Accomplished American artist Stella Wright’s beachside home in Cape Town is perched on the edge of land and sea, safety and vulnerability, the domestic and the wild. When Stella takes an afternoon swim, she is unprepared for the drama that unfolds. She and a nearby surfer are tracked by a giant great white shark that swims close enough so she can look it in the eye, leaving the two of them deeply traumatised.

The surfer – Ben – is a waterman who paints trawlers for a living. There is an almost instant attraction between them, but Stella is married to wealthy American financier Jack Barlow, and she and her husband are preparing to leave the country.

Stella and Ben begin a passionate affair. The two of them must face their fear of the water; Stella because beaches and oceans form the basis of her art, Ben because surfing is his passion. Into this situation Jack returns from overseas to tie up their affairs and bring Stella back to New York.

Stella must make a choice between the man who has reawakened her original passion for art, and the man who can give her everything else the world has to offer.

My Side of the Ocean is a novel of great empathy and insight, exploring essential questions about what it means to live, and love, when the secure foundations of a life have been ripped away.

In this spellbinding story from author Waheeda Joosab, a beautiful, intelligent, and strong-willed Muslimah, Zainub Habib, finds herself in a nikah, arranged over-night, thanks to her terminally ill father, with a successful, good looking, and free-thinking lawyer, Ahmed Mia.

Ahmed Mia never intended to marry, EVER! When his late dad’s friend, Uthman Habib calls on him to help wind up his estate so that his daughter, Zainub, wouldn’t have to, he wasn’t counting on being asked to marry her too!

Zainub Habib dropped out of medical school to become her father’s primary caregiver when he became terminally ill. Tending faithfully to her father’s daily needs, the last thing she expected when Ahmed Mia appeared on their doorstep one fine morning was that he was about to become her husband overnight.

Life becomes complicated when Ahmed realises that the union compromised his lifestyle and preconceived philosophies. Living with a simple, unpretentious Niqabi, whose charming simplicity and mesmerizing beauty was attractive and intriguing, hooked him enough to scare him away from the temptation of ever loving her fully.

In her quest to be a loving wife and daughter in-law, Zainub must wait to find out whether the roses she thinks she sees in Ahmed will blossom from the water she pours on his thorns…

Met die oorspronklike publikasie van die drie romans oor die wel en wee van vier geslagte Meissners het Ena Murray opnuut haar status as koningin van die Afrikaanse liefdesverhaal gestand gedoen. Die drieluik bestaan uit: Die Meissner-kliniek, waar ons die die stigter van die eksklusiewe privaat kliniek en sy gedugte span dokters ontmoet. Die vrede word in 'n oogwink omvergewerp wanneer 'n nuwe trolliejoggie daar begin werk ... Dokter Julene, waar Julene die veilige hawe van die Meissner-kliniek verlaat om by haar biologiese pa in Switserland aan te sluit ... en dan onverwags in Istanboel beland. En Die ongebore uur, waar Inge Buchner, die agterkleindogter van dr. Albert Meissner, alles in haar vermoe doen om te probeer verseker dat iemand met die van Meissner weer aan die hoof van die kliniek sal staan.

Mary, oftewel Prinses Marié Elizabeth van Habsburg, staan op trou met Prins Octavius van die prinsdom van Kyburg. Hy is egter ver van haar ideale man: Oorlogsugtig en wreed.

Dan daag die aantreklike skeepskaptein Francis le Cluc met ’n belangrike brief vir haar op. Met die lag in sy oë laat hy dadelik haar hart vinniger klop. Daar mag egter niks tussen hulle wees nie.

Sal Mary van Francis se betowerende soene kan vergeet? Gaan sy plig, eer en haar familie se goeie naam eerste plaas? En wat gaan Francis kies: Die bloedband met sy broer of sy liefde vir Mary?

Love, Zola is the captivating continuation of Zola’s vibrant, heart-stirring story. From career pressures to unexpected confessions, Zola and Mbali’s journey tests their understanding of commitment and what a happy ending truly looks like.

Okuhle’s return to Joburg brings unfinished business — not just with her relationship but also with Zola, whose successes only serve as painful reminders of what she’s lost. Meanwhile, Zozo’s happily-ever-after in Durban is shaken as old feelings resurface.

Filled with tension, passion, and poignant revelations, Love, Zola is a story of self-discovery, second chances, and the challenges of modern relationships. Can love survive when the past refuses to let go?

