Elize is artikelredakteur by ’n nuwe tydskrif. Sarita is verhaalredakteur. In ’n tyd van misdaad en misverstand, van vervreemding en verval, probeer hulle sinvol leef en werk in voorstedelike Johannesburg. Hulle lewens is nou verweef met die van jonger joernaliste. Langs Elize en haar tienerdogter, Michelle, woon Tom, ’n ouer man wat die dood van sy vrou verwerk. Dan is daar ook Welcome wat tussen hulle swerf. Toenemende geweld ontsien geen hein ...
Poet John Carson lives in a crumbling seaside house with his sister and niece. He writes feverishly to the woman who has abandoned him as a lover, yet kept him as a correspondent. Theresa: beautiful, generous . . . and married. The occasional fleeting encounter between the lovers fuels John the writer, but leaves John the man close to despair. To keep his feelings in check, John loses himself in the details of his home life – the never-ending ch ...
Magriet Vos moet vlug. Uit die strik van Wes-Kaapse tiran Albino X op sy Vergelegen-troon, asook van die geheueverlies wat elke dag nog iets by haar steel. Die land huiwer op die rand van instorting, en Magriet moet wederregtelik die agterpaaie vat en by familie in die noorde uitkom – voor sy vergeet wie sy is. Slegs flardes ou dagboekinskrywings en ander verdowwende flenters geheue bly oor om haar te help. ...
Sjef Emma probeer haar vurige humeur beteuel, maar na die bruilof-fiasko met die hoenderpastei in die Upingtonse somerhitte, verloor sy kop en gooi haar baas rakelings met ’n mes mis. Gelukkig kry Emma die kans om oor te begin op Hermanus by die Chantilly-restaurant. Sy pak haar serpversameling en haar boheemse rompe en vat die pad. Hoewel Chantilly baie werk kort, is Emma vasberade om nie weer woedend te word nie. Die personeel word haar nuwe f ...
After a disturbing call from a certain Josias Brandt, Karl Hofmeyr departs for Cape Town to help his brother, Iggy, who is apparently running amok. On this journey Karl – hard-core heavy-metal fan – valiantly contends with inner demons as well as outer obstacles. Meanwhile, in an attempt to fend off a beleaguering emptiness, Maria Volschenk embarks on a journey to understand her sister’s search for enlightenment . . . and her subsequent death. T ...
The coastal settlement of Slangkop, near Cape Town, comes alive over weekends when mercurial Chas Fawkes holds court at Midden House. Invited to one of his legendary parties, shy, plump librarian Nina Browne is smitten and becomes first his secretary, then his lover. But things are not as they seem on the glittering surface, as Nina in turn is loved and watched over by Chas’s childhood playmate, the hermit-like environmentalist William. When Cha ...
Infidelity has always posed one of the worst threats to relationships. But today, our digital prowess has led to a disturbing and as yet little understood new form of infidelity: cyber infidelity. In this book, renowned sexologist Dr Eve takes the first in-depth look at this new form of deception: people who deliberately communicate in secret through texts, chats, e-mails and dating sites, even though they are in a close real-life relationship. ...
"That was it. I had had enough of Cape Town. The cold Atlantic Ocean, the white sand beaches, Table Mountain, the Waterfront . . . I decided right there, in front of the notice board, to go and pack my belongings and leave for good. The compass in my mind was pointing north, back to Johannesburg, my landlocked city, and Soweto. I was sure that if I stayed in Cape Town for one more day I would go mad. The four years that I had spent there, s ...
Gerugte van reen is met sy verskyning in 1978 maande lank deur die apartheidsregering onder embargo geplaas. Vir baie bly dit steeds een van Andre P. Brink se grootste romans. In ’n land geteister deur droogte bly reen net ’n gerug – maar as dit die slag kom, dan word dit ’n vloedwater wat alles met apokaliptiese geweld wegspoel. Hierdie sentrale beeld word weerkaats in al die fasette van Brink se voorstelling van Suid-Afrika op die rand van ’n ...
