The Love Song of André P Brink is the first biography of this major South African novelist who, during his lifetime, was published in over 30 languages and ranked with the likes of Gabriel García Márquez, Peter Carey and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.Leon de Kock's eagerly awaited account of Brink's life is richly informed by a previously unavailable literary treasure: the dissident Afrikaner's hoard of journal-writing, a veritable chronicle that was 54 years in the making.

Vespula (11 - possibly) is about to discover a dark inner force, one powerful enough to blast stone to bits, yet gentle enough to create soft, glowing light. Her memory might still be elusive, but the amount of trouble she can get into is not one of her shortcomings.The Church does not like the mysterious girl, and will do anything in its power to get her out of the way, and the Church gets as many chances as it wants. It only has to win once, Vespula has to win every time....

This being a short yet intense collection of:Riotous Rhymes,Epic tales and crimes,Dirty deeds and death,Dark humor on a breath.Come be the perpetrator,Come you, antagonist,Join me, the instigator,Our weapon: Words that twist.

Dream School, the sequel to Dream World.Conceived in the Dream World but born into the real world, Eve and Shawn have dreaming powers like nobody else, and when they decide to teach their friends the secrets of dreaming, it should lead to a lot of fun. As long as their mother does not find out…But the fun stops when people start dying, and Shelly Waterford is dead scared it might be the old monster Argelon from her past that has come back. This time she has the safety of her ...

Welcome to the world of Dreams.Understand concepts such as mutual, precognitive and lucid dreaming. Learn why dream dictionaries are a bad idea, why you should start interpreting your own dreams, and how to do so. Find out why you should be keeping a dream diary, and how to use one correctly.Get information on how to prevent nightmares and how to control your dreams, and much more.This book can teach you how to enter and enjoy the rich life of dreaming - and how to kee...

In Losing the Plot, well-known scholar and writer Leon de Kock offers a lively and wide-ranging analysis of postapartheid South African writing which, he contends, has morphed into a far more flexible and multifaceted entity than its predecessor. If postapartheid literature’s founding moment was the ‘transition’ to democracy, writing over the ensuing years has viewed the Mandelan project with increasing doubt. Instead, authors from all quarters are seen to be reporting, in different ways a...

'n Buitengewone en uitstekende manuskrip." – Prof. Gerrit OlivierAndré P. Brink en die spel van liefde is die heel eerste biografie van 'n Suid-Afrikaanse skrywer wat gedurende sy leeftyd in dieselfde asem as Gabriel García Márquez, Peter Carey en Aleksandr Soltzjenitsen genoem is, en wie se romans in meer as 30 tale vertaal is.In Leon de Kock se langverwagte biografie word Brink se persoonlike dagboeke en joernale as die belangrikste bronmateriaal hanteer. Brink het meer a...

This being a short yet intense collection of:Riotous Rhymes,Epic tales and crimes,Dirty deeds and death,Dark humor on a breath.Come be the perpetrator,Come you, antagonist,Join me, the instigator,Our weapon: Words that twist.

This reference guide is a short introduction to building plans and the building plan process, aimed at taking some of the anxiety out of the building plan process for home owners.This is not a guide to building design. This is a reference guide to what you should and should not do if you own a home in South Africa - as far as building plans are concerned.The guide was inspired by many home owners asking me the same questions, because they all run into the same problems. Too o...

Growing up in the ’60s and ’70s in the tough streets of Mayfair, Joburg, Sammy Baptista learnt how to use his fi sts. But life will teach him that fists cannot defend you against everything. When he scores a plum job and catches the fancy of his sexy boss, Sammy thinks he has landed with his backside in the butter. A steamy love affair ensues, but Sabina, like others before her, has Sammy by the balls. In vigorous conversations with his shrink, he cuts away layers of ‘bad sex’: between fat...

Vespula is about to make new friends, discover old enemies and even older mysteries. But Vespula, 11 (probably), is no ordinary girl.Now living at the Sisters' Mission convent, she is under the cold eyes of Sister Rebecca, who hates the sight of her, and Sister Mary, who is not to be trusted, no matter what Vespula's friend Golden believes.What she desperately wants is the Stinging Stone pendant, to protect her against evil Still such as Mortov, but Sister Mary is also after ...

Romance, magic and mystery, witches, dragons and more.Two hundred and fifty poems, chronicling the adventures of handsome John, a smith, as he follows and captures the heart of Jasmine, a gorgeous dancer in a band of gypsies.When evil Prince Alexander falls in love with Jasmine and pays a witch to put a curse on John, the two heroes go on the adventure of a lifetime to break the spell, but can their love overcome all kinds of obstacles, from the witch's familiar to a great ol...