Archive - 2021
February 18th
Ons gesels met die skrywer van Adder en Brandmerk
February 16th
Extract - The Promised Land by Barack Obama
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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February 15th
Two competing visions of wealth... one will keep you poor
In the cult-movie The Matrix, Neo is offered two pills. Take the blue pill, he is told, and life goes back to the status quo: predictable, familiar…and a lie.
Should he take the red pill, his eyes will be opened. In a rush of revelation, he will be exposed to a whole new set of answers, then forced to confront the prospect that everything around him was artifice, and nothing was ever what it seemed to be.
Q&A with Barack Obama
In his own words, Barack Obama tells in A Promised Land the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency – a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
February 4th
International film rights acquired for The Scattering
Lauri Kubuitsile’s award-winning novel about the Herero genocide is envisaged as a European/southern African co-production.
February 3rd
Extract: The Push
About the book:
What happens when your experience of motherhood is nothing at all what you hoped for, but everything you always feared?
'The women in this family, we're different...'
Extract: You Never Really Know
About the book:
One lowly barista. One coffee-drinking dictator. John Hunt’s playful and damning satire on political power
Extract: Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner
About the book:
From the Sunday Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, a gripping thriller featuring an ordinary woman who will stop at nothing to find the missing people that the rest of the world has forgotten.
February 2nd
Extract: The Prodigal Son by Gregg Hurwitz
About the book:
The World Needs a New Hero... a tense and exciting new thriller from Gregg Hurwitz featuring Evan Smoak - aka Orphan X
As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained off-the-books as a government assassin, codenamed Orphan X.