Lekkergoed vir die lewe 

deur Susan Coetzer
Uitgegee deur NB Uitgewers

Ten spyte van getroue kerkbywoning, Bybel lees en daaglikse gebede is dit opvallend dat ons geloof dikwels nie ’n noemenswaardige, positiewe verskil in ‘n mens se lewe maak nie. Hoe kan ’n mens dan in ’n nuwe kragtige geloofsrat inbeweeg? Deur ‘n ware konneksie met die Here te maak en die werking van sy Heilige Gees eerstehands te begin ervaar. Dit help jou om anders te begin reageer in situasies wat vroeër ’n sneller vir jou kort lont sou wees. In hierdie 250 onopgesmukte dagstukkies deel Susan alledaagse stories uit haar lewe wat jou sal help om die Here se nabyheid oral tasbaarder te ervaar: van die trapmeul by die werk tot die verantwoordelikhede by die huis tot die glasskerwe op jou lewenspad.

by Patric Tariq Mellet
Published by NB Publishers

Slavery is at the core of the glaring inequality which persists in South Africa to this day. Yet slavery is but a subscript in our national consciousness. As a ‘storyteller who asks new questions’, Patric Tariq Mellet sets out to rectify this. In the Truth about Cape Slavery, Mellet shows that modern South Africa - its economy and politics - is shaped by slavery in the same way that it has shaped the United States of America, and that it deserves the same scrutiny. Cape slavery was a crucial feature of maritime capitalism and became the cornerstone of the Cape’s agricultural economy.

Seun deur Dana Snyman 
Uitgegee deur NB Uitgewer
Lesersindruk: Salomé Kotzé

Almal wat nog koerant lees en boekstories volg sal teen die tyd al weet dat Dana Snyman in Seun oor ‘n deel van sy lewe skryf waaroor hy nog nooit gepraat het nie. Sy diensplig.
Die boek se inhoud strek oor ‘n paar maande waar negentienjarige Dana as troep moes aanmeld in Voortrekkerhoogte en skaars ‘n maand later oneervol uit die weermag ontslaan is en die maande wat daarop volg. Ek vermoed Dana (nou 61 jaar oud) het gedink die volk gaan swaarder daaraan sluk dat hy nooit sy diensplig voltooi het, as die feit dat hy as ‘n skisofreen gediagnoseer is. (Darem nie rêrig nie, maar ‘n diagnose wat hulle gegee het as hulle ‘ontslae’ wou raak van ‘n troep wat nie ‘ingepas’ het nie).

by Marina Auer ~ Published by NB Publishers

This new thriller by KZN doctor Marina Auer takes readers to a dysfunctional state hospital in Pietermaritzburg. Murphy Meyer arrives at Eden State Hospital on the first of January 2001, driven to solve a small, personal mystery, the young doctor has no idea she’s deposited herself into something larger and darker than she could ever have imagined; something that has a life of its own.
While patients whisper fearfully of a tokoloshe that stalks the wards and junior doctors fumble with life and death decisions, Murphy is thrust headlong into the mystery of what is really happening in the dark hallways of Eden State Hospital. Are all deaths routine in this place where ‘routine’ is synonymous with chaos and violence? Is Eden Hospital a safe haven or hell? Marina Auer is a graduate of UCT Medical School and spent several years working in state hospitals, before moving into private practice. She lives with her family - two teenagers, two cats, one husband - in Hillcrest, KZN. Double Edged was her first novel. Single Minded, her latest novel, was shortlisted for The Island Prize (2022).