Sven Axelrad introduces his new novel, God's Pocket
Sven Axelrad introduces his new novel 🖤
God's Pocket is available now!
Elizabeth Wasserman gesels oor Mevrou Smit
Die Nege Lewens van Mevrou Smit is die heerlike opvolg op die gewilde Die Fantastiese Mevrou Smit, die eerste boek in hierdie nuwe lekkerlees-spanningsreeks deur Elizabeth Wasserman 🌺
Vir meer inligting besoek ons webtuiste: https://loom.ly/UfohPXs
Sally Andrew has exciting news!
Tannie Maria, everyone’s favourite amateur detective and agony aunt, has finally heeded the call of her fans countrywide to produce her very first cookbook!
Recipes to Live For by Sally Andrew.
COMING THIS MAY! 🥧✨
The Sunday Times shortlist for SA’s most prestigious annual literary awards for non-fiction and the fiction award has been released!
We are so proud of all our Penguin & Umuzi authors and their acclaimed publications 🎉
Stay tuned for the winning announcements later this year.
A fast-paced metaphysical mystery that includes fascinating detail on Karoo landscape and botany; cosmology and astronomy. At its heart, Mirage is a story about loss and healing; and how we use narrative to cope with pain.
Each Mortal Thing.
The 10th novel from the critically acclaimed author, Michiel Heyns.
#MIchielHeyns #Umuzi #LocalFiction #LiteraryFiction #EachMortalThing
Hammerman deur Mike Nicol: 'n Resensie
Wat sê een skrywer van spanningsromans oor die werk van ‘n ander? Christelle Van Rooyen Wessels is beslis na dese ‘n aanhanger van Mike Nicol. Kyk gerus na haar video-resensie van Hammerman, die nuutste boek deur bobaas-skrywer Mike Nicol.
Hammerman is nou beskikbaar by jou naaste boekwinkel en aanlyn: https://bit.ly/36sXZrW
Om beter te kan moor deur Christelle van Rooyen-Wessels het pas op die rakke verskyn: https://bit.ly/3urXEyn
The Man Who Never Was by Douglas Kruger
Well-known business book author and award-winning speaker Douglas Kruger is back on the shelves... this time with his first work of fiction!
David shares a close bond with his eight-year-old son, Chris, but their family is destroyed when David dies. In the afterlife, he is given an opportunity. He is told that he may be granted three viewings by which to look in on his son. The terms are strict: he cannot help his boy. He cannot reach him, or teach him, or in any way change the course of his life.
David agrees, and on three separate occasions observes his son’s unfolding story.
The first viewing takes place one year after his own death.
The second shows him his son at the age of nineteen.
David’s final viewing shows him the final days of Chris’s life.
What David sees will not leave him, and he decides to make a simple but impassioned request.
The Man Who Never Was is now available from your local bookstore and online: https://bit.ly/3GQofd2
One Fine Day by Irna van Zyl
When Louw Roodt vanishes after a work function, Kristien Liebenberg’s worst fear comes true: her lover isn’t coming home.
Has Louw been in an accident? Is she having an affair? Has she been hijacked, assaulted, or worse, left for dead in the bushes and sand dunes of the Cape Flats? Or has it got something to do with their argument that morning?
Then news breaks of a murdered man found in a Cape hotel – the same hotel Louw was last seen in, on the same night. And it’s the very man who was the speaker at her work function.
Was Louw involved in the murder? Is she on the run? That’s what the police say. Or is there a connection to her mother’s hijacking 21 years ago, an event which left Louw psychologically scarred?
Amid all these questions and a rising sense of dread, Kristien knows Louw is in trouble, and she needs her help.
One Fine Day by Irna van Zyl is available from your local bookstore and online: https://bit.ly/3gBhIIh
Op 'n mooi dag | Irna van Zyl
“Dis die langste wat ek nóg moes raai oor wie die moordenaar is, net om heeltemal verkeerd te wees. Van Zyl ken haar stede, sy ken haar platteland
en sy ken haar intrige!” – Kabous Meiring
Met Louw Roodt se verdwyning ná ’n werkgeselligheid word Kristien Liebenberg se grootste vrees bewaarheid: Haar lewensmaat kom nie huis toe nie.
