Hierdie kosbare briefwisseling tussen N.P. van Wyk Louw en W.E.G. Louw is ’n belangrike bron vir navorsing na die geskiedenis van die Afrikaanse letterkunde en waardevolle dokumente vir ’n studie van die intellektuele geskiedenis van die Afrikaner. Die teks is voorsien van sowel verhelderende annotasies as ’n bondige, besonder knap en maklik leesbare inleiding. Dit is ’n vlees-en-bloed-weergawe van al die vertwyfeling, frustrasies en emosionele probleme wat N.P. van Wyk Louw die hoof moes bied terwyl hy aan sy belangrikste bydraes gewerk het. Sommige van sy mees oorspronklike standpunte oor die bestaanstryd van Afrikaners en Afrikaans kom hier die eerste keer voor.

n Versameling briewe van die broers W.E.G. en N.P. van Wyk Louw. Die briefwisseling tussen Van Wyk en W.E.G. Louw vanaf 1941 tot met Van Wyk Louw se dood in 1970 strek oor 'n periode van bykans dertig jaar. Die korrespondensie tussen die twee broers, waarby ook enkele briewe van Truida Louw aansluit, beslaan 'n totaal van 226 briewe, poskaarte en telegramme en foto's ingesluit.

Briewe van Peter Blum bevat briewe wat die digter tussen 1955 en 1966 aan literere persoonlikhede van sy tyd geskryf het. Die briewe van die digter Peter Blum, wat beskou word as die voorloper van Breyten Breytenbach, is geskryf aan bekende letterkundiges soos D J Opperman, W E G Louw, Van Wyk Louw, Ernst Lindenberg, Jan Rabie, Uys Krige, Barend Toerien.

J.M. Coetzee- a life in writing is the first biography of Nobel prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee. A global publishing event of the rarest kind, the book has been written with the full co-operation of Coetzee, who granted the author interviews, and put him in touch with family, friends, and colleagues who could talk about events in Coetzee's life. For the first time, Coetzee allowed complete access to his private papers and documents, including the manuscripts of his sixteen novels. J.C. Kannemeyer has also made a study of the enormous body of literature on Coetzee, and through archival research has unearthed further information not previously available. The books deals in depth with Coetzee's origins, early years, and first writings; his British interlude from 1962 - 65; his time in America from 1965 - 71; his 30 years back in South Africa, when he achieved international recognition and won the Booker prize; and his Australian years since 2002, during which time he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. J.M. Coetzee- a life in writing is a major work that corrects many of the misconceptions about Coetzee, and that illuminates the genesis and implications of his novels. This magisterial biography will be an indispensable source for everybody concerned with Coetzee's life and work.