Author: Herman Beukes

Language: Afrikaans

ISBN: 978-1-77605-640-8

Genre: Afrikaans fiction

‘n Mynmaatskappy in Egipte, boor ʼn rots raak wat harder is as enige iets wat hulle ooit vantevore teëgekom het. Die swart kubus wat uitgehaal word toon tekens van intelligensie wat almal verskrik laat. Pogings om dit te ontrafel lei tot heelwat avonture wat almal wat in kontak daarmee kom, blootstel aan gevaar. Diefstal van dele van die rots lei tot grootskaalse paniek.

Die span reis oor landsgrense heen om dit terug te vind en uit die verkeerde hande te hou. Soos die tyd verbygaan word hulle bewus van al hoe groter gevare wat dit vir die hele wêreld inhou. Sal hulle betyds wees om al die dele daarvan te vind en die groeiende intelligensie aan bande te lê, voordat dit tot die besef kom dat die mens nie meer nodig is nie? Dit is die storie van drie mense se reis om die mensdom te red van sekere ondergang...

Author: Monde Nkasawe 

Language: English

ISBN: 978-1-77605-634-7

Genre: English fiction

Monde Nkasawe does it again! This time he tells the story of a homeless man, who has a penchant for regaling people with riveting stories. When this homeless man makes a rather macabre scene at a funeral, two fascinated graveyard security guards ask him to tell them his story. In response, he takes them back to a moment in time, by weaving an explosive tale that relives the intrigue that followed the announcement of the unbanning of political organizations in South Africa back in February of 1990, a tale that culminates in utterly explosive scenes.

Set in present day South Africa, the homeless man’s story is a creative way of pondering whether the moment of arrival of democracy in South Africa in 1994 is a victory that lay the ghosts of our past to rest, or it was cunning subterfuge with which the future would later reckon.

Author: Sue Eksteen

Language: English

ISBN: 978-1-77605-658-3

Genre: English non-fiction

This is a book of blessings taken from the Psalms and personalized. This is an excellent book to give as a gift to any woman for Mother’s Day or any other celebration. The book will inspire and help every woman to turn her focus to all the positives of God’s creation and His love for each person. It is not a theological study, but rather encouragement and motivation that will uplift and restore the relationship between each reader and their Creator – our precious Heavenly Father. The book can be opened anywhere and read randomly.

Author: Jannie Putter

Language: Afrikaans

ISBN: 978-1-77605-644-6

Genre: Afrikaans non-fiction

Dis nie net sportmanne en -vroue wat wenners wil wees nie; elkeen van ons wil ʼn wenner op ons eie gebied wees. Om ʼn wenner te wees, beteken jy kan ʼn situasie op die sportveld of in die gewone lewe na die beste van jou vermoë hanteer en sodoende die optimale resultate behaal. Dis ʼn sielkundige voorsprong wat jou in staat stel om in situasies van druk beter te presteer as jou teenstanders of die deursneepersoon. En dit stel jou in staat om selfversekerd op te tree en in beheer te wees van jou emosies.

In Koelkop leer Jannie Putter jou op ʼn praktiese manier hoe om soos ʼn kampioen te dink. Dalk is jy moedeloos omdat dit vir jou voel of jy gedurig in ʼn muur vasloop. Lees dan Koelkop en besef dat die sleutel tot sukses ook in jou is. Al wat dit verg is ʼn voortdurende proses van ontdekking en groei. Want sukses is nie ʼn bestemming nie, maar ʼn reis.

Author: Raashida Khan

Language: English

ISBN: 978-1-77605-656-9

Genre: English - fiction

Sondra is a powerful executive for whom career is paramount, at the expense of all else, including her husband and son. When an ill-considered affair with John, an intern, leads to him taking his life, the fallout is catastrophic! John’s grieving mother, Hannah, uncovers the truth, and a confrontation between the women results in far-reaching consequences. Overnight, Sondra’s charmed life vanishes, and it seems that she is cursed to ruin everything she touches. Alone and in despair, she is forced to confront her past – a past she has denied and sought to bury, along with the girl that once was.

Grieving and depressed at the loss of her beloved son, Hannah is angry and bitter. She blames Sondra for John’s irrevocable decision and for her being left all alone. John was the perfect son, yet he hid the affair and his feelings of despair from Hannah. But … if he could keep secrets from her, he must not have trusted her, or she must not have known him at all. Shattered, Hannah turns away from God and the world. A death brings Sondra and Hannah into each other’s lives as adversaries, but their quests for truth and understanding reveal more than they bargained for. Are they ready to live with what they discover?

