Tafelberg: 581 books

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...

Jacki loer skelm na trourokke, maar sy’s nie desperaat nie, nooit! Wanneer sy en Pulani Facebook inspan om haar verloofde (en baas) Gary te ontbloot vir die flippen fake wat hy is, raak sake lelik. Nou sit Jacki sonder iemand om te cuddle, sonder ’n werk en sonder ’n bed. Tamatiestraat. Haar...

Maxie van der Merwe is van die lipstiek-en-stiletto-generasie. Sy was ’n Facebook-flerrie van formaat, en ’n groot feminis, maar toe ontmoet sy vir vervelige Gustav. En al is sy nie ’n domestic goddess se watsenaam nie, wil sy vreeslik graag trou, al vandat sy ontdek het daar is kinders wat...

As Lucy Lombaard in Rubens se tyd geleef het, was sy met haar ronde lyf ’n gesogte skoonheid. Maar nou leef sy in ’n eeu waar vrouelywe soos kodestrepies lyk. Om dan nog vir Jan Taks by Bellville se SARS-kantoor te werk dra nie juis by tot haar gewildheid nie. In Lucy se lyf klop daar die hart...

Zia is nie ’n natuurlike blondine nie, maar sy doen haar bes om funky te wees. Sy dra way-out tweedehandse ontwerpersklere wat sy by liefdadigheidswinkels koop. Dis net dat ’n ander vrou se rok nie aldag so lekker aan haar lyf of in haar lewe pas nie. Want Zia bars uit haar nate op meer as een...

Watse soort mens skop sommerso op? Skande! En dít met ’n ma soos Dezi Diedericks s’n, wat verslaaf is aan studeer terwyl Dezi nie eens BA Manvang kan slaag nie. Maar dit was juis die probleem: haar briljante ma saam in haar dramaklas − Dezi kon nie meer nie. Sy wou wég van al die slimmes en...

When Errol Tobias was selected for the Springbok rugby team there was an immediate uproar. He became our first black Springbok in 1980 - in the middle of South Africa's isolation from international sport and growing protest action against the government. In Errol Tobias: Pure Gold he talks openly...

Rochelle Fourie word deur haar baas op ‘n onvergeetlike missie gestuur: om die enigmatiese Sir J.C. Auther op te spoor, nee te jag, voordat haar mededingers, die publiek óf die pers snuf in die neus kry dat hy in Malawi wegkruip. Maar vandat sy in Malawi land, ontspoor haar goeddeurdagte plan egter....