Porcupine Press

Walking to Australia describes a 21st-century journey which roughly follows the direction taken by anatomically modern humans who, some scientists conjecture, left the African nursery around 85-thousand years ago in search of survival, and who reache...

Writing For Salvation

Two women have been damaged by the realities of the time, one crushed by the withering world of Afrikaner urbanisation, the other by the devastating impact of racially defined morality. They bring tragedy and greater maturity to the central character...

Searching Africa

After the return to South Africa from the international family, it became possible for David Robbins to travel regularly in other parts of Africa. He had at last, he said been released from the bondage of apartheid into his broader home. The result o...

Powering The Future

A Controversial HIV/Aids programme, loveLife, began in the final few months of 1999 when South Africa’s epidemic was rampaging through the country’s young people, leaving millions dead. In 2019, after 20 years of sustained effort, the organisatio...

Oblique Light

This is prizewinning author David Robbins’ twentieth book. Oblique Light is a collection of long short-stories set in Scotland and dealing with the alienation and amorality of self-imposed exile....

Outreach

The William Humphreys Art Gallery (WHAG) in Kimberley is South Africa’s smallest nationally funded gallery. It is also the country’s most dynamic and innovative in terms of its response to the changing socio-political terrain in which it has oper...

Deceased Estates The Executor`s Challenge For Everyone

A forward-thinking approach prioritizes financial orderliness during one’s lifetime and provides for a tidy estate that will augment the executor’s task significantly. It highlights the role of a Will and the interactive relationship between test...

Estate Planning Trusts For Everyone

THIS IS A BOOK THAT ANYONE WITH ASSETS SHOULD READ. Written by Trust Specialist, Mervin Messias, it is the culmination of knowledge and expertise that has been acquired over many years’ study and practice of Trust law. ...

Hidden Destruction

This novel tells a familiar story. Laurence, a farm boy from the then Northern Transvaal, finds himself at 19 years old conscripted into the South African Defence Force. From his parents he had learned the disciplines of ethical behaviour and hard wo...

TREET STORIES OF EUROPE - Framed by my phone and found by my feet

In 2016, Annemarie Terblanche moved continents for the third time in her adult life. Newly arrived in Europe, this documentary filmmaker took her smartphone and her curiosity and began to travel across the continent, discovering communities, cultures...

DOING BUSINESS IN AFRICA - Connecting Capital to African opportunities

Business & Money

If you are a game changer who wants to enter or expand your business into the African market, but do not yet have the local knowledge and capabilities, this book is for YOU! It’s personal and expert insights are both theoretical and practical, th...

My Blood Divides and Unites

I am a Coloured woman of South Africa. The blood flowing through me was despised by apartheid, for it was not pure and it was not White. Because of this, I struggled with feelings of self-doubt and shame....

Wanderings - The retelling of the classical story of King Odysseus and Queen Penelope

The famous story of Odysseus’s long journey home after the Trojan War, comprising some history and a whole lot of mythology, becomes the subject of this classical, yet essentially modern, novel.rnrnThe trials that King Odysseus must endure in stran...

It shouldn’t happen to a lawyer

Johannesburg lawyer, Nicholas Lambrianos, takes off after 27 years in a law practice, to start out as an underqualified and inexperienced famer. He is about to put himself on the front line of food security by buying a working farm. He plans to live ...

New Cities New Economies - South Africa & Africa’s Grand Plan

Dr Ratshitanga provides a proposition for South Africa to commit to a large-scale urbanisation project across the entire country and continent as a strategy that aims towards attaining higher levels of economic growth and transformation. Defining Pan...

Tiseke - My Family’s Many African United Nations

What child does not love being read to at bedtime? Make time, Mom and Dad. This is a lovely story for parents to share with young children. It’s about Tiseke, a seven-year-old with a South African mother and a Zimbabwean father. ...

Ships, Sleighs and Christmas Lights - The Origin of Saint Nicholas

Discover where Saint Nicholas (or Nikolaos) came from and follow him on his adventures. Did he really wear a red suit and deliver gifts to children? Learn how people living in different times and places added a bit of themselves to his story. ...

