Game guide Alexandra Carnell-Ellis is principled, doesn’t suffer fools, and is generally not too fond of ordinary people either. When she’s fired from The Plains, a commercial ‘Ferrari Safari’-type game reserve in the Karoo for being rude to guests, she’s determined to make a fresh start.

She lands a dream job at an exclusive game reserve in Mpumalanga, but Alex arrives at the lodge with attitude, a few facts about her that aren’t strictly true, and a stolen dog in tow.

Alex struggles to control her unruly tongue and almost immediately makes enemies with the camp manager and the owner’s terrifyingly scary girlfriend. She finds love in the form of the level-headed and attractive head guide, but it’s not long before everything goes wrong.

After impulsively abandoning her vehicle and guests to rescue an abandoned baby baboon, a storm breaks over her head and she flees the reserve. Will she ever be able to find her way back?

In Eiland in die son​ begin Willemien se stryd om oorlewing – saam met ’n geheimsinnige vreemdeling en ’n jaloerse miljoenêrsvrou – toe haar vliegtuig in ’n tropiese oerwoud neerstort. Hoe kán sy haarself so totaal vergeet in die arms van ’n vreemdeling? Dít terwyl sy op trou staan met Ian, wat óók in die ongeluk was, maar nou nêrens te vinde is nie.

Andrea Smit besluit om haar pa op ’n avontuur te vergesel in Señor die seerower – min wetende dat haar pad op ’n tropiese eiland met dié van ’n aantreklike Spanjaard sal kruis; en dat sy sodoende in allerhande onmoontlike situasies sal beland . . .

In Sluiers van wierook ontspoor Ida Herbst se planne om deel te wees van ’n soektog na water in Saoedi-Arabië se grootste woestyn. Sy moet haar vriendin Ansie opspoor, en die enigste oplossing is om haarself gewilliglik in prins Ibrahim Hazik se kloue te begewe. Boonop ontketen die geheimsinnige Georg ongekende emosies in haar hart.

Dit was nog nie behoorlik dag nie toe Kaatjie Danster, haastig op pad Halte toe, die kind van die weemoed in die voetpaadjie voor haar gewaar. Tjoepstil het hy gestaan en luister na die wind. Sy het dadelik geweet: Druppeltjie du Pisanie, kind van Waterwyser du Pisanie en KensTillie Moolman, het die lewe vir die dood verruil. Maar hoe Druppeltjie onder in die boorgat beland het, dit weet niemand nie. En die af-arm magistraat wat nou, veertien maande later, kom ondersoek instel na die oorsaak van sy dood, torring verniet aan dinge wat verby is. Want Toorberg se mense – die lewendes en die dooies – ken van geheime wegbere. Net oor een ding het magistraat van der Ligt dit reg: hoe meer getuies daar is, hoe verder wyk die waarheid.

Weens die resessie in Nederland word Will se vader gedwing om as skeepsbouer in Roemenie te gaan werk. Toe die oorlog uitbreek, moet die gesin vlug en so beland hulle in Soerabaja op die eiland Java in Indonesie. Aanvanklik is hulle betreklik veilig, maar nadat Japan die eiland beset het, word die vrouens in konsentrasiekampe opgeneem. Hier beleef hulle bykans ondraaglike ellende, maar hier bewys die Nederlandse vroue ook van watter stoffasie hulle gemaak is. Die Van Halewijns oorleef die kampe en ook die Indonesiese burgeroorlog wat net na die oorlog uitbreek. Aanpassing na die oorlog is egter baie moeilik en die gesin emigreer uiteindelik na Suid-Afrika, waar Will haar ervarings aan die skryfster toevertrou het. Mariel le Roux het daarvan ’n meesleurende verhaal gemaak: Die uiters moeilike omstandighede, die hartseer en ook die ligter oomblikke word in genoeg besonderhede geskets sodat ’n mens jou daarin kan inleef.

With the unexpected arrival of a package from South Africa, the epic love stories of three vastly different women slowly unfold.

But what did the package contain that has forced the women of the Gordon household to finally reveal their secrets? Why did they conceal the truth from each other for so many years?

