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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.
In Conversation with The Martian author Andy Weir
Andy Weir built a two-decade career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing full-time.
Stories from the heart that connect us to the ocean
With the recent Oscar success of documentary film, My Octopus Teacher, writer and underwater photographer, Lynton Francois Burger, reflects on powerful storytelling as a catalyst in affecting change in our behaviour towards ocean life. Lynton is the author of the exhilarating novel, She Down There.
Extract: The Ends of the Earth by Abbie Greaves
The breath-taking new novel from the author of The Silent Treatment – for fans of Jojo Moyes, Joanna Cannon and Ruth Jones.
A Thought-Provoking Novel that Revels in the Power of Words
Pip Williams’ empowering debut, The Dictionary of Lost Words, is a celebration of the English language and the inception of the Oxford English Dictionary, guaranteed to excite anyone who loves books about books and language.
Extract: The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
A moving and immersive debut: when a team of scholars compiles the first Oxford English Dictionary, one of their daughters starts a parallel book containing all the "objectionable" words the men choose to omit.
September 1898
Avontuurlustig, militant en verwikkeld, dít is Vier Susters
Ná die sukses van Die laksman se dogter, kan aanhangers nou uitsien na Gerda Taljaard se nuwe roman, Vier Susters. The Penguin Post het haar ’n paar vrae gevra.
A captivating new novel from The Silent Treatment author Abbie Greaves
Just like Abbie Greaves’ debut novel, The Ends of the Earth is a unique and moving love story with a mystery at its heart. The Penguin Post spoke with Abbie about her favourite character, balancing the past with the present and writing everywhere from planes to trains.
Recipes: Curried by Cariema Isaacs
Curried embodies a culinary curiosity and global consciousness for the times. Mindful of both environmental responsibility and affordability, Cariema celebrates the nourishing comfort of pulses and legumes in a multitude of wholesome and delicious vegetarian curries for everyday cooking. Try Cariema's Vegetable Butter Curry, or vegetable makhanawala, and a mouth-watering tandoori-glazed salmon.
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