With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with speculation and foresight'. She sees the signs of romance all around her, but thinks she will never be married. Her matchmaking maps out relationships that Jane Austen ironically tweaks into a clearer perspective. Judgement and imagination are matched in games the reader too can enjoy, and the end is a triumph of understanding.

Die Kameraadskap van die Ring is uiteengedryf. Party berei hulle sonder hoop voor vir oorlog teen die oeroue boosheid van Sauron. Ander kry te kampe met die verraderlikheid van die towenaar Saruman. Slegs Frodo en Sam bly oor om die vervloekte Ring van Mag na Mordor – die donker koninkryk waar Sauron heers – te neem en te vernietig.

Hulle gids is Gollum, listig en hebsugtig, ’n slaaf van die ring wat almal die verderf in lei. Só vervolg hierdie manjifieke topverkoper, ’n verhaal vol avontuur wat met Die Kameraadskap van die Ring begin het, en met ’n oorrompelende hoogtepunt in Die Koning keer terug ten einde loop.

Daar is net plek op die ark vir die boumeester en sy familie. Gam, die jonste seun, beloof aan Re Jana 'n plek op die skip. Diep in die rotswoestyn is ’n groot bouwerf, en in die middel daarvan staan dít waaroor almal in Kanaan lag: die skip in die woestyn. Die arkbouers wat almal in net een God glo, verwag 'n groot onheil. Gaandeweg kom Re Jana agter watter rampspoed hulle gaan tref: die hele wereld gaan oorstroom word. Maar dan kom die slanke Neelata daar aan. Neelata is bestem om Gam se vrou te word! Die arkvaarders is 'n spannende en diepsinnige hervertelling van die bekende Bybelverhaal oor die sondvloed.

Not long after the 20th century arrived, camera-frenzy was rife, and `models' for amateur photographers could make a living. Among them, in Brooklyn, is young, beautiful, Melia Nord. Answering an advertisement for people to appear before a movie camera she is asked to dance briefly as if a girl in a Wild West bar. Melia takes off - a high-kicker with no inhibitions. The novice film crew are mesmerised: `Keep the camera rolling' the director commands. A star of the silver screen is born. So begins another movie career, like all the others - untrained, untried people are initially gathered into innocent scenes - producer, director, script writer, costume maker, set designer, and so on, are all characters worth watching as they learn their tricks and trade, in this entrancing and frequently humorous depiction of what was to become one of the world's biggest industries. Steeped in well-researched and vivid early 20th century details, peppered with Pearson's crackling dialogue and non-stop action, Celluloid Peach becomes compulsive reading. The `ideas' discussions about a villain chasing a girl over plane wings is as hilarious as a debate about rescuing an actress swallowed by a whale - a plank wedged in the mouth would prevent her from drowning - yes? Melia's ascent is to be as swift as her fall. The narrator, stuntman-turned-director, Lance Murdoch was also Melia's first cameraman. His attentiveness leads her to trust him. Their marriage is fun-packed until an idiotic on-set prank, by an unknown crew member, turns Melia towards self-destruction and a dreadful fate.

Don’t miss the overnight viral sensation everyone is talking about! Blood of Hercules is the sarcastically funny, dark fantasy romance reimagining of Hercules from bestselling author Jasmine Mas.

I’m just a girl. And it turns out, I’m Hercules.

I’m struggling to survive in a Titan infested world where Spartans, immortals from twelve royal families who have god-like powers and obscene wealth, rule over all. A shy-stammering foster child with nothing, I keep my head down, cover my scars, and focus on excelling in school. At least, I try to. Then it happens.

My blood test reveals I’m part of the powerful elite. I’m one of them. A Spartan.

Forced to attend the Spartan War Academy, I undergo the most harrowing test of all time to see if I have what it takes to be an immortal. There’s just a few problems. Achilles and Patro are my scary mentors. Kharon, the ferryman of death, and Augustus, the son of war, are my terrifying professors. Also, I’m pretty sure either someone’s stalking me everywhere I go, or my sanity’s slipping––I have a bad feeling both are true.

I’m surrounded by Villains and they’re smothering me with their hate, obsession, and dark possessiveness. Too bad for them, they have no clue just who they’re messing with.