As Hannah, Beatrice and Zendaya share their passionate tales from the depths of their hearts; they unravel relationships of racial segregation, forbidden love, societal stigma, seduction and abuse. What they are yet to discover is that one man links their stories. But whose true love is he?

Embark on a journey of mystery, suspense, drama and love that spans across three generations.

Qabila’s marriage is falling apart – it has been for years. If she had not fallen pregnant she and Rashid might not have married in the first place. After all, he was seeing Thandi at the time. And now Qabila wonders if he ever stopped seeing her. Does that explain why Qabila has never felt the full measure of his love? At least he is not abusive, her mother would say, unlike Qabila’s father.

But with her mother’s passing, Qabila’s world is coming undone. She is dreaming of strange songs and making lists to stay sane. When she finds out Rashid is living a double life, she demands a divorce. Why does he still resist? Why not go to Thandi?

As she tries to pick up the pieces of her life, Qabila rails against the persistent legacy of discrimination in South Africa. Not least of which is the racism in her own community towards fellow black people. But she also rediscovers the joy of family, and her Muslim faith, and meets a group of musicians who might be the answer to her puzzling dreams.

In the wake of her beloved grandfather’s death, Lou and her family gather at their coastal family home for a long-awaited family reunion.

The windswept and wild surroundings remind Lou of who she was before being a mother, a wife, and a professional failure. They bring back memories of Michael, her toxic first love and, according to the family, her ‘bad luck penny’. Then a shocking crisis in the country disrupts the funeral arrangements and forces the family together for longer than planned.

As secrets rise to the surface, the threads of Lou’s life unravel and she faces a difficult choice – after all, it’s only a bad luck penny if you pick it up.

Samantha, ’n kunstenaar, woon met haar hond op Kruisklipbaai ná haar verloofde se dood. Sy stel glad nie in ’n verhouding belang nie. Staan sy egter ’n kans teen die ernstige man wat haar en Wolf een oggend uit die seestroom red?

Zak het jare gelede besluit om nooit te trou nie, maar dan ontmoet hy vir Samantha en haar hond op die strand. Teen sy sin moet hy herbesin. Kan hy waag om iemand in sy lewe in te laat?

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

Look closely around you. Have you ever asked yourself what happens to all the girls who are in the system?

Girls that are orphans…
The boys…
The mothers in shelters…
All the battered women…
The downfall of the most powerful…

I’m leaving the agenda BARE for those who seek to find it. I have a story for you. No mercy…

Back like I never left!

Tim Morgan
Undisclosed location

The savage, senseless murders of children and the youth. It carries Treasure’s story from Book 1 and ends with the fight for life between Paul and Tim Morgan. We look at the disappearance of young people, human trafficking, cults and mental illness in men.

This story is inspired by real-life events and researched data from global social ills and Jackie looks into SA political faces that have sex scandals as part of her research.

Alicia van Aarde is tuis in haar werk as bibliotekaresse en in Amsterdam. Toe haar ma, Elizabeth, vir Alicia na haar troue uitnooi, word hulle bande weer versterk.

Alicia is aanvanklik geïrriteerd met Ruben Retief, die neef van Elizbeth se aanstaande, wat ook in Europa werk en vir die troue Suid-Afrika toe reis. Tog verras Ruben, ’n operasanger, haar met sy andersheid.

Hulle families het verwagtinge oor hulle twee, maar albei is versigtig vir seerkry. Sal die liefde die gaping tussen hulle kan oorbrug?

Fiona Viviers, ’n suksesvolle ortotis is in ’n ongelukkige verhouding vasgevang. Anton Bruwer, ’n enkellopende spysenier, help Fiona in ’n ongemaklike situasie.

Die insident beland op die internet en Anton word as ’n held gesien, wat hom dwing om verder betrokke te raak. Fiona waardeer sy hulp, al hou sy nie daar van om “gered” te word nie.

Gaan sy hom die kans gee om ’n tikkie towerkrag in haar lewe te bring?

Catryn wil nie met ’n ryk wynboer trou nie. Sy wil eerder haar eie kleremaakbesigheid aan die Kaap de Goede Hoop begin.

