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Pillow Talk
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Nivashni Nair Sukdhev
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Shona Shah’s life is chaotic. She is shackled to a family obligation,
has a casual relationship with a childhood friend, Senthil Aiyer,
unfulfilled dreams and a heap of clothing at the bottom of her cupboard
that she doesn’t have time to hang up.
In a bold move, Shona walks out of her family’s tailor business to
forge her own path. But the beautiful, twenty-something bridal designer
soon realises that to move forward, she has to look at her family’s
past.
Shona’s journey of self-discovery is a whirlwind of humour and
heartache as she learns to accept that her ‘no pillow talk’ rule with
Senthil can be broken. Sen discovers that sometimes the greatest love
stories can unfold right in the middle of the ‘chaos’ that he has
always tried to avoid.
This is a modern story about love and friendship, following your
passion and embracing the unpredictable journey of life.
Pillow Talk is the first of a series set in the fictional town of Rally
in KwaZulu-Natal from the new queen of South African romance.
You knew I’d write a book about you someday.
Our narrator understands good love stories—their secrets and subtext,
their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she
lived, never followed the simple rules.
In the fall of her senior year of college, she meets two star students
from her 17th-Century Lit class: Sam and Yash. Best friends living off
campus in the elegant house of a professor on sabbatical, the boys
invite her into their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire
banter and raucous card games. They nickname her Jordan, and she
quickly discovers the pleasures of friendship, love and her own
intellectual ambition. But youthful passion is unpredictable, and soon
she finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As
graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives
forever.
Decades later, the vulnerable days of Jordan's youth seem comfortably
behind her. But when a surprise visit and unexpected news bring the
past crashing into the present, she returns to a world she left behind
and must confront the decisions and deceptions of her younger self.
Written with the superb wit and emotional sensitivity fans and critics
of Lily King have come to adore, Heart the Lover is a deeply moving
love story that celebrates literature, forgiveness, and the
transformative bonds that shape our lives. Wise, unforgettable, and
with a delightful connective thread to Writers & Lovers, this is
King at her very best, affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the
human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today.
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Mate
(Paperback)
Ali Hazelwood
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A Human hybrid and an Alpha Were claw against the bonds of fate in the highly anticipated companion novel to the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Bride. Serena Paris is orphaned, pack-less, and one of a kind. Coming forward as the first Human-Were hybrid was supposed to heal a centuries-long rift between species. Instead, it made her a target, prey to the ruthless political machinations between Weres, Vampyres, and Humans. With her enemies closing in on her, she has only one option left - if he'll have her. As Alpha of the Northwest pack, Koen Alexander commands obedience. His authority is so absolute, only a fool would threaten his mate. It doesn't matter if Serena doesn't reciprocate his feelings, nothing will stop him from keeping her safe. But power-hungry Vampyres and Weres are not the only threats chasing Serena. Sooner or later, her past is bound to catch up with her - and Koen might be the only thing standing between her and total annihilation...
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The Cove
(Paperback)
LJ Ross
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Gabrielle Adams has it all – brains, beauty, a handsome fiancé, and a dream job in publishing. Until, one day, everything changes.
'The Tube Killer’ takes his victims when they least expect it: standing on the edge of a busy London Underground platform, as they wait for a train to arrive through the murky underground tunnels of London.
Gabrielle soon learns that being a survivor is harder than being a victim, and she struggles to return to her old life. Desperate to break free from the endless nightmares, she snatches up an opportunity to run a tiny bookshop in a picturesque cove in rural Cornwall. She thinks she’s found the perfect escape, but has she swapped one nightmare for another?
Suspense and mystery are peppered with romance and humour in this fast-paced thriller, set amidst the spectacular Cornish landscape.
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I Who Have Never Known Men
(Paperback)
Jacqueline Harpman; Translated by Ros Schwartz; Afterword by Sophie Mackintosh
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From the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author comes the latest instalment in the epic multimillion-selling series, The Seven Sisters. This is the book that fans around the world have been waiting for.
The six D’Aplièse sisters have each been on their own incredible journey to discover their heritage, but they still have one question left unanswered: who and where is the seventh sister? They only have one clue – an image of a star-shaped emerald ring. The search to find the missing sister will take them across the globe – from New Zealand to Canada, England, France and Ireland – uniting them all in their mission to complete their family at last.
In doing so, they will slowly unearth a story of love, strength and sacrifice that began almost one hundred years ago, as other brave young women risk everything to change the world around them.
RYAN
She's a distraction, that's what she is.
I'm the newest Captain of the Devils, Chicago's NBA team, and the last
thing I needed this year was for Indy Ivers, my sister's best friend,
to move into my apartment. She's messy, emotional, and way too tempting.
But when the team's General Manager vocalizes his blatant disapproval
of my promotion to Captain, referring to me as an unapproachable lone
wolf with no work-life balance, I can't think of a better way to
convince him otherwise than pretending to date my outgoing roommate.
