Tafelberg imprint: 257 books

City boy Deon Maas flees the suburbs in search of adventure, and Africa is where he reckons he will find it. Over a period of 15 years he embarks on several journeys, once with his whole family in tow, to discover what it means to be African.He ends up ducking pirates in Madagascar, spending a night...

South Africa's many paths, tracks and roads are long and winding. They twist from the familiar to the uncharted. And so do their stories. Luke Alfred spent more than a year travelling South Africa's highways and byways on foot, exploring the contested history of the country's cities and countryside....

This drama, a lyrical and dreamy but at the same time searingly painful piece about reminiscence and injustice, was written in 1978, in the heyday of apartheid and two years after the Soweto uprising. It has been staged several times, but this is the first time it has been published. It is essentially...

Did you know the term 'roughing it' comes from the tent city at Algoa Bay? Or that the settlers carried grain rations from Grahamstown on their backs for kilometres? One even called her new home 'the most miserable country in the world'. 1820 descendant Ralph Goldswain retells the tale of the settlers'...

This award-winning novel is a story of friendship, adventure and a journey of trust. When thirteen-year-old Grant’s dad disappears, the only clue to his whereabouts is R50 000 in a cell phone FLASH account. Rather than going to his uncle in Cape Town, Grant decides to run away to find his fisherman...

1942, Tobruk Harbour. Job Maseko is taken prisoner by General Rommel along with 33 000 Allied troops. But unlike most POWs, Job did not accept that he was powerless. “We don’t have to give up just because we’re POWs. Hitler must not win this war!” Job said before he did something so significant,...

An illustrated youth novel, a cross-over between a graphic novel and a full text teen fiction work. Joe Blue Siyengo excels at art and draws comic books. In a story that moves between the creator and the created, the story is told of Kitty and her gang of hip young friends who must solve the riddle...

What would you do if you were left behind in the desert?   Would you stay put in the hope that someone would find you?  And if that someone turned out to be a scrawny stray dog, would you follow him?This is 12-year old Leo Knight’s dilemma when he is abandoned in the remote Namib Desert without...

Hierdie boek is bekroon met die Silwer Sanlam-prys vir Jeuglektuur 2011. Ben word koud. Sy mond voel skielik droog. Hy kyk na die foto teen die varsproduktemark se muur. Sy blik is vasgenael op die man heel regs op die foto. Hy vat versigtig met sy vinger aan die man se gesig. Hy het ’n pa. ’n...

Bekroon met die Goue Sanlam-prys vir Jeuglektuur 2007, die M.E.R.-prys vir Jeugliteratuur 2009 en benoem vir die IBBY Ererol in 2010. Vir Lien Jooste het haar matriekjaar onverwags in ’n nagmerrie ontaard. Dinge by die huis kan nooit weer dieselfde wees nadat alles oornag uitmekaar geval het nie....

Die Van Vuurens van Pretoria besit die Blou Bul Slaghuis in die Mall. Daar is drie seuns en ‘n laatlam-sussie. Die hoofkarakter is die jongste seun, Willem, wat ’n besondere band met sy jonger sussie het.Ondanks druk van sy pa om as rugbyspeler uit te blink, wil hy eerder kunsklasse loop. Hy is...

Wanneer woorde nie werk nie, moet jy 'n ander manier vind om jou stem te laat hoor. “’n Paar blokke noord van die Rosebank-sentrum sien hy blou ligte flikker. Seker ’n motorongeluk. Hy pluk hom altyd vir mense wat nie kan bestuur as daar ’n paar druppels reën val nie. Ry mekaar moer toe....

“Vlis” is die woord wat die hoofkarakter, die 12-jarige Andine, en haar au pair uitgedink het vir iemand wat “nog vis nog vlees” is – soos, Andine, op daardie tusseninstadium tussen dogtertjie en jong meisie/vrou. Andine en haar boetie, Zander, is rykmanskinders wie se ouers oorsee gaan...

South Africa’s most familiar and trusted guide for teenagers has been updated for a new generation of teenagers. It provides answers to all the questions teenagers find too awkward to ask.Teenagers will find clear and comprehensive information on subjects such as:• sex• relationships• sexually transmitted diseases• drugs  • pornography• pregnancy• HIV