Nog 'n lekkerlees liefdesverhaal van Dot Serfontein. Emma is baie ongelukkig getroud en kinderloos. Haar lewe neem egter onverwagte draaie wanneer 'n boer, Van Greunen, op hul plaas kom boor vir water. Sy staan voor 'n moeilike keuse: Moet sy getrou bly aan haar man en hul ongelukkige huwelik voortsit, of moet sy haar hart volg?

Hierdie rubrieke is liries, evokatief, diep menslik, met humor en ʼn plattelandse ambience. Petro skryf sedert 2012 vir Die Burger rubrieke en was voltyds vir vier jaar lank die Dinsdag-rubriekskrywer vir Beeld.

Verskeie van haar artikels is in Rapport Weekliks en Huisgenoot gepubliseer. Sy word in 2019 deur die Cordus-trust vereer met die Orde van die Beiteltjie van die Afrikaanse Woordkunsakademie vir “haar besondere bydrae tot Afrikaans met unieke onderwerpe waarmee sy die kuns vervolmaak het om sinvol te skryf oor die mens en alledaagse stories van die gewone lewe.”

Alles in hierdie kortverhaalbundel deur geliefde verteller Dot Serfontein, is nie noodwendig waar nie. Nee, maar alles is moontlik waar mense geslagte lank onder die dassiebruin velkaros van die Noord-Vrystaat slaap teen brak winters en taaibosharde somers.

A Goodread's "Top Romance Novel of All Time" A New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller I wanted to lose myself in the small town of Pelion, Maine. To forget everything I had left behind. The sound of rain. The blood. The coldness of a gun against my skin. For six months, each breath has been a reminder that I survived -- and my dad didn't. I'm almost safe again. But the moment I meet Archer Hale, my entire world tilts on its axis . . . and never rights itself again. Until I trespass into his strange, silent, and isolated world, Archer communicates with no one. Yet in his whiskey-colored eyes, something intangible happens between us. There's so much more to him than just his beauty, his presence, or the ways his hands communicate with me. On me. But this town is mired in secrets and betrayals, and Archer is the explosive center of it all. So much passion. And so much hurt. But it's only in Archer's silence that we might just find what we need to heal . . . and live. Includes an exclusive extended epilogue from Archer's POV!

After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan's team struggles to regroup. But what's missing? An absolute Ace Striker, who can guide them to the win. The Japan Football Union is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers for goals and thirsts for victory, and who can be the decisive instrument in turning around a losing match...and to do so, they've gathered 300 of Japan's best and brightest youth players. Who will emerge to lead the team... and will they be able to out-muscle and out-ego everyone who stands in their way? After Sae Itoshi and Ryusei Shidou enter their "flow" and lead the U-20 representatives in a ferocious attack, Blue Lock plays their trump card: swapping in Barou. The match quickly goes beyond all planning and strategies, as both sides expend their utmost energy trying to surpass their limits in the "flow" state. Will Isagi and the rest of Blue Lock be the ones to open the door to a new era of Japanese soccer?!"

Rivalry and romance spark when two bookstore managers who are opposites in every way find themselves competing for the same promotion.

Despite managing bookstores on the same Boston street, Josie Klein and Ryan Lawson have never interacted much—Josie’s store focuses on serious literature, and Ryan’s sells romance only. But when the new owner of both stores decides to combine them, the two are thrust into direct competition. Only one manager will be left standing, decided by who turns the most profit over the summer.

Efficient and detail-oriented Josie instantly clashes with easygoing and disorganized Ryan. Their competing events and contrasting styles lead to more than just frustration—the sparks between them might just set the whole store on fire. Their only solace during this chaos is the friendship they’ve each struck up with an anonymous friend in an online book forum. Little do they know they’re actually chatting with each other.

As their rivalry heats up in real life, their online relationship grows, and when the walls between their stores come tumbling down, Josie and Ryan realize not all’s fair in love and war. And maybe, if they’re lucky, happily ever afters aren’t just for the books.

Recently returned from South Africa, adventurer Richard Hannay is bored with life, but after a chance encounter with an American who informs him of an assassination plot and is then promptly murdered in Hannay's London flat, he becomes the obvious suspect and is forced to go on the run. He heads north to his native Scotland, fleeing the police and his enemies. Hannay must keep his wits about him if he is to warn the government before all is too late.