Author: Cathy Donald

Language: English

ISBN: 978-1-77605-632-3

Genre: English - non-fiction

Five very different women... Cape Town is home to each one of them. Surrounded by its mountains and seas, but also by the struggles and difficulties of a young post-transformation country, each one lives out her separate life. Then fate begins to intertwine their lives through a series of circumstances... Faith, who has taken on a job as part-time receptionist in Bethany’s practice, is physically abused by her manipulative and controlling husband.

Between Bethany and Rafiqah, the detective who investigates her case, they manage to persuade her to prosecute him and this involves the legal help of Lindiwe, the public prosecutor. But Lindiwe’s nightmare past means that her involvement in cases of abuse can never be totally objective. Ayesha, who teaches Bethany’s young daughter notices subtle changes in the little girl’s behaviour and, together with Faith, makes a shocking discovery. The Silence of the Shadows is a novel about the strength and frailty in each of us, the recognition that at different times we can be either the helper or the helped and that it is totally acceptable to be both.

Author: Tania Smit

Language: Afrikaans

ISBN: 978-1-77605-650-7

Genre: Non-fiction

Die eerlike manier waarop Tania in haar skrywes met haar eie, maar ook alle mense se gereelde en diepste emosies omgaan, het ’n belangrike aar in lesers se gevoelslewens raakgeboor. Heelword is die tweede bundel uit die pen en lewe van die Oudtshoorn skrywer, Tania Smit. Haar eerste bundel, Hekelwoorde van my Hart, het in die bestek van twee jaar tot duisende boekverkope en volgelinge op sosiale media gelei, en is deur The South African Independent Publishers Awards aangewys as die mees inspirerende bundel van 2019. Van haar kortverhale en gedigte is ook tydens die KKNK van 2019 deur die geliefde wyle Paul Eilers voorgelees.

Om die groot besluit te neem om hierdie bundel uit te gee was nie maklik vir Tania nie – maar vandag is sy baie dankbaar vir wat sy uit die proses geleer het. Soos sy tereg noem, dit neem ’n dapper mens wat bereid is om self die tyd, koste en risiko aan te gaan om iets te doen waarin hulle met hulle hele hart glo. Op die ou end is dit die publiek wat hul hart moet wys om die waarde van ’n stuk skryfwerk te bepaal, en dit is in hierdie waardering en terugvoer van lesers waarin die meeste bevrediging van die proses vir die skrywer lê.

Wat lesers sê:

“Ek het nie woorde vir hierdie waarwoorde, diepwoorde en weetwoorde van jou nie . . .” – Mari

“Jy het ’n absolute Godgegewe talent gekry om ander mense se stukkendwees en menswees in woorde vas te vang.” – Ronel

“Oeg . . . dis raaaak! Pynlik raaaak! Baie, baie dankie.” – Dirk

“Jou woorde maak my sprakeloos.” – Antoinette

“Hoe skryf jy soveel se nie-weet-nie so raak?” – Petra

Author: Graham Keet 

Language: English 

ISBN: 978-1-77605-614-9 

Genre: Fiction 

How will life on Earth finally end? Kratos, a mysterious hooded figure, issues the king with an ultimatum and threatens to destroy the earth if his demands are not met. 

For a thousand years, the world has lived in peace, with Satan incarcerated in an abyss. Now an unprepared world is cast into turmoil. Could the mysterious Kratos be Satan liberated from the abyss, or does this dubious honour go to the flamboyant Gorgonius Draco? 

 Luke Baron is tasked with discovering what is behind the unexpected worldwide turmoil. Together with his beautiful assistant, Karen Leigh, Baron is cast into the dangerous cauldron of end-time conflict as the day of final destruction draws nearer.

In a dramatic climax on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, the forces of good and evil face each other in a final showdown, the result of which will determine the destiny of mankind.

Author: Hamilton Wende 

Language: English 

ISBN: 978-1-77605-616-3 

Genre: Fiction 

Sebastian Burke, a British academic, has spent his whole life trying to understand the secret life of Alexander the Great and his slave bride Roxane. Now, with the Taliban forced underground, he finally has the opportunity to undertake the journey he has dreamed of for almost his entire adult life, a journey into the heart of Alexander’s world, a journey to the lost city of Ay Khanoum in northern Afghanistan. 

