Archive - 2023

August 18th

Q&A with The Collected Regrets of Clover Author, Mikki Brammer

This entry was posted on 18 August 2023.

Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover is a big-hearted and life-affirming debut about a death doula who, in caring for others at the end of their life, has forgotten how to live her own. Mikki chats about Clover and her other memorable characters, and addressing her own regret in the writing of this astounding book.

 


 

Extract: The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer

This entry was posted on 18 August 2023.

When we all know we're going to die, how do we make sure we truly live? Clover Brooks has forgotten how to live. It might be because she spends her time caring for people in their final days, working as a death doula in New York City. Or it might be because she has a regret of her own - one she can't bring herself to let go of. But then she meets Claudia: a feisty old woman who has one last wish . . . As Clover begins a new adventure, will she remember how to live her own big, beautiful life?

August 17th

Extract: The Little French Village of Book Lovers by Nina George

This entry was posted on 17 August 2023.

As a girl, Marie-Jeanne realizes that she can see the marks Love has left on the people around her - tiny glowing lights on their faces and hands that shimmer more brightly when the one meant for them is near. Before long, Marie-Jeanne is playing matchmaker in her village. As she grows up, Marie-Jeanne helps her foster father, Francis, set up a mobile library that travels through the many small mountain towns in the region of Nyons.

Extract: Lion & Lamb by James Patterson & Duane Swierczynski

This entry was posted on 17 August 2023.

Husband and wife Archie and Francine Hughes are heroes in their hometown of Philadelphia. Archie is a football star, while Francine is a Grammy-winning singer. So everyone is in a state of shock when news breaks about the seemingly perfect couple. One spouse is murdered. The other is Suspect Number One.

 


 

PROLOGUE

SUNDAY, JANUARY 23

 

August 14th

Recipes: Beer Country’s Blackouts & Boerewors by Karl Tessendorf and Greg Gilowey

This entry was posted on 14 August 2023.

Load-shedding sucks! You know it. We know it. The whole country knows it. It’s also no secret that it’s here to stay for the foreseeable future. Is it annoying, frustrating and downright infuriating? Yes, no question about it. However, every blackout is a fire begging to be built, a juicy chop ready to be turned and a family braai just waiting to happen.

August 1st

Extract: CharacterScan by Douglas Kruger

This entry was posted on 01 August 2023.

Katrina Hunt has a disturbing secret. Since her earliest days fighting for survival in the poverty of a trailer park, she’s been able to sense moral corruption. And her gift is never wrong. This strange ability affects every relationship, for people have no way to hide from her. Katrina harnesses her gift and sets it to work, sniffing out evil in positions of privilege and power. Yet she soon finds she is not the only one who can do it.

 


 

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