Claude kom Kaap toe om die hart van sy eertydse minnares, die goewerneur se vrou, terug te wen. Toe hy en Catryn saam die goewerneur se vrou se gesteelde pêrelhalssnoer moet opspoor, spat die vonke. Die verhouding tussen hulle raak al warmer, en skandale dreig.

Sal hulle die vuurproef deurstaan?

Left with a huge debt by her runaway ex-husband, Lexi Taylor is out of money and out of luck. In search of a new beginning and determined to be on her own, she returns home to sleepy Graaff-Reinet and becomes the manager of the inn at Apricot Farm. Free of the burdens of her old life, Lexi finally feels she’s getting back on track – until American Carter O’Brien arrives in town.

South Africa is a long way from his home in Texas, but it’s the fresh start Carter needs – and his last chance. A former musician and the wayward son of an oil industry tycoon, he has been sent to the Karoo Basin in search of shale gas, and is expected to succeed. Harbouring serious mistakes in his private and professional past, he can’t afford any distractions, no matter how alluring.

Carter was prepared for potential problems – angry farmers, anti-fracking protests, tricky negotiations – but fighting his attraction to Lexi wasn’t one of them. As Lexi is drawn into Carter’s work and his complicated life, the pair must confront danger from an unexpected enemy in the Karoo … and from their own hearts.

From the author of the 100,000+ copy-selling rom-com, Love to Hate You! No one makes you laugh like Jo Watson! 'I couldn't stop laughing ... this was outstanding' Goodreads reviewer If you love Sophie Ranald, Sophie Kinsella and Paige Toon, you'll LOVE Jo Watson! ................................................................................. That moment you catch your boyfriend in bed with another woman and then mistakenly get arrested. #awks Annie doesn't want to dwell on the fact that she walked in on her bf wearing nipple clamps on the day he was meant to propose to her. She just wants to move on - cue escaping to a tropical paradise. Life is dreamy on the beaches of Mauritius, until the nightmarish appearance of her ex and the 'other woman'. Faced with the enemy, Annie refuses to look like the sad, lonely single she actually is. She needs a decoy - and fast. Enter Chris, a sexy screenwriter who agrees to play her pretend boyfriend. But as a battle of the exes commences, the white sand, tropical heat and a pina colada (or five) might just be the cocktail for a real romance - and the adventure of a lifetime. ................................................................................. Don't miss Jo's laugh-out-loud rom-coms, Love You, Love You Not, Love to Hate You, Burning Moon, Almost A Bride, Finding You, After the Rain and The Great Ex-scape. Love funny, romantic stories? You don't want to miss Jo Watson: 'The perfect choice for fans of romantic comedies' Gina's Bookshelf 'It was amazing, it was hilarious' Rachel's Random Reads 'A brilliant read from beginning to end' Hopeless Romantics

Yellow Means Stay is a collection of enthralling, sad, humorous, and heart-touching love stories from across Africa and the black diaspora. It features new and award-winning writers from across the African continent and beyond.

The stories are a dynamic blend of the poetic and narrative, the spousal and familial, the suggestive and explicit, the dramatic and measured, the straight and queer, the sad and humorous, the past and future, life and afterlife. Through its pages, readers enter the world of African literature, love, and romance

The Harvard Wife is the portrayal of the modern career woman. Her struggles in relationships, marriage, divorce and motherhood. It’s a story about a woman who finds herself in an unhappy marriage and while running away from her problems on safari with her best friend she runs into the one that got away. Things spiral downwards from there for her marriage but through it all, divorce and almost losing her child, she finds herself and grows.

Die vertrek waarin ek my opgestopte voëltjies in glaskissies uitgestal het, het ek ontruim. Ek het die voëleiertjies en -neste, asook kassette met opnames van voëlgeluide in bokse gepak. Dit het my te veel aan Pa laat dink, en aan hom wou ek nie dink nie. Want dan het ek vir Annalisa gehaat, en ’n ma mag haar kind nie haat nie.

Hulle is onder ’n kareeboom in die agtererf besig om na ’n janfiskaal te kyk wanneer haar tronkdokter-pa by Rosaria bieg dat ook hý ’n tipe laksman is. By Pretoria-Sentraal, waar hy die gehangdes se doodsertifikate uitreik, dien hy soms ook die genadeskoot toe. Maar sê nou van daardie tereggesteldes was onskuldig? wonder Rosaria.