South African playwright Hannah Meade arrives in London for the opening night of her new play. She has arranged to meet Pierre, the student she was in love with when she taught English in Paris. During their time together, they lied their way towards truths they were too young and inexperienced to endure. Perhaps this time they will have a second chance.

As the reader is drawn from contemporary London back to Paris on the eve of the war in Iraq, the mystery of past events is brought to vivid life in a series of dramatic, intriguing and deeply moving encounters. Written in layered, stark prose, The White Room lays bare many of our assumptions about language, identity, memory, loss and love.

‘Craig Higginson is at the vanguard of the latest and most exciting novelists in South Africa, both robust and sensitive, offering a barometer of the best to be expected from the newest wave of writing in the country.’ – André Brink

‘In its conception and execution, The White Room is remarkable ... Evocative and dreamlike, yet all too nightmarishly real, this is a story so moving that it leaves a powerful afterimage on the reader’s imagination.’ – Craig Mackenzie

Jacki de Wet is verslaaf aan die internet en sosiale media. Van Facebook, Instagram, X en TikTok weet sy genoeg om gevaarlik te wees. Sy en Pulani vorm ’n formidabele span en hou Die Boekhoek aan die gang. Miskien moes iemand vir Gary, Jacki se baas en verloofde, gewaarsku het toe hy ’n affair met Sally Smith wou begin. “Ebony and Ivory” laat nie met hulle mors nie.

Om van Gary se skelmpie ontslae te raak, is maklik genoeg, maar wat doen sy met die verraad en die woede? Nou sit Jacki sonder iemand om haar ’n bietjie vas te hou, sonder werk en sonder ’n huis. In Tamatiestraat.

Toe die musikant Giovanni Ignacio Mancini sy verskyning maak, verwar hy haar verder. Hy is soos die mooie Vivaldi-musiek wat hy op sy Stradivarius-viool speel – soms guitig of baldadig, soms strelend, smeulend, altyd sensueel. En dan is daar Sebastian, die wonderkind, wat eintlik maar net ’n seuntjie is met ’n groot hartseer.

Jacki sing falsetto, sy weet nie waar sy inpas nie. Sy wil ’n sushi-en-sjampanje-lewe hê, maar die wasabi brand en gee haar sooibrand … en eintlik is sy net ’n vis-en-tjips-meisie.

I Do ... Don't I? is the much-anticipated sequel to the popular novel The Thing with Zola. It continues the sparkling and tender love story of free-spirited Zola and charismatic Mbali, traversing the vibrant landscapes of Kigali and Johannesburg as they navigate a long-distance relationship and the question of commitment. Will they say I do?

The cast is complete with the interweaving of the vivacious Okuhle on her heart-stirring journey to marriage, the audacious Thobile rebelling against societal norms, and the stoic Ongama navigating upheavals in her married life.

Personal desires collide with expectations, painting a unique picture of the nuances of love, dreams, and the trials of responsibilities and relationshipping.

The result is a whirlwind of emotions, laughter, poignant revelations and the quest for a fairytale ending.

I Do … Don't I? is guaranteed to sweep you off your feet.

Lotus is focused and ambitious, and is as cunning as she is beautiful. Although she seems to have it together, secrets from her past haunt her. She despises men because of her absent father and abusive ex-boyfriend.

Against her vow to stay away from men, she finds herself entangled with two guys; Alpha, the leader of the Wolves, a notorious Cape Town gang, and Dalubuhle, a gentle guy who audits the company she works for.

Lotus is witty, charming and tells more lies than she can remember. But who can steal her heart?

When a wedding forces them to return home, two childhood friends must face the secrets and heated longing between them in this New Adult romance debut by Cameron Capello (BookTok's @ChamberofSecretBooks).

Remember why you left. Remember who you left.

Once so close to her big family, Magdalen Savoy is now paralyzed with anxiety every time she's tempted to leave her safe haven at Oxford and return to their sleepy Italian village. But when Magdalen receives an invitation to her sister’s upcoming wedding, she has no choice but to pack her bag for what is sure to be a long summer.

After seven years, Theo finds himself back in Chivasso, where nothing changes. It's as if time has stopped here. But upon seeing his sister's best friend after all these years, it's obvious that the sweet little Maggie from his childhood is long gone. In her place is a young woman with long legs, thick hair, and walls built around the innocent heart he once knew.

