This is the perfect book for trivia and quiz night enthusiasts all over South Africa! Although there are other internationally published pub quiz books on the market, this is the only quiz book published in South Africa. The book is filled with both international and South African-specific quiz questions. Find instructions on how to host your own quiz night with friends, or just have some great family fun during load shedding. Put your brain to the test in speed quizzes and anagram rounds, general trivia and wipeout rounds. Attempt to correctly guess the who am I? questions, and as a bonus there’s an entire quiz dedicated to sport.

Where do unfinished poems go – the early buds, the offcuts, all of the blooms that can’t be bunched together?

In this beguiling bouquet of travel poetry, diary fragments, letters, works-in-progress and retrospection, Helen Moffett offers us a rare look into the workings, misfirings and triumphs of a literary mind.

A collection of tentative moments and emotions, rendered in fleeting and experimental forms.

What with the rising cost of travel, the scary exchange rate, the cost of visas, traffic congestion on the roads to the coast, the environmental cost of air travel and – generally – a lack of time, perhaps we should revisit the concept of holidays. Do we really have to travel halfway across the world or halfway across the country for a holiday to ‘count’? After all, what makes a holiday a holiday anyway? What makes it special? Two days of genuine relaxation within 100km of your home is worth more than a week in a glamorous resort if you’re stressing out about work, are in semi-constant contact with the office, or are trying to figure out how you are going to resuscitate your credit card when you get back. A holiday is a state of mind.

It’s a series of special moments that you will treasure forever. And that’s what’s so great about staycations. No long queuing and interviews for visas, no long queues at the airport, no long flights, and no long, thousand-yard-stare, endless drives through the Karoo. By choosing a staycation, you minimise the boring, long bits of holidays, and maximize the fun, interesting bits that make for treasured memories. And, hey, you save money, save fuel, and pile up carbon credits at the same time. What’s not to love? And you would be amazed at how much there is to do so close to the city – stunning hikes and country stays, big five safaris, awesome golf, amazing adventures, romantic retreats, and genuinely fun family-friendly resorts where your kids can act their age, and so can you.

So, check it out – you’ll find amazing golf staycations, adventure staycations, safari staycations and a range of fabulous one-tank-cations spreading out from the city like the petals of a daisy. North, south, east, west – close to home is best.

Besides being a world-famous game-viewing destination, the Kruger National Park is home to an incredible diversity of bugs, beetles, butterflies, spiders, scorpions and other creepy-crawlies. This richly illustrated, beginner-friendly guide is ideal for the casual visitor keen to identify and learn more about the Park’s smaller inhabitants.

Find out what happens inside a termite mound, how ladybirds protect themselves from predators, and why dung beetles race to fresh dung pats.

Aimed at the popular market, this book:

• Spans 30 groups, including moths, beetles, wasps, crickets and spiders, and features over 200 commonly encountered species
• Contains vivid photographs of Kruger’s most interesting and attractive critters
• Unpacks noteworthy behaviours and biology
• Introduces key concepts, such as mimicry, cryptic coloration, metamorphosis, parasitism and pollination
• Includes bug-watching and photography tips for beginners

Part of the NATURE NOW series, this beginner-friendly, richly illustrated guide is an informative and entertaining read, sure to appeal to visitors who want to make the most of their visit to the Kruger National Park.

Coverage includes Pretoria; Akasia; Atteridgeville; Centurion; Mamelodi; Midrand and Tembisa.

Content:

• Gautrain routes
• Detailed easy-to-read index of streets & suburbs
• Detailed suburb boundaries
• GPS points
• Perfect coverage of all city regions
• Full legend, scale & directions on each page
• Central streetplan of Pretoria
• 117 pages of detailed main map pages
• 39 pages of index
• OVER 16,000 streetnames listed
• Main routes with route numbers, freeways & interchanges
• Schools
• Hospitals / clinics & municipal clinics
• Shopping malls
• Police stations & fire departments
• Parks & reserves
• Places of interest
• Historical monuments
• Provincial heritage sites
• Museums / art galleries
• Golf courses, sports fields & stadiums
• Intersections, route numbers & interchange names
• Industrial areas
• Post offices & libraries

Waders, or shorebirds, represent only a small percentage of the world's birds, but are unparalleled in popularity among birders. Identifying these seemingly anonymous grey birds, through a combination of shape, plumage and behaviour, is one of the most rewarding challenges in birding and the possibility of finding a rarity is an ever-present drawcard.

