Perhaps Thabang Maje should be grateful. He has a beautiful wife, Lesego, a newborn baby daughter and a good job as a private investigator. But Lesego and their baby girl are still recovering in hospital after a car crash which took the life of their unborn son, and Thabang is finding it impossible to focus on his paperwork and even harder to forgive and forget. Then an old file surfaces, naming the man already uppermost in Thabang’s mind: Sandi ...
Al sou sy dit nie graag wou erken nie, volg Helena Burre haar eie kop, nes haar skipper-pa Jas. Wanneer die oenskynlik ‘n stokkie steek voor haar broer se skoolganery op Stellenbosch, besluit Helena om inderhaas terug te keer van Grenspan in die Vrystaat waar sy die afgelope jaar in ’n dokter se spreekkamer uitgehelp het. Maak nie saak dat sy en Chris amper trouplanne gehad het nie … Dis met die terugkoms op Volleminkbaai dat Helena besef wat sy ...
Thembelani Ngenelwa is a personable 20-something guy who can’t find a good job in Cape Town. Like many of his peers, he goes to Jo’burg in search of work and to catch up with old friends. After leaving a friend’s house in an informal settlement one night, Thembelani and three companions are attacked by a group of gunmen. Running for their lives, the friends scatter in all directions, and Thembelani is chased after and shot five times at point-bl ...
Wat het ’n mooi Afrikanervrou in die 1950’s gedoen as die lewe begin druk? As haar man ’n verbitterde Ben Schoeman-man is wat moet aansukkel met ’n asmapompie en haar pa ’n kommunis en Katoliek agter elke bos raaksien? As die enigste afleiding die jaarlikse ATKV-konsert op Hartenbos is? Veral as haar doodgoeie bure skielik aangese word om te trek? Deur die oe van ‘n kind vertel Jeanne Goosen hoe Doris van Greunen van die wereld probeer ontsnap: ...
Die rand val en Damnville se honde is op No Name Brand. Solly Kramer’s lewer nie meer af nie en die gholfbolposbus is vol rekenings. Mabeline Beeslaer is geretrench en soek vergetelheid in 'n Loslyf op die stoep. Mignon, die Woterkloofpoedel, word deur die noodlot in Frik du Preezstraat uitgespoeg en word deel van die bestaanstryd van betaaldag tot betaaldag. Maar dan kom Tango du Toit met sy wit suit en laat die mense weer van voor af droo ...
Toring le langs die Weskus, ’n afgelee gehuggie waar ’n hand vol bewoners ’n bestaan probeer maak om ’n kreeffabriek. Dis midde-in die Tweede Wereldoorlog en tye is swaar . . . Moenie die uitsonderlike roman – haar eerste ooit! – deur die bekroonde kortverhaalskrywer E Kotze misloop nie. Kotze ken mense en menswees – en dis nerens so duidelik soos in hierdie besonderse storie nie. Se befaamde skrywer Dana Snyman oor Kotze se roman: “Kotze k ...
Thabang Maje, retired school teacher and part-time private eye, is contacted by Regional Education Director J. B. M. Motau to solve the case of a missing school teacher, Mamorena Marumo. There are two complicating factors: firstly, Thabang was in love with the elusive and bewitching Mamo when they were both teenagers; and, secondly, to complete his task, he’ll have to enrol as an under-cover primary-school teacher in the far-flung village of Mar ...
Sipho lives in Umlazi, Durban – he is seventeen, has dropped out of school and helps out at his father’s mechanic shop. But odd jobs do not provide the lifestyle his friend Musa has, with his BMW and designer clothes. Soon Sipho’s love for fast cars and money leads him into a life of crime that brings him close to drugs, death and prison time. ...
Lily struggles with an apathetic mother, a domineering grandmother and the shifting alliances of her schoolgirl friendships. She soon develops a brittle self-esteem and obsesses over the one aspect of her life that she can control – her body. A story of secrets, warped friendships and addiction, and how families guard their secrets to keep up appearances – with disastrous consequences. ...