Was Louw in ’n ongeluk, het sy ’n affair, is sy ontvoer, aangerand, of erger, in die sandduine en bosse van die Kaapse Vlakte vir dood agtergelaat? Of het dit met hulle groot bekgeveg die oggend te doen?
Toe breek die nuus van ’n man wat in ’n Kaapse hotel vermoor is. Dieselfde hotel waar Louw was. Dieselfde aand as wat sy verdwyn het. Dieselfde man wat vroeër dié dag die gasspreker by haar werk was. Het Louw iets met die moord te doen en vlug sy nou? Die polisie dink so. Of hou die verdwyning verband met haar ma wat een-en-twintig jaar gelede voor hulle huis in Tamboerskloof met motor en al gekaap is? ’n Voorval wat vir Louw ’n groot sielkundige knou gegee het.
Deur al die vrae en groeiende paniek, weet Kristien Louw is in die moeilikheid en sy moet haar red.
Op 'n mooi dag deur Irna van Zyl is nou beskikbaar by jou naaste boekwinkel en aanlyn: https://bit.ly/3jk4TEc
Op 'n mooi dag deur Irna van Zyl
Irna van Zyl doen 'n voorlesing uit haar nuwe boek, Op 'n mooi dag wat in September verskyn. Die titel sal ook beskikbaar wees in Engels as 'One Fine Day.'
WIN with our first birthday issue! 🎂🐧🥳
You can WIN with our first birthday issue! 🎂🐧🥳
This month, five lucky readers stand a chance to win a hamper of goodies valued at R1 000, including SIGNED COPIES from authors including Jo Nesbo, plus book bags.
Enter here: https://bit.ly/3dRGF0I
Entries close 31 July 2021.
Sally Andrew reads from Death on the Limpopo: A Tannie Maria Mystery
Ladismith’s famous crime fighter is back – with a tin of buttermilk rusks in hand – to restore peace from the Klein Karoo to the great Limpopo River 🐊
In this clip, author Sally Andrew reads from Death on the Limpopo, the third book in the Tannie Maria Mystery series. This extract is about a charging elephant - and Bella's Divine Loaf...
Voorlesing: Marita van der Vyver (Grensgeval)
“As daar één les is wat sy uit haar stormagtige verhouding geleer het, is dit dat selfs die mense wat die naaste aan jou lewe, weggesteekte kelders vol geheime kan hê. Nie die digterlike geheime tuine wat ons almal toegelaat word, selfs aangemoedig word, om te kweek nie. In Theo se geval was dit 'n ondeurdringbare geheime oerwoud, g'n sprake van 'n netjies getemde tuintjie nie.”
Theresa ontdek ’n brief tussen haar oorlede eks-man se besittings. Wie sou ooit kon dink dié stukkie papier sal haar eie lewe dekades later só verander. Marita van der Vyver se nuutste roman bekyk die Grensoorlog van die kant van vriend én sogenoemde vyand.
⭐️ Klik hier om Grensgeval deur Marita van der Vyver te koop: https://bit.ly/2UQk6QU
⭐️ Also available in English as Borderline: http://bit.ly/2Jvm7Mu
Marita van der Vyver - official group
The Artist Vanishes by Terry Westby-Nunn
Where is Sophie?
Infamous Cape Town artist Sophie Tugiers has been missing for several years. Her mysterious disappearance caused a brief ripple before dissolving into a distant media memory. Sophie’s controversial art alienated many
people: those who didn’t consider her a sell-out thought her last exhibition was sadistic – after all, one of her experimental participants committed suicide.
James Dempster is a jaded filmmaker with a whiskey problem. Following his acrimonious divorce, he needs a project to relaunch his stalled career. When he discovers he’s living in the flat Sophie once rented, he is drawn into her sinister tale.
