Launch of Just So Stories
Penguin Books and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories illustrated by Alex Latimer.
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Dear Lovely Author,
A bookseller's review of Secrecy by Rupert Thomson
Secrecy by Rupert Thomson is a lush, ethereal love story, set against the dark and treacherous backdrop of Florence in the 1690s. It is a bold and beautiful story and will hopefully bring Thomson the wider recognition he so richly deserves.
Karin Brynard kom na Penguin
Met die voltrekking van ‘n betekenisvolle boeketransaksie word vandag bekend gemaak dat Penguin Books (Suid-Afrika) in ’n veiling die publikasieregte in vier romans deur die opkomende ster-skrywer Karin Brynard bekom het.
Die bekroonde Stellenbosse skrywer en joernalis het twee romans op haar kerfstok, Plaasmoord (Human & Rousseau, 2009) en Onse vaders (Human & Rousseau, 2012), wat albei vanuit die staanspoor kritiese en kommersiële suksesverhale was.
Karin Brynard comes to Penguin
Marking a significant book deal it is announced today that Penguin Books (South Africa) has won at auction the publishing rights in four novels by rising star Karin Brynard.
The award-winning Stellenbosch author and journalist has two novels to her credit, Plaasmoord (Human & Rousseau, 2009) and Onse vaders (Human & Rousseau, 2012), which won her instant critical acclaim and commercial success.
Waging Heavy Peace
No Easy Day
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Prologue
Chalk One
At one minute out, the Black Hawk crew chief slid the door open.
I could just make him out—his night vision goggles covering his eyes—holding up one finger. I glanced around and saw my SEAL teammates calmly passing the sign throughout the helicopter.
Oh Dear Silvia
Poseidon's Arrow: Dirk Pitt 22
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October 1943
The Indian Ocean
The light of a half-moon shimmered off the restless sea like a streak of flaming mercury. To Lieutenant Alberto Conti, the iridescent waves reminded him of a Monet waterscape viewed in a darkened room. The silvery froth reflected the moonlight back to the sky, illuminating a bank of clouds far to the north, the fringe of a storm that was soaking the fertile coast of South Africa some fifty miles away.
Me Before You
“The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life—or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window—is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are” (p. 58).
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