Extracts
Extract - The Russian by James Patterson & James O. Born
02 February 2021
About the book:
As Detective Michael Bennett's wedding day approaches, a killer has a vow of his own to fulfil in the thirteenth thrilling novel by James Patterson featuring the NYPD's finest detective
As Detective Michael Bennett's wedding day approaches, a killer has a vow of his own to fulfil... Weeks...
Extract - At the Edge of the Desert
18 January 2021
Within a few weeks I’d settled back into my old routine. My days began with cossie and goggles wrapped in a towel. I’d follow the road down to the Shark Island pool – a quick walk through Lüderitz – for a morning swim before returning home to edit my documentary. I spent my time attempting to make sense of South...
Uittreksel - Brandmerk deur Christelle van Rooyen-Wessels
18 January 2021
Hy het gister weer ’n trial run gehad, maar dit was op die ou einde nie eintlik veel van ’n uitdaging nie. Sy was net dáár, langs die pad, en hy het stilgehou.
“Waarheen gaan jy?”
Die meisie het met haar kop beduie dat sy in dieselfde rigting as hy op pad was.
“Klim in, jy kan sê waar...
Extract - 1986 by William Dicey
18 January 2021
On 1 January 1986, in the early hours of the morning, a band of vigilantes invaded Moutse, a rural district adjacent to the self-governing homeland of KwaNdebele. Wielding axes and guns, they abducted several hundred men and boys from their villages and took them to a community hall in Siyabuswa, the capital of KwaNdebele. The floor of the hall...
Extract: Promised Land - Exploring South Africa’s Land Conflict
16 November 2020
This land is our land
‘Land reform’ and, even more headline grabbing, ‘expropriation without compensation’. Two phrases that is used to scare just as much as to promise a new beginning. In Promised Land: Exploring South Africa’s Land Conflict, Karl Kemp travels the country documenting the fallout of failing...
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