Everyone in the village said nothing good would come of Gabriel's return. And as Beth looks at the man she loves on trial for murder, she can't help thinking they were right.

Beth was seventeen when she first met Gabriel. Over that heady, intense summer, he made her think and feel and see differently. She thought it was the start of her great love story. When Gabriel left to become the person his mother expected him to be, she was broken.

It was Frank who picked up the pieces and together they built a home very different from the one she'd imagined with Gabriel. Watching her husband and son, she remembered feeling so sure that, after everything, this was the life she was supposed to be leading.

But when Gabriel comes back, all Beth's certainty about who she is and what she wants crumbles. Even after ten years, their connection is instant. She knows it's wrong and she knows people could get hurt. But how can she resist a second chance at first love?

A love story with the pulse of a thriller, Broken Country is a heart-pounding novel of impossible choices and devastating consequences.

'He left you some money.'

Mickey felt her mouth drop open. The first half of that sentence had rung clear and true. The second half had not. Her father was one to take, not give.

After he left them for his new family, Mickey resolved never to think of her father again. She's fine without him; yes, she drinks, but only sometimes and, really, she can’t not.

But with only $181 to her name, she’s not above attending some mandated therapy to access her inheritance. She’ll kneel at the Kleenex alter and soon be bingeing Bridgerton with a bottle of Russian Standard, five million dollars richer.

Arlo has more issues than most of her clients. Being a therapist has not prepared her for grief. She adored her father – his laughter, his charm, the smell of his cologne. She thought he adored her, too, but now he’s given his inheritance to a daughter no one knows, and Arlo is at a loss.

Two sisters are unknowingly thrown together for the first time.

It’s crazy, it's unethical.

It's perfect.

Shelley Jacobsen is in her 40s and feels trapped. The coffee and décor shop that she opened with her bestie is proving to be a gilded cage. Meanwhile, her husband is consumed with Jewish guilt since having their twins, which reminds Shelley that she will always be a Shiksa to his family. Then she hires Wayde Smith, a sexy 22-year-old surfer who smells like a Pina Colada Coconut Vanilla Dessert, as a barista. He makes her feel young and Shelley just wants some fun. But will it stay harmless?

Speuradjudant Storm van der Merwe en kollega Shirien Niemandt is vroegoggend eerste op die toneel, in ’n eenslaapkamerhuis in Zwelihle digby Hermanus. Op die oog af lyk die bejaarde Gerty Jonas se afsterwe na natuurlike oorsake, maar hoekom het Kai nie by sy ma se lyk gewag nie? En hoekom het hy soos mis voor die son verdwyn?

Die lysie raaisels raak al hoe langer. Shirien ignoreer skielik haar oproepe, en kolonel Mier Ritchie kom met die storie vorendag dat Storm oneties opgetree het, en sy word summier tydelik ontslaan.

Sy besluit op ’n kort blaaskans op Jane English se wildsplaas buitekant Barrydale. Maar Jane vertel haar ’n sindikaat het net die vorige week skaars vetplantjies gestroop en sy smeek Storm om te help om die internasionale smokkelnetwerk oop te vlek. Toe sy instem, verskyn die einste Kai Jonas weer op die toneel.

'n Seun word groot in die platteland waar die lewe hemel is, totdat sy pa sterf. Hy word weggeskeur van Zoar en verhuis na Mitchells Plein waar hy kennis maak met sy passie (DJ) maar ook verstrengel raak in dwelms. Hy vind bevryding en word 'n suksesvolle DJ. Hierdie boek vertel aan tieners dat daar hoop is, al is die lewe hel. Hierdie boek bied regte hoop aan duisende dwelm verslaafde Suid-Afrikaners.

It is 2003 – ten years since Spud Milton’s class of 93 matriculated and the boys went their separate ways. Despite their seemingly unbreakable bond, the Crazy 8 – Rambo, Mad Dog, Vern, Fatty, Garth Garlic, Boggo, Simon and Spud – have not kept in touch. Or at least, not as far as Spud knows. When he receives an invitation from the school to attend the 10 Year Reunion weekend, Spud is determined to avoid the event at all costs, but he hasn’t reckoned with the bombardment of intrusive messages and threatening phone calls from his former dorm mates. No one is going to bend his arm, not this time; he is immune to peer pressure and wise to Rambo’s devious manipulation techniques. Spud has moved on. And, anyway, he has enough to worry about on the home front.