Here, with the help of Claire Finch – a fiercely independent American documentary producer – he hopes to find and expose to the world the contents of the Royal Diaries of Alexander – the last copies of which were kept in the city before its destruction by barbaric invaders from the East.

However, from the moment two American servicemen are murdered by Al Queda terrorists in the bar of their hotel in Tashkent it becomes clear that there is far more at stake than just Sebastian’s reputation as a historian, and what started out as a quest to validate a lifetime of academic study quickly turns into a journey of discovery that will bring Sebastian face to face with his Rhodesian past – a past that he has run from for more than 30 years.

Author: Hamilton Wende 

Language: English 

ISBN: 978-1-77605-492-3 

Genre: Fiction 

When CIA operative Al Morris is kidnapped in Afghanistan, it sets off a dizzying chain of international terrorist intrigue. His son, Danny, is a foreign correspondent who has never respected his father’s choosing a career in spying. However, he writes an article about the terrorist group which unwittingly betrays an Afghan warlord, Azmaray Shah, and leads to his son Turan’s capture.

Azmaray Shah insists that Danny come to negotiate for his father’s life and for the release of Turan. Stricken by guilt and the need to help his father, Danny joins a mission by US Marines to rescue Al. Danny finds himself caught in a vortex of combat across Afghanistan which forces him to confront his own courage and question the values he has carried with him all his life. 

This is a story of war, of fathers and sons, and the deepest need we all carry for hope and redemption across the generations.

Author: Tania Smit 

Language: Afrikaans 

ISBN: 978-1-77605-552-4 

Genre: Afrikaans poetry / blog articles 

Die langverwagte bundel met uittreksels van die steeds groeiende en gewilde Afrikaanse webblad, Hekelwoorde van my Hart. Gepubliseer op versoek van lesers, volgelinge, geraaktes en vervlegtes vir vashou en koester en liefhê. 

Tania Smit woon in Oudtshoorn saam met haar twee tienerkinders, Julia en Adrian. Sy skryf oor die voel van haar eie lewe as reënboogkind, single dating in haar veertigs, haar vrese en oorwinnings, om gevat en gelos te wees, genoeg en te min te wees, en oor wyn en vure en kos en reis en ma-wees en menswees. Sy is ʼn dromer maar ook ʼn realis. Die woorde in hierdie bundel is haar storie, maar ook almal se storie.

Compilers: Anita Stander en Anine Vorster 

Language: Afrikaans 

ISBN: 978-1-77605-618-7 

Genre: Fiction - Short Stories 

Hierdie kortverhaalbundel, Die Mooie Jan en ander Afrikaanse kortverhale, beloof om ‘n unieke leeservaring te wees! Dit is die resultaat van ‘n skryfgeleentheid wat geloots is om aan aspirantskrywers die kans te gee om die vreugde van publikasie te ervaar asook om ‘n bydrae te lewer tot die bevordering en behoud van ons geliefde Afrikaans. Die tema was oop en skrywers kon enige genre instuur, mits dit fiksie is en in Afrikaans geskryf is. 

Soos dit maar altyd gaan met die kies van kortverhale deur verskillende skrywers met verskillende skryfstyle, was die keuringsproses geen maklike taak nie. Die standaard was hoog, maar die samestellers, Anita Stander en Anine Vorster, glo dat die eindproduk ‘n kleurvolle mengsel is wat iets vir almal se smaak bied. Die bundel bestaan uit 29 kortverhale. Daar is misdaad-verhale met ‘n kinkel in die kabel; liefdesverhale wat jou hartsnare sal raak; humoristiese stories wat jou sal laat skaterlag oor die pittige manier waarop dit geskryf is. Dan is daar ook die nostalgiese vertellings wat jou sal neem na pragtige plekke en laat verlang na mense wat jy nie ken nie. 