Despite their delicate appearance, waders thrive in some of the most inhospitable environments on the planet thanks to remarkable structural and behavioural adaptations, dynamic life cycles and dramatic global migrations. More than two years in the making, this unique, lavishly illustrated book will help you not only to identify waders with confidence, but also to understand and enjoy these inspirational birds.

It is the ultimate resource on the identification and biology of Southern Africa's wader species. However, because of waders' incredible worldwide migrations, most of the species in Chamberlain's Waders will also be familiar with readers from other regions of the world (only 30 of Southern Africa's 80 waders are NOT migratory).

What makes Chamberlain's Waders different from other titles on waders? Firstly, it is written from a Southern Hemisphere perspective, unlike most European and American books. This shift of focus completely changes the picture. Secondly, it explains wader identification based on a background of biology and ecology instead of just listing all the tedious identification details. Thirdly, it is so much more than just a field guide. Some paragraphs really read like a love letter written to waders in celebration of their beauty, adaptability and triumph over seemingly insurmountable challenges.

Heidri Mittendorf is 'n bekende en ervare blokkiesraaiselkenner en - opsteller.

Die Bybel Blokraai bevat 70 blokraaie wat opgelos word met leidrade wat uit die Bybel nageslaan kan word asook 10 woordsoeke gebaseer op temas uit die Bybel.

Al die antwoorde word ook verskaf. Dit sal ure se blokraaigenot verskaf aan blokraailiefhebbers.

In Kinderlê kom verse oor die kwesbaarheid van kinders, swangerskapsverlies, genderkwessies, die liefde en erotiek, en geestesgesondheid aan die bod. Die titel is die naam van ’n monument by Steinkopf in die Noord-Kaap ter herinnering aan ’n kinderuitwissing wat daar plaasgevind het – ’n historiese gegewe wat nie wyd bekend is nie.

’n Afdeling in die bundel word aan verse gewy wat dié verhaal vertel. In ander afdelings word narratiewe verse gebruik om te vertel van die ontstellende belewenis van opname in ’n psigiatriese instelling, en van ’n miskraam. Laasgenoemde tema is nog weinig in Afrikaanse digkuns ondersoek. Voorts word erotiese ervarings treffend, evokatief en met ’n tikkie humor verwoord. Julius tree dikwels in gesprek met haar literêre voorgangers en betrek dan die huidige sosiopolitiek.

Soos met Uit die kroes, haar bekroonde debuutbundel, verruim sy Afrikaans met die gebruik van Gariepafrikaans en Nama-woordeskat in haar jongste bundel.

In Pieter Odendaal se langverwagte tweede bundel skryf hy oor aktuele temas soos queer-identiteitspolitiek, geboortegrond, die klimaatskrisis, verlies en vervreemding.

Dit is ’n selfbewuste maar ook selfversekerde digterstem wat aan die woord is.

Die digter skroom nie om binnetoe te kyk en ongemaklike vrae te vra oor herkoms, tuiswees en heengaan nie: Waar kom ons vandaan? Waar behoort ons? En waar gaan ons heen as ons van die aarde ontwortel word?

The Madikwe Game Reserve, situated against the Botswana border, just three hours' drive from both Johannesburg and Pretoria, is one of South Africa's prime safari destinations and its fifth biggest game reserve. Madikwe is a Big Five game reserve covering some 75,000 hectares. The rich diversity of vegetation ensures a wide range of game, and the topography offers ideal game viewing opportunities for wilderness safaris. Madikwe is also one of the few places where you can see the Brown Hyena and the Aardwolf, making it extra special.

The perfect companion to any foray into the savannah, Madikwe Game Drive includes not only beautiful photographs of a wide array of birds, mammals and reptiles, but informative text which is both extremely compact and highly comprehensive.

All statistics that could conceivably help a viewer to identify, catalogue and learn about each animal are provided in concise and clear format. The Latin and colloquial names for each animal are included, along with the Afrikaans, French, German and Zulu names. The listings are given ratings for rarity of sightings, and each animal a tick box for viewers to mark upon sighting.

