LAPA would like to ask all readers to support their local bookstores. They need you. Many of them are open for very limited hours only, but most will go to great lengths to locate books when you phone or email them, many will even deliver.
We also continue to push e-books into the market, so please support the authors if you can’t wait, but remember you can order these books now and your store will get them when the printers may deliver books again.
While still in lockdown LAPA still provides good reading material.
Go check out the following:
Die opstand van Poppie Nel by Hans du Plessis
For sale as e-book: https://bit.ly/2YGlWGf
This is a story of someone abused by the one she trusted most. She starts telling it to an equally broken man; they both find healing.
’n Huis vir altyd by Cecilia Nortjé
For sale as e-book: https://lapa.co.za/eboeke/fiksie/n-huis-vir-altyd-eboek
This lovely novel sees a spoilt person from Sandton falling on hard times in a small town. At first she hates it there, then, slowly, she begins to understand what it means to care and be cared for. This is soul food during lockdown.
Skadumagte by Malene Breytenbach
For sale as e-book: https://lapa.co.za/eboeke/fiksie/skadumagte-eboek
This easy-read crime novel pits a spunky journalist against a grumpy former recce.
Help! My kind is anders by Christien Neser
For sale as e-book: https://lapa.co.za/help-my-kind-is-anders-eboek
Christien Neser interviews a team of specialists and creates an easy-to-understand toolkit for any parent who worries that their child may be “different”.
Halala Job Maseko by Wendy Maartens
For sale as e-book: https://bit.ly/2WwYYij
Discover how Job Maseko sank an enemy warship. Be inspired by the story of Emilie Lehn’s survival of slavery. Ponder on the restoration of Sarah Baartman’s honour long after her death. Rejoice with the boy who walked barefoot through a war and follow in the footsteps of the youngsters who were kidnapped by human traders.
Say halala to some of South Africa’s unsung heroes!
In this charmingly illustrated book, the celebrated storyteller Wendy Maartens compiled 21 stories of South African heroes who had seldom been celebrated in the past.