THANDO Weber is a half South African and half Swiss nerdy girl with hopes of going to the best university in Switzerland like her father did. She is also the last surviving descendant of the Watchers of Realms, a powerful race of light beings who watch over the Milky Way galaxy. Her mission is to find her lower-self, and her higher-self to complete her triad, so that she may bond with them and be the next Dreamer – an interdimensional traveller and protector of the Earth Realm.

Tortured by the transformation of moving from human to Dreamer, THANDO hallucinates, sleepwalks, and suffers sleep deprivation, which destroys her dreams of tertiary education. On one mundane high school day, she loses consciousness and plunges into a coma, not from exhaustion but because she encounters her lower-self and higher-self simultaneously.

She starts her training to be a Dreamer, experiences challenges and travels through South Africa to find ways to release her latent superpowers. As she trains, the Kryona terrorises people around her to get to her. On her journeys through South Africa, she meets powerful creatures of old, ancient water spirits and primordial dragons who help her with her training. She is guided to traditional healers to assist her and comes across other traditional healers who betray her due to influence from the Kryona. Through her adventures, she learns about her mother’s Zulu culture and inches closer to her goal, but will it be enough?

Antwerpen 1582: Die veertienjarige dief en inbreker Gitte Niemandsdogter word deur 'n stadswagter gearresteer, en sy word ter dood veroordeel. Sy ontsnap net-net aan die galg deur die onderbalju daarvan te oortuig dat haar pa 'n Spaanse hertog is. Hy is boonop die raadgewer van koning Filips die Tweede. Die Nederlande is in oorlog met Spanje, en in ruil vir haar lewe moet Gitte spioeneer vir die Nederlandse prins van Oranje. Sy gaan na Sevilla en sal al haar lis en vernuf moet aanwend om die hertog se strategiese seekaarte te steel. Maar hoe langer Gitte in Sevilla is, hoe meer hou sy van die stad en van die hertog. Wanneer sy die elegante don Domingo ontmoet, raak sy dolverlief. Sy probeer alles in haar vermoe om van haar opdrag ontslae te raak...

At Bloodwing Academy, blood is currency, but a dragon's legacy is priceless—and as dangerous as fire.

"I thought surviving my first year in Bloodwing's deadly halls would be enough. I was wrong. I accidentally woke a dragon—a creature of myth, of death, of fire. Now every highblood house wants control over me and the dragon's legacy I carry. But here's the truth: I have no control. I'm bluffing my way through every encounter, trying to keep everyone from realizing that I'm not the one pulling the dragon's strings. And then there's Blake Drakharrow. I thought he was on my side, that I might even be able to trust him. But he betrayed me. Now I'm his only blood source. How messed up is that? In a place like Bloodwing, where power and survival are everything, this bond may well be the death of us both. Unless I can find a way to end it."

In this world of vampires, dragons, and lies, there are no happy endings. Just legends—and the darkness it takes to make them.

Kort voor sy dood in die 1980’s gee Stefan Hertmans se oupa aan sy kleinseun ’n paar volgeskrewe ou dagboekies. Jare lank durf Hertmans dit nie oopmaak en lees nie – tot op ’n dag dat hy dit wel doen en meer as een geheim daarin ontdek. Hy lees van sy oupa se armoedige kinderjare in Gent voor 1900, van sy gruwelike ervarings as frontsoldaat in die Eerste Wereldoorlog en ’n vroeg gestorwe groot liefde. Na die oorlog sit sy oupa sy lewe voort deur sy verdriet te probeer wegskilder. Stefan Hertmans se jare lange fassinasie met sy oupa se lewe bring hom uiteindelik tot die skryf van hierdie roman.

HAUNTED BY SIN Following the trail of a dismembered corpse, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji arrive at the gates of Yi City: an old, abandoned town shrouded in mist and restless spirits. A fiendish foe awaits them in the shadows, heralding a tale of heartbreak and tragedy. When the mysterious corpse's identity is finally revealed, the hunt for its killer plunges Wei Wuxian back into the depths of the cultivation world's politics, where he must keep his enemies close and Lan Wangji even closer.