Karl Kielblock het verskeie boeke geskryf, waaronder die Lafras Cuyper-reeks baie bekend is en wyd versamel word. Dit handel oor seeavonture in diens van twee oorlogvoerende moondhede vroeg in die 19de eeu. Hierdie is die vierde boek in die reeks. Die boeke is propvol opwinding, spanning en avontuur! Lafras Cuyper se boot is die Hirondelle - en die Hirondelle is die vinnigste korvet in die Indiese oseaan. Geen wonder dat die Engelse bevelvoerders in Indie die jong kaperkaptein vrees nie, want min van hulle het nog nie met sy buitengewone gesigsvermoe, wakker verstand, waaghalsigheid en dapperheid kennis gemaak nie. Toe die jong man hulle vir die soveelste keer vir die gek hou, besluit hulle dat daar so gou moontlik drasties teen hom opgetree moet word. Hulle stuur drie skepe om hom gevange te neem of, as dit nie anders kan nie, saam met sy boot na die dieptes te stuur. Hulle glo hulle plan is waterdig, maar hulle hou nie rekening met die feit dat 'n heldedaad Lafras twee waardevolle Engelse bewonderaars besorg het nie; dat hul eie spioen homself verraai het om die koekie groen lekkerruikseep...Die verhaal van Lafras Cuyper is op feite gebaseer.

Die verhaal van ’n Afrikaanse seun en ’n Boesmanseun in die 1930’s. Kryt is vir agt jaar alleenkind op hul plaas Halt in die Kalahari.

Een koue wintersoggend verskyn die Boesmanseun en sy pa op Halt op soek na werk. Kryt sien dadelik die seun se fier en trotse houding, doop hom “Kordaat” en is bly dat hy uiteindelik ’n maat het.

Kryt en Kordaat word egter meer as maats – as boesemvriende deurkruis hulle die uitgestrekte Kalahari op hul perde. Kryt leer Kordaat somme maak met tsammapitte. Kordaat leer Kryt die geheimenisse van die Kalahari en sy diere. Saam beleef hul vele – en soms lewensbedreigende – avonture.

Die pyl in Slagtand Smit se binnebeen wat sy lang leiding en uiteindelike dood veroorsaak het, bly egter ’n skaduwee wat hul vir altyd sal volg.

Momo, ’n klein, verflenterde dogtertjie, woon aan die rand van ’n groot stad in die ruïne van ’n amfiteater.

Sy besit niks buiten dit wat sy vind of wat sy van ander ontvang nie, maar sy het ’n buitengewone gawe: Sy luister werklik na ander en gee vir hulle tyd. Een dag ruk die gruwelike grys menere met hulle loodgrys aktetasse en sigare in die groot stad op en begin om die kosbare tyd van die mense te steel.

Momo is die enigste een wat die donker mag van die tyddiewe kan beteuel.

Manon Viljoen is ‘n jong advokaat en ywerige motorfietsryer. Sy word ingeroep om as amicus curiae die regter by te staan in ‘n moordsaak om ‘n regverdige uitspraak te lewer. Die beskuldigde is Charles Mouton, ‘n suksesvolle senior advokaat wat een oggend wakker word langs die bebloede lyk van sy vrou en van haar moord aangekla word. Hy weet nie wat gebeur het nie. Of so beweer hy. Hy weier om aan die verhoor deel te neem omdat hy glo die hof moet die waarheid soek. Dit val dus op Manon se skouers om die waarheid te soek en voor die hof te lê. Manon se aanstelling word bemoeilik deur die feit dat sy en regter Nantes Castel ‘n geskiedenis het. Die verhoor loop allerande draaie terwyl Manon na redelike twyfel soek en terselfdertyd haar gevoelens vir Nantes bevraagteken. Stel hy nog belang, of terg hy haar sommer net?

Vind Manon die waarheid waarna sy soek ‒ oor die identiteit van die moordenaar en ook oor Nantes se gevoelens vir haar? Of is daar redelike twyfel?

After putting on a successful and sensual(?) show of food tasting at the garden banquet, Maomao is the talk of the palace! But she soon discovers that notoriety isn’t the only thing the party has granted her! Her collection of hairpins from the event brings the young herbalist a brief window of freedom beyond the palace walls, as she returns to the pleasure district for the first time in ten months! But while reunions with her father and her friends await, so too does another mystery…

After explaining to Jinshi the circumstances behind the poisoned cup at the garden party, Maomao returns home to the pleasure district for the first time in ten months, thanks to the ornate hairpin she received at the party. But there, she gets swept up in yet another mystery?!

From the bestselling author of HISTORY IS ALL YOU LEFT ME comes another unforgettable story of life, loss and making each day count

On September 5th, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: they're going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: there's an app for that. It's called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure - to live a lifetime in a single day.

Die Slaghuis van Cas Wepener speel byna uitsluitlik in ’n enkele huis in ’n fiktiewe plattelandse dorpie in die Noordkaap af, met verhaalgebeure wat oor vier dekades strek. Hier woon Marietta en haar man, Karel, in 1997. Karel is ’n afgetrede oudbrigadier in die Suid-Afrikaanse polisiediens, verantwoordelik vir die dood van duisende sg. “terroriste” in die Vlakplaas-debakel.

