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  • Capitec: Stalking Giants

    TJ Strydom

    R 330.00

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  • Being There

    Being There

    Tony Leon, longest serving leader of the opposition in democratic SA and acclaimed columnist and analyst, goes behind the scenes of what happened when history was being made in this country and around the world. His first-hand account from a front-row seat at critical moments provides frank and informed opinion. He ranges in this book: his ringside role in the formation of the recent Government of National Unity following the 2024 elections a reappraisal – based on close encounters – of some of the giants who made modern South Africa and the wider world, including FW de Klerk, Nelson Mandela, Harry Oppenheimer Ariel Sharon, Yassir Arafat, Boris Johnson, and the leaders of Argentina. He writes of life in modern politics, from the purgatory of social media to the perils of fundraising in tough times and the leaderless world led often by mediocre or populist grifters, far removed from the statesmen and women these times demand. In Being There, Leon reflects, too, on the nostalgia we often feel, through pain and pride, of childhood, school and the many ‘what ifs’ which inform a well-lived and varied life on the frontlines of South Africa and its history-in-the-making.  And how a wrong turn, or too few votes, can change the course of one life. Written with his customary blend of humour and flair and with an eye on the future and what the present and the past foretell about it, Leon’s new book is both important and highly readable.

    Tony Leon

    R 360.00

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  • Beeld 50

    Beeld 50

    Die afgelope halfeeu het meer as 15 000 uitgawes van Beeld verskyn met derduisende stories in woord en beeld. Regdeur hierdie 50 jaar is ’n mantra in die redaksie: “Slaan die groot storie hard.” In Beeld 50 vertel dié geliefde koerant se joernaliste hoe hulle juis dit gedoen het deur die dekades en wat hulle steeds bybly van daardie ervaring. Die boek neem die leser op ’n reis deur van die grootste nuusgebeure sedert 1974 en weerspieël die geskakeerde leefwêreld van die Afrikaanse gemeenskap in die noorde van die land. Beeld is die Suid-Afrikaanse dagblad wat al die meeste as die mooiste aangewys is – daarvan getuig die foto’s, voorblaaie, spotprente en grafika op dié blaaie. Tog is dit nie ’n beste-voetjie-voorsit-soort boek nie, want dis in die eerste plek joernaliste wie se stemme jy hier hoor. Op die ou end is die belangrikste element die leser. Soos Pieter du Toit in 2014 as nuusredakteur gesê het: “Ons lojaliteit lê by die briefskrywer wat ons kapittel oor ’n onbesonne hoofberig, die intekenaar wat kla oor sy nat koerant op die grasperk en die leser wat dankie sê vir die nuwe Saterdag-Beeld.”

    Erika de Beer

    R 155.00

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  • Binnerym van Bloed

    Binnerym van Bloed

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    Ek het die land leer ken, my lewe bedryf nie beter of slegter as ander nie. Die oes was nie ryker of skraler as dié van ander nie, maar dit was vol goeie are. Tog het ek geweet dat ek kom doodgaan langs die Valschrivier. Ek het dit kom soek soos die olifante.   Digter Antjie Krog keer terug na die landskap van haar kindertyd. Die Vrystaatse vlaktes bekoor haar – dit is haar tuiste; ook die tuiste van haar ma, die skrywer Dot Serfontein. Dot is by die negentig. Sy is verswak en moet voltyds versorg word, maar haar intellek en humorsin is vlymskerp en haar skrywerskap vergelykbaar met die van haar dogter.   In Binnerym van bloed  breek Antjie Krog die grense tussen genres af en skryf sy oor hierdie verhouding wat haar bly fassineer en kasty. Sy gebruik briewe, dagboekinskrywings en versorgingsverslae om verrykende benaderings tot kreatiwiteit, ideologie en die waarheid van oud word bloot te lê.   Krog spoel die onoorkombare verskille tussen geslagte oop, maar wys ook die liefde en wedersydse bewondering tussen twee hoogs bekwame skrywers. Pragtig en indringend geskryf, delf Die binnerym van bloed in kulturele erfgoed, die land se Anglo-Boereoorlogverlede, kwessies van grondbesit en ras, ook romantiese verhoudings oor rasgrense heen.   Hierdie verhaal oor die verhouding tussen ’n ma en ’n dogter is Krog se mees persoonlike, ook haar mees universele.

    Antjie Krog

    R 370.00

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  • Jopie Fourie

    Albert Blake

    R 405.00

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  • Mafia Land

    Mafia Land

    Behind the façade of South Africa lies a brutal shadow-world ruled by mafias, cartels, and crime syndicates locked in a ruthless war over South Africa’s riches. There’s the tobacco mafia. The water tanker mafia. The taxi mafia. The hospital mafia. The construction mafia. The kidnapping mafia. Each one feeds off a vast web of patronage and extraction that stretches from street level to the highest echelons of government. Their bloodsucking tentacles reach deep into municipalities, stateowned enterprises, political parties, the police, and even the National Prosecuting Authority. Those who resist them are silenced in cold blood. This is not a criminal underworld lurking in the shadows. It is part of the system itself. Where does organised crime end and the state begin? Are the two so intertwined that it has become near impossible to distinguish the one from the other? Has South Africa become a mafia state? Multi-award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Cowan sets out to answer these and other questions, revealing the dark underbelly of a country where the thin blue line has all but disappeared. Mafia Land is the hair-raising tale of twelve of South Africa’s most dangerous cartels, and how they will stop at nothing in their deadly, devastating plunder of our country.

