Random House Struik: 161 books

Sy misdade was vir die nasie, het hy by die verhoor betoog. Maar daardie volk stel nie meer belang nie. Paul du Toit word weggeruk uit sy leefruimtes van huwelik en werk om voor die Waarheids- en Versoeningskommissie te verskyn. Hy kom anderkant uit in ’n land wat nie meer vir hom plek het nie....

Op ’n klein plekkie in die Bo-Karoo is lewe en dood soos die paaie wat in en uit die dorp loop, albei deel van die orde. Maar in die jare sewentig kry die dood ’n flambojante teëhanger in die jong man Jopie wat wil klere ontwerp; met Annelien Kriel as sy leidende ster wil uitbreek na die verre...

On a remote mission station a monk buries the heart of his Superior beneath the great iron cross overlooking the no-man’s-land between the colonies of Natal and the Cape. He then begins to write his own account of his dead leader and friend Abbott Franz Pfanner, charismatic leader of the Trappists...

Stellenbosch, the present. The body of a young woman is found drifting in a river, and Detective Eberard Februarie is called in to investigate the case. A man struggling with his own demons, Eberard discovers secrets that lead him to an underworld of sexual hedonism, to the rotten core of this old...

South Africa looms before thousands of refugees from across all Africa as the land of milk and honey. They flee conflict and hardship, they leave behind home and loved ones – only to face the harsh realities of living in a foreign, sometimes hostile country. Their longing to be reunited with their...

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...

Paul du Toit settled in the United Kingdom after leaving under a cloud ten years before. Now he is divorced and middle-aged, and bogged down in a boring job and a floundering relationship. He therefore readily accepts a straightforward – or so he thinks – assignment from a wealthy London financier...

On the morning of Thursday, 18 May 2006, with the summit of Mount Everest in full view, Selebelo ‘Sele’ Selamolela gathered all his strength for the last hard push to reach the top of the world. You Don’t Fool Around With Mountains is the story of that day, and of the personal odyssey that led...

“I want to show you something. These are the money shots. It’s the face. The expression. When realisation sets in.” A minibus taxi flipping spectacularly on its head; two teenagers engaged in illicit sex in a shopping-mall rest room; a raunchy table dance in a Cape Town strip club … What have...

Are you ready to lead a phenomenal life? Chris Kennedy was raised in a dysfunctional family and was the victim of childhood sexual abuse. She was married and divorced four times, and one of her husbands was brutally murdered. In her working life, she started, and failed at, several businesses. How,...

Before she had the incident, before they drugged her, Lily knew things from the future and saw people from the past. Awake or dreaming, hers was a world seen from its womb where the unborn future was nurtured. And it was from there, from the periphery, that she saw Adam waiting. The one. She fi nds...

“I need your allegiance. And it must be definitive." The christmas decorations are up, but danger lurks in the port city. Durban is in trouble. A credible threat from a shadowy terrorist group has blipped the State Security Agency's radar screens and agents Kevin Durant and Cedric Shabalala...

Bruce Clark is the world’s best dad. Born and raised as a Scientologist, the religion-cult’s practices were his only reference points. At age 16, disillusionment had set in, and he was spewed out onto the streets uneducated and livid. Deep into adulthood he remained pretty much like that, until...

Kate Jowell was the director of the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business - the first woman to hold such office in South Africa - when, at the age of 59, she was diagnosed with early Alzheimer’s disease. Attractive, glamorous and hard-working, she had, up till then, been a brilliant...