Nou, jare later, en kort ná die raaiselagtige dood van haar dogter Annalisa, onthou Rosarie die nonnetjiesuil wat sy en haar aweregse dogter grootgemaak het. Dit was voor Annalisa se rockmusiek van haar ’n kultusfiguur gemaak het, en voordat sy haar rug op haar ma gedraai het.

Rosaria se worsteling strek verder terug as haar kind se dood. Haar verlede word verder oopgeruk wanneer Annalisa se dogtertjie haar verskyning maak – ’n kleinkind waarvan Rosarie nooit geweet het nie.

Maar hoe het haar dogter gesterf? En hoe naby aan ’n laksman is Rosaria self?

Kate Petersen keeps her panic attacks to herself, until the day she experiences one in front of her boss. With her personal life in ruins, her job is all she’s got. When an important renewable energy assignment in an Eastern Cape surfing village comes up, she is allowed to take over only if she promises to get her anxiety under control. She decides not to tell her boss that he is sending her to the very place where all her troubles began with a tragedy which continues to haunt her.

Determined to put the past behind her, she arrives in St Francis Bay ready to placate environmental opposition to her employer’s planned wind farm. Trouble brews when she begins to fall for Matthew Sykes, the attentive vet and surfer who is still grieving the death of his wife. Meanwhile, the parochial locals escalate their protests, from peaceful resistance to creepy threats, and Kate is forced to confront her worst fears as well as risk exposing her fragile state of mind to Matthew and her client.

Then the violence intensifies and Matthew turns out to have a few secrets of his own. Kate understands that their growing relationship and her job are at stake, but she doesn’t know that her life is also in danger …

Winner of the Strelitzia Award from the Romance Writers Organisation of South Africa in 2017.

Loving him could destroy her... High school teacher Cilla Stevens has always been different, especially in how she connects with animals. When she calms a stray dog during an incident at school, she's asked to help a nearby farm with a difficult horse. Cameron Rahl has had a very different relationship with animals since his mother died in a horse riding accident. But now he's inherited his family's farm, he's determined to never let anyone affect him that way again. Until he meets Cilla. He tries to stay away from the gorgeous horse whisperer with the potential to tame him, but something keeps pulling him close. And as much as Cilla tells herself she can keep it casual, she knows they're too connected to be 'just a fling.' Will Cilla's heart win out? Or will it take history repeating itself for Cameron to realise just how much he needs her?

‘Akwaba ndandingambonanga’, uvakalisa ukuzisola uFikile.

Ukuthandana kukaFikile noNandipha kuqala ngendlela emsulwa kodwa ukudizwa kweem­fihlelo ekukudala ziqhushekiwe, uthando olungavumelekanga nezinto eziyindaba yakwamkhozi kushiya ubomi bamakhaya esi sibini, nkqu nabantu basemaMpondweni, butshintshe unaphakade.

Veilige hawe is 'n heruitgawe van twee van haar romanses. In Vonkpos vir die hart probeer Liezl die muur om Pieter Naude afbreek. Na die moord op sy gesin is dit nie maklik nie. Sy verstaan egter - sy het self haar man verloor. Tog raak sy lief vir hom. Na wie luister sy - haar hart of haar verstand? ’n Beskermengel vir Marlene is die drie-en-twintigjarige weduwee, Marlene, se verhaal. Sy is bang en vertrou niemand nie - totdat Adolf opdaag. Haar bang word vertroue. Sy erken dat sy hom liefhet en hy baai haar in sy omgee en sorg … Tot die verlede hulle inhaal.

Toe Daan van der Walt, ’n eerstydse Kalahari-boer, ’n vertigo-aanval kry, laai sy vervreemde seun hom by ’n monnikeklooster in China af. Onder leiding van Meester Yang moet Daan tai chi doen in ’n poging om sy balans te herstel. Maar daar is ook iets anders wat aan Daan vreet, iets wat hy van sy hart móét afkry voor hy sy weg na die hiernamaals kan vind. Dalk is dit tyd dat hy aan Magrieta, sy oorlede vrou, skryf en sê dat hy haar liefgehad het.

