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Weeping Waters – Karin Brynard
R220.00This is the translation of the very successful Afrikaans book, Plaasmoord, and what a great thriller it is! Detective Albertus Beeselaar, beleaguered by his own demons, has been transferred to a small town in the Kalahari from Jo’burg’s Murder and Robbery Squad. The book opens with the horrific murder of artist Freddie Swarts and her adopted daughter on their farm. There has been a spate of stock thefts and a couple of related murders already and neighbouring farmers are afraid and hostile in increasingly difficult circumstances. This is further fuelled by land-ownership issues. Freddie’s journalist sister arrives to try and understand the reason behind her senseless murder, and Beselaar flails around in a situation where everyone is a suspect. Brynard steadily builds the tension in this intelligent and well-plotted story. I only hope there is going to a translation of Onse Vaders too…
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Weerklink van ’n wanklank – Pieter-Dirk Uys
R280.00Hierdie boek, gelyknamig aan Uys se mees onlangse verhoogstuk, is die beroemde komediant/politieke kommentator se derde memoire. Hierin vertel hy van sy grootwordjare – wat hy as ’n “wanklank” bestempel – en die mense en faktore wat sy karakter help vorm het.
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Whisper Network – Chandler Baker
R305.00Four women, working in a legal affairs company, face an upheaval when their CEO dies suddenly, leaving a vacancy at the top. Tipped to take the position is their boss, Ames Garret, a man surrounded by rumours and who has got to where he is by taking what he wants.
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Wie gaan in 2019 regeer? – Jan-Jan Joubert
R249.00Die politieke verslaggewer Jan-Jan Joubert het met hierdie boek ’n groot uitdaging suksesvol aangepak: ’n sinvolle uiteensetting van faktore wat ’n rol speel in die Suid-Afrikaanse politiek. Kernkwessies wat die uitslag van die 2019-verkiesing sal beїnvloed word bespreek.
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Wine, Women and Good Hope by June McKinnon
R200.00Genealogist June McKinnon traces the lineage of many well-known families that originated with the arrival of the Dutch in the Cape in the seventeenth century. The impact to the indigenous people already living here, as well as to the new arrivals, have helped to shape the nation we are today. Buckets of alcohol and some not-so-squeaky-clean ancestral behaviour described in a fun and witty narrative – that manages to be both entertaining and educational.
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Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy 2) – Ken Follett
R215.00Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mother’s formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith, and her student son, Lloyd, who soon learns for himself the brutal reality of Nazism.
