Open your mouth and say: Eeeeeee….

Indeed. LAPA creates a love for reading in the time of Corona. We’ll also give you tips on how to prepare healthy and delicious meals.

We know you cannot buy paper books, but we do stock eBooks!

LAPA’s eBooks can be read on a special LAPA App and on Amazon’s Kindle-App.

Amazon’s Kindle can run on most platforms. Do download the app as per your platform’s specifications.

To learn more about the LAPA app: https://lapa.co.za/help-with-e-books

Fiction

Kanaän

Sophia Kapp

Druknaam: LAPA

It’s a love that never should have been – he is an ordinary Afrikaner farmer from the Free State, she is a sophisticated English girl from Johannesburg. Love cannot be prescribed; but sometimes it comes at a significant price, one that even a rich girl might not be able to pay.

As dit voel soos liefde

Didi Potgieter

Druknaam: LAPA Uitgewers

Marc and Natasha know very well that their attraction can only lead to heartbreak. He doesn’t believe in marriage, she is getting divorced. If only their hearts got the memo too!

Non-fiction

We have created these eBooks to help during lockdown! They will be launching this week.

Inspiration for isolation: 14 Low-Carb Recipes for 14 Days

Armand Aucamp

Recipe Book

Imprint: LAPA

Flatten the curve, do not fatten the curve!

This is a 14-recipe banting-and-keto cookbook with easy, healthy and creative dishes for you and your entire family amid the lockdown, and beyond. We are pricing this book at only R49,00 when bought through our app, or roughly US$3,00 on Kindle.

Here is a message from Armand

I have to admit, I was convinced that plagues and worldwide pandemics were something of the past. It seemed like something confined only to history books or biblical times. Or something Hollywood film makers would conjure up for the latest blockbuster (Contagion being frighteningly accurate to our current situation).

But, here we are, most of us in self-isolation amid the national lockdown; working from home; avoiding crowds; even the coffee shops are closed. The situation is quite surreal.

But we South Africans have always possessed the magical ability to look at the bright side of things.

All around me, I see and read how South Africans are making the best of the current situation. I hear about parents taking their children for walks in nature again, people dusting off their forgotten-about musical instruments or attempting to learn a new language or, for the first time in ages, cooking a romantic meal for their partner.

Speaking of which, I really believe that this time of isolation creates the perfect opportunity to take stock of how and what we eat and to discover how we can incorporate better choices in our daily lives. It is an opportune moment to reconnect with the nourishment of our bodies from which we, over the past few decades, have become completely removed.

Start cooking again. Cook for your spouse and cook for your children. Cook for yourself. Experiment. Ask your kids for help in the kitchen and allow them to take over and show you what they are capable of. What better place to reconnect than in the kitchen?

I still fondly recall how much joy a certain cookbook for kids gave me as a boy; flapjacks and fudge and eggnog were three recipes that I will never forget!

We have to establish a reconnection with ourselves, as well as our loved ones. We have allowed ourselves to become so busy and so distracted by so many things!

Involuntarily, we have drifted further and further away from one another and now is the time to start making the journey home, to ourselves and to one another. And what could be easier and more satisfying than doing so with love, laughter and delicious food around a kitchen table?

Armand

Isolasie-inspirasie: 14 Hekelpatrone vir 14 dae

Nadia de Kock & Hilda Steyn

Handwerk

Druknaam: LAPA

Inspiration for isolation: Enjoy these 14 patterns, a selection from the therapeutic book Crochet & Conquer, and find meaning and purpose again in the everyday things during this time of lockdown and social isolation.

Inspiration for isolation: Comfort food

Clover

Recipe Book

Imprint: LAPA

Here are 14 delicious recipes for comfort food that will make you and your family forget all about Covid-19 and lockdown.

Do it the way your mom and granny used to cook!

Our ancestors cooked these recipes in times of war, hardship and depression to lift everyone’s spirits. Do the same and comfort yourself and your family by cooking one of these mouth-watering dishes every day!

These recipes are a selection from the popular cookbook Clover Food Nostalgia (LAPA, 2018). No more takeaways or Uber Eats? No prob! We are pricing this book at only R49,00 when bought through our app, or roughly US$3,00 on Kindle.

For the younger ones

Sanri Steyn: Die geraamte se geheim 

Theresa van Baalen

Illustreerder: Johann Strauss

Druknaam: LAPA Uitgewers

There is a new boy in Sanri and Markus’s class. Jamahl has a ventriloquist dummy that looks like a skeleton. Is Bennie Bones just a dummy, and is Jamahl really such a good ventriloquist? When Benny Bones goes missing, super Journalist Sanri Steyn investigates.

Romanza

Vir altyd lente

Marilé Cloete

Druknaam: Romanza

Jennie makes a foolish decision that costs her dearly. Eventually she breaks free and returns to the Klein Karoo. She is unemployed, pregnant and alone.

Her parents have no mercy. Herman does. He has always been there. They have been friends for years, but he too harbours secrets from a previous relationship.

Ayla se sonde

Alma Carstens

Druknaam: Romanza

Ayla comes to the shocking conclusion that she’s pregnant after a one-night stand with Adam, the crown prince of the Durandt business empire. She has been in love with Adam since her school days, but she grew up on the wrong side of town and he has to marry into another business empire. Could the baby prove to be a blessing and an exit strategy for both?

Om die sterre te raak

Renda de Waal-Fourie

Druknaam: Romanza

Rachelle falls deeply in love with her stepbrother Jakes, but she chooses to study in Stellenbosch, which is far from Pretoria where he stays. More than six years pass before she returns to Pretoria to visit her stepfather and the old attraction between Rachelle and Jakes flares up again.

Kiekies en koffie

Louise van der Merwe

Druknaam: Romanza

Christelle had the perfect life with the perfect partner (her white Labrador, Walter), until Joshua Steyn ruined it for her.

He is predictable and career driven. She is chaotic.

Will life beyond their comfort zones be what they have always wanted?

Penguin News

LAPA is proudly part of Penguin Random House South Africa, that is why we share two of their clever eBook as well.

Virus-proof Your Small Business: 50 ways to survive the Covid-19 crisis

Douglas Kruger

Imprint: Penguin

Nonfiction

This book will have an e-launch on Friday 10 April.

The past two decades were among the most prosperous in history, with over a billion people lifted out of extreme poverty. Then 2020 hit, and, along with it, the coronavirus pandemic. The effect on economies will be extreme. What can small businesses do to survive the Covid-19 crisis? Business coach and author Douglas Kruger provides actionable answers, with a list of 50 practical ways your business can survive – and even thrive – during this time of uncertainty.

Business survival entails a simple formula. You must achieve and maintain profits over costs. There are a remarkable number of creative things you can do to stay on the right side of this equation, provided you don’t lose your head. Do these things well and you’ll be able to keep your staff employed, continue to serve your customers, grow awareness of your brand, and even come out of this difficult period positioned for growth.

This is his ninth book with Penguin, with number ten due for release later this year. Meet Douglas at www.douglaskruger.com.

Afterland

Lauren Beukes

Dystopian fiction

Imprint: Umuzi

This Thursday at 6pm there will be a virtual launch of the eBook of award-winning author Lauren Beukes’ new dystopian novel Afterland.  It is set in a world where 99,9% of males have died in a pandemic.  Males are a precious commodity as female scientists attempt to guarantee the survival of the human race in this new world.

A mother and her disguised 12-year-old son are fleeing across a post-virus America, desperate to escape.  One reviewer said it was like Blade Runner meets The Hand Maid’s Tale. The physical book will be launched when the bookstores are open.