In Die Dao van Daan van der Walt word die Afrikaner-dilemma in die moderne lewe met ’n fyn lem oopgevlek.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us by refusing our wishes or by fulfilling them. - Henri Fredrick Amiel.

Boy meets girl..... girl and boy fall in love...boy gets murdered and girl finds out she's pregnant. How do you move on from the one person you thought was your soulmate? How do you raise his child without falling apart? It is written: A story about destiny follows Zanele Jele after she loses her soulmate in a tragic death. The story explores her journey to healing and letting go as she struggles to let go of what once was.

Zanele is conflicted when she begins to have feelings for friend Mthunzi Mathonsi and she slowly and unexpectedly realises that she is in love with him. Could it be that one person can have more than one soulmate in a lifetime... is it possible to give your heart out completely to someone and risk the chance of losing them again? Will she be able to give love another chance or will the fear of loss stand in the way of LOVE.

Om Amelie se tafel
Amelie doen nie groepwerk nie. Sy doen nie motorbestuur nie, en sy doen ook nie mans wat vir haar lelies of juweliersware aandra nie. Ja, sy't 'n bietjie bagasie - en wie het nogal nie? Maar wanneer spanbou-spesialis en bedryfsielkundige Chris op die prentjie verskyn, en boonop veroorsaak dat Amelie 'n ver ent pad moet ry om sowaar in simpel groepies te gaan rondfoeter, word haar wêreld omgekeer. Die man sukkel met haar en weet nét watter knoppies om te druk. Wanneer sy Chris leer ken en besef hy't 'n groot, luide familie - presies die soort wat sy so graag om 'n gesellige etenstafel in haar eie tuin sou wil sien, die soort waaroor sy droom sedert haar ouers se ontydige dood - is haar kop aan die draai. Dit verg allerlei ompaaie, en harde werk van Chris se kant, om deur Amelie se bagasieknope te sny. Sal sy haar dinge kan laat staan en die familie wen waarna sy so smag? En dít voor Chris besluit sy's net té veel moeite?

Liefde in laslap
Natalie Olivier het geen familie van haar eie nie, maar by haar vriendin Amelie se mense voel sy tuis. Totdat Amelie se swaer van Italië terugkeer. Neethling Meyer se sjokoladebruin oë onthuts Natalie heeltemal. En toe hy haar boonop soen, wil haar hart net nie meer normaal klop nie. Maar Neethling is 'n beroemde skrywer van rillerromans wat duidelik sy lewe as vrygesel geniet. Natalie weet mos hy is nie die tipe wat langtermynverhoudings aanknoop nie. Wat ook al tussen hulle is, sal nie hou nie. Jare ná haar kinderdae in die weeshuis vind Natalie uiteindelik meer oor haar verlore familie uit en begin sy om haar lewensverhaal in 'n laslapdeken uit te beeld. Maar Neethling se silhoeët duik telkens in haar uitbeeldings op. Is hul stories werklik bestem om te vervleg?

Liefde deur 'n lens
Wanneer Nicola Meyer agter haar kamera skuil, voel sy veilig en in beheer. Dit laat enige onstuimigheid in haar binneste bedaar. Selfs toe sy, in haar beroep as fotograaf, vlugtelinge oorsee afgeneem het, het sy al die hartseer in haar foto's gekanaliseer en dit só van haar afgeweer. Sy huil nooit nie. Maar toe sy na Suid-Afrika terugkeer, dreig haar onderdrukte emosies om uit te borrel - en dis alles Francois Olivier, haar skoonsus se baie aantreklike broer, se skuld. Hy soen haar onverwags, vat aan haar, en laat haar wêreld tol. Hy sien die hartseer raak wat sy diep wegsteek en daag haar uit om te erken hoe sy voel. Nicola probeer om met haar kamera afstand tussen hulle te skep. Maar as sy haar weer kom kry, fokus sy op sy sterk gelaatstrekke. En wat is die uitdrukking wat sy daar sien? Geen man het al ooit só na haar gekyk nie. Sal Nicola haar verskansing kan laat vaar?