Random House Struik: 161 books
The Million-Rand Teaspoon
A True Story of Addiction and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
‘When I saw Lee cook up the paregoric, strap the tourniquet around her arm and put the needle into her vein, I was instantly captivated by a ritual that would eventually come to dominate my existence. But of course I didn’t know that then. I just wanted to try it.’ - Paul Bateman ‘I will never...
by K. Sello Duiker
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Eleven-year-old Nolitye's granny used to say: if you mess with a woman, you mess with a stone. When Nolitye finds a magical stone on the dusty streets of Phola, her granny's words take on a new meaning. Along with her two friend - the somewhat pampered Bheki, and Four Eyes, a reformed member of the...
by Wessel Ebersohn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Enslin Kruger is a dying man, but he is the top prisoner in C-Max prison, and must name his successor. This means blood. Kruger sees an unexpected opportunity to achieve this and at the same time exact revenge on his old nemesis, Yudel Gordon. He will anoint as his heir the man who slaughters Gordon’s...
Ronnie Apteker's Funny Business
The Secrets of an Accidental Entrepreneur
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Why does an entrepreneur, like a comedian, need to close a deal every 15 seconds? It is said that inside every successful entrepreneur there is a stand-up comic struggling to get out. Well, meet one who managed to escape. His name is Ronnie Apteker, and no, he’s not an apteker. He’s the high-energy,...
by Rajend Mesthrie
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
"What makes South African English different? Have you ever wondered where the words ‘gogga’, ‘tsotsi’ and ‘larney’ come from? Did you know that the first sentence uttered by a South African in English may have been spoken by a Khoikhoi man in 1613? South African English is unique...
by Shaida Ali Kazie
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Salena, the elder of two Cape sisters, is light-skinned and demure, an easy one to marry off to a husband of her parents’ choosing. Zuhra is dark and wilful, refusing tradition and leaving the country in pursuit of her own destiny. 'The shoots of their lives grow apart and interlace again. Salena...
The Hidden Epidemic
My Journey to Thyroid Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
In 2005, a popular South African magazine published an article on Mariëtte Chippindall’s journey from a depressed, overweight woman with an undiagnosed thyroid problem, to being a Mrs South Africa 2005 finalist (a title she won two weeks later). The reaction was astonishing: more than 6?000 people...
Boer Boy
Memoirs of an Anglo-Boer War Youth
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
Boer Boy is the touching true story of a ten-year- old farm boy’s traumatic but fascinating experiences during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. When Charles du Preez and his father were discovered hiding in the mountains of their eastern Free State farm, they were taken prisoner by the English and...
The Number 10s
South Africa's Finest Flyhalves 1891-21
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Throughout the history of rugby, it has been the flyhalves who have gripped the imagination of rugby supporters the most. Arguably the most crucial position on the rugby field, a flyhalf can almost single-handedly win a game for his team (remember Naas Botha’s 1987 Currie Cup final, and Joel Stransky’s...
Brothers in Arms
Hollanders in the Anglo-Boer War
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
At the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1899, a large number of Hollanders and Dutch expatriates joined the Boers, their reasons ranging from loyalty to their common ancestry to strong anti-British sentiments and a search for adventure. Brothers in Arms documents the trials and tribulations...
Byleveld
dossier of a serial sleuth
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Former Brigadier Piet Byleveld is recognised worldwide as one of the best detectives of our time. If you commit murder and Piet Byl is called in, your place in jail is booked. If you harmed children anf he's on your case, you’ve sealed your own fate. And if you’re a serial killer on the loose,...
Steeped in Blood
The Life and Times of a Forensic Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
Bloody crimes of passion, political assassinations, sinister poisonings, investment fraud and mass mining disasters … Dr David Klatzow has seen it all. During his extraordinary twenty-six-year career as South Africa’s foremost independent forensic scientist, he has investigated countless high-profile...
From Soldier to Civvy
Reflections on National Service
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
National Service had a powerful immediate effect on the men who served in the SADF, immersing them in an unfamiliar military world. But its impact reached beyond them - to the families and loved ones at home - and it has left its mark decades after the conscripts re-entered civvy street. From Soldier...
Secrets & Lies
Wouter Basson and South Africa’s Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
This is a tale of military machination and scientific subterfuge, of combatants who disappeared without trace, and bizarre experiments carried out behind locked doors. In waging ‘total war’ during the 1970s and 1980s, South African securocrats demanded a ‘total strategy’, including secret...