Amazing Times - Extraordinary Biblical Records of Jesus in Astronomy

Religion & Spirituality

It all begins by looking up and discovering the heavenly revelations regarding the amazing times we are all living through. But the revelations don’t seem to be about the end of the world. On the contrary, what the signs in the night sky reveal is ...

From Journeys to Words - Wobbly tales of expert wives / expat lives

Here are two Ugandan women, both of whom married European diplomats – one representing Belgium and the other France – and as a consequence both found themselves committed to unusual lives as wives and mothers – from the shores of the tiny Comor...

CONNECTING … THE CROSS a Biblical Journey to Demystify Christianity

Religion & Spirituality

This is an easy-to-read book explaining Christianity as it was meant to be, from a biblical perspective. It was written with an understanding of the cynicism expressed by many of the intellectual class, and therefore written with an unbiased analysis...

A Dusty Road to Success

The desire to succeed and live an impactful life is embedded in every human being. Many if us seek, daily, to find the secret to success and satisfaction in this life. As much as we have heard teachings, sermons and even read books that try to tack...

Harnessing The Thunder: Civil Society’s Care and Creativity in South Africa’s Covid storm

They harnessed the thunder, directing attention to people who are usually not seen or heard – compelling the nation to take a long, hard look at itself. Why, in normal times, are so many children hungry, women abused, people drunk, and youth locked...

Letters to Lionel

When poet, novelist & teacher Lionel Abrahams died in 2004, his wife, Jane Fox, wrote him a series of letters because she needed to go on talking to him. She found them in her computer 17 years later & was moved to show them to close friends. They su...

Taj Mahal And Tea

A funny, heartfelt adventure of selfies, surprises and self-realisation that will inspire and and delight you. Discover how change can occur at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways and how a disciplined, successful, corporate CE...

Through My Eyes

A autobiography of a veteran politician and a girl, who takes you on a journey from small town life in a southern African colonial city to serving as a Member of the South African Parliament for 20 years, reinventing herself along the way to be fit f...

Shattering Zionist Myths - 100 distortions identified

Health, Fitness & Dieting|Nonfiction|Parenting & Relationships

AN IMPORTANT COLONIAL EXPOSE. This book asserts that the dominant Israeli narrative prevail-ant in the world today - and since 1948- has obscured the fundamental problem facing Palestinians huddled into their occupied territories. The problem, now of...

After Birth - A mother’s natural guide to postpartum health and happiness

Here’s a book for all new mothers and their caregivers. It is a practical manual of self-care for a woman after having a baby. It includes chapters on: Breast-feeding, Healthy Eating, Recipes, Herbal Medicine and much more. It also includes full-co...

Gags, Quirks and Facts

This is an unusual little book. In a South Africa in economic trouble with daily power outages and a 60% youth unemployment rate, we might think there’s not much to smile about. Don’t you believe it!...

The Priest and the Gondolier

This is a fascinating new novel by Mervyn Nel. Venice experiences a series of art heists. Paintings are stolen from museums and art galleries. Chief Superintendent Gina Rosi of the Italian Police, and Harry Wilson, an art expert who does freelance wo...

Theft From Delos

Religion & Spirituality |Self-Help

An accounts executive, Michael, travels to Greece, as the ideal location to translate a nineteenth-Century diary written by a French archaeologist. Unbeknown to him, the Aegean islands have recently experienced a horrific crime. During the theft of f...

Live without Expectation

Here is an excellent companion for those who might feel lost sometimes in the ‘heavy seas’ of everyday life. It’s like a refresher course for Christians – or a solid introduction for those leaning in that direction – and it’s designed to ...

NOAH AND THE SOLAR-POWERED ARK

Fiction|Children

The destination, like that of the original ark, is Mount Ararat. Noah’s father, Professor Ebenezer Quark, aims to build a zoo on top of the mountain before all the world’s low-lying land is flooded as earth-warming becomes a major threat. Merlin�...

ORPHANED, WITH LIVING PARENTS

Biographies & Memoirs|Nonfiction

Many thousands of South African children are brought up by their grandmothers. This is one of the many manifestations of an unstable and distraught society, where the mother to child bond is too often broken, causing pain and a deep-seated sense of l...

LET GO, LET GOD, LIVE FREE

Poetry

The poems contained in this collection are warm and sincere and filled with soothing hope. In her dedication, the author refers to her poetry as a ‘small beacon of light’ for ‘anyone suffering from the physical weight of depression’. The word...

