Tafelberg imprint: 257 books

’n Romanskrywer en Professor in Skeppende Skryfwerk aan ’n Kaapse universiteit verkeer tussen boeke en is op sy weerloosste en hongerste. In die verslete haarsalon van ene Giuseppe Giuliani, in ’n minder goeie deel van Stellenbosch, ontmoet die skrywer ’n bejaarde en beroemde biljoenêr, ’n...

My Kubaan was Van Heerden se eerste kortverhaalbundel – ’n belangwekkende bydrae wat hom midde-in die destydse oplewing van die Afrikaanse kortverhaal geplaas het. Die beste tekste in hierdie bundel het ’n digtheid en vormbewustheid wat hom uitwys as toonaangewend onder ’n hele geslag knap jong kortverhaalskrywers. My Kubaan is in 1984 met die Eugène Marais-prys bekroon.

Raaiselkind is ´n verhaal wat die kruis van outisme genadeloos oopvlek. Sentraal in hierdie aangrypende gegewe staan twee onvergeetlike vrouekarakters: Ingrid Dorfling, ma van Alexander, wat die grense van wanhoop versit in haar verbete stryd om die kind wat hulle hele gesinlewe ontwrig “mens”...

'n Vrou laai vir haar 'n kind en 'n hond langs die pad op, want sy wil nie meer alleen wees nie. 'n Ma besluit om te staak omdat haar man en kinders haar slegter as 'n paradysdonkie behandel. 'n Man begin orrelles neem in 'n desperate poging om God se medelye met hom te toets, maar ontdek dat dit...

Kruispad is die kern van Deon Opperman se groot TV-trilogie oor die Afrikaner se pad in Suid-Afrika. Dit beeld presies uit waar die groot verandering gekom en hoe die Afrikaner daarop gereageer het. In Donkerland het Opperman gekyk na die aanloop van 1834 tot 1994 en in Hartland na die huidige stand...

God vergewe ons baie, maar God vergewe ons nie die kwaad wat ons ´n kind aandoen nie. Aan die een kant van die berg, in die Lange Kloof, woon Fiela Komoetie, verknog aan haar hanskind - deur die Here aan haar 'toebetrou' een nag toe sy hom as driejarige gekry het waar hy voor haar deur staan en huil,...

Two top South African experts have joined forces to bring you this up-to-date guide to what, how much, and when to eat to optimise sports performance. Practical and realistic, it provides professional sportspeople, enthusiastic amateurs and concerned parents with scientific information. Design your...

There is hope for ADHD sufferers! Helena Bester, one of South Africa's leading experts on ADHD, discusses with empathy the success stories of some of the thousands of people she has treated. In this accessible book illustrated with case studies, she shares: • the latest information on ADHD in both...

“Practical advice on what and how to eat if you have cancer ... a useful, understandable guide.” – Megan Pentz-Kluyts, nutrition and dietetics consultant for CANSA. By eating right, cancer patients can boost their immune system – and feel better and more able to cope. In this book, two of...

A letter from Portugal makes Colette Cronjé remember everything she has spent a lifetime trying to forget. The sender is a long-lost relative, found after a decades-long search, and the letter is about saudade, the love that remains after its object has gone. It’s a love that has shaped the lives...

'There are a lot of good things about getting older. When you’re young you want everyone to like you and to make an impression. When you’re old you don’t give a damn.' Kate Turkington is fearless and fun, even now in her 80s. Actually, more so! From the war-worn East End of London to raising...

When the Cradock Four’s Fort Calata was murdered by agents of the apartheid state in 1985 his son, Lukhanyo, was only three years old. Thirty-one years later Lukhanyo, now a journalist, becomes one of the SABC 8 when he defies Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s reign of censorship at the public broadcaster by...

Gabi headed for the stable. Even from a distance she could see Brigadier peering inquisitively over his stable door, ears pricked in anticipation. When she got to him, Gabi felt her stress levels drop as she stroked the warmblood’s dark-brown neck. She had been feeling an unease since arriving on...

This sequel to Jennifer Friedman’s enchanting first memoir picks up where 'Queen of the Free State' leaves off: as the rebellious young teenager is packed off to boarding school in Cape Town. Told with humour and pathos, the theme of displacement – of the outsider – is explored further as we...