    Kyle Cowan

    R 360.00

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  • Kompoun

    Kompoun

    Nadia en haar nefie Xavie word op Groenplaas in die Overberg grootgemaak deur hul ouma, Sylvia McKinney, die "stammoeder van lieg", die een wat die waarheid laat val het soos ? duur porseleinblompot. Hulle twee probeer die waarheid aanmekaar las, die dinge waaroor daar in hul familie geswyg word: oor middelmisbruik en mishandeling, maar ook oor Antie Diana, die verhouding wat sy met 'n swart plaaswerker van die kompoun gehad het en die tweeling aan wie sy geboorte gegee het.

    Ronelda Kamfer

    R 210.00

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  • My jaar van vrees en vryheid

    My jaar van vrees en vryheid

    Toe Covid-19 die mat onder Marita van der Vyver en haar Fransman se voete uitruk en hulle noodgedwonge hul ou groot huis op die Franse platteland moes verkoop, besluit hulle om die meeste van hulle aardse besittings ontslae te raak en ver in die wêreld te gaan reis. In hierdie reis, wat oor drie vastelande strek, word ’n hele leeftyd se herinneringe ontgin. Want soms moet mens baie verloor, en ook bereid wees om self verlore te raak, voor mens regtig vryheid kan wen.

    Marita van der Vyver

    R 360.00

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  • Leeumens

    Leeumens

    Skatryk tweelingbroers wat vyf jaar gelede verdwyn het, se geraamtes word in ’n veld opgediep.Op aandrang van die Wes-Kaapse polisiehoof moet Kassie en Rooi die saak ondersoek, maar dit moet in die grootste geheimhouding plaasvind. Anders kan Kassie-hulle ook die gevaar loop om vermoor te word soos die drie speurders wat by die destydse verdwyningsaak betrokke was.’n Stikdonker onderwêreld, waar antieke voorwerpe miljoene rande op swartmarkveilings behaal, duld nie inmenging nie . . .

    Rudie van Rensburg

    R 375.00

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  • Bloei + Blom

    Bloei + Blom

    Bloei + Blom, ’n prag, volkleur, koffietafelboek in hardeband, is die breinkind van Nataniël. Dit bevat die stories van meer as 200 Afrikaanse baanbrekers en mavericks van die afgelope eeu – mense wat onopsigtelik, of skouspelagtig en ten aanskoue van die ganse wêreld grense verskuif het. Onder diegene tel uitvinders en entrepreneurs, skrywers en kunstenaars, sjefs, tuiniers, argitekte, wynmakers, botaniste en boere, modeontwerpers en operasangers, filosowe, opvoeders, medici en akteurs en nog vele, vele meer, geskryf deur meer as 70 joernaliste, bekende én onbekende skrywers, familielede, oudstudente of vriende.  Het jy byvoorbeeld geweet Louis Leipoldt het as ’n mediese student in Londen vir die beroemde Franse sjef Auguste Escoffier ’n waterblommetjiebredie gekook terwyl hy ekstra geld verdien het as skottelgoedwasser in die Savoy-hotel? Dat die klein Taliep Petersen pak gekry het vir sy gesloer na skool omdat hy eers vir die jazz-musikante deur die vensters van Distrik se Zambezi-restaurant wou loer?  Of dat Anton Rupert sy entrepreneurstande as die eienaar van ’n droogskoonmakery geslyp het; ’n jong Rassie Erasmus die Springbokkapteinskap van die hand gewys het omdat hy “te veel kuier”; Albert Einstein gereken het Jan Smuts is een van ’n hand vol mense wat sy relatiwiteitsteorie eintlik verstaan; en dat ’n internasionale danser soos Johaar Moseval, wat die verhoog met Margot Fonteyn en Rudolf Nurejef gedeel het, op sy sterfbed vir “lekke’ kos en lekke’ warme tea” sou vra ... Boonop word hierdie stories deur meer as 250 foto’s geïllustreer, waarvan enkele onder Nataniël se kreatiewe leiding spesiaal gestileer en geneem is as ’n bonus vir die leser.  Bloei + Blom is enig in sy soort. Afrikaans is nog nooit só gevier nie.

    Nataniël

    R 865.00

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  • Sweetie

    Sweetie

    This brand new collection by Nataniël contains 31 stories — 5 in English, 26 in Afrikaans. Several of the pieces are from Nataniël productions over a period of two years: Ring Van Vuur, Nineveh Song, Cake Topper and Duif.

    Nataniël

    R 310.00

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  • Blood’s Inner Rhyme

    Blood’s Inner Rhyme

    I came to know the country, I have enacted my life not better or worse than others, the harvest was not richer or poorer than that of others, though full of good shoots. But I knew that I was coming to die here next to the river; I came to look for it like the elephants do.   Poet Antjie Krog returns to the landscape of her childhood. The Free State plains enchant her – it is her home, and the home of her mother, the writer Dot Serfontein. In her nineties, Dot is frail and needs full-time care, but her intellect and sense of humour are razor-sharp, and her writing is comparable to that of her daughter.   In Blood’s Inner Rhyme,  Antjie Krog breaks the boundaries between genres and writes about this relationship that continues to fascinate and torment her. Using letters, diary entries and care-home records, the book explores creative influence, ideological disagreements and the realities of ageing.   Krog exposes the insurmountable differences between generations but also shows the love and mutual admiration between two highly skilled writers. Beautifully and poignantly written, Blood’s Inner Rhyme delves into cultural heritage, the country›s Anglo-Boer War history, issues of land ownership and race, as well as romantic relationships across racial boundaries.   The story of the relationship between mother and daughter, this is Krog’s most personal book, as well as the most universal.

