When not caring for his ailing mother, twenty-three-year-old Damon can be found swimming laps at the Sea Point Pavillion. Here he meets the confident Nico, who immediately charms him back to his home. Damon is torn between dealing with his mother’s terminal illness and keeping his sexuality a secret from her. His desire to be truthful is tested when her health takes a turn for the worse, forcing him to choose between his young lover and an unspeakable promise to help end her life.

A tender portrait of caregiving, the longing for intimacy and the heartbreak of letting go, Salt Water Pool Boy is a sensual exploration of love and loss charting a young man’s journey from Cape Town to Rome to Paris, from working on a film set in Cinecittà and obsessing over a male prostitute, to trying to salvage his long-term relationship by searching for intimacy in a string of one-night stands.

When a casual hookup threatens to open old wounds, Damon realises he has yet to fully come to terms with his troubled past.

A stray cat brings together five strangers over the course of one fateful summer in this heartwarming novel about love, found family, and the power of connection.

Núria, a single-by-choice barista with a little resentment for the “crazy cat lady” label, is a member of The Meow-Yorkers, a group in Brooklyn who takes care of the neighborhood’s stray cats. On her volunteering days, she starts finding Post-it notes left by a secret admirer in an area where her feeds her favorite stray—a black cat named Cat. Like most felines, he is both curious and observant, so of course he knows who the notes are from. Núria, however, is clueless.

Are the notes from Collin, a bestselling author and self-professed hermit with a weakness for good coffee? Are they from Lily, a fresh-out-of-high school Georgia native searching for her long-lost half sister? Are they from Omar, the beloved neighborhood mailman going through an early midlife crisis? Or are they from Bong, the grieving widower who owns Núria’s favorite bodega?

When Cat suddenly falls ill, these five strangers find themselves bonding together in their desire to care for him, and discover that chance encounters can lead to the meaningful connections they’ve all been searching for.

There's a book written for every one of us...

Carl may be 72 years old, but he's young at heart. Every night he goes door-to-door delivering books by hand to his loyal customers. He knows their every desire and preference, carefully selecting the perfect story for each person.

One evening as he makes his rounds, nine-year-old Schascha appears. Loud and precocious, she insists on accompanying him - and even tries to teach him a thing or two about books.

When Carl's job at the bookstore is threatened, will the old man and the girl in the yellow raincoat be able to restore Carl's way of life, and return the joy of reading to his little European town?

THE DOOR-TO-DOOR BOOKSTORE is a heart-warming tale of the value of friendship, the magic of reading, and the power of books to unite us all.

Ná ouma Leen en oupa Koen se dood besef Jessie dat sy en Janine nie langer op die Weskus sal kan oorleef nie. Sy kry werk in Roodepoort en oortuig Janine om saam te gaan met die belofte van ’n nuwe toekoms.

Janine belowe Bennie dat sy eendag na hom toe sal terugkom. Die nuwe omgewing is alles behalwe gemaklik en hulle is finansieel nog slegter af. Janine se egskeiding word op die langebaan geskuif. Hul lewe verander drasties as die meenthuis se geiser ingee, die Oosthuizens langaan intrek en Werner Hougaardt, die eienaar van die meenthuis vir Janine begin ruikers stuur.

’n Dag se uitstappie saam met Werner bring twyfel in haar hart oor Bennie. So ’n ryk man sal beter as Bennie kan sorg. Jessie se ou studentevriend daag op en Werner se ware motiewe word oopgevlek. Friedrich se dogter, Christine, bied aan om Janine se saak pro bono te doen.

Huweliklokkies lui vir Jessie en Friedrich en Bennie daag onverwags op om Janine weereens van sy liefde en trou te verseker.

Hulle albei het dit tog vertel. Dit is wat sy onthou toe sy tussen ’n klomp papiere die uitdruk van ’n ou e-pos van haar kry. Hoe Vader hulle Ventershoop toe gestuur het en toe alles voorsien het, selfs die kar, die petrol. Maar hulle het ooreengekom dat hy ook – in sy woorde – van die wonder sou getuig het. Wat het daarvan geword?

Die getuienis is ’n egpaar se verslag van ’n reis. Dit is die verslag van drome en visioene, van wonderwerke en vloeke, van bloedverwantskappe en sluimerende woede.