bita, the family's brittle upper class veneer is cracked wide open and gossip about them spreads like wildfire. Soon, Shirin must embark upon a grand quest to restore the family name to its former glory. But what does that mean in a country where the Valiats never mattered to anyone? And, will reputation be enough to make them a family again?

Spanning from 1940s Iran into a splintered 2000s The Persians is an irresistible portrait of a unique family in crisis that explores timeless questions of love, money, art and fulfilment. Here is their past, their present and a possible new future for them all.

From the International Booker Prize-Shortlisted author of HEAVEN and BREASTS AND EGGS.

Hana has nothing but she’s hopeful. She’s fifteen years old. She lives in a tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo with her young mother, a hostess at a local dive bar. They have no money, no security. Then Kimiko appears.

Kimiko is older, a bright light in Hana’s dark world. Together they set up Lemon, a bar that, despite its shabby setting and seedy clientele, becomes a haven for Hana. Suddenly Hana has a job she loves, friends to share her days with, and the glittering promise of money. She feels like a normal girl. She feels invincible.

But in the narrow alleys of Sangenjaya, nothing is as it seems. Soon all of Hana’s hope, her optimism, and her drive, will be tested to the limit . . .

A story of enduring friendship and deep betrayal, Sisters in Yellow is a masterpiece of teenage dreams and adult cruelties that confirms Mieko Kawakami as one of the great writers of her generation.

Wanneer ’n nuuskierige toeris aan Zanzibar se kus vermoor word, peul die vreemdste karakters uit die spesery-eiland se tropiese woud.

Die bou van Giorgio Comaneti se blinknuwe Zanzibar Zen Casino gaan die helfte van die Jozani-woud uitwis. Toast le Roux, omgewingsjoernalis, moet die stootskrapers betyds stop.

Maar Comaneti se gevaarlike handlangers, Tjokkie en Bozo, is reeds op Toast se spoor. En hulle wil net vriendelik met hom gesels.