THE SEARCH FOR POWER

Phillip Jones, the hero of this swashbuckling book for teenagers, has one overpowering dream: to become the world’s greatest soldier. But in a world full of talented and gifted people, it’s tough being one of the few without any talents at all. H...

AN/OTHER PASTORAL

Poetry

Wide-ranging and polyvocal, an/other pastoral questions what we imagine to be the boundaries between humans and nature. History, belonging and race converge with climate crisis, ecosystems and care in these startling and vibrant poems by Tjawangwa De...

TERROR IN THE NIGHT - A South African novel

Biographies & Memoirs|Religion & Spirituality

This is an important must-read book. This novel is about a natural disaster and human corruption and mixes fact with fiction. The framework is about a family escaping the mammoth floods that swept across the northern provinces of South Africa in the ...

ALMOST A PREACHER - Confessions of a one-time candidate

This beautifully written memoir tells the almost unbelievable story of a South African boy who got as far as Grade 8 in his township primary school, and then hit a glass ceiling. Only through the intervention of a caring Catholic Father was he able t...

WELCOME TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM - Get in the game and play to win

Fiction|Business & Money|Self-Help

This book presents the reader with powerful ideas and some basic principles you need to ‘to get out of any financial situation’ and thrive. Are you tired of being shackled by debt? Asks the author. Do you feel that your finances are constantly sl...

The Trouble With My Aunt

When an unplanned pregnancy threatens to turn the life of 32-year-old, single, careerwoman Leah Fine upside down, she fears her own child may be impaired, just like her aunt....

Kaleidoscope - Absurdly short stories of traveling and unravelling by Christina Quist

A lot can happen when a comfortable American lifestyle is purposely disrupted. The author was a middle-aged, conservative, Christian, Midwestern mom who embarked on an unexpected journey when she questioned her faith, left suburbia and moved across t...

Timothy’s Tomatoes

Timothy’s Tomatoes is a storybook for children about a competition at school to see who will grow the best vegetables.rnA few of the key themes in the book deal with:rn• feelings of disappointment and failurern• having the courage to beli...

Broken Basket

‘BROKEN BASKET’ is the simple story of two young schoolgirls Thandi and Zanele, on the threshold of sexual self-discovery. When their relationship becomes more than just two friends sharing jokes or swopping homework, their secret is discovered w...

Biskit en die Boomhuis

Biskit woon saam met sy kwaai tannie Ursula in die stad. Maar sy beste plek is by sy geliefde oupa in ‘n boomhuis langs die meer. Oupa se vreemde manier van leef dryf sy tannie tot raserny. Sy probeer Biskit keer om by Oupa te kom.rnrnAsof dit nie ...

BRAIN PLASTICITY

Self-Help

What if I had told you that the mechanism of your brain is like plasticine and could be moulded to your own unique set of beliefs and hence abilities? Could you afford not to even try to step into a new reality? Would you dare?...

Soweto Burning

In the 1950s a routine underground inspection in a gold mine turns into a horrifying experience for a South African mining engineer....

The Senior Advisor

Even the Head of Her Majesty’s Secret Service seems to dismiss the rumours of a shadowy yet powerful mercenary spy network as folk tales. But Captain John Fletcher, a Royal Navy stalwart and MI-6 agent, is having doubts. He has just been dispatched...

Dissecting Wobbles This is just how I roll

Dissecting Wobbles is Andrew talking to himself, and to you, at the same time. It’s him remembering other times when he ran and jumped and landed on his face. It’s about how his Mom searched for answers, and eventually found the big bad diagnosis...

Arrows of the Universe - A Story of passion, guilt and anger

Can place hold the secret to happiness? In his quest for a sanctuary away from the demands and pressures of Johannesburg, Justin Marshall buys land in the rugged lowveld wilderness, hoping that it will serve as a sanctuary for his daughter who has be...

I Serve

Self-Help

In this book the author relays a series of events whose interpretation changed when she changed her outlook and began to see things from the inside out. The book engages the reader to take charge and take the stance of ‘the cause’ as opposed to b...