    Antjie Krog

    R 370.00

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  • Weeping Becomes a River

    Weeping Becomes a River

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    Siphokazi Jonas is a weaver of seemingly discordant worlds; growing up in an Afrikaans dorpie, attending an English boarding school, and going on annual holidays to a village emaXhoseni during the transition years of South Africa’s democracy made this a necessity.In Weeping Becomes a River she confronts the linguistic and cultural alienation experienced as a black learner in former Model C schools in the 1990s and early 2000s, then fashions the fragments to reclaim and rewrite her place within a lineage of storytellers.Migrating between forms, between poetry and intsomi, she navigates the waters of tradition, religion, intergenerational experiences of rural and urban spaces, and the ways in which family dynamics affect the body. She is not only a referee of the raging tensions within her, but she also pieces together a language for pathways of leaving and returning.Her poems grapple with the past, the present, and possible futures without forgetting that “the body is marked territory from birth, and the scent of it never leaves”.

    Siphokazi Jonas

    R 230.00

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  • Onrus op Steynshoop

    Ingrid Winterbach

    R 375.00

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  • Vetplantfeetjies

    Vetplantfeetjies

    Hy staan met sy rug na sy opponent toe gedraai. Die rewolwer in sy hand is gelaai en gereed om afgevuur te word. Die Kaap de Goede Hoop. 'n Jong dokter, James Barry, stap aan wal as 'n militere chirurg se assistent. Goewerneur lord Charles Somerset is na 'n paar maande so beindruk met die briljante Barry, dat hy hom as sy huisdokter aanstel. Nie almal deel lord Somerset se entoesiasme nie. Somerset se aide-de-camp, kaptein Josias Cloete, wil weet waarvandaan Barry kom, en James se mediese kennis - hy praat dan selfs van n keisersnee! - ontsenu menige plaaslike arts. Maar selfs nie eens die talentvolste medici van die tyd sou kon weet watter geheim die enigmatiese James in hom dra nie. Francois Loots se roman, gebaseer op die lewe van hierdie aangrypende historiese figuur, wys hoe diep die spore van randfigure in die geskiedenis le.

    Antjie Krog

    R 260.00

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  • Uilvlug in die skemer

    Uilvlug in die skemer

    Idees is die bloedsomloop van beskaafde samelewing. Idees is daardie denkmiddele waarmee ons interpreterend probeer sin maak van die wêreld van ons ervaring. Anton van Niekerk, bekende filosoof van Stellenbosch, behartig reeds sewe jaar tweeweeklikse rubriek op Netwerk 24 en in Die Burger. Sy rubrieke, wat in hierdie bundel versamel word, begelei sy lesers in sy eie volhardende soeke na sin, maar deins nie terug vir onkonvensionele en kontroversiële gesigspunte wat hy deurentyd aan die orde stel nie. Van Niekerk geniet daarom wye erkenning as openbare intellektueel wat homself meermale aan die voorpunt van wydlopende openbare debatte in Afrikaans bevind. Hieronder tel debatte soos dié oor Afrikaans en Afrikanerskap, Suid-Afrika as demokrasie, moraliteit en politiek, biomediese etiek en die (on)wenslikheid van geassisteerde dood, asook eietydse geloofsverantwoording. In hierdie bundel word ook moeite gedoen om, aan die hand van gekonstrueerde gesprekke met toonaangewende denkers uit die Christelik-Westerse tradisie, lesers bekend te stel aan denkers wat oor eeue intellektuele invloed uitgeoefen het, dog steeds relevansie vir ons eie tyd en omstandighede behou. Die teks van hierdie versameling is breedweg (hoewel nie presies nie) georganiseer rondom die temas van Suid-Afrika as markplein van idees, spesifieke invloedryke idees, moreel-etiese kwessies, lesse uit die geskiedenis van die wêreld en die denke, politieke vraagstukke (met die klem op Suid-Afrika), eietydse geloofsvraagstukke en, les bes, pogings om sin te maak van sowel die lesse as die dwaashede voortspruitend uit die Covid pandemie.Die hoofstukke is kort (600 woorde elk) en nooi die leser uit tot herkou, selfstandige besinning en kritiese gesprek.

    R 285.00

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  • The Interpreters

    The Interpreters

    Across three decades of democracy, South Africa has seen an outpouring of longform, narrative journalism and creative nonfiction - genres in which some of the country's finest writers have tried to make sense of a complex and changing society. This brand new, one-of-a-kind anthology collects some of the best literary nonfiction published since the end of apartheid, carefully selected and introduced by editors Sean Christie and Hedley Twidle. From the underworld of zama zama goldminers to the tragicomic closure of a Cape Town Zoo, from stick fighting to punk rock, game lodges to fruit farms, cricket pitches to mermaids, The Interpreters: South Africa's New Nonfiction assembles a range of true stories that are as compelling as any fiction. Literary nonfiction in South Africa has often been found at the margins of our media - in zines, journals, now defunct magazines and personal blogs. It is a kind of writing that has, in general, not made much financial sense - more a medium for those obsessed with pursuing a single story over months or years. In The Interpreters, the editors have combed through 30 years of post-apartheid writing to produce a collection that combines preeminent names with lesser known but no less immersive and powerful works of creative journalism - disparate views and voices that, when read together, have created a new topography of South Africa's recent past. 