At 28 Spud is stuck in a one-third life crisis. Reflecting on a decade of spectacular non-achievement, at a point where he’s coming to realise that his glittering stage career might have stalled before it’s even begun, casts him into deep gloom. For the former scholarship kid, the prospect of once again having to measure up to his blue-blooded school friends – and be found wanting – has him riddled with anxiety. Not only that. Spud still doesn’t have a serious girlfriend, which has seen him resort to a questionable international bathsexting relationship with an old flame. Not to mention that circumstances have forced him to move back in with his parents and his senile grandmother, Wombat, whose walks never end where they began.

After a wildly unsuccessful fishing trip with his father, as well as a return to his old way of figuring things out – writing in his diary – to his own surprise, Spud finds his reunion resistance crumbling. Curiosity and courage win the day. It’s just a weekend, after all … what could possibly go wrong?

In The Easter Parade, first published in 1976, we meet sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes when they are still the children of divorced parents. We observe the sisters over four decades, watching them grow into two very different women. Sarah is stable and stalwart, settling into an unhappy marriage. Emily is precocious and independent, struggling with one unsatisfactory love affair after another. Richard Yates's classic novel is about how both women struggle to overcome their tarnished family's past, and how both finally reach for some semblance of renewal.

Fiction. Suliman grew up as a street kid in Detroit. In jail, he began to understand himself as a man who can change things with his hands and his sense of beauty. When he meets Kate, an older woman who has always found her sense of worth in sexual relationships, she becomes his patron. Although she is unable to free herself from her own rigid sense of how things are supposed to be, Kate helps Suliman to reinvent himself as a successful artist, finding beauty and vitality in the urban landscape of Detroit.

Alex het 'n teorie oor chaos. Waar hy ookal gaan, volg dit hom. Dis hoekom hy joernalis geword het en hom nou in Tanzanie bevind. By 'n troue iewers tussen Dar es Salaam en Arusha ontmoet Alex vir Ranna, 'n vryskutfotograaf met 'n bos swart krulhare, 'n t-hemp wat se Dr. Seuss is altyd reg, en 'n verlede waaroor sy nie praat nie. Alex wat lankal nie meer in Die Liefde glo nie, weet: dit is hoe dit voel. Maar dan haal die chaos hom in. Eers begin dit onophoudelik reen en paaie en dorpies spoel weg. En dan, wanneer die lyk van 'n Amerikaanse IT-biljoener op ’n strand uitspoel, word dit duidelik dat Ranna met rede haar verlede probeer begrawe. Waarom anders stel die polisie skielik in haar belang?

On New Year's Eve in 1987, lightning kills Nate's and Danny's mother. To deal with the loss and make sense of a world seemingly governed by chance, their distant and eccentric father creates the Nicotine Gospel.

"According to him, an eight by five cardboard box containing somewhere near twenty machine-made cigarettes would tell you all you needed to know about a man."

The boys throw themselves into the lessons to be close to their dad, but as nate grows up and begins to understand how strange the family gospel (and their father) truly is, he starts to worry. While Nate excels at school and finds ways to escape their father's neglect and the increasingly ramshackle house in Durban, Danny seems to revel in courting danger and death.

Decades later, upon learning of their father's death, Nate and Danny, long estranged, decide to drive from Durban to Cape Town to attend the funeral. On the journey, they must confront each other and their troubled past to find a way forward.

Cuando Helen conocio a Swift y Ava Havilland en una galeria de arte, su vida se hallaba en su punto mas bajo. Detenida por conducir bajo los efectos del alcohol, habia perdido la custodia de su hijo de ocho anos y solo lo veia cada dos sabados. Atrapada en un trabajo frustrante, Helen asistia todas las noches a las reuniones de Alcoholicos Anonimos y ocasionalmente salia con algun hombre. Todo eso cambio cuando conocio a Ava y Swift Havilland, una pareja de filantropos ricos y carismaticos, locamente enamorados y grandes defensores de los animales. Los Havilland se convirtieron rapidamente en el centro de la existencia de Helen, que no solo comenzo a trabajar para ellos sino que se sumo a su circulo de amistades: vestia la ropa que Ava desechaba, entretenia a la pareja con sus anecdotas de citas desastrosas, catalogaba su coleccion de arte y compartia con ellos comidas y secretos cada vez mas intimos. Entonces conocio a Elliot, un contador de vida apacible y rutinaria al que los Havilland tacharon de aburrido. Pese a que empezaba a enamorarse de el, la desaprobacion de sus amigos hizo dudar a Helen de sus sentimientos. Tenia muy presente lo que los Havilland habian hecho por ella y su hijo. Ollie habia caido bajo el embrujo de Swift: el nino solitario idolatraba a aquel hombre colosal que lo trataba como a un hijo. Y Swift le habia prometido a Helen los servicios de su abogado para ayudarla a recuperar la custodia del nino. Entonces sobrevino la tragedia: Ollie presencio un accidente de consecuencias devastadoras en la casa que los Havilland tenian en el lago Tahoe. Ahora, Helen y el habrian de pagar por la generosidad de sus nuevos amigos. O arriesgarse a asumir las consecuencias.