Bydraende Skrywers: Hendie Grobbelaar; Alwine Fölscher; Adri Vlok; Martha Scheckle; Louis Lategan; Sanchen Lambrecht; Juanita Fourie; Christo Meyer; Aletia Ollewagen; Danie Markgraaff; Sue Eksteen; Heidi Heese de Beer; Estie Wentzel; Herman Beukes; Yolanda Faye Holden; Bets Koen; Linda J. Dunhin; Bedelia Paulsen; Helena L. Greyling; Zyrilde Potgieter; Chantél Venter; Madeleen Theron; Delanie Flanegan; Dieter Lochner; Evanthe Schurink; Elizabeth Hentschel; Ammie Pringle; Betsy Stoltz; Evert Louw

Author: Ruth Mantile 

Language: English 

ISBN: 978-1-77605-620-0 

Genre: Non-fiction 

An eye-opening, true-life narrative filled with raw, cut-throat and uncomfortable truths as experienced by an innocent young South African girl who was neglected and abused by her mother and raped by people she thought she could trust. It’s the story of her life – from her abusive childhood to a tumultuous, roller coaster life as a teenager in the Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) training camps of Lesotho and Angola. 

The purpose of this book is to show that no matter what your circumstances are, the choices you make can build or destroy you. In the first few pages, the author asks: “Does the world still believe that one’s upbringing determines one’s destiny? Does this narrative say that, if you were born from a rich family, you would also be rich, or if your mother abandoned you at childbirth, you would also abandon your children?”

And then, through the thorough relay of her life as a young girl, Ruth gives assurance to every woman, man and child who are experiencing – or have experienced – abuse of any kind, that there is life after trauma when you love and believe in yourself. Her story encourages readers to rise from the ashes like a phoenix, just as she did.

The book also gives a glimpse into the camp life and the camaraderie of MK members training to fight for their cause: The end of apartheid in South Africa.

Author: Dr Sunday Aigbodion

Language: English

ISBN: 978-1-77605-630-9

Genre: Non-fiction

Welcome to the portal of illumination. Your journey so far has been one of trials, temptation, disappointment, recurrent despair and the occasional brief period of happiness. But God has heard your prayers, and open doors of joy, peace, love, harmony and material and spiritual abundance await you.

Through this book, the author aims to reveal the secrets that have been kept in the spiritual domain of great men of God, hidden from the general public. Most men of God hide these secrets from their congregations, and the reason they do this is unbelievable… Essentially it’s to keep them in perpetual dependency, exploiting their congregations so that the inherent creative spiritual powers in the people remain dormant, incapacitated and unexplored.

If you apply the principles shared in this book, you will become your own prophet, and you can summon angels and helpers to your aid at will. You will be so empowered by this that you will no longer run to deceptive men and women of God when harsh situations threaten your peace of mind.

Author: Raashida Khan

Language: English

ISBN: 978-1-77605-590-6

Genre: Fiction

Barely surviving the death of her daughter to a harrowing disease and the acrimonious divorce from her husband of nineteen years, Azraa Hassim has become a bitter woman, numbed by her own rage and anger.

Fragrance of Forgiveness, the sequel to the award-winning debut novel Mirror Cracked, picks up two years later. Azraa exists without engaging with anyone unless necessary, especially her family. But life forces her to question yet again all that she had taken for granted and all that she had thought was true in her life. Azraa’s journey leads her down a path towards the realisation that she has to learn to forgive herself so that she can forgive others. Only then will she be free to accept and trust in Allah’s will and plan.

A truly gripping and thought-provoking story about the crushing devastation of betrayal and its disastrous consequences, Raashida Khan’s genius in Fragrance of Forgiveness is in the interwoven messages on leading a fulfilled and accepting life. This tough but touching very human story has the capacity to change lives and shows how we are all similar in our struggles, while revealing insights into contemporary Muslim society.

Author: Sanna van der Walt

Language: Afrikaans

ISBN:978-1-77605-628-6

Genre: Fiction

Hoe sal jy voel as jy skielik uitvind jy is eintlik getroud wanneer jy veronderstel was om jou droom te gaan uitleef oorsee? Het jy ook ondeurdagte dinge in jou jongdae gedoen wat later kinkels in jou lewe veroorsaak het?

“Jong, ek gaan sommer met die deur in die huis val. Die rede hoekom ek hier is gaan oor dinge wat ons in ons studentedae aangevang het en nou geboemerang het.”

“Hoe nou?” vra Ruan uit die veld geslaan.

“Ek weet nie of jy nog kan onthou van die eerstejaartjie wat met haar ontgroening met jou ‘getrou’ het nie?” vra Johan.

