Rousseau: 228 books

Many of the world’s true leaders in politics, business and sport have succeeded by adopting the mental processes typical to the ingenuity of one of nature’s most resourceful animals – the fox. Are these mental processes extraordinary? No. they are perfectly natural, and can be a powerful tool...

Since his solo debut 20 years ago, Nataniël has become one of the best-known and most popular South African entertainers. When I was is an all-English collection of 25 previously unpublished stories by Nataniël, selected and adapted from his stage productions Finding Gabriel, My brother Fonzo, Walking...

This gripping novel is the fascinating and true story of Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh who ruled over Egypt for two decades around 1500 BC. The “double crown” refers to her reign over Upper and Lower Egypt, but also the dual nature of her life: Pharaoh and woman in one person. She relates her...

This short novella is part of the popular Joe Grey cat mystery series, of which Booklist said: "What makes this series so delightful for both cat lovers and readers of offbeat fantasies is that Murphy's convincing anthropomorphism allows the cats to maintain their feline natures while still adopting...

In most regions of Ere to be a Seer, gifted with telepathic and visionary powers, means death—or does it? For some it may mean an even worse fate: destruction of their minds and enslavement by the dark powers determined to conquer the world. In The Ring of Fire, Zephy and the goatherd Thorn are...

Dragonbards Trilogy, Book 2. The bard Tebriel and his singing dragon Seastrider together can weave powerful spells. With other dragons searching for their own bards, they have been inciting revolts throughout the enslaved land of Tirror. Only if they can contact underground resistance fighters and...

Dragonbards Trilogy, Book 3. Only the dragonbards and their singing dragons have the power to unite the people and animals of Tirror into an army that can break the Dark’s hypnotic hold over the world. Before their leader Tebriel can challenge the hordes gathering for the final battle, he must confront...

As a child Ramad of the Wolves had sought the potent Runestone of Eresu that could save his world from the dark, only to have it shatter at the moment it came into his hands. Now as a man, leader of his fellow Seers in their war against the dark powers, he knows it is up to him to find and rejoin...

The entire sequence of Bosman’s famous Oom Schalk Lourens stories, in one volume for the first time. Edited from authoritative sources, and accompanied by original illustrations, this gathering represents a feast of South Africa’s best-loved tales. The sixty pieces include all-time favourites...

37 stories selected and arranged by Suzette Kotzé-Myburgh from Stoffel in Afrika en Stoffel op safari. Translated by Elsa Silke. Bakkes has been involved in conservation for almost two decades in one of Africa’s last wilderness areas:, Namibia’s dry northwestern areas, the Kaokoveld and Damaraland....

Dis die laat tagtigs in Johannesburg. Adriana van der Hoon is agtien jaar oud. Haar aktivis-pa het jare lank oorsee geld vir die Education Trust ingesamel maar op ’n dag verander alles, en nou staan die veiligheidspolisie op haar drumpel met ’n ultimatum. As sy hulle nie help om die ANC se geldspoor...

Fifteen-year-old Jenny Middle struggles to hold her family together despite poverty, constant moves, the jail sentence and drunkenness of her mother, and a sister tragically involved with drugs. This timeless story of growing up forty years ago will be as relevant and moving to girls of today as it...

No one—certainly not Melani, who longed for the country—could have imagined that a city house could be like this, but there it was, big and old, lovely and strange, with odd juttings and turnings and unexpected windows. And it stood just where the city met the Pacific Ocean, next to a vast park....

Buyi voel soos ’n vreemdeling in London – die plek waar hy gebore is en grootgeword het. Maar toe hy vir die soveelste keer moeilikheid by die skool optel, besluit sy ma hy moet by sy pa, wat hy nog nooit geken het nie, in ’n wildreservaat in Suid-Afrika gaan bly. Maar ook hier voel hy nie tuis...