Jericho's War is a relentlessly powerful novel of our times from 'the best thriller writer in the world' (Daily Telegraph) In a moment of nerve shredding suspense that will affect many thousands of lives, a handful of men and women will converge on a barren stretch of Yemeni desert. Each of them will need spirit, courage and immense luck to survive the next forty-eight hours. Corrie Rankin is already a legend at MI6 when he is called back with little regard for the horrors of his recent past. Corrie is sent to take advantage of a chance to take down a high value player in the war against Al Qaeda - and, a chance for the Brits to succeed without begging help from the Americans. The sniper and his spotter who will go with Corrie are less than top team, but the best that can be found if the mission is to stay 'deniable'. And once the three misfits are in-country, they must rely on intelligence brought to them by a young British Jihadi - on the ground and close to the target - and now turned. And, close to him, is an archaeologist digging in the ruins of the Queen of Sheba' civilisation who will be their cut-out contact point. The mission is the brain-child of an apparently old, fat fool in a striped cricket blazer, a sweating figure of fun among the ex-pat community across the border in Muscat. This is Jericho ... not as old or fat or foolish as he appears, nor as harmless. This is Jericho's War. The weapons it deploys, the brutal aims it pursues, are state of the art. The fear it breeds and the raw bravery it demands are as timeless as the desert itself.

Draairivier, Engela Ovies se debuutroman, is ’n deernisvolle verhaal oor familie, vriendskap, liefde en vergifnis. 

In the Depression year of 1931, on the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept shore, two legends of the game--Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen--meet for a mesmerizing thirty-six-hole showdown. Another golfer will also compete--a troubled local war hero, once a champion, who comes with his mentor and caddie, the mysterious Bagger Vance. It is Vance, sage and charismatic, who will ultimately guide the match, for he holds the secret of the Authentic Swing. And he alone can show his protege the way back to glory.

Written in the spirit of Gold in the Kingdom and The Natural, The Legend of Bagger Vance reveals the true nature of the game in a story that is unforgettable.

Flora Beukes woon saam met haar pa Frans, ma Siena en drie jonger sibbe op die Myburghs se plaas, Vlakpoort, ’n klipgooi ver van Keimoes. Siena is bekommerd oor Frans wat te veel tyd oor naweke saam met hul buurman, Jan Olyn, langs die bierpotte deurbring en dan laataand besope soos ’n besetene kom moles maak by hulle rietdakhuis.

Tydens die Kersvakansie van 1982, terwyl Siena besig is om planne te maak om van Frans te skei, word die gesin onvermydelik en tragies uitmekaar geruk. Flora voel verantwoordelik vir haar jonger broers en suster se welstand, maar in die herberg op Doringvlei word die kinders se lewens verder omvergegooi wanneer hulle van mekaar geskei word.

Flora, Engela Ovies se tweede roman, is ’n hartroerende verhaal oor ’n dapper twaalfjarige se liefde vir haar sibbe en die opofferings langs die pad om haar ma se droom te laat waar word. Eerlik, deernisvol en opreg soos die oop vlaktes van die Noord-Kaap.

Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big Brother, control the people of Oceania.

Winston knows what a good citizen of Oceania must do: show his devotion for Big Brother and the Party; abstain from all vices; and, most importantly, possess no critical thoughts of their own. The new notebook he’s begun to write in is definitely against the rules – in fact, the Thought Police could arrest him simply for having it. Yet, as Winston begins to write his own history, a seed of rebellion begins to grow in his heart – one that could have devastating consequences.

In George Orwell’s final and most well-known novel, he explores a dystopian future in which a totalitarian government controls the actions, thoughts and even emotions of its citizens, exercising power through control of language and history. Its lasting popularity is testament to Orwell’s powerful prose, and is a passionate political warning for today.