    Sean Christie, Hedley Twidle

    R 380.00

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  • South African Indigenous Garden Plants

    South African Indigenous Garden Plants

    South African Indigenous Garden Plants – The gardener’s guide This beautifully illustrated large-format book showcases some 2,400 South African indigenous plants, making it a comprehensive guide to the range of local plants available to gardeners to transform their outdoor spaces. An Introduction lays the groundwork, covering climate, various garden styles, spatial planning and garden maintenance, as well as giving suggestions for attracting wildlife to the garden. The encyclopaedic Plant Catalogue forms the bulk of the book. Plants are grouped by growth form into 13 chapters, from bulbs, orchids and aloes through to shrubs, grasses, trees and fynbos. The introduction to each group provides essential information on the selection, planting and feeding of the species, and gives tips on growing and maintaining them in the garden or in containers. Following each introduction is an extensive catalogue of species, pairing full-colour photographs with brief descriptions that cover size, shape, flowering times and best growing conditions. The book concludes with a handy Plant Selector, which helps gardeners to choose the most appropriate plants for specific areas or functions in their garden or home. Compiled and edited over several years by an expert team, this easy-to-use reference introduces a host of new and exciting possibilities for gardens and gardeners, both locally and across the globe. Destined to become a standard reference for gardeners, horticulturists, nurserymen, landscapers and plant lovers. Sales points: First comprehensive gardening guide to South Africa’s indigenous plants. Lavish design, with some 3,300 full-colour photographs. Shows the use of indigenous plants in a variety of garden styles. Written by an expert team.

    Elsa Pooley, Geoff Nichols

    R 865.00

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  • The Nicotine Gospel

    The Nicotine Gospel

    My dad believed that you could tell everything worth knowing about a person by what cigarettes they smoked. He taught this to my brother and me when we were only kids. That’s how all of this starts – in 1987, with a bolt of lightning and a pack of Lucky Strikes.   On New Year’s Eve in 1987, lightning kills Nate’s and Danny’s mother. To deal with the loss and make sense of a world seemingly governed by chance, their distant and eccentric father creates the Nicotine Gospel. “According to him, an eight by five cardboard box containing somewhere near twenty machine-made cigarettes would tell you all you needed to know about a man.”   The boys throw themselves into the lessons to be close to their dad, but as Nate grows up and begins to understand how strange the family gospel (and their father) truly is, he starts to worry. While Nate excels at school and finds ways to escape their father’s neglect and the increasingly ramshackle house in Durban, Danny seems to revel in courting danger and death.   Decades later, upon learning of their father’s death, Nate and Danny, long estranged, decide to drive from Durban to Cape Town to attend the funeral. On the journey, they must confront each other and their troubled past to find a way forward.   The Nicotine Gospel is a darkly funny road trip novel.

    Sven Axelrad

    R 350.00

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  • Fynbos Fairies

    Fynbos Fairies

    It is for its fynbos – fine-leaved, shrub-like vegetation – that the southwestern and southern Cape has been named one of the world’s six plant kingdoms: The Cape floral kingdom. At less than 90 000 square kilometres, it is the smallest floral kingdom on earth. Yet it is home to 8 600 plant species, some 5 000 of which occur nowhere else in the world. Fynbos is a mixture of four plant types: Protea shrubs, heath-like ericas, reed-like restios and different bubous plants. The Cape floral kingdom contains 69 of the world’s 112 proteas, 526 of its 740 ericas and, among bubous plants, 96 of the world’s 160 gladiolus species. Table Mountain alone boasts almost 1 500 fynbos species. With Fynbos fairies, Antjie Krog and Fiona Moodie, both of whom regularly walk on the slopes of Table Mountain, pay homage to one of the natural wonders of the world. Inspired by Cicely Mary Barker’s A world of flower fairies, Antjie began the process by writing poems that each featured a plant and at least one imaginary little being. Fiona meticulously researched the features of each plant, insect and little animal depicted in these pages. The fairies and other imaginary beings in these pages are her own creations, but the flowers and creatures she copied from nature.

    Antjie Krog

    R 260.00

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  • Die (vreemde) Einde Van ‘n Koerant

    Die (vreemde) Einde Van ‘n Koerant

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    Op Donderdag 13 Junie 2024 het die nuus op die sakenuuswebwerf Moneyweb gebreek: Media24 gaan die dagblad Beeld, asook drie ander titels, Rapport, Daily Sun en City Press sluit. Volgens die Moneywebjoernalis Jeremy Maggs, sou “die besluit lesers en die Suid Afrikaanse mediabedryf skok.”Lesers, redaksielede en adverteerders moes toekyk hoe ‘n vreemde en teenstrydige reeks gebeure rondom die sluiting afspeel. Barnard Beukman probeer van die onbeantwoorde vrae beantwoord. Ook deur heelwat te onthul van wat in die gange en raadsale van Media24 en Beeld afgespeel het en beskryf die openbare wipplankrit van ses maande, om die koerant te sluit, wat gevolg het.Agter die skerms het dit tot die afgryse van die maatskappy geblyk dat adverteerders hul goed begin vat loop en miljoene rande se inkomste aan Media24-publikasies onttrek het. Gevolglik het die koppe onder Media24-bestuurslui, wat die koerantsluiting moes bestuur, begin rol. So fel het die openbare diskoers oor die sluiting van Beeld en ander koerante gewoed, dat Media24 se interim uitvoerende hoof, Raj Lalbadhur, dit in ‘n brief aan personeel as die hoofrede aangevoer het waarom die maatskappy nie in 2024 sy halfjaarlikse winsbegroting behaal het nie.