This book offers a series of reflections on the field of South African literature from the perspective of 2020. It emerges from Duncan Brown’s experiences of three decades of working in this field of writing and scholarship, and is both a personal intellectual exploration and an engagement with the institutional history of literary studies in South Africa and elsewhere. Several interrelated questions are woven through the chapters: recovering ‘the literary’; literary studies ‘after theory’; religion and spirituality; ‘other’ modes of writing and reading; rereadings; South African literary history postapartheid; canonicity; national/transnational identity; and multilingualism and translation.

As well as being a book about the changing field of South African literature, Finding My Way is also a series of attempts to find more creative, engaging and intriguing modes of writing about literature and the humanities more generally. It is a book that seeks to recover a sense of the imaginative, the literary, the affective, not only as things to value in the literary texts we read, but also as ways of understanding and reading texts, as ways of writing criticism – of registering how books make us feel, as well as how they make us think.

“Not sex please,” sê die monnik en toe hy die verbouereerde uitdrukkings op ons gesigte sien, glimlag hy gerusstellend. “Seven is better . . . OK?”

Tussen misverstande, pogings om die taal en skrif te leer en lokvalle van swendelaars wat daarop uit is om ’n vinnige yuan te maak, is daar die vriendelike vreemdelinge wat soos ’n goue draad deur Elkarien Fourie se ervarings in China loop. Hulle is die “mede”-mense wat uitstaan tussen die gedrang van miljoene in die megastede; wat aanbied om die pad saam te loop eerder as om dit net te verduidelik.

Elkarien het Confucius se voorskrif gevolg en haar hele hart saamgeneem op hierdie avontuur wat haar gekies het eerder as andersom.

Hierdie vierde, hersiene uitgawe van die gewilde naslaanbron vir liefhebbers van Afrikaanse blokraaisels, Moeggesoek is nou getiteld Pharos Blokraai­antwoorde. Die nuwe uitgawe is volledig herbewerk, en nuwe subkategorieë is ingesluit. Oplossings vir duisende internasionale en plaaslike feite is alfabeties volgens sewe temas gerangskik: Algemene kennis, Bybelkennis, geografie, die kunste, politiek, sport en skoonhede.

Die gids is in 'n handige formaat en gebruikersvriendelik, wat daartoe bydra om maklik daardie ontwykende antwoorde op die leidrade in jou Afrikaanse blokraaisel te vind. So, as jy die naam van 'n vulkaan in Antartika wil weet, of dalk die naam van ’n sanger wat deel was van die Beatles, die vorige staatshoof van Viëtnam of die naam van een van die maangode, het jy die Pharos Blokraai­antwoorde nodig.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is anything but Shakespeare. Unless you’ve never read Shakespeare.

This debut poetry collection by Matthew Freemantle is at times hilarious, at times snarky and at other times a concise mirror reflecting back the absurdity of modern life in South Africa - especially during multiple lockdowns.

A high-brow toilet book that tackles personal reflections on toes, fatherhood, sex, commerce and identity.

Die meeste sterre is lankal dood is die bekroonde digter Johann de Lange se dertiende bundel. Dit bestaan uit ses afdelings, deurgaans gewy aan vlietende oomblikke vasgevang in 'n vers ("om met woorde die onsegbare te sê"). Die bundel het 'n elegiese toonaard, en word oorheers deur 'n bewustheid van verlies & verganklikheid, van "inskaduwings van die lig". Verse oor die skryfproses figureer as teenvoeter vir die verbygaande aard van mens wees. Dit is verse vir "my mooi dooies". In "Oggendmusiek" beskryf die digter 'n vroegoggendkoor van voëls voor sonsopkoms, elders 'n koorddanser, voetjie vir voetjie oor die spantou. Soos in sy vorige werk is die erotiese verse 'n hoogtepunt in die bundel, bv in "Ode aan die mielie": "Nét so, nog aan die oggend ­­ tussen die syige bene van die dag ­­staan hy, volryp, pittig & reg."

Bloed & sneeu

Bloed op sneeu is ’n pasgebore rooi,
van iets gewond, ’n struikelende spoor.
En die sneeu? Is daar énigiets so mooi,
so prilwit gespits, as ’n haseoor?

