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'Epic' Sunday Telegraph Ten-year-old Abdullah would do anything for
his younger sister. In a life of poverty and struggle, with no
mother to care for them, Pari is the only person who brings
Abdullah happiness. For her, he will trade his only pair of shoes
to give her a feather for her treasured collection. When their
father sets off with Pari across the desert to Kabul in search of
work, Abdullah is determined not to be separated from her. Neither
brother nor sister know what this fateful journey will bring them.
2019, The Year of Return. It has been exactly 400 years since the first
slave ships left Ghana for America. Ghana has now opened its doors to
Black diasporans, encouraging them to return and get to know the land
of their ancestors.
Elton, Vincent, and Scott arrive from America to visit preserved sites
from the transatlantic slave route, and to explore the country's
underground queer scene. Their activities are narrated by their two
combative guides: Kobby, their way into Accra's privileged circles; and
Nana, the voice of tradition and religious principle. The pair's tense
relationship sets the tone for what becomes a shocking and unsettling
tale of murder that is at times funny, at times erotic, yet always
outspoken and iconoclastic.
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Macbeth
(Paperback, Updated ed.)
William Shakespeare; Edited by Dr Barbara a. Mowat, Paul Werstine
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Essay by Susan Snyder
Funny, feelgood, heartlifting story about the power of
intergenerational friendship and finding love in unexpected places -
perfect for fans of The One Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Through
the Window and The Rosie Project
Eddie Winston is ninety years old. He has lived and he has loved, but
he has never been kissed.
A true gentleman and incurable romantic, Eddie spends his days
volunteering at a charity shop, where he sorts through the donations of
the living and the dead, preserving letters and tokens of love along
the way. It is here that he meets Bella, a troubled young woman who,
aged twenty-four, has just lost the love of her life.
When Bella learns that Eddie is yet to have his first kiss, she
resolves to help him finally find love, sparking an adventure that will
take them to unexpected places and, they hope, bring Eddie to the
moment he has waited for all his life.
As Bella helps Eddie and Eddie helps, well, everyone, a soul-stirring
story of friendship and kindness unfolds as we see how those we love
are never forgotten and it is never too late to try again.
'Thoroughly enjoyable and laugh-out-loud hilarious. Oh, and there's
a nice twist that you so won't see coming' Heat Samantha Brooks'
boyfriend has made a mistake. One his friends, family, and Sam
herself know he'll live to regret. Jamie has announced he's
leaving, out of the blue. Jamie is loving, intelligent and, while
he isn't perfect, he's perfect for her- in every way except one:
he's a free spirit. And after six years in one place, doing a job
he despises, he is compelled to do something that will tear apart
his relationship with Sam: book a one-way flight to South America.
But Sam isn't giving up without a fight. With Jamie still totally
in love with her, and torn about whether to stay or go, she has
three months to persuade him to do the right thing. So with the
help of her friends Ellie and Jen, she hatches a plan to make him
realise what he's giving up. A plan that involves dirty tricks,
plotting, and a single aim: to win him back. But by the time the
tortured Jamie finally wakes up to what he's lost, soneone else has
entered Sam's life. Which begs the question . . . does she still
want him back? A sparkling romantic comedy from the Sunday Times
Top 10 bestselling author of Bridesmaids and Summer Nights at the
Moonlight Hotel.
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'The reaches opened before us and closed
behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to
bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into
the heart of darkness.' At the peak of European Imperialism,
steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the African
Congo on his way to relieve the elusive Mr Kurtz, an ivory trader
renowned for his fearsome reputation. On his journey into the
unknown Marlow takes a terrifying trip into his own subconscious,
overwhelmed by his menacing, perilous and horrifying surroundings.
The landscape and the people he meets force him to reflect on human
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dangers of imperialism.
For fans of Before We Were Yours and Where the Crawdads Sing, "a
gripping, poignant tale swathed in both mythical and mystical
overtones" (Bob Drury, New York Times bestselling author) that
follows four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great
Depression, from the New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary
Grace. 1932, Minnesota-the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where
hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their
parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan
named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the
superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert,
their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy
steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a
place to call their own. Over the course of one unforgettable
summer, these four orphans will fly into the unknown and cross
paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and
traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all
kinds. With the feel of a modern classic, This Tender Land is an en
thralling, big-hearted epic that is "more than a simple journey; it
is a deeply satisfying odyssey, a quest in search of self and home"
(Booklist).