    Barnard Beukman

    R 275.00

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  • Die moord op Deveney Nel

    Die moord op Deveney Nel

    In ’n pragtige plattelandse dorpie ontvou ’n ondenkbare tragedie. Deveney Nel, ’n talentvolle 16-jarige, se lewe eindig skielik, en die gemeenskap, saam met die res van die land, is geruk. Julian Jansen, skrywer van topverkoperboeke soos Moord op Stellenbosch, het as misdaadverslaggewer vir Rapport van die begin af oor die saak geskryf. Hy benut sy uitgebreide kontakte binne die polisie, sowel as onderhoude met vriende en familie om die gebeure te rekonstrueer en om Deveney Nel te eer.

    Julian Jansen

    R 290.00

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  • Behind Prison Walls

    Behind Prison Walls

    Since the Zuma presidency weakened crime intelligence, violent crime surged, with murder rates rising over 75%. South Africa faces severe femicide, and most murderers evade justice. Prisons fail by perpetuating crime; harsher sentences do not help. Edwin Cameron, after visiting prisons, advocates for reform. Along with colleagues, he suggests abolishing minimum sentences, cash bail, and decriminalizing drug use to improve safety and justice.

    Edwin Cameron, Rebecca Gore, Sohela Surajpal

    R 360.00

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  • Making a Killing

    Making a Killing

    When bookish Winifred flees to a sleepy village to escape her past, she reluctantly partners with larger-than-life Sylvie to open a charming bookshop-café. After the slight inconvenience of a dead customer threatens their new venture, the unlikely duo discover they have a talent for creative problem-solving - and disposal. Dark, witty and deliciously macabre, this tale of murder, friendship and small-town secrets will leave you hungry for more.

    Bonnie Espie

    R 330.00

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  • An Act Of Murder

    An Act Of Murder

    It hasn’t been a great week for struggling actor Arnold Prinsloo. His career has hit rock bottom, he’s about to be evicted from his cottage in Melville, and worst of all, Zelda, the love of his life, has finally run out of patience and left him.   But when Arnold is accused of murdering insurance billionaire JP Mulder, his problems are only just starting.   Now, Arnold must tackle the greatest and most dangerous acting role of his life: pretending to be a hard-boiled East Rand detective in a race against time to clear his name, win back Zelda, and finally take off these way-too-tight polyester pants.   The curtain is rising …

    Tom Eaton

    R 330.00

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  • Hollywood on the Veld

    Hollywood on the Veld

    In 1913, a secretive American millionaire, who lived on the top floor of the famous Carlton Hotel, had a crazy idea: to make movies in Johannesburg. And not just any movies but the biggest in the world, huge spectacles with elaborate sets, thousands of extras and epic story lines. Isidore Schlesinger – better known as ‘IW’ – built a studio on a farm called Killarney, where he set out to challenge a place in America that was in its infancy: Hollywood. The glamour, gossip and high drama of IW’s studio fit perfectly into a city experiencing an intoxicating golden age. There was as much action on the movie sets as there was on screen: from political intrigue and the clashing of massive egos to public outbursts, fiery judicial inquiries, disaster and death. Behind this mad enterprise was a maverick, a tycoon, a recluse, a friend of the famed and the connected. IW could have held his own in California but he chose as his base the City of Gold. This is the never-been-told-before story of the rise and fall of the strangest and most unique movie empire ever.

    Ted Botha

    R 330.00

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  • Unsolicited

    Unsolicited

    So, this was a hot flush. The utterly pointless flag-bearer of menopause. That explained a lot. She held her body as upright as possible on the cramped seat, like one of those hot-stepping lizards in the Namib desert and tried to look like she was having a detecting epiphany. ‘Shame, you’re really sweating, hey,’ said Gladys. ‘Don’t worry. It’s coming for you, too.’ Normally quick witted and sharp eyed, Detective Fatima Matthews is being sucker punched by menopause, and that’s not even the half of it. Someone is playing deadly games with a local publisher, there’s a reader found dead with melted eyes and just when she could really use the career boost, her internal polygraph has decided to flatline. As the threats escalate and one crisis triggers another, Fatima must come to terms with what it means to face your frailties, and whether a second chance is really possible when your greatest adversary is time. With plagiarism scandals, buried secrets and red herrings aplenty, Andrea Shaw’s thrilling debut gives the local publishing industry its moment in the sun.

    Andrea Shaw

    R 310.00

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  • The Ex Effect

    The Ex Effect

    They had a night to remember. For all the wrong reasons.Thirteen years ago, Ash was planning the night of her life with her high-school boyfriend, Logan. They were madly in love, wild about each other, and had been waiting patiently for this moment. It was going to be perfect. That is, until it went down in very unsexy flames. Logan disappeared and Ash was left, quite frankly - and very inconveniently - sexually cursed.After years of disastrous dating and even more disastrous sex, cinematographer Ash has almost given up. But some seriously flirtatious emails with location agent Maximillian Adam, to set up a scouting trip, offer her hope. Because if rumor is to be believed, Maximillian Adam might just be God's sexual gift to women.Is Max going to be the one to finally break the curse? And, even better, break it over and over again?Or when Ash and Max finally come face to face, will they both get so much more than they bargained for?