Hy weier egter om aansoek te doen vir amnestie en kruip letterlik op dié dorp weg. Dit is hier waar verteller Marietta betekenis soek en terselfdertyd sin probeer maak van die skuldlas van haar man en haar eie geheimsinnige verlede. Op die dorp is daar ’n legendariese slaghuis waar Marietta byna elke dag vleisaankope maak en waar die jong meisie Kylie se pa as slagter werk.

Kylie se verhaal word hoofsaaklik in 2017 vertel waar sy dieselfde huis huur waar Marietta en Karel in 1997 gewoon het en besig is, aan die een kant met die verwerking van haar pa se sondes en, aan die ander kant met die opvoeding van haar vet seun. Haar pa was nie net die slagter op die dorp nie, maar verantwoordelik vir die afmaaiing van ’n hele paar mense in die apartheidsera ¬– gebeure van 1977 wat mettertyd in die vorm van terugflitse vorm aanneem en aan dieselfde huis verbind word.

Die roman Die Slaghuis is van vleisbeelde aanmekaargesit. Verwysings na alles van braaivleis tot tong, viennas, potjiekos, afval en “peertjies” (lamstestikels) snoer die roman saam tot geheel en funksioneer as element waardeur spanning geleidelik opgebou word. Die roman draai beslis nie doekies om oor skuld en skuldelas van die apartheidsverlede nie en skakel dit telkens met ’n beheptheid na vleis.

Sakamatlakobata voel soos ’n bywoner op sy eie plaas. Hy wou tot elke prys op Bobbejaankrans kom woon en nou gebeur wat sy bure hom voorspel het. Sy franselemoene word geplunder, sy tentpenne uitgepluk en sy vrou se bakoond met ’n klip toegestop.

Sakamatlakobata weet wie is hiervoor verantwoordelik. Dis die een wat spore op sy werf los: kaalvoetspore soos dié van ’n mens.

Waterbobbejaan boer op hierdie plaas.

Die boer is bekommerd. Is Waterbobbejaan ook die een wat sy hamels vang en daardie maanlignag agter sy en sy gesin se wa aangehardloop het?

From a grand master of science fiction comes the long awaited final novel of one of the greatest series ever told. Completed just before his death, FORWARD THE FOUNDATION is a crowning achievement and stirring testament to the creative genius of Isaac Asimov.

As Hari Seldon struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory and ensure a place for humanity among the stars, the once-mighty Galactic Empire totters on the brink of apocalyptic collapse. Caught in the maelstrom are Seldon and all he holds dear, pawns in the struggle for dominance. Whoever can control Seldon will control psychohistory-and with it the future of the galaxy.

Among those seeking to turn psychohistory into the greatest weapon known to man are a populist political demagogue, the weak-willed Emperor Cleon I, and a ruthless militaristic general. In his last act of service to humankind, Hari Seldon must somehow save his life's work from their grasp as he searches for his true heirs-a search that begins with his own granddaughter and the dream of a new Foundation.

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Bickley, The Godolphin and Latymer School, formerly of Royal Holloway, University of London. The Last Man is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel unfolds a sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable destruction. Interwoven with her futuristic theme, Mary Shelley incorporates idealised portraits of Shelley and Byron, yet rejects Romanticism and its faith in art and nature. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the only daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, author of Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and the radical philosopher William Godwin. Her mother died ten days after her birth and the young child was educated through contact with her father's intellectual circle and her own reading. She met Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812; they eloped in July 1814. In the summer of 1816 she began her first and most famous novel, Frankenstein. Three of her children died in early infancy and in 1822 her husband was drowned. Mary returned to England with her surviving son and wrote novels, short stories and accounts of her travels; she was the first editor of P.B.Shelley's poetry and verse.

Wanneer die prokureursfirma Plein & Simpel vorendag kom met planne om Kerkplein se historiese Wesfasade in ’n parkeerterrein te omskep, en daar terselfdertyd uit bewaringskringe stemme opklink dat duiwe-excreta die historiese geboue beskadig, word die Duiwerepubliek van alle kante bedreig. Skielik lyk indringer-mynas na die minste van hulle probleme – en moet die lede van KOER (Ken Ons Eie Roeping) kragte saamsnoer om die metroraad, die media en moderniseerders hok te slaan.

'...man is not truly one, but truly two.' In this powerful deconstruction of Calvinist belief and the hypocrisy at the heart of Victorian society, Stevenson creates a gothic icon in the divided self that is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Born from a nightmare and anticipating Freud's theory of the unconscious, Stevenson literalises the concepts of the supernatural doppelganger and the split personality in a timeless tale of guilt, desire, and violence by which all subsequent 'double' stories must be judged. In seeking to cleanse his soul of sin, Dr Henry Jekyll instead unleashes a monster. First published in 1886, this tragic study of the duality of man established Stevenson's international reputation as an author. This volume also contains Stevenson's 1887 collection of short stories, The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, which includes a further exploration of the mind of a murderer, 'Markheim', and the occult tales of terror, 'The Merry Men', 'Olalla', and 'Thrawn Janet'.