Krog is ’n internasionaal gerekende digter maar ook plaaslik geliefd. Vyftig jaar ná haar opspraakwekkende debuut, Dogter van Jefta, verskyn daar ’n splinternuwe versameling waarin meer as honderd gedigte uit haar elf bundels saampraat. Verse oor eerste liefde, oor moederskap, oor die landskap, en oor onreg; oplaas ook oor ouer word.

'n Vry vrou bevat gunstelinge uit Krog se oeuvre maar ook minder bekende dog ewe verrassende verse. Saamgestel deur Karen de Wet.

’n Stuk of 50 stories waarin Dana Snyman besin oor enigiets van fopnuus tot ’n 40ste skoolreünie. Hy vertel van sy kennismaking met Eugène Terre’Blanche en van die Bogosi-gesin wat by hom op Jacobsbaai gewoon het. Hy vertel hoe mense na mekaar probeer uitreik in die land. Hoe ons mekaar soek en nie altyd vind nie. Ten slotte vertel hy van sy verloofde se selfdood en hoe hy daarná byna al sy besittings weggee en die pad vat.

’n Oorsig van Breyten Breytenbach se digkuns is 'n voëlvlug oor 'n wye era: vanaf die jare sestig tot vandag, waarin beide Europa en Afrika hulself radikaal herdefinieer het. In hierdie herdefiniering staan Breyten Breytenbach, die digter, mens en denker soos ’n skakelende deurpos.

Elke gedig is soos ’n tekening of ’n skildery waarin tekens en betekenis in vloeiende verbande tot mekaar staan en waarin gunstelingtemas weer en weer ter sprake kom – elke keer uniek geskommel soos kwashale op die doeke van Jackson Pollock se skilderye of die stippels in ’n kaleidoskoop wat nooit ophou draai nie.

Die gedigte is chronologies gerangskik volgens die digter se lewensgang: jongmenslewe in Kaapstad, Parys, effektiewelike bannelingskap weens sy huwelik, terugkeer en tronkstraf, die buiteland. En oplaas ’n onrustige pendelaarslewe tussen noorde en suide van die aardbol, waarin volledige tuiskoms slegs in die arms van die liefde is.

Pretend You Don’t Know Me brings together in one volume the best of Finuala Dowling’s funny, poignant and idiosyncratic poetry from four earlier prize-winning collections, with a section devoted to new poems.

This new collection contains her iconic poem ‘To the doctor who treated the raped baby and who felt such despair’ as well as Dowling’s tragi-comic cycle of poems on the theme of her mother’s dementia, and the hugely popular poems ‘Butter’ and ‘The abuse of cauliflowers’. At the heart of the book are the funny and poignant connections we make with other people, and the lifelong effort to stay whole.

‘Pretend You Don’t Know Me, by South African Finuala Dowling, is a witty and wise collection of new and selected poems. Her sequence about her mother’s dementia is very touching. Elsewhere, these vital works will have you crying with laughter.’ – Jackie Kay, The Guardian (Books of the Year 2018)

Ysterkoei-blues (2001) is die eerste van ’n drieluik versamelbundels van Breytenbach se amper-volledige oeuvre. Hierdie band bevat al die digbundels wat voor sy gevangeniskap in 1975 verskyn het, asook enkele ongebundelde verse, Skryt, en kort prosastukke uit Katastrofes. Vyf van die titels in hierdie bloemlesing is plaaslik met o.m. die APB- en CNA-prys bekroon. Die huis van die dowe (1967) en Lotus (1970) word ook in die Nederlande onderskeidelik met die Reina Prinsen Geerling- en Lucy B en CW van der Hoogt-prijs vereer. Dié heruitgawe spog met ’n splinternuwe baadjie wat aansluit by die jongste versamelbundel, Die singende hand (2016).

This highly visual new guide introduces readers to 100 of the most memorable trees in the bushveld – the northern and eastern regions of South Africa, encompassing both the lowveld and the highveld.

An introduction covers the basics of tree anatomy, supported by a pictorial glossary, and details the author’s streamlined ID method that enables even novices to make quick and sure identifi cations.

• Most trees are generously featured across double-page spreads;

• Full tree images along with diagnostic photos (bark, leaves, thorns, fl owers, pods, fruit, etc.) enable readers to distinguish even those trees that are most confusing, such as the ‘acacias’ or the bushwillows;

• Concise text highlights each tree’s key features;

• Interesting facts, multiple uses and particular value the trees have among local populations are given.