The only problem? Faking it feels far too natural.
Having a fake girlfriend wasn't supposed to be messy but having Indy
under my roof and in my bed is complicated, especially when she wants
all the romantic parts of life that I could never give her.
INDY
I never imagined I'd be living with my best friend's brother, NBA
superstar Ryan Shay. Even more unbelievable? He needs me to act as his
loving girlfriend who's suddenly changed him into a friendly and
approachable guy.
Because, well . . . he's not. He's controlling of his space and
untrusting of others.
Our arrangement isn't one-sided, though. I'm in a wedding coming up,
one where every one of my childhood friends, including my ex-boyfriend,
will be in attendance, and there's no better date than my ex's
celebrity hero.
Blurred lines make it almost impossible to separate real from fake.
Falling for my roommate was never part of the deal, especially when
Ryan is quick to remind me that he doesn't believe in love.
I'm a romantic and can't help fantasizing that he'll change, but soon
enough, I find myself questioning if sharing a roof with my best
friend's brother was the right move after all . . .
The Right Move is the second book in the sensational Windy City series
which has gripped over a million readers across the world. But don't
worry if you're new round here, you'll still love it as a standalone!
What is wrong meets what feels right in this romance set in Italy by
the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Deep End.
Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out
her life.
Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him.
It's such a cliché, it almost makes her heart implode: older man and
younger woman; successful biotech guy and struggling grad student;
brother's best friend and the girl he never even knew existed. As Conor
loves to remind her, the power dynamic is too imbalanced. Any
relationship between them would be problematic in too many ways to
count, and Maya should just get over him. After all, he has made it
clear that he wants her gone from his life.
But not everything is as it seems - and clichés sometimes become plot
twists.
When Maya's brother decides to get married in Taormina, she and Conor
end up stuck together in a romantic Sicilian villa for over a week.
There, on the beautiful Ionian coast, between ancient ruins, delicious
foods, and natural caves, Maya realizes that Conor might be hiding
something from her. And as the destination wedding begins to erupt out
of control, she decides that a summer fling might be just what she
needs - even if it's a problematic one.
Die wonderwêreld van Willem Landman gaan onder andere oor Mintaka, een van drie sterre in Orion se gordel. Dis eintlik tweelingsterre, die een ʼn bloureus, die soldaat, en die ander sagter, vriendeliker. Dit speel op die twee broers in die boek: Alex, meestermanipuleerder en sy afwesige broer, Zander.
Alex het vir hom ʼn aansienlike sakeryk uit gekonkel opgebou. Hy het vir hom ʼn vesting op ʼn koppie gebou nadat hy Bella, die Griekwa-vrou aan wie se familie die grond reeds geslagte behoort, bedrieg en die munispaliteit omgekoop het. Van daar bedryf hy sy sake en daarheen laat kom hy sy “agente”. Hy is magsbehep en ʼn sekspes. Hy is ook psigoties, bossies en vermoedelik skisofrenies.
Die karakter wat die kollig steel, is die titelkarakter, Willem Landman – een van Alex se agente. Lesers het hom leer ken as die sukkelende kulkunstenaar in Die formidabele Ling Ho. Willem is ʼn formidabele bullshitter, ’n stiksienige siener wat moontlik, per ongeluk, wel oor sekere gawes beskik, effens kommin, ongeleerd maar vol planne en ʼn oog vir ʼn gaping. Onrus broei in die gemeenskap en dinge word op die spits gedryf wanneer ’n hele paar agente tegelyk by Alex se vesting byeenkom.
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Intermezzo
(Paperback)
Sally Rooney
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R259
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Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem
to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and
apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's
medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships
with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, and
Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always
seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib
elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets
Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and
their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new
interlude - a period of desire, despair and possibility - a chance to
find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
A cunning killer. A race around the world.
An iconic new detective team is born.
Solving murders. It's a family business.
Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of
investigation work, but he prefers the pub quiz and afternoons at home
with his cat Trouble. His days of adventure are over – that’s his
daughter-in-law Amy’s business now.
Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul, which makes being a
private security officer to billionaires the perfect job. She’s
currently on a remote island keeping world-famous author Rosie
D’Antonio alive. Then a dead body, a bag of money and a killer with
their sights on Amy have her sending Steve an SOS...
As a breakneck race around the world begins, can they stay one step
ahead of a deadly enemy?
Ou geraamtes en nuwe gevare. Mevrou Smit moet haar eie reëls neerlê om
te oorleef ...
’n Vloed spoel ’n dekades oue geraamte op die oewer van die rivier oop
en Aronspoort is weer vasgevang in ’n blyspel van intriges. Mevrou Smit
wil die raaisel oplos voor sy weer paaie kruis met daardie lastige
Kaapse speurder.
