Extracts
Extract: Killing Moon by Jo Nesbo
26 May 2023
Harry Hole is pushed to his limits when the woman who saved his life is put in grave danger, and he has no choice but to return to Oslo, the city that haunts him, and hunt for a murderer. When the killer took his first victim, he left an unusual signature, giving police reason to suspect he will strike again. They are facing a killer unlike any...
Extract: The Cassandra Complex by Holly Smale
26 May 2023
Cassandra Penelope Dankworth is a creature of habit. She likes what she likes (museums, jumpsuits, her boyfriend Will) and strongly dislikes what she doesn't (mess, change, her boss drinking out of her mug). Her life runs in a pleasing, predictable order. Until now. She's just been dumped. She's just been fired. Her...
Extract: Each Mortal Thing by Michiel Heyns
19 May 2023
When Natasha, a novice writer from South Africa, is nominated for a major British literary prize, Terence, a young university lecturer, undertakes to introduce her to the sights of London. However, London and its literary cliques are a far cry from Natasha’s Karoo hometown: through no fault of her own, she is disqualified, and their affair...
Uittreksel: Decima deur Eben Venter
19 May 2023
Eben Venter se boek kombineer outofiksie, fabel, ’n speurverhaal en die wetenskap, en is ’n dringende pleidooi vir die bewaring van een van die wêreld se megaherbivore. Decima is ’n elegiese werk vir baie stemme waarin die skrywer die aard van verlies in sy vele gestaltes besing en besweer.
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Extract: Decima by Eben Venter
19 May 2023
Eben Venter’s book, a creative blend of autofiction, animal fable, mystery and scientific enquiry, is an urgent plea to save one of earth’s megaherbivores. An elegiac work for numerous voices, Decima is a moving and thrilling lament to loss in all its many guises.
It is the day of my appointment with the...
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