Senseless Sacrifice

Fiction|Religion & Spirituality

Senseless Sacrifice - Givers and Takers in Relationships - is a treasure trove of true stories written by women from diverse cultures about the difficulties experienced in their relationships....

Warring Souls: When religious faith is governed by ethical passion ‒ and when it isn’t

Warring Souls shows what happens when religious faith is governed by ethical passion ̶ and when it isn’t. It is the story of conflict between 35-year old Sarah Williams, the radical Professor of Christian Ethics at the fictitious St Mark’s Colle...

Diary of a Divorce Lawyer

These are universal stories which anyone who has been involved with a divorce – and who hasn’t? – will enjoy.rnThey are stories of shattered dreams, broken hearts and all the intricacies and frequent humorous absurdities that accompany the endi...

Pilgrimage to Grace - The Road of Recovery

Religion & Spirituality |Self-Help

I needed to remove the heavy bolts and guards that blocked the memories, until all that remained was this – my actual thoughts of how I experienced the storm. This is my personal truth.rnrnHannelie Viviers was diagnosed with bipolar depression in 1...

Billionare Advice

‘There is no relationship between money and salvation.’ This is one of the recurring themes in this book of 260 aphorisms, all from the pen of author Bishop Mogodiri. In a previous book, he made reference to ‘the purse robbers and tithe cheats�...

THE LEADER YOU WANT TO BE - Guide for Lay Leaders in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa

Nonfiction|Self-Help

In not-for-profit organisations, everyone wants to be a leader, but nobody wants to be held accountable. Many persons who accept being nominated and getting elected as lay leaders in the Anglican Church, fail the test of accountability, dedication an...

DINONYANA - Birds: Our Cultural Beliefs and Traditions

Ornithology, cultural sociology, & nature conservation mingle in this splendid book. The author spent his boyhood on the bird-rich slopes of the northern parts of the Drakensberg Mountain range. He & his friends frequently ventured into the forests, ...

The Solemn Commitment - What a couple goes through in a marriage

Nonfiction|Self-Help

This book addresses the challenges confronting most married couples. The author is convinced that marriage is fully hinged on the concepts of trust, honesty, sincerity, integrity, and credibility. He pays special attention to some of the views of oth...

Byrds and Bees - The Love Story

This is the intriguing story of Myhan Byrd, one of the best female golfers and most photographed sportswoman in the world. Her life begins to unravel when she discovers that she and the man in the poster above her bed are more closely related than is...

Tilly and the Turtle

Tilly didnt think about what happened when she dropped her plastic lollipop stick on the ground - not until she saw the turtle at the beach. This delightfully illustrated cautionary tale describes Tillys carefree life on a lovely summer day. After sc...

The Missing Millions

This is a story about the landlessness & poverty that plague working-class black people in South Africa, & the plan devised by entrepreneurs to overcome this. The title suggests a heist, but it should be read against the biggest land grab to have occ...

Absorbing too much of the Atmosphere

What do you do when your son tries to strangle your husband? Only the author of this remarkable book has a ready answer for that. She takes the reader along for a frequently shocking life, affirming ride. It describes a wife and mothers journey into ...

An Unbreakable Woman - Your condition is not your conclusion.

A life filled with 1 challenge after another often seems like good enough reason to quit. But that wasnt the case for Natasha, a woman who literally turned around at deaths door & defied all the odds to become a pillar of strength & beacon of hope to...

In Shifting Sands: Confessions of a Country Bumpkin

The humour adds piquancy. Much in these pages will encourage you to reminisce about simpler carefree times, youthful preoccupations and escapades as well as those bad old days of the 1980s when South Africa came too close to burning, and then to marv...

My Family of Superheroes

This profusely illustrated children's book is about self-belief. It tells the story of an ordinary family discovering their super powers. Join Precious, the young daughter, on her journey as she stumbles and falls, conquers her fears, finds courage, ...

Again

Adult Fiction

Again is a love story depicting a growing relationship between two people in their sixties, who are in the process of overcoming loss. Erin is a widow and Francis, a divorcee. Still bruised by their pasts, they find each other in unlikely circum...

Herodotus

Herodotus, The Man Who Made History by Making History is a modern take on a hugely influential history figure. It explores the life and works of the man who is known as the Father of History and highlights the impacts of his work on everyday life. Al...

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