    Jo Watson

    R 290.00

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  • Hospitaal Weltevreden

    Hospitaal Weltevreden

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    Anna-Mart is ’n noodeenheid-spesialis en ken die lang gange van Hospitaal Weltevreden goed. Sy is nie bang vir harde werk nie. Dis immers ál hoe sy uit die armoede van haar en haar twee broers se enkelma-huishouding kon ontsnap en haar droom om ’n dokter te word, kon verwesenlik. Maar sy en haar ma, Beatrice, is bekommerd want haar broers is met verkeerde vriende deurmekaar. Hulle het maande terug van die twee gehoor. En boonop skaam Anna-Mart haar vir haar eenvoudige ma wat deesdae by haar woon.Uit die bloute arriveer ’n pasiënt by die ongevalle eenheid vanuit haar verlede. Jacques Fourie laat weer eens haar hart klop soos hy destyds op skool gedoen het, al het sy hom nooit vertel hoe sy voel nie ...Louise Tredoux is Anna-Mart se boesemvriendin en ’n onkoloog wat in wetenskap en niks anders glo nie – totdat Petro met haar groot juk en nog groter geloof by haar spreekkamer instap en in Louise se swart-op-wit logika kom rondkrap. Maar Louise staan sterk op haar beginsels totdat sy eendag onverwags inmekaarsak en alles in haar lewe omver gewerp word.En dan is daar Rentia le Roux, die geskeide sielkundige met twee kinders en die interessante pasiënt, Shawn, wat van een verhouding na ’n ander rond fladder. Is dit van hom wat sy skielik romantiese geskenke kry, of kom dit van die aantreklike Dr Marloux Pienaar? Die kardioloog staan self op skei en vang al die verpleegsters se oë, en ná wat in sy kantoor gebeur het, ook Rentia s’n. Maar is daar enigsins ’n toekoms vir haar met ’n man soos Marloux?Veral nadat sy een oggend met ’n verblindende hoofpyn in ’n vreemde plek wakker word ...

    Riaan Grobler

    R 310.00

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  • Valskermbataljon-verhale

    Valskermbataljon-verhale

    Valskermbataljon-verhale is stories van moed, deursettingsvermoë, gevaar, humor, vasbyt en verlies wat die leser by tye laat regop sit, glimlag en ook diep laat nadink.Eerlike, rou en op-die-man-af-stories geskryf deur manne van dié elite-eenheid oor oomblikke wat hulle nooit sal vergeet nie.Valskermbataljon-verhale laat hul ervarings lewe soos net hulle dit onthou en geskryf het.Hierdie is ‘n boek nie net vir en oor soldate nie, maar vir elkeen wat nog ooit gewonder het oor die manne in maroen, hul valskerms en die eenheid.

    Mike Bolhuis

    R 285.00

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  • Déjà vu

    Déjà vu

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    Wat skuil agter die Sheldon-fortuin? Zabeth Meyer beland op Kronkelrivier om navorsing vir die krimiskrywer Wilbur Sheldon te doen. In sy skatryk familie se Victoriaanse herehuis, Sheldon Manor, kom sy al hul vreemde tragedies en intriges teë: Eers verdrink die oudste Sheldonkleinkind, en ’n paar jaar later sterf sewe Sheldons op een dag. Net een erfgenaam van die Sheldon-fortuin bly oor: Die onbekwame Keith. En Ethel, die familiematriarg, is al in haar tagtigs. Kort ná Zabeth se aankoms gebeur daar nog ’n ongeluk by Sheldon Manor en skielik lyk gebeure van vyf en twintig jaar gelede heel anders ... Tussen Zabeth, Wilbur en die aantreklike Liam Sheldon moet hulle die dinastie se donker geheime en hul elkeen se eie verlede ontrafel voordat nog iemand seerkry.

    Chanette Paul

    R 370.00

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  • My Year of Fear and Freedom

    My Year of Fear and Freedom

    When Covid-19 pulled the rug out from under Marita van der Vyver and her Frenchman's feet and they were forced to sell their old, large house in the French countryside, they decided to get rid of most of their earthly possessions and travel far across the world. In this journey, which spans three continents, a lifetime of memories from one of Afrikaans’s greatest writers is explored. Sometimes you have to lose a lot, and also be willing to lose yourself, before you can truly gain freedom.

    Marita van der Vyver, Annelize Visser

    R 375.00

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  • Plunder

    Plunder

    Die jongste bundel van Antjie Krog verskyn agt jaar na Mede-wete. Krog ontwikkel voormalige temas soos die landskap van die vrou, die huwelik, die aftakeling van die lyf, die vreugde van klein gesinsoomblikke, maar terselfdertyd vernuwe sy, opnuut. Daar is 'n onrusbarende kwesbaarheid, 'n brandende woede en 'n direktheid, en tegelyk 'n hartverskeurende deernis met die ouerwordende self. In die openingsgedig skryf sy: "Dit kom nie meer op my af nie / die geluid/ die geluid van 'n gedig kom nie meer op my af nie." En dan, teenstrydig hiermee, sleur Krog die leser in die daaropvolgende verse mee in 'n jubelsang en ook 'n klaaglied van die land wat geplunder word, maar ook die self wat plunder. Krog probeer oplaas sin maak van die land, van die self, van die verlede. Soos Alfred Schaffer se, daar is gewoonweg niemand in Afrikaans wat so skryf nie. Sy wys wat digkuns moet en kan wees. En hoe dit in Afrikaans kan klink en resoneer.

    Antjie Krog

    R 325.00

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  • Pillage

    Pillage

    This new collection, Pillage, is published eight years since Synapse (Mede-wete), which received the Hertzog Prize for Poetry in 2017. In Pillage Krog develops her familiar themes of family, body and land but this time in the harsh light of pillaging, whether being done by nature, humans, or old age. The poems reveal a painful fragility, an exasperation and even at times a blissful celebration trying to determine different ways of dealing with erosions, here and now. Then there is finding comfort, being nourished by remarkable moments of beauty: the delight of an egret in a vlei, watching over a young child who is discovering the world around him, and remembering the raptures of love. Pillage is translated by award winning poet and translator, Karen Press.

