Samestellers Corlia Fourie en Annelize van Rooyen bring vermaaklike reisstories deur 46 skrywers byeen, o.a. Marita van der Vyver, Kirby van der Merwe, Sophia Kapp, Jacques Pauw, Irma Joubert, Julian Jansen, C. Johan Bakkes, Bettina Wyngaard en Frederik de Jager.

Die skrywers vertel van verrassende gebeure tydens reise, met snaakse, bittersoet of heuglike gevolge. Maar altyd is die ervaringe verrykend.

Reis saam van Fraserburg tot Timboektoe; Arizona tot Zanzibar; en nog baie ander plekke!

Corlia Fourie se debuutbundel Die Goeie Vrou En Ander Mites is ’n versameling toeganklike, pretensielose verse met ’n sterk anekdotiese inslag. Die meeste daarvan is satiriese verse wat getuig van ’n fyn intelligente, deurdagte en genuanseerde beleweniswêreld.

Die gedigte word in vyf afdelings verdeel. In die eerste afdeling “Die goeie vrou” vind die leser portretstudies van bepaalde vroue, die tweede afdeling “Tuis en uit” handel meestal oor huislike ruimtes, die derde afdeling “Die wye wêreld in” bevat meestal reisverse, die voorlaaste afdeling “Bloeityd” handel oor die digter se kinderjare en latere siekte (kanker) en die slotafdeling “Kierang en ander hebbelikhede” bevat verse wat sosiale kommentaar lewer op die breër gemeenskap.

“All the world loves a lover” and perhaps it loves a love story even more. When the romance in question is real, not fictional, it’s all the more powerful. Every love affair has its unique dynamic, which is what makes them so endlessly fascinating. Romances To Remember is a charmingly varied compilation of memorable South African unions.

There are the deeply spiritual unions of people such as Desmond and Leah Tutu and Beyers and Ilse Naudé; powerful politicians and their partners such as Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela and Albie Sachs’s ‘late life love’ for the much younger Vanessa September; the grand historical unions, including those of Koos and Nonnie de la Rey and Jan and Isie Smuts.

Artists and writers have arguably the most lyrical affairs of them all, and here we have Des and Dawn Lindbergh, Ingrid Jonker and Jack Cope, the ground-breaking marriage of Jackie and Vera Nagtegaal, sculptor Edoardo Villa and his Claire, and prima ballerina assoluta Phyllis Spira and Philip Boyd. The loves of celebrities, such as that between beautiful former Miss South Africa Amy Kleinhans and Leighton Curd and the potential fairy-tale romance of prince Albert and South African swimmer Charlene Wittstock, are utterly irresistable.