Now too close for comfort during the preparations for a wedding that will join their two families, they must confront the long-buried secrets of their past and the burning tension slowly pulling them together. But their old secrets threaten to tear their worlds apart—and could possibly separate them forever. . .

Fourie, or Fury as he is known by the British, is among the most wanted of men. Rose, an English beauty pursued by an officer intent on capturing Fury, finds herself in a precarious position. Bound by a love that cannot be denied and separated by a war intent on destroying them, Rose and Fury find ways to meet and the line between patriotism and treachery becomes blurred.

From the greed and horror of the Anglo-Boer War, to the misery and death of the concentration camps and the bravery on the battlefield, comes a story of indominable courage that will hold you captive to the very end.

This is a story that weaves fictional characters into actual events that occurred during the second Anglo Boer War, without in any way modifying the role of real people involved or altering the actual outcome of historical events. Only the first battle scene is entirely fictional; all others are as recorded in history.

In Die honger hart moet Julia Naude haar peetpa se ongewone voorwaarde behou om die plaas, wat sy saam met die plaasbestuurder geerf het, te beskerm. In Deel van die pakket staan Gita van Duinen op die drumpel van ’n nuwe lewe, maar meer veranderinge le voor. In Verskuilde liefde, keer dr. Edmund Wiese terug uit die buiteland. Hy moet vrede maak met die lee kol wat sy broer, Fanie, agtergelaat het. En drie weke later maak hy ’n onverwagse ontdekking wat sy prioriteite verander.

Een middag terwyl Carmi Molenaar, ’n eerstejaarstudent op Potchefstroom, diep ingedagte op haar fiets ry, kruis haar pad met dié van Herman Hattingh. Al het hierdie senior regstudent al die eienskappe van ’n droomman, laat Carmi se verantwoordelikhede min tyd of ruimte vir romanse.

Die lewe deel egter links en regs klappe uit, en Herman is elke keer dáár om te help wanneer Carmi hom nodig het. Maar sal hulle kan leer om mekaar te vertrou?

In Plek van die bittermaan besluit die beeldskone Tessa, ’n ongetroude enkelma, om met haar seuntjie stad toe te vlug waar sy “anoniem” sal kan wees. Maar dis nie nie so maklik nie en sy word voor hartverskeurende keuses gestel.

In Kamer van die stormwind moet die jong Jessica afskeid neem van haar man wat ná ’n rugbybesering al maande in ’n koma is. Maar ten spyte van die hartseer, bly sy steeds deel van die stroom van die lewe.

’n Deernisvolle roman oor die kronkelpaaie van die lewe en die liefde. Marco Romanelli, ’n Italianer wat in ’n konsentrasiekamp was, gaan woon in 1948 om gesondheidsredes in die Bosveld. Daar ontmoet hy vir dr. Lettie Viljoen. Die liefde blom tussen hulle . . . maar dan breek die polio-epidemie van die jare vyftig uit.

Keur 10 van dié gewilde liefdesverhaalskrywer sluit drie bekoorlike verhale in: Die glasappel is ’n heerlike roman waarin humor en eksentrisiteit sjarmant verweef is.

In Die blou uur besef Klarissa du Toit dat haar man se werk besig is om ’n wig tussen hulle in te dryf, maar is ’n toekoms sonder hom wat sy werklik wil hê?

En in Die groen maan kom die protagonis voor die eeueoue probleem te staan: Besluit jy met jou hart of jou kop wanneer dit kom by die liefde?

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.

Christine le Roux Keur 8 bevat drie immergroen liefdesverhale.

In Geskenk Uit Die Hemel leer die suksesvolle sakeman Pieter Louw vir Maja ken nadat hy haar per ongeluk raak ry. Só begin ’n voorlopige verblyfreëling wat tot talle onmoontlike en baie snaakse situasies lei.

In Die Lente Kom Weer moet Frans Fourie aan ’n nuwe sekretaresse gewoond raak. Kristien is ’n uitstekende plaasvervanger, maar hoekom is hy teleurgesteld oor haar koel en onbetrokke houding?

En in Kosbaar Soos Die Lewe bedank Elizabeth Benade haar werk by ’n rekenaarfirma en gaan werk vir die moeilike dokter Richard Nel. Dis nie lank voor Elizabeth betrokke raak by dié dokter en sy seun se lewe nie.

In 1920, after leaving their home in Russia, the brothers Samuel and Isaac Harris arrive on the shores of America. They each carry a battered brown suitcase containing their only possessions. The following year, Yetta, Samuel's bride, follows him, bringing with her his mother's silver candlesticks.

