Kruispad is die kern van Deon Opperman se groot TV-trilogie oor die Afrikaner se pad in Suid-Afrika. Dit beeld presies uit waar die groot verandering gekom en hoe die Afrikaner daarop gereageer het. In Donkerland het Opperman gekyk na die aanloop van 1834 tot 1994 en in Hartland na die huidige stand van sake. In Kruispad fokus hy op 1994 en wat die verlies van mag vir Afrikaners ingehou het. Dis ’n verhaal van vreugde, smart, trots en vernederi ...
Athens County, Ohio, USA. When Rachel Boucher and Jason de Klerk meet again – five years after high school – they immediately renew their friendship. But for Jason their friendship is just a stepping stone to something more – a romantic union that seems to have the blessing of the whole community. That is until Rachel becomes involved with Skye Riley. As Skye and Rachel grow ever closer, Jason’s anger at the relationship boils over into violence ...
Maja Jellema is in Cape Town to do what she does best – steal. Her new employer wants a certain item from a building in Long Street, and the only thing that stands between Maja and her prize is Hershel Bloch, the bumbling building manager. But what seems like the easiest job Maja has ever seen is about to get a whole lot more complicated . . . Will Maja be able to finish the job in time to save her no-good brother from large Dutch men with no se ...
“Stella stares at the painting on the therapist’s wall. A road winds along a mountainside above an azure sea. The slopes of the mountain are covered in olive trees. Small white boats bob on the shimmering water at the foot of cliffs. Stella is lost in the painting. She can smell the herbs in the bush, wild thyme and something sweeter. She is running down a steep path to a cove below. On holiday in Greece. Thirteen. Awkward, in between everything ...
Vir die gebruikers van die webwerf Fermata.com is selfmoordvideo’s iets om gedeel en gevier te word – die mees egte ervaring wat hulle kan beleef, en ook wat hulle kan skep. Daniel Roberts, eienaar en bestuurder van die besonder gewilde webwerf, verkoop dit ook so aan sy gebruikers, maar wanneer hy vir die eerste maal in die openbaar oor Fermata.com praat op ’n televisiekletsprogram, gee dit aanleiding tot ’n reeks verstommende gebeure wat nie n ...
In die laat tagtigerjare het die treffer TV-reeks Ballade vir ’n enkeling rekords gebreek. En nou word die verhaal weer vertel, maar die slag soos dit werklik gebeur het, sonder versagting, aangepas vir vandag. Dit begin wanneer een van die land se gewildste skrywers, Jacques Rynhard, op die kruin van sy loopbaan verdwyn. Dan kry ’n voormalige misdaadverslaggewer, Carina Human, opdrag om nie alleen uit te vind waar hy is nie, maar ook hoekom hy ...
The events in this novel take place during the last few weeks of the Anglo-Boer War. A small group of Boer soldiers departs from the Colony to the Free State to take a traumatised young man back to his home. Two of the men, Reitz Steyn and Ben Maritz, are scientists, and the novel focuses on their experiences. The suffering and hardships of the war left its mark on this little group, and especially Reitz and Ben are increasingly aware of the fut ...
Gaya, Suhina and Rupa have been friends for thirty years, but are they truly friends or is their closeness built on the secret they share, a secret that they have carried with them since the turbulent days of the 1980s? Now, years later, their world is about to be ripped to pieces as the past resurfaces in the most unexpected of ways. Praise for Follow Your Heart: “The story . . . is simply and beautifully written. The novel touches o ...
’n Welkome heruitgawe van Leroux se trilogie wat die romans Sewe dae by die Silbersteins (1962), Een vir Azazel (1964) en Die derde oog (1966) insluit. Dit is romans wat in Suid-Afrika en die buiteland hoog aangeslaan is. Nie net het die afsonderlike romans destyds in Brittanje en Amerika (en elders) aandag getrek nie, maar Penguin het ook in 1972 in hul Modern Classics-reeks die trilogie uitgegee onder die titel To a Dubious Salvation (‘n herui ...
