We kick off with a non-fiction, financial thriller in English and in Afrikaans. We also celebrate Madiba’s centenary in four languages, bring you a super female detective, a super villain and a super book that says girls can do anything. But, please read on. There is so much more!

Non-Fiction

Steinhoff: Inside SA’s biggest corporate crash

James-Brent Styan
Non-fiction
9780799371642
R280,00

Available from 19 July 2018

On 5 December 2017 the Steinhoff group was still worth R193 billion. Twenty four hours later more than R117 billion of this fortune was wiped out. The Steinhoff Empire, which took 50 years to build into an international business giant, had crumbled overnight.

Markus Jooste, Steinhoff’s flashy CEO, resigned via SMS and has since been fleeing an avalanche of scandals and accusations: luxury homes for a blonde mistress, allegations of fraud, racing horses and unparalleled extravagance, a lavish, black Jaguar for his university residence…

What exactly happened here? Who knew what? What is Steinhoff, who is Markus Jooste and what does it all have to do with the so called Stellenbosch mafia? Where does business tycoon Christo Wiese, Shoprite and Pepkor fit in and where is the pensioners’ money?

Well-known financial writer James-Brent Styan unpacks these and other questions in this astounding tale of power and greed, of secrets and deceit, and ultimately the biggest financial breakdown in the history of South Africa.

Through interviews with trustworthy sources, revelations from confidential documents and in-depth research about Steinhoff’s history, Styan uncovers what the group doesn’t want you to know.

Steinhoff: Inside SA’s biggest corporate crash is a gripping financial thriller that will be told as cautionary tale or salacious scandal in both boardrooms and living rooms for decades to come.

The author: James-Brent Styan qualified as an accountant in 2003 and did his articles at an auditing firm before becoming a financial journalist. He has written for Finweek, Forbes Africa, Sake24, Fin24, Beeld and Die Burger and currently works as a communications practitioner. Steinhoff is his third book. His other books are Heartbreaker: Christiaan Barnard and the first heart transplant and Blackout – The Eskom Crisis.

Nelson Mandela

Izak de Vries
Illustrasies: Alex van Houwelingen
9780799391046
R20,00

Nelson Mandela Centenary Publication. On 18 July 1918 Rolihlahla Mandela was born in Mvezo near Umtata. Nelson Mandela became president and he served our country for five years. Nelson Mandela died on 5 December 2013.

Fiction

Dowe gode

Dibi Breytenbach
Krimi
9780799389814
R265,00

Dibi Breytenbach works in the South African legal system. Her day job is to engage with the police on crime. At night she turns her knowledge into fiction. This is a nail-biter about a farm killing, and the investigation into it.

Kid’s Fiction

Meisies kan enige iets doen

Caryl Hart
Illustrasies: Ali Pye
Kleuterfiksie
Ouderdom: 3+
9780799388718
R130,00

It is true. Girls can do anything! Raise that little feminist to believe in herself! Womandla!

Superskurk

Jaco Jacobs
Illustrasies: Nicolene Louw
Kinderfiksie
Ouderdom: 9+
9780799388794
R120,00

Wessel has to spend a holiday in his grandfather’s house. The house smells like bird poo. Wessel hates every moment. Then, one night, he sees his grandfather slipping out of the room. Why? Is his grandfather a super villain? Or quite the opposite?

Dis MY boek!

Fabi Santiago
Kinderboek
Ouderdom: 3+
9780799388770
R150,00

Giraffe is rather precious about his book, but everyone has ideas on how best to read it. In the end he figures it out himself… The best way is the share!

My eerste voel en vind-reeks

Bababoeke
Ouderdom: 0+
8 bladsye elk
9780799388671 (Plaas)
9780799388701 (See)
9780799388695 (Diere)
9780799388688 (Parkie)
R135 elk

A delightful series or pocket-sized scientists to discover, feel and learn.

Romanza

Lelies vir Louisa

Rosita Oberholster
Superromanse
9780799389845R
225,00

A precious stone leads Roselle to a neighbouring farm. She finds a potential love interest there, but might she also have found her biological family?

Man sonder weerga

Bets Smith
Romanza-omnibus
9780799389876
R225,00

Bets Smith is a wonderful and diverse author. This is a collection of some of her early romances.

Towerman

Wilreza Smit-Theron
9780799388145
R90,00

Lea travels to Zanzibar in the hope of finding inner healing, because three years after her husband passed away, she is still mourning his death. Who is the attractive blonde giant with moss-green eyes, acting as her protector?

Somersprokie

Alma Carstens
9780799388176
R90,00

Charlotte, or Charlie as she is fondly called, asks Christiaan to help her renovate her beach house. He realises he will have to hide his feelings from her because her relationship with the international film star, James Duncan, does not seem to be over.

My ster jou ster

Malene Breytenbach
9780799388206
R90,00

In Milan, Tatiana, a South African soprano, meets the attractive opera star, Igor Radonowski. He makes her weak at the knees, but he is married. She must resist her attraction to him.

Stoppelbaardsoene in Santorini

Cecilia Steyn
9780799388237
R90,00

Isak Clarke and his adopted son, arrive a day too early in Santorini. Isak is a man who is used to getting his way, but that does not apply to Gita. If only he just wasn’t the most beautiful, yet uncivil man she has ever seen.