“Ja, die stil, stemmige enetjie. Dit was nogal ’n ding en baie prettig,” lag Ruan.

“Kan jy nog die troue onthou?” vra Johan.

“Vaagweg lui daar ’n klokkie want ek het nooit ingestem nie behalwe die een keer, want sy was een van die mooiste meisies en in ’n ander klas as die ander meisies,” lag Ruan.

“Jy was lekker gekoring en toe word ek sommer nadergetrek om dit na ’n werklike troue te laat lyk,” verduidelik Johan.

“Jy was maar net so lekker gekuier,” lag Ruan kliphard.

“Wel, sy en jy is toe per ongeluk werklik deur my getroud,” antwoord Johan versigtig...

Author: Tshego Monaisa

Language: English

ISBN: 978-1-77605-622-4

Genre: Fiction

Maki, Lerato and Tebogo have been friends for the better part of their lives. Maki is a journalist with ambitions of becoming a scriptwriter on a soapie, so when she meets Tumelo the filmmaker, her life takes a turn. Lerato has just given up her title as a slay queen to form a relationship with personal trainer, Seputla. She is madly in love with Seputla but her old life comes knocking when her ex, Bra Aubrey, makes it clear that he wants her back. Tebogo feels stuck in her eight-year relationship with Tshepo. When she tells him how she feels, he proposes to her, but when she meets the actor, she falls heedlessly in love and theirs becomes a whirlwind romance with dire consequences.

Author: Verena Martin 

Language: English 

ISBN: 978-1-77605-608-8 

Genre: Non-fiction 

Verena Martin shares much of her life’s story with you as a means of illustrating how she’s come up with 16 ways to living a better and happier life. As a coach and public speaker, Verena has encountered hundreds of people from all walks of life.

She was inspired to write this book because she discovered that so many of those people are lost in their lives. Although many of them have read self-help books, they still don’t feel secure on their life’s journeys. They may be okay today but when something difficult happens tomorrow, they stumble.  

In this book, Verena will take you through the preparation you’ll need to build a sound foundation in which to anchor everything in your life, both personally and professionally.

Author: Natalia Sifuba 

Language: English 

ISBN: 978-1-77605-606-4 

Genre: Non-fiction/Biography

 The heroic action of Reverend Isaac Williams Dyobha Wauchope, legendary hero from the 1917 SS Mendi troopship would pave the path of political activism for many Wauchope generations. His descendant, Joyce Kalaote, was a political activist, a struggle heroine, and one of the towering BCM figures during the 1970s against the system of apartheid.

A nurse by profession, she thrust herself into civic struggles, and as an active community member rallied brave women to close ranks in support and in defence of the 16 June 1976 students following the outbreak of nationwide uprisings. But she was not alone; the members of her entire family were political activists. 

Her nephew, George Mpapa Wauchope, was described as a soldier of justice and, after having enrolled at the University of Fort Hare in 1970, joined the South African Students Organisation (SASO). Fort Hare sharpened his political interest, and this is where this remarkable figure emerged with an unwavering desire to take on the system on its illegitimate rule over the black majority.

Being a prominent exponent of the philosophy of Black Consciousness, his extraordinary activism became the family’s catalyst, and the entire Wauchope family becomes involved in the struggle for national liberation.

Author: Karen Kirk 

Language: English 

ISBN:978-1-77605-612-5 

Genre: Non-fiction 

 Karen, who is the oldest of two children came from a close family unit. Nothing seemed to break the bond of family. Love seemed to protect them from all the world's negative circumstances. However, Karen found herself being totally surrounded by darkness experiencing a devastating divorce, loss through a tragic murder and the sudden loss of family members through illness.

She felt ripped apart and questioned God and His purpose for her life. Her story is for all those who are living in darkness and seek the Light. It is for all who have felt defeated and knocked down. Her story is a purpose-driven one. While in darkness, she responded to a direct calling from God. 

Karen was pulled onto a journey of learning, learning to see the bigger picture. She discovered that there was indeed Light all around her even in times when she could not see it. Karen found herself transform from a nervous, anxiety stricken, shy person into a called person desperately needing to spread the good news of God’s everlasting Light.

Karen learnt that there is hope after loss, life after divorce, a better place of happiness and acceptance if one searches God’s face. Her story is meant to inspire all who seek a purpose-driven life. It is never too late to start a new beginning and to discover the bright Light which existed all along.