Author: Johan Vlok Louw Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa ISBN: 1415204160 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
Billy’s dragon tattoo will attract strange looks in the Karoo town his family now calls home. It’s difficult to blend in when your father’s the new police colonel and your mother’s strung out on pills and wine. Before Billy meets Suzan, who makes him dream in a sideways world, the gangster Ou Joe’s roadside brothel provides strange comfort to truckers and curious youths alike. Ou Joe plans to leave a legacy before staging his final showdown with the cancer growing in his belly. After a brutal night, the colonel sets Ou Joe’s place in his sights and Billy must take a stand when good and evil are yet to pick sides. In the style of a modern western, Johan Vlok Louw’s novel is filled with youth, cars and guns.The book is an uppercut to the chin, its prose as evocative as the Karoo landscape of its setting.
Author: Ceri Leigh Berry Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers ISBN: 1398475513 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 307
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May 1901. Jo stands alone, ready to meet her fate, as British soldiers come thundering up the dusty track of her farm. She has not raised a white flag, it is pointless; the British are burning homesteads to the ground. Choked by the acrid smell of farmlands and livestock, blazing in the valley, Jo struggles to find her voice and the words she needs to save her home. A strange twist of events transports Jo back to a time when, as a young teacher in the tiny Karoo town of Kweek Valley, she was drawn into the troubled world of a boy named Lukas Bester. A time past when nothing was as simple as it seemed and the truth lay silent and festering beneath the surface of the pious community. A time when she was Joanna Shepherd, an entirely different person... If she is to survive, Jo has to find the words which uncover the truth as she navigates her way through grief, betrayal and the violence of war.
Author: Mitch Reardon Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa ISBN: 1775843262 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
After centuries of relative isolation, the Karoo – South Africa’s parched heartland – is a latecomer to the tourist industry. What was once viewed as a harsh and desolate place of limited attraction is rapidly gaining popularity with visitors who now make the Karoo their destination, keen to partake of its legendary charm, its extraordinary fl ora and the resurgence of wildlife that once again populates its plains. Wild Karoo documents Mitch Reardon’s 4,000-kilometre journey of discovery through the region. The book focuses on: local nature conservation in all its facets, the game, large and small – some recently reintroduced – plus birds, reptiles and invertebrates, the unique, arid-adapted flora, the landscape and geology, the history and lifestyle of the people who have made a home here, plans to combine public and private protected land to create wildlife corridors between isolated parks, re-establishing old migration routes and so reversing some of the effects of human settlement. Beautifully written, and illustrated with evocative photographs, this book is a must read for anyone interested in travel, wildlife and the environment.
Author: Johan Vlok Louw Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa ISBN: 1415209340 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
Waking up in a rundown house on the outskirts of a mining town, Karl at first is uncertain who or where he is. What is certain is the pistol and cash in a duffel bag, and the grey Ford, modified for “leaving places quickly, but silently”, in the garage. Over the next few days, as glimpses of his past emerge, Karl stikes up a friendship with his new neighbour, ten-year-old Henri. But Henri’s dad is a small-time drugdealer fresh from the city, and his mother weak at protecting them against the violence of his father. All is not as it seems, however, as the real connection between Henri and Karl is revealed in Johan Vlok Louw’s poignant and potent new novel.
Author: Gordon Torr Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa ISBN: 0143531301 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 266
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They're psychopaths, violent offenders, drug addicts, sexual deviants and social misfits. And these are the good guys. In the notorious military camp known as The Vault, they are considered unfit to wear the South African Defence Force uniform. As part of a brutal rehabilitation programme, they become the experimental toys of a rogue psychiatrist. After a tragic accident and a clerical error, conscript Lloyd Norton finds himself thrust into this macabre world. He will never be the same again. The novel, based on the real apartheid-era camp Greefswald, not only rips open an all but forgotten chapter in a chilling history, but also tells a gripping rites-of-passage story.
Author: Alan Schwerin Publisher: University Rochester Press ISBN: 9781580460804 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 348
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A mosaic of intriguing first-hand historical accounts of the country, its people, significant events, and moral and political predicaments have been culled from diaries and correspondence from early missionaries, soldiers, politicians, laborers, and ordinary settlers. These historical documents display the prejudices, fears and character of the sojourners in South Africa. The text presents a unique view of the seeds of the racism that would later constitute the lifeblood of apartheid."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Cameron Ewart-Smith Publisher: Jacana Media ISBN: 1770098860 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 254
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This wonderful collection of travel writing captures the very best of Getaway's articles over the past 21 years of travel, exploration and adventure.
Author: Johan Vlok Louw Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa ISBN: 141521090X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 217
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At an army base close to Voortrekkerhoogte in Pretoria, at the height of summer and South Africa’s Border War, 18-year-old recruits endure an appalling drill sergeant bent on turning them into killing machines for the sadf. They are sleep deprived, and tension mounts in this group of disparate individuals – boys from all walks of life – expected to function as a unit.
Author: Ann Clayton Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1928171559 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 38
Book Description
MIGRATION is poetry written between two nations - the nation of South Africa, where Ann Clayton was born and developed into a widely published writer, and the nation of Canada, where she now lives and writes.
Author: Johan Vlok Louw
Author: Johan Vlok Louw
Author: Ceri Leigh Berry
Author: Mitch Reardon
Author: Johan Vlok Louw
Author: Gordon Torr
Author: Alan Schwerin
Author: Cameron Ewart-Smith
Author: Johan Vlok Louw
Author: Ann Clayton