Human Rousseau: 190 books

Chris and Marley are in a new school and from the word go they discover that things are not quite the same as in other schools. Their new friends start to behave strangely, not to mention the guy with no hair and that weird library teacher ... When they are slowly but surely sucked into a series of...

Sister Lilian is a trusted midwife with extensive hands-on-experience of pregnancy, birth and childcare. In this updated edition of her highly regarded 'Pregnancy & Birth Companion', she equips expectant parents with a wealth of information. Complete with a preconception plan, a week-by-week guide...

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...

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...

This is the story of a young boy who wants to become a veterinarian. He travels to Nelspruit near the Kruger National Park in order to gain work experience with a wildlife vet. He has a secret mission that is in fact his primary mission. Two hundred years ago an ancestor of his whipped a black slave...

Abel finds himself in Bruges, with his friend and mentor Ignaz Bouts. Soon he is on the prowl again for skins with tattoos for his Cosmic Travels, now with Ignaz’s help. In a Sleep Inn in Bez Valley, Ella Neser finds his tracks. But she also has her hands full with the murder of a corrupt official...

Nerve-tingling suspense – I couldn’t put it down – Michele Magwood The second book in the Abel trilogy: Ella Neser is on compulsory sick leave after her close encounter with Abel Lotz’s scalpel. Between therapy sessions and harp lessons, she ponders over the photographs of Abel’s four victims,...

Byron Winterleaf, a 23-year old white guy, is on the verge of losing his job as a translator at a Xhosa-themed restaurant.And during heavy rains his back garden in Observatory, Cape Town, is flooded, killing the marijuana plants that he’d been hoping to harvest for profit. But the flood also brings...

Wenner van NB-uitgewers se Groot Afrikaanse Romanwedstryd 2012:Komies, hartroerend, meditatief, verruimend! Hierdie kick-ass roman bied ’n priemende blik op twee parallelle reise: ’n man en ’n vrou elk op soek na die oorsake van ’n broer en ’n suster se ondergang.Na ’n onthutsende oproep...

Magrieta Prinsloo, dierkundige, se kop haak uit op die verkeerde antidepressant. Sy raak vervreem van haar kollegas, beledig haar departementshoof, en haar illustere akademiese loopbaan kom tot ’n einde. Sy aanvaar ’n betrekking by die Buro vir Voortgesette Onderrig, met die enigmatiese Markus...

Niggie speel af in die laaste maande van die Anglo-Boereoorlog. ’n Groepie Boerekrygers onder wie twee natuurwetenskaplikes, Ben Maritz en Reitz Steyn, vertrek uit die Kolonie om ’n getraumatiseerde jongeling na sy ouerhuis in die Vrystaat te neem. Op hulle tog word hulle ’n paar weke lank in...

Helena Verbloem, leksikograaf van beroep, gaan na Durban as projek-assistent van ’n man wat alle woorde byeen probeer bring wat in onbruik geraak het in Afrikaans. Dan word daar by haar tuinwoonstel ingebreek en haar geliefde skulpe word gesteel. Die verhaal ontvou rondom die soektog na die gesteelde...

’n Nuwe roman deur hierdie skrywer is ’n belangrike gebeurtenis. En sy stel haar lesers nie teleur nie: Dis die verhaal van twee broers - Aaron en Stefaans Adendorff - die een ‘n skilder, die ander ’n eks-verslaafde. Aaron se galery-eienaar, Eddie Knuvelder, laat hom lelik in die steek  (nadat...

Ester Zorgenfliess verlaat haar tuisstad om vir ’n tyd lank te gaan oorbly in ’n plattelandse dorp waar sy haar ervaring van die dorp en sy inwoners orden rondom die plekke wat sy feitlik daagliks besoek. Net soos in Landskap met vroue en slang word die emosionele lewens van die karakters in Buller...