In 1945, Helena Jablonski, having survived the ravages of war in Europe and the loss of her family, sets out on a courageous journey to reach Palestine. She is joined by Sofia, her childhood friend, whom she meets up with after she's liberated. Drawn into a world she could not have imagined in the dark days of her internment in the concentration camps, Helena meets the motherly Rachel, with whom she forms an instant and lasting bond, and Max Harris, the young American volunteer who will define her destiny.

As past and present collide, new friendships are formed and characters reappear who will bring her face to face with the hard truth of forgiveness and the transformative power of love.

Helena's extraordinary journey takes her from Poland to Paris, New York to the Middle East, and to the winelands of Paarl in South Africa. She will linger in your memory long after you have turned the last page.

When you are accustomed to the finer things in life -designer shoes, champagne, VIP lounges, exotic holidays abroad, a luxury penthouse, expensive wheels -what independent young woman in her right mind would want to let them go? Certainly not the beautiful, ambitious and super-streetsmart Bontle Tau, the girl who has used her good looks and winning charm all her life to get exactly what she wants.

The lifestyle doesn't come cheap, though, nor does maintaining the body that allows it (just ask Dr Heinz at the beauty clinic). Luckily, Bontle has a degree in MENcology, and there is no shortage of blessers at her penthouse door, eager to give her all the love and (financial) support she needs. Papa Jeff might be overweight and getting on a bit, and receiving some unwanted attention from the Hawks; and Teddy might not have fully come through for her on that messed-up tender business; but Mr Emmanuel, the Nigerian businessman with deep pockets and the possibility of conferring second wife statu could that be love?

Keeping all her boyfriends happy and living a fabulous life is not without its challenges. With so many people clamouring for Bontle's attention -from her shebeen queen mother Gladys in Mamelodi, who is taking strain bringing up her teenaged brother, Golokile, on her own; to her girlfriends, Iris and Tsholo; not to mention her soon-to-be ex-husband, the ever-patient, ever-loving Ntokozo, Bontle barely has time to post on Instagram these days. Sooner or later something's got to give.

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.

Dianne is divorced but for the sake of her two daughters she lives next to her ex-husband, sharing a joint double garden. Good for the girls but what about her? How can she move on if Alan and his new fiancée are always around?

Her post-divorce romances have stalled: Andile, her lover turned friend, and Faye, her secret Tinder date turned sometimes lover. Both Andile and Faye want more but Di is not sure what she wants. Her daughters were not thrilled with the idea of her with a boyfriend, will they freak out if their mom has a girlfriend? Is it even worth introducing them if Faye might turn out not to be the one for her? But when Dianne’s eldest daughter deals with homophobia at school, Dianne feels compelled to speak out and be honest about who she is.

With the support of her friends Kari, Lily, Shelley and now Shireen, she might just have the courage to do it. But what will the fallout be?

’n Vrou, Katerina Steenkamp, haar oog ferm op die berg, gaan op ’n aanlyn dating site en ontmoet mense met onverwagse gevolge. ’n Man, sy kop vol apokaliptiese frases, patrolleer die strate sonder enige sigbare voorneme of doel. ’n Ander man hou die naghemel dop en wag op die koms van ’n elliptiese tuig. Nog ’n vrou, aan die einde van haar lewe, besin oor haar huwelik, en die lewens van haar drie susters. ’n Uitdagende roman, wat bowenal dui op vernuwing in Winterbach se werk. 

Bastian Bredenkamp is dead. But even the dead have secrets. From the grave, Bastian weaves together the extraordinary tale of his life. 

Bastian, the only heir to the Goedleven farm, suffers from a rare condition that allows him to remember everything that has ever happened to him.

When Khadeejathree comes to work for the family, Bastian is introduced to her daughter Rashieda, and a world he’d been sheltered from. But to love Rashieda means telling his secret: he is not who he appears to be. 

Dis 1938 en Elisabet Uys se onrus oor haar voorgenome huwelik met Johannes Barnard groei saam met die gerugte dat daar dalk ’n tweede Groot Oorlog mag uitbreek. Gepantser met Ouma Liesbet se raad besluit sy kort voor haar troue om die verlowing te verbreek en vrou-alleen na Europa te reis. Sal Elisabet in die oorloggeteisterde London vryheid en onvoorwaardelike liefde vind?      Helene de Kock op haar beste.