The impresario Farini introduced Em-Pee and his troupe to his kind of show business, and now they must earn their bread. In 1885 in a bustling New York City, they are the performers who know the true Zulu dances, while all around them fraudsters perform silly jigs.
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New York City – November 1885
In the Eastern Cape, Stephen (Malusi) Mzamane, a young Anglican priest, must journey to his mother’s rural home to inform her of his elder brother’s death.
“THEY HAVE SMASHED THE BELLS. All over Kaffraria the sound has ceased.
Against a backdrop of drought, the rinderpest pandemic, the South African War, the burgeoning gold-mining industry and the complex birth of the exploitative system of recruiting migrant labour, Shades explores the growing tensions between cultures in South Africa at the turn of the twentieth century and the deepening awareness of the black mission-educated elite, empowered by the printing press, of the need to articulate their political and spiritual beliefs.
Written in the exquisite, haunting prose for which Marguerite Poland is renowned, The Keeper is the story of two generations of lighthouse keepers – men obsessed by their duty to the light – and the wives who accompany them into a life of frightening isolation.
Palace ruins are a heritage that can be shared by all with considerable pride in the achievements of our African ancestors, writes Mike Main, management consultant, freelance writer and lay archaeologist who has spent over 40 years exploring Botswana and its neighbours. Mike is also the co-author of Palaces of Stone, along with Thomas Huffman.
A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown
– and ends up behind bars...
The highly anticipated new novel from the worldwide Number One
bestselling author behind the Emmy and Golden Globe
winning HBO series Big Little Lies.
PROLOGUE
Mynie Steffens nooi jou om pret te hê elke keer as jy braai, met alles van spyskaarttemas en smaaklike (dikwels onkonvensionele) resepte tot gepaste musiekspeellyste en prettige feite! Hetsy jy dus ’n braaigroentjie is of jouself as ’n braaikenner beskou, sluit gerus aan by die partytjie en leer nuwe truuks op Mynie se manier.
The epic new love story from master storyteller Sebastian Faulks, and his most powerful novel since Birdsong.
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“FROM HIS HEIGHT only a hundred feet above the trees, the pilot could see two people running over the ground below – one coming out of a wood, another through a gate in the lane, clinging on to his