'Great fun... the suspense slips its slow coils around you' Daily Mail Daddy, there's a man in our room... This is the chilling announcement Alfie hears one night, when he wakes in his quiet, suburban house to find his twin daughters at the foot of his bed. It's been nine months since Pippa - their mother - suddenly died and they've been unsettled ever since, so Alfie assumes they've probably had a nightmare. Still, he goes to check to reassure the girls. As expected he finds no man, but in the following days the girls begin to refer to someone called Black Mamba. What seemingly begins as an imaginary friend quickly develops into something darker, more obsessive, potentially violent. Alfie finds himself struggling to cope, and so he turns to Julia - Pippa's twin and a psychotherapist - for help. But as Black Mamba's coils tighten around the girls, Alfie and Julia must contend with their own unspoken sense of loss, their unacknowledged attraction to one another, and the true character of the presence poisoning the twins' minds... A darkling tale of tragedy, hauntings and sexual desire, Black Mamba is a novel of a father's love for his struggling daughters, and a widower's growing love for a woman after his wife's death. With smart, gothicky touches and a large and generous challenge to our assumptions of what and who constitutes a modern family, it explores both the limits we'll go to for our children and the sunken taboos of grief - of how erotics can still exist, and can even be life giving, after suffering loss.

This family saga is told through the lens of the third generation of women who surround Lemohang Ntoi, the head of the family, as he struggles to hold onto life as he knew it. It is the Ntoi women’s assertiveness and drive that threaten Lemohang’s position and ideals for this family. We see their attempts at healing past trauma while they pursue their dreams. Fabrics of Love navigates issues around culture, legacy, love and marriage.

Is jy orraait, Elizabeth? is ’n verhaal oor drie vroue wat dekades lank bevriend is en elkeen met hulle eie persoonlike probleme en gesinskwessies worstel. Dit is ’n roman wat diep menslike ervarings en die kompleksiteit van interpersoonlike verhoudings ondersoek.

Want niemand ken jou diepste seer en jou moordende baklei teen die houe van die lewe so goed soos ’n naby vriendin nie. Sy koester jou en beskerm jou, selfs teen jouself.

In Tasneem’s close-knit Muslim Indian community the stigma of divorce is a heavy burden to carry, and her mother insists on finding her a husband – even if it means orchestrating a traditional ‘samoosa run’. When she meets Aadil an unexpected connection sparks and they strike a deal: a pretend engagement to keep their families off their backs. But a simple ruse soon grows complicated because one of them is hiding a life-changing secret . . .

"Die teenwoordigheid van die Chinese in Steynshoop het die dorp die afgelope paar jaar ingrypend verander.

Benna Potgieter, wonderkind in sy prille jeug, is sedert sy pa se dood ’n haarkapper in sy ma se salon. Sy lewe neem ’n drastiese wending wanneer die skilder Fonny, sy groot verlore liefde, onverwags na die dorp terugkeer.

Snaaks, droewig, wrang en oneerbiedig – ’n opwindende nuwe roman in ware Winterbach-trant."

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.

'n Jong man op pad na 'n klooster in Frankryk word deur sy familie aangeraai om eers 'n verlangse oom in Parys op te soek. Adelbert van Breda was 'n senior priester in die Katolieke Kerk wat dekades gelede Parys toe getrek en hom tot die Katolisisme bekeer het.

Miskien sal oom Adelbert hom van raad en van wyse insig kan voorsien. Sy hartsbegeerte is om sy saai, voorstedelike lewe op te gee en iewers in die stilte 'n asketiese bestaan te kan voer.

Terwyl om Adelbert laat een aand tee in 'n stokou Russiese koperkoker brou, begin die afgetrede priester van sy eie pelgrimstogte vertel. 

'n Veelvlakkige, teer roman oor selfontdekking, geloof en vriendskap.

Duncan Weston, eienaar van Soeterwijn, voel of hy uit homself kan stap. Hoe kan ’n mens alles hê en tog voel asof jy niks het nie?  ’n Vakansie weg van sy alledaagse roetine is wat hy nodig het. In Rome wag Isabel Haasen hom by die lughawe in. Ondanks haar kil houding voel Duncan intuïtief tuis in haar geselskap, maar daar is iets wat sy  wegsteek . . .

Drome het ook asem se karakters en intrige beloof om lesers te boei en te betower. ’n Fyn genuanseerde verhoudingsroman vir volwassenes.

Mila Verster is ’n suksesvolle entrepreneur in haar vyftigs. Haar dogter, Tami, word eersdaags agttien, en Mila is gereed vir ’n nuwe hoofstuk. Wanneer Tami een middag spoorloos verdwyn, word Mila genoop om die sluier oor die verlede te lig, die gebeure te herbesoek en te ontrafel. Maar al genees tyd sommige wonde, bly die letsels rou en die pad na vergifnis kom teen ’n prys.