What really happened to Sophie? What are her friends and enemies hiding? After James’s flat is ransacked and his research stolen, he realises unearthing the truth could lead not to his redemption but to his demise.
The Artist Vanishes explores ambition and success, guilt and responsibility, the ethics around animal research, and art’s lasting impact on those it touches.
The Artist Vanishes by Terry Westby-Nunn is out now: https://bit.ly/3u7aBvo
Claire Robertson on woodworking and her new book, 'Isle'
Pour yourself a cup of coffee this chilly Friday afternoon, and settle down to watch award-winning author Claire Robertson talk a bit about woodworking and her stunning new novel, Isle.
The year is 1289 and an injured young man washes up on an island of women. He is taken in by a sculptor who sees in him the perfect model for her Christ, although her real masterwork will be a larger-than-life Virgin.
But the Church will come to reject this sisterhood of unmarried women on the island, and they are bound to lose their small freedoms. Centuries later, a lieutenant is sent to an island to dispose of unexploded ordnance.
As an erstwhile World War ii flight nurse trained to evacuate wounded soldiers, she too has gazed upon, and been haunted by, the bodies of broken young men. For her, a fraught love affair with a local man will ignite, while his teenage daughter looks on.
Binding the lives – so different and so similar – of women separated by time and place, Claire Robertson’s Isle is an all-encompassing rumination on privacy, inhibition and female desire, rendered in her masterful prose.
Isle is now available from bookstores countrywide and online: https://bit.ly/2NTqrtK
Still Life by Zoë Wicomb
Listen to author Zoë Wicomb reading an extract from her new novel, Still Life.
Few in his native Scotland know about Thomas Pringle – the abolitionist, publisher, and – some would say – Father of South African Poetry. A biography of Pringle is in order, and a reluctant writer takes up this task.
To help tell the story of Pringle is the spectre of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave whose history he had once published. Also offering advice is the ghost of Hinza Marossi, Pringle’s adopted Khoesan son, and the time traveller Sir Nicholas Greene, a character exhumed from the pages of a book.
While Mary is breathing fire and Sir Nicholas’s heart is pining, Hinza is interrogating his origins. But what is to be made of the life of Pringle so many years after his death by this motley crew from the 1800s?
As the apparitions flit through time and space to put together the pieces of Pringle’s story and find their own place in his biography, Zoë Wicomb’s novel offers an acerbic exploration of colonial history in superb prose and with piercing wit.
Still Life is now available at all leading bookstores and online: https://bit.ly/2EUmoZC
Brendon Daniels Voorlesing | Debuutroman, Swart Swaan deur Wilken Calitz
Hoe lyk ‘n hartseer likkewaan? Akteur Brendon Daniels lees voor uit Wilken Calitz se debuutroman Swart Swaan, met ‘n jammerlike likkewaan in ‘n glaskas wat die toneel open.
Swart swaan is nou beskikbaar by boekwinkels landwyd en aanlyn: bit.ly/2xacAXC
The Son of the House by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
“We must do something to pass the time, I thought. Two women in a room, hands and feet tied.”
Kidnapped in Nigeria by a group, not unlike Boko Haram, two women, Nwabulu and Julie, relate the stories of the very different lives fate has meted out for them.
When Nwabulu’s father dies, her stepmother sends her off to become a housemaid. For years, she suffers the abuse of employers, a love affair with an employer’s son offering little comfort. Out of their union, a son is born, but the young Nwabulu has to give him up, and is bound to suffer in her stepmother’s home again until she can flee, establishing herself as a fashion designer, finally able to inhabit Julie’s world.
Julie: privileged, educated, and adored by her parents. She has the opportunity to become whomever she desires. But sometimes too much choice can be a dangerous thing, and in Julie’s case it is. At thirty-four she is still unmarried and, for the first time, there is pressure: a burden that will only be lifted with the birth of a son. So determined is Julie for release that she goes as far as a polygamous marriage.
While the two women wait for the ransom to be paid, fate will once again decide the course of their lives.
The Son of the House is now available at leading bookstores and online: http://bit.ly/2IkOjDz
