Rousseau: 228 books

The sequel to The Colour of Power. Engrossing and moving, this sequel about the second part of Theodora’s life as empress of Byzantium opens with intrigue as one of Justinian’s old enemies, Cappodocian John, is revealed as a threat to the throne. Theodora’s unremitting feeling of guilt for a...

The Shadow of the Hummingbird explores the loss of innocence and the need to maintain a sense of wonder at the fleeting beauty of the world. The play premiered at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, USA, in 2014, and an expanded version was subsequently staged at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town,...

Antjie Krog’s career as a poet began with resistance to language and authority. This was more than simply youthful rebellion – it was a desire to free language itself from all constraints. In this, her first book of poetry in eight years, Krog once again disrupts language to create new meaning...

"A new edition of this important work which was first published in 1937 and which was the result of Marais’s ten year study of the habits of termites, or white ants. In his fascinating investigations into the psyche of the ants, their strangely rich inherited memory of instinct, Marais makes...

Aimed at patients, their families and healthcare practitioners, this is an invaluable practical guide, relevant to South Africans and to South African conditions. it is packed with helpful information. The book highlights the fact that drug and alcohol abuse is not a sign of moral weakness, but rather...

Die benederyk, the Afrikaans edition of this novel, was awarded the M-Net Prize in 2011. The novel has been translated into English by award-winning author and translator, Leon de Kock. This is the story of two brothers – Aaron and Stefaans Adendorff – the one an artist, the other an ex-addict....

Kendall Mullins hates high school as much as life at home, but that all changes when Craig Baumgarten joins his class. Craig makes school almost bearable, until bullies set their sights on the new best friends and Craig hatches a plan to fight back, with devastating consequences. As Kendall is drawn...

In this straightforward, comprehensive guide, Sister Lilian, South Africa’s most trusted pregnancy and baby care expert, discusses all aspects of pregnancy, birth and parenting. Your birth options, the role of fathers, the growth and development of your baby and toddler, health concerns, the correct...

Six friends attend a music festival in the Cederberg. Only five come back. For her seventeenth birthday Demi Crowley invites her five closest friends to join her at a music festival for a party to end all parties. But what was supposed to be the night of their lives soon becomes a nightmare none of...

A dead soldier is discovered next to a waterhole in the Kruger National Park, and Captain Russell Kemp is called in to investigate. Kemp has problems of his own – he was transferred to this backwater for insubordination and is addicted to painkillers – but his gut still tells him something is...

Abel still lives on the smallholding outside Johannesburg, where he spent most of his life with his disturbed mother. Here he harvests and treats the skins of small animals which he trades for the authentic African and South American masks and tsantsas sold in his gallery in the city. For his fiftieth...

An unputdownable novel about the Empress Theodora, considered by many the most influential and powerful woman in the history of the Byzantine Empire. The reader follows her journey from her humble beginnings, the loss of her father, the compromises she must make between her personal sense of honour,...

Die potlooddief en die engel is ’n hedendaagse blyspel wat losweg gebaseer is op die Middeleeuse mirakel- en moraliteitspele. Alles is moontlik, met die gevolg dat hierdie heerlike en hoogs opvoerbare komedie, wat met groot sukses voorgeskryf is, net sulke prettige leesstof is.

Painter Nick Steyn moves to the City Bowl in Cape Town after separating from his partner, Isabel. A young boarder moves in with Nick and they soon become friends. But one night she does not come home, and his attempts to trace her come to nothing. A few weeks later the prosperous artist Buks Verhoef...