Haas en Harriët is ’n hartroerende roman oor onvolmaakte ouerskap.

Het Heiberg. Die weggooikind wat Verlangekraal se naam sou verewig. Sy het dit gewaag om in opstand te kom teen ’n rigiede skoolsisteem wat geen rebelsheid of individualiteit sou duld nie. Net meneer Doep het tussen haar en die verderflike skoolhoof meneer Erlank gestaan.

Hierdie geliefde en diep menslike verhaal wys vir die eerste keer Het Heiberg se kant van die saak. Wie in haar lewe saak gemaak het en wat in haar gedagtes omgegaan het. Dit vertel bowenal hoe sy oorleef het.

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.

Berdine se lewe in Johannesburg is vir goed verby, en die verbintenis met haar familie en vriende wat sy jare lank verwaarloos het, is aan die herstel.

Haar ouma Bertha se nalatenskap van diensbaarheid en naasteliefde staan voorop vir Berdine en haar droom om ’n kliniek op te rig om die armes gratis te bedien gaan nie om eie eer nie. Dit gebeur nie oornag nie en ten spyte van haar nuutgevonde geloof pak die twyfel en mismoedigheid haar beet. Berdine loop ook ’n pad met Tiekie en haar babadogtertjie en sy kuier weer by Bekkie. Sy leer die vernames van die dorp ken wat hul naaste met onselfsugtige liefde dien.

Dieter Daneel is steeds aan die voorpunt van omtrent elke bedrywigheid en met die naamgee-seremonie, toe die skuiling aan Bertha Human opgedra word ter waardering van haar jare lange diens aan die dorp en sy mense, word die wêreld onderstebo gekeer en Berdine weereens voor ’n keuse gestel.

Jenny Quinn has a secret.

She just won a spot as a contestant on a prime-time TV baking show. It's only the second time in her marriage that she's kept something from beloved husband Bernard. And now she's got a chance of being crowned Britain's best baker.

But as her ordinary life collides with unexpected stardom, the other secret Jenny's been keeping - the one supposed to stay hidden forever - is in danger of surfacing.

Could Jenny Quinn's rise to fame also be her downfall?

When Catalina, a witty, vulnerable and beautiful Ecuadorian student, arrives at Harvard, she feels like one of the chosen. She is a miracle child who has escaped death in Latin America to be raised by undocumented grandparents and now studies at the most prestigious university in the world. She knows she has to play the part, but she also wants to have a good time in the process. And so begins her era of opulent parties, secret societies, desirable internships, flings with rich men and plenty of vodka sodas.

But in her final year, undocumented immigrants become the target of political turmoil and Catalina’s life back in New York begins to unravel. As the clock ticks on the precarious future of her family, what will she sacrifice to save the people she loves the most?

From Booker Prize finalist David Szalay, a propulsive, hypnotic novel, about a man whose future is derailed by a series of events that he is unable to control.

Teenaged István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbor—a married woman close to his mother’s age, whom he begrudgingly helps with errands—as his only companion. But as these periodical encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that István himself can barely understand, his life soon spirals out of control, ending in a violent accident that leaves a man dead.

What follows is a rocky trajectory that sees István emigrate from Hungary to London, where he moves from job to job before finding steady work as a driver for London’s billionaire class. At each juncture, his life is affected by the goodwill or self-interest of strangers. Through it all, István is a calm, detached observer of his own life, and through his eyes we experience a tragic twist on an immigrant “success story,” brightened by moments of sensitivity, softness, and Szalay’s keen observation.

Fast-paced and immersive, Flesh reveals István’s life through intimate moments, with lovers, employers, and family members, charted over the course of decades. As the story unfolds, the tension between what is seen and unseen, what can and cannot be said, hurtles forward until finally—with everything at stake—sudden tragedy again throws life as István knows it in jeopardy. Spare and penetrating, Flesh traces the imperceptible but indelible contours of unresolved trauma and its aftermath amid the precarity and violence of an ever-globalizing Europe with incisive insight, unyielding pathos, and startling humanity.

Every flame tells a story...

George McGlory has been struggling since the death of his beloved wife, Audrey. But when he witnesses a public health funeral - with no flowers and no mourners - he is inspired to create The Light a Candle Society.

As George and his friends join together to celebrate forgotten lives, their care, compassion, humour and friendship become gifts not only to the people they are remembering, but to each other.

And the kindness of strangers gives them strength to confront the secrets of their own histories, forging joyful and unexpected new connections...