Clementine Khoza is a hard person: hard to know, hard to love, hard to fight. As a little girl, her grandfather put a stick and a shield in her hands and taught her the ancient stick-fighting art of her Zulu ancestors. The hard way. And right now she is in a hard place, searching for Drew, her young son – kidnapped and drawn into the heart of a vicious gang conflict.

Ex-army and ex-cop, Clementine has tracked Drew’s phone to Welcome Shade – a sprawling retirement estate that has fallen into disrepair to become a gang-infested war-zone. With nothing but a talent for violence, a drone piloted by a skinny Afrikaans street kid as her eye-in-the-sky, and a huge dog with ptsd who tried to kill her and then, somehow, became her sidekick, she’ll wield stick and shield, machete and shotgun, and wade through a sea of bodies to find her son.

But the gangs are only part of the problem. Dark, twisted things stalk the estate: nightmare creatures, elite military snipers working as mercenaries and a sword-wielding man on a white horse who has made her and Drew part of his agenda. And then there are the memories and visions of her ancestors, and her own very special hallucination whom she nicknames ‘Glitch’.

It’s going to be a hard day.

Charlie Human se Bokveld binnekort is ’n wonderlike toevoeging tot die versameling knap spekulatiewe fiksie wat die afgelope ruk deur Suid-Afrikaanse skrywers soos Lauren Beukes, Sarah Lotz, en S.A. Partridge gelewer is. Die hoofkarakter, Baxter Zevcenko, is ’n sestienjarige hardebaard wat ’n pornografiesindikaat op sy skool se speelgrond bedryf. Baxter is vlymskerp, het ’n donker sin vir humor en die roman is ryk aan heerlike pittighede. Die hel is los wanneer Baxter se meisie Esme ontvoer word en hy met ’n skok op Kaapstad se bonatuurlike onderwereld afkom. ’n Ongewone tand op die toneel van Esme se verdwyning help Baxter om kennis te maak met Jackie Ronin, ’n man wat bonatuurlike monsters jag. Saam probeer hulle vir Esme opspoor en kruis hul wee met ’n gloeiende man uit Wes-Afrika, die berugte Koningin van die Nagsluipers en ’n waansinnige wapendeskundige genaamd Basson. Baxter probeer so hard om sin te maak van hierdie vreemde wereld dat hy nie agterkom dat hy deel is van Basson se bose plan wat die aarde bokveld toe kan stuur nie. Bokveld binnekort is ’n skreeusnaakse, opwindende en interessante boek wat deur meer lesers as wetenskapfiksiegeesdiftiges geniet sal word. Dit is fantasties in elke sin van die woord en is die begin van ’n belowende loopbaan vir hierdie jong skrywer. Die boek word gelyktydig in Suid-Afrika en in die Verenigde Koninkryk uitgegee.

Charlie Human’s Apocalypse Now Now is a rip-roaring addition to the bout of ex­cellent speculative and other genre fiction by South African authors like Lauren Beukes, Sarah Lotz, and S.A. Partridge. The main character is Baxter Zevcenko, a 16-year-old kingpin of a schoolyard pornography syndicate. Baxter is razor-sharp, and darkly funny, and the novel dazzles with extremely quotable one-liners.

All hell breaks loose when Baxter’s girlfriend Esmé is kidnapped and he is plunged into Cape Town’s supernatural underworld. An unusual tooth found at the scene of Esmé’s disappearance leads Baxter to the door of supernatural bounty hunter Jackie Ronin. Together they set out to rescue Esmé and cross paths with a West African glowing man; the notorious Queen of the Nightwalkers; and a bent weapons-chemist named Basson. Baxter’s sudden immersion in the paranormal leaves him with little time to realise that he is about to become the final cog in Basson’s master plan – one that could create an apocalypse that will obliterate the world.

Apocalypse Now Now is a laugh-a-minute, entertaining and interesting book that will be enjoyed even by readers new to the genre. It’s fantastic in every sense of the word, will be published in the United Kingdom and South Africa simultaneously, and marks the beginning of this young writer’s promising career.

The world has been massively unappreciative of sixteen-year-old Baxter Zevcenko. His bloodline may be a combination of ancient Boer mystic and giant shape shifting crow, and he may have won an inter-dimensional battle and saved the world, but does anyone care? Frankly, no. Instead he’s packed off to Hexpoort, a magical training school that’s part reformatory, part military school. It's just like Hogwarts – except with sex, drugs, and much better internet access. The problem is that Baxter sucks at magic. He’s also desperately attempting to control his new ability to dream walk, all the while being singled out by the school’s resident bully, who just so happens to be the Chosen One. But when Hexpoort comes under attack, Baxter needs to forget all that and step into action. The only way to do this is to join forces with his favourite recovering alcoholic of a supernatural bounty hunter, Ronin, to try to save the world from the apocalypse. Again.