Extract: Blues for the White Man by Fred de Vries
A fascinating, insightful journey through time and space, Blues for the White Man is a celebration of multiculturalism.
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Extract: Unbecoming by Joanne Fedler
“LIZ THINKS. ‘I’M SORRY I HURT THEM. It would probably have been
better for everyone if I’d never had kids.’
I’ve never heard such a candid expression of remorse, the kind
whispered at confession, if at all. Procreation is exclusively a liturgical
Extract: Death on the Limpopo by Sally Andrew
Tannie Maria might be the Karoo’s favourite agony aunt, but when it comes to matters of her own heart, she doesn’t have all the answers.
Extract: Tannie Maria and the Satanic Mechanic by Sally Andrew
Everybody’s favourite agony aunt and crime fighter Tannie Maria needs some counselling advice of her own. Lingering troubles from a previous marriage still sit heavy on her, while fresh worries about Slimkat, a local man whose fight for his people’s land threatens his life, keep her up at night. Tannie Maria seeks out counsellor, jokily known to all as “the satanic mechanic”.
Extract: Recipes for Love and Murder by Sally Andrew
Meet Tannie Maria: She's fifty-something, short and soft (perhaps a bit too soft in the wrong places) with brown curls and untidy Afrikaans. She is also the agony aunt for the local paper, the Klein Karoo Gazette. One day, her life takes a sinister turn when a woman in the area is murdered and she becomes entangled in the investigation...
Extract: The Scandalous Times of a Book Louse by Robert Muponde
Laughter guaranteed with this poetic and poignant coming-of age story of Ronald Guramatunhu, the rural Zimbabwean boy who devours words.
Uittreksel: Vier susters deur Gerda Taljaard
’n Verhaal van vier susters en hoe die Tweede Wêreldoorlog hul onderlinge verhoudings beïnvloed. En dan kom ’n Italiaanse krygsgevangene op hul geboorteplaas aan.
Extract: The Promise by Damon Galgut
There is nothing unusual or remarkable about the Swart family, oh no, they resemble the family from the next farm and the one beyond that, just an ordinary bunch of white South Africans, and if you don’t believe it then listen to us speak...
Over large jumps in time, people get older, faces and laws and lives all change, while a brother and sister circle around a promise made long ago, and never kept...
Life-changing ideas from some of the world's most inspiring writers right now
From Michelle Obama and The Boy, the Mole the Fox and the Horse author, Charles Mackesy to
Extract: Cunning Women by Elizabeth Lee
A searing story of forbidden love and the curtailing of female wildness set amongst the long shadows cast by the Pendle Witch Trials is the bewitching debut from a magnetic new voice in historical fiction.
Lancashire, 1620
“ANNIE SLEEPS CURLED UP ON THE BED we share, wet thumb fallen from her mouth. I kneel, calling and shaking her. She frowns and mutters.
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