With its abundant, detailed photographs and straightforward text, this guide will help readers unlock the complicated world of trees.

Uit stof, ster, planete word daar poësie gemaak. Die digter verken die geskape Univers met fyn aanvoeling en vernuf. Hier is ’n poëtiese fisikus op sy allerbeste.

Hennie Smith se aanleg vir wiskunde en wetenskap het hom tot ’n doktorsgraad in fisika geneem en ’n suksesvolle navorsingsloopbaan in Suid-Afrika en Frankryk. Sy aanvoeling vir poësie het hom egter deurgaans besiel en hy het telkens woorde gevind om emosiebelaaide insigte in verse neer te pen. Die fisika en kosmologie word vir hom ’n teleskoop om van die einders van die kosmos in te kyk op die binneruimte van menslike emosie.

Hier is van die kragtigste gedigte in Afrikaans wat die leser as ’n gedagtegolf tref en met nuwe denke oor die poësie laat. Die intense gedigte oor die roering en spanning tussen die manlike en vroulike het ook ’n kosmiese inslag wanneer hy soos Goethe in sy Faust ervaar dat die ewig vroulike hom motiveer en die volheid van die syn laat beleef. ’n Aantal verse reik uit na die grense van religie en filosofie.

Hier is ’n bundel wat die grense van dig-denke roer en verbreed.

Coverage includes Johannesburg; East Rand; West Rand; Alberton; Benoni; Boksburg; Brakpan; Edenvale; Germiston; Kempton Park; Krugersdorp; Midrand; Randburg; Roodepoort; Sandton; Soweto and Springs.

Content

• Gautrain routes
• Detailed easy-to-read index of streets & suburbs
• Detailed suburb boundaries
• GPS points
• Perfect coverage of all city regions
• Full legend, scale & directions on each page
• Central streetplan of Johannesburg
• 238 pages of detailed main map pages
• 69 pages of index
• OVER 39,000 streetnames listed
• Main routes with route numbers, freeways & interchanges
• Schools
• Hospitals / clinics & municipal clinics
• Shopping malls
• Police stations & fire departments
• Parks & reserves
• Places of interest
• Historical monuments
• Provincial heritage sites
• Museums / art galleries
• Golf courses, sports fields & stadiums
• Intersections, route numbers & interchange names
• Industrial areas
• Post offices & libraries

Menige ouer, onderwyser en afrigter het al die wens uitgespreek dat minder tyd aan die soek van geskikte materiaal vir Eisteddfods bestee hoef te word. Eisteddfod-pret is gebore uit hierdie noodkreet van ouers, onderwysers en kinders wat jaarliks in desperaatheid die internet en biblioteke fynkam vir vars, nuwe materiaal, want dis nie sommer enigiets wat geskik is nie. Die inhoud van hierdie bundel is oorspronklike, ongepubliseerde werke van die Fynbosskrywers, werke wat die potensiaal het om A++ by ’n Eisteddfod te verwerf. Dit bestaan uit 108 gedigte, 24 monoloë en 20 samesprake wat geskik is vir gebruik in die laerskool. ‘n Inleiding deur Louise Lachenicht verseker ook dat die deelnemer se potensiaal ten volle ontwikkel word met riglyne vir afrigters, onderwysers en ouers.

Die Pharos Afrikaansgids bied eenvoudige riglyne vir spelling en skryfwyses volgens die 2017-uitgawe van die Afrikaanse woordelys en spelreëls en is KABV- geskik. Dit dek die belangrike taalsake wat oor leerders se pad kom en is 'n praktiese, alledaagse gids vir voorgraadse studente en ander taalgebruikers.

- Deel A bevat naslaanlyste van woorde wat dikwels spellingprobleme oplewer, meervoude en verkleining, intensiewe vorme, vergelykings en idiome.

- Deel B is ’n naslaangedeelte wat belangrike en algemene taalreëls aan die hand van eenvoudige definisies en enkele voorbeelde verduidelik.

- Deel C bevat nuttige inligting oor byvoorbeeld sinsoorte, woordorde in sinne en die konstruksie van paragrawe. Daar is ook ’n kort oorsig oor tekstipes.