Intussen kry Hester die ystervark ’n maat en mevrou Smit se smeulende
verhouding met dokter Tomas vat vlam. Maar dit is moeilik om op
hartsake te konsentreer terwyl ’n moordenaar koelbloedig die verlede
probeer toesmeer.
Skuil daar meer agter oom Apie se dood? Wat weet tannie Annatjie en
haar heldersiende niggie Hanna? Was die vars sterfte op die dorp
werklik ’n ongeluk? En kan die verhouding tussen mevrou Smit en dokter
Tomas tot iets lei wat haar uiteindelik op Aronspoort sal anker?
Harper Lee remains a landmark figure in the American canon – thanks to
Scout, Jem, Atticus, and the other indelible characters in her
Pulitzer-winning debut, To Kill a Mockingbird; as well as for the
darker, late-’50s version of small-town Alabama that emerged in Go Set
a Watchman, her only other novel, published in 2015 after its
rediscovery. Less remembered, until now, however, is Harper Lee the
dogged young writer, who crafted stories in hopes of magazine
publication; Lee the lively New Yorker, Alabamian, and friend to Truman
Capote; and the Lee who peppered the pages of McCall’s and Vogue with
thoughtful essays in the latter part of the twentieth century.
The Land of Sweet Forever combines Lee’s early short fiction and later
nonfiction in a volume offering an unprecedented look at the
development of her inimitable voice. Covering territory from the
Alabama schoolyards of Lee’s youth to the luncheonettes and movie
houses of midcentury Manhattan, The Land of Sweet Forever invites
still-vital conversations about politics, equality, travel, love,
fiction, art, the American South, and what it means to lead an engaged
and creative life.
This collection comes with an introduction by Casey Cep, Harper Lee’s
appointed biographer, which provides illuminating background for our
reading of these stories and connects them both to Lee’s life and to
her two novels.
Goku’s adventure from the best-selling classic manga Dragon Ball continues in this new series written by Akira Toriyama himself!
Ever since Goku became Earth’s greatest hero and gathered the seven Dragon Balls to defeat the evil Boo, his life on Earth has grown a little dull. But new threats loom overhead, and Goku and his friends will have to defend the planet once again in this continuation of Akira Toriyama’s best-selling series, Dragon Ball!
Goku and Vegeta are both struggling to master their respective ultra forms, which they’ll need to defeat Gas, now the strongest warrior in the universe. Can Granolah rejoin the battle and help turn things around? Later, back at home, a pair of superheroes are making headlines! Get ready for a new story arc set on Earth!
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Herscht 07769
(Paperback)
Laszlo Krasznahorkai; Translated by Ottilie Mulzet
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Gentle giant Florian Herscht is an orphan, adopted by a neo-Nazi who
has apprenticed him as a graffiti cleaner. The Boss, a Bach fanatic, is
enraged that someone is spraying wolf emblems across the monuments to
the famed composer in their east German town. He is determined to
punish the culprit and Florian has no choice but to join his gang as
they devise a plan to catch him. But Florian has bigger things to worry
about: having attended Herr Köhler's adult education classes in
physics, he can see that the world might end at any moment.
Written in one cascading sentence with the power of atomic particles
colliding, Krasznahorkai's novel is a tour de force, a moving character
study, a blistering satire and devastating encapsulation of our
helplessness at the moral and environmental dilemmas we face today.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025.
When Tom's wife had an affair, he resolved to leave her once their children had grown up. Twelve years later, after driving his daughter to university, he remembers his pact and keeps driving West to visit friends, family and an old girlfriend.
But he also has secrets of his own - trouble at work and health issues - and sometimes running away is the hardest thing to do.
A HEART TO PROTECT.
A DEBT TO REPAY.
A GAME TO WIN.
After being swept up in the magical world of Caraval, Tella has finally
escaped her father and saved her sister, Scarlett, from a disastrous
arranged marriage. They should be celebrating, but Tella isn't free
yet. She made a desperate deal with a mysterious criminal, and what she
owes him no one has ever been able to deliver: Caraval Master Legend's
true name.
The only chance of uncovering Legend's identity is to win Caraval, so
Tella once again throws herself into the heart of the competition.
Caraval has always demanded bravery, cunning, and sacrifice, but now
the game is asking for more.
If she can't fulfil her end of the bargain and deliver Legend's name,
she'll lose everything - maybe even her life. But if she wins, Legend
and Caraval will be destroyed forever.
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James
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Percival Everett
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WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE FOR
FICTION
The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is
about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his
wife and daughter forever, he flees to nearby Jackson’s Island until he
can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to
escape his violent father who recently returned to town.
So begins a dangerous and transcendent journey along the Mississippi
River, towards the elusive promise of the free states and beyond. As
James and Huck navigate the treacherous waters, each bend in the river
holds the promise of both salvation and demise. And together, the
unlikely pair embark on the most life-changing odyssey of them all . . .
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