    Antjie Krog

    R 315.00

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  • 'n Vry Vrou

    'n Vry Vrou

    Krog is 'n internasionaal gerekende digter maar ook plaaslik geliefd. Vyftig jaar na 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, kenner van Krog se oeuvre.

    Antjie Krog

    R 260.00

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  • Ontaard
    Pieter Odendaal
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  • Prins

    Prins

    Prins is a study in masculinity. It is an interrogation of boyhood and manhood, but this collection is also a celebration of the less toxic parts thereof. Although the collection explores characters of a certain community and background, Pedro refuses to tell the cliché – expected – narrative. This collection deals with the angst that is tied to issues of identity, the demands placed on an emerging poet and coloured man.

    Ryan Pedro

    R 290.00

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  • Timeless South African

    Timeless South African

    In Timeless South African, renowned cook and food writer Ilse van der Merwe has compiled a list of the top 101 iconic South African dishes – meals not only seen as ‘heritage food’, but dishes that are still relevant, recognisable, loved and prepared in many South African communities today. Well-researched and based on formal and informal discussions with chefs, members of the public and food lovers of different backgrounds, this book celebrates the country’s diverse cultures and culinary traditions, highlighting the history of each recipe as well as the modern ways in which they have been reinvented. The dishes in this book – whether humble or celebratory – are paired with classically styled and vibrant photos. Do you know your vetkoek from your amagwinya? Or your koeksisters from your koesisters? And do you know the interesting histories of bobotie, the gatsby, hertzoggies and Durban naan? The more we share our food and our stories, the more we’ll be able to celebrate what unites us: being South African.

    Ilse Van Der Merwe

    R 495.00

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  • Die drie weduwees

    Die drie weduwees

    Ami het geweet sy gaan eendag moet afskeid neem van Paul de Jager, die afgetrede polisiegeneraal. Maar wat sy nie verwag het nie, is sy laaste opdrag aan haar: Sy moet met die hulp van sy drie eksvroue na ’n stokou onopgeloste saak kyk. Wanneer ’n vyftienjarige seun van Pretoria op pad kafee toe met net R20 in sy sak spoorloos verdwyn, behoort daar tog iewers ’n leidraad te wees – iets meer as die wit paneelwa wat daardie dag in die straat opgemerk is.

    Irma Venter

    R 360.00

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  • In the Late of Night

    In the Late of Night

    Nomzamo yearns to have her own child, but her husband keeps postponing. Is he truly too busy or is something else going on? Kioni is in seventh heaven when Michael finally wants to commit. But does he really? Or is he just trying to get back into her bed? Single mom Jazmine has sworn off love – until a charming new doctor arrives at her hospital, testing her resolve. And Asanda, fiercely independent and at the top of her game, is determined to find the perfect man to match her perfect life.   As their lives twist and tangle in unexpected ways, these four women will discover that love is never simple – but always worth it.   A witty, heartwarming, and deeply relatable South African novel about friendship, romance, and the messy, beautiful journey of figuring it all out.

    Ntombi Nkabinde

    R 330.00

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  • Playing Flirty

    Playing Flirty

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    A board game designer is forced to work alongside her nemesis in this charming and geeky rivals-to-lovers romcom perfect for fans of Olivia Dade and Jen DeLuca.

    Shameez Patel

    R 360.00

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  • Fynbosfeetjies

    Fynbosfeetjies

    Dit is omrede sy fynbos – die smalblaar-, struikagtige plantegroei van die streek – dat die suidwestelike en suid-Kaap benoem is as een van die wêreld se ses planteryke: die Kaapse Blommeryk. Met ’n opervlakte van minder as 90 000 vierkante kilometer is dit die kleinste planteryk ter wêreld. Tog is dit die tuiste van 8 600 plantspesies, waarvan 5 000 nêrens elders voorkom nie.   Fynbos is ’n vermenging van vier plantsoorte: protea-struike, heideagtige erikas, rietagtige restio’s en ’n verskeidenheid bolplante. In die Kaapse Blommeryk groei 69 van die wêreld se 112 proteas, 526 van sy 740 erikas en onder sy bolplante word 96 van die wêreld se 160 gladiolusspesies aangetref. Op sy eie spog Tafeberg met byna 1 500 fynbosspesies.   Met Fynbosfeetjies bring Antjie Krog en Fiona Moodie, wat albei gereeld op die hange van Tafelberg gaan stap, hulde aan een van die natuurwonders van die wêreld. Antjie, geïnspireer deur Cicely Mary Barker se A World of Flower Fairies, het die bal aan die rol gesit deur verse te skryf oor verskillende blomplante wat deur minstens een denkbeeldige wesentjie bewoon word.   Fiona het elke plant, insek en gediertetjie wat in hierdie boek afgebeeld is, nagevors. Die feetjies en ander droomwesentjies is haar eie skepings, maar die blomme, gogas en diertjies het sy by die natuur afgekyk en noukeurig nageteken.  

    Antjie Krog

    R 240.00

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  • Antjie Krog: ‘n Ondersoekte Lewe

    Antjie Krog: ‘n Ondersoekte Lewe

    Hierdie publikasie is die sestiende in ‘n reeks aangebied deur die SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns. Die reeks bring hulde aan skrywers met die Hertzogprys bekroon is en oor dekades heen Afrikaans en die Afrikaanse letterkunde met hul werk verryk het.

    Louise Viljoen

    R 330.00

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  • Twyfelbos

    Twyfelbos

    Twyfelbos is ’n meesleurende historiese roman wat afspeel in die Overberge in die vroeë agtienhonderds.Sophia Truter is getroud met sir John Truter. Sy het ’n afkeer van die Kaap se vertoonsug, en ná die dood van haar jongste seun besluit sy om weer te gaan boer. Dié keer begin sy klein, op ’n lap grond anderkant die Kleinrivier – sonder slawe en voormans.Algaande vind Sophia haar voete. Maar dan word iemand op die bokpad anderkant die Akkedisberg vermoor. 

    Francois Loots

    R 360.00

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  • Klein Konings

    Klein Konings

    Min weet die staatsamptenare Pixley en Joubert wat op hulle wag toe Minister hulle na ’n vergadering genaamd “Removal of Monuments” ontbied. Dié twee amptenare se agtergrond is so uiteenlopend soos kan kom: Pixley is afkomstig van die Zoeloe-adelstand, terwyl Joubert glo van sy betoorgrootmoeder se kant afstam van generaal Piet Joubert. Minister se opdrag: Al die apartheid- en koloniale standbeelde, simbole en monumente moet verskuif word. Pixley en Joubert moet deur die land reis en die ongewenste monumente besoek, die situasie evalueer, en dan met ’n plan vorendag kom oor hoe dit gedoen sal word. Die tydsberekening vir die toer is nie goed vir Joubert nie: Sy siek pa (Pompies, wat op sy dag ’n waterwyser was) trek by hom en sy vrou, Alet, in. Alet is ’n medium en nou met Pompies in die huis, maak Joubert se ma se gees ook haar verskyning. Ook vir Pixley is die tyd nie eintlik geleë nie: hy is nie seker waar hy staan met sy droomvrou, Memory, nie. Soos wat Pixley en Joubert vorder met hulle toer op soek na ’n geskiedenis waarvan sommiges eerder wil vergeet, kom besoek hulle persoonlike geskiedenisse hulle ook. Geheime word onthul, maar nog meer vrae en raaisels ontstaan.

    Theo Kemp

    R 305.00

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  • Die moord op Liezel de Jager

    Die moord op Liezel de Jager

    Op 13 Oktober 2021 is Suid-Afrika tot stilstand geruk deur die nuus oor dominee Liezel de Jager, geliefde leraar van die NG Kerk Suidkus in Amanzimtoti, KwaZulu-Natal, wat in die oprit van die pastorie vermoor is toe sy terugkeer van haar daaglikse oggenddraf saam met vriende. Dit was ondenkbaar dat ’n geestelike leier soos sy, wat ’n enorme impak op haar gemeenskap gehad het, so wreed weggeruk kon word. Maar nog vreemder gebeure volg in die dae en jare na haar moord. Haar man, Werner, verdwyn skielik spoorloos en word later in ’n bedenklike toestand in ’n suikerrietplantasie gevind. Hy vermoed dat hy moontlik deur Liezel se moordenaars aangeval is. Benewens verskeie ander amper-noodlottige gebeure rondom Werner, is hy later ook in ’n ongeluk betrokke waar nog twee vroue dood is. Om alles te kroon, sloer die polisie twee jaar lank voordat hulle met die moordondersoek begin. Intussen voer Liezel se ouers ’n volgehoue stryd om geregtigheid vir hul dogter te kry. Dit loop uit op ’n suksesvolle hofsaak teen die minister van polisie en die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens, met die gevolg dat Werner weens die moord op sy vrou in hegtenis geneem word, maar later onder misterieuse omstandighede in die hospitaal sterf. Die moord bly onopgelos.

    Anena Burger

    R 310.00

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  • SJOE ERVARINGS VAN N LEEFTYD

    SJOE ERVARINGS VAN N LEEFTYD

    Petrovna Metelerkamp het geen bekendstelling nodig nie. Sy het jare lank vir tydskrifte soos Huisgenoot en Insig geskryf en in 2000 die uitgewery Hemel & See Boeke gestig. Sy het bekendheid verwerf vir haar biografieë van Ingrid Jonker en Jeanne Goosen.Petrovna was ook verantwoordelik vir die publikasie van die brieweboeke van onder andere Audrey Blignault, Uys Krige en Hennie Aucamp, asook die memoires van Wilna Snyman, Fanus Rautenbach en Ollie Viljoen. Met hierdie langverwagte boek deel Petrovna haar herinneringe, wat die geskiedenis van haar herkoms en haar persoonlike ervarings oor baie dekades insluit.

    Petrovna Metelerkamp

    R 310.00

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  • Op Pad na 'n Klooster in die Sneeu

    Op Pad na 'n Klooster in die Sneeu

    ’n Jong man begin werk by ’n apteek in Bloemfontein maar is gou ontnugter deur sy lot. Is werk, eet en slaap al wat die volgende vyftig jaar vir hom voorlê? Wanneer hy afkom op die mistikus Thomas à Kempis se geskrifte, begin hy droom oor ’n asketiese lewe – weg van geldmaak en ambisie.Op die vooraand van sy reis na ’n Franse klooster, ontdek hy hy het ’n oom wat ’n Katolieke priester geword het, en nou woon in Parys.’n Aangrypende roman oor ’n pelgrimstog na aanvaarding van die self.

    Johannes de Villiers

    R 360.00

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