Die onweerstaanbare Audrey Blignault het destyds die wêreld van die Afrikaanse vrou óópgeskryf en was haar tyd vooruit. Dié unieke keur bring haar beste werk byeen, van kort sketse uit die vroeë bundels tot langer essays en verhale uit latere publikasies. Hierdie baldadige, skalkse, “onwennige ouma” skryf dalk oor vervloë dae, maar op so ’n unieke, toeganklike manier dat dit vir vandág se leser kraakvars is, en jou ten diepste raak.
'Met my rooi rok voor jou deur: ‘n Keur uit die werk van Audrey Blignault' sal voorgelees word op RSG vanaf einde Mei 2021! Die briljante Rika Sennett sal die voorleser wees.
Superbly evoking life in Sydney and London in the 1930s, For Love
Alone is the story of the intelligent and determined Teresa
Hawkins, who believes in passionate love and yearns to experience
it. She focuses her energy on Jonathan Crow, an unlikeable and
arrogant man whom she follows to London after four long years of
working in a factory and living at home with her loveless family.
Reunited with Crow in London, she begins to realise that perhaps he
is not as worthy of her affections as originally thought.
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It
(Paperback)
Stephen King
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A landmark in American literature (Chicago Sun-Times) Stephen King s #1 national bestseller about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled on as teenagers an evil without a name: It.
Welcome to Derry, Maine. It s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real.
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made twenty-eight years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city s children. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry s sewers.
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Such Small Hands
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Andres Barba; Translated by Lisa Dillman
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Her father died instantly, her mother in the hospital. She has
learned to say this flatly and without emotion, the way she says
her name (Marina), her doll's name (also Marina) and her age
(seven). Her parents were killed in a car crash and now she lives
in the orphanage with the other little girls. But Marina is not
like the other little girls. In the curious, hyperreal, feverishly
serious world of childhood, Marina and the girls play games of
desire and warfare. The daily rituals of playtime, lunchtime and
bedtime are charged with a horror; horror is licked by the dark
flames of love. When Marina introduces the girls to Marina the
Doll, she sets in motion a chain of events from which there can be
no release. With shades of Daphne du Maurier, Shirley Jackson,
Guillermo Del Toro and Mariana Enriquez, Such Small Hands is a
beautifully controlled tour-de-force, a bedtime story to keep
readers awake.
Naruto is a ninja-in-training with a need for attention, a knack
for mischief, and sealed within him, a strange, formidable power.
His antics amuse his instructor Kakashi and irritate his teammates,
intense Sasuke and witty Sakura, but Naruto is serious about
becoming the greatest ninja in the village of Konohagakure! Through
Naruto's pluck and a healthy dose of luck, Naruto, Sasuke, and
Sakura passed the written portion of their Journeyman Ninja
Selection Exams...but that was only the beginning. They're now in
the thick of the exam's second portion, held in the aptly named
Forest of Death, and instructor Mitarashi Anko has promised to cut
the number of advancing teams by half! Each team is turned against
the others, using stealth and cunning to purloin the scrolls they
need to pass the test while trying to survive the forest's many
perils. And if that's not enough, there's a mysterious imposter
among the students who has it in for Sasuke!
From the acclaimed author of Ghost Wall, Summerwater is a devastating story told over twenty-four hours in the Scottish highlands, and a searing exploration of our capacity for both kinship and cruelty in these divided times.
On the longest day of the summer, twelve people sit cooped up with their families in a faded Scottish cabin park. The endless rain leaves them with little to do but watch the other residents.
A woman goes running up the Ben as if fleeing; a retired couple reminisce about neighbours long since moved on; a teenage boy braves the dark waters of the loch in his red kayak. Each person is wrapped in their own cares but increasingly alert to the makeshift community around them. One particular family, a mother and daughter without the right clothes or the right manners, starts to draw the attention of the others. Tensions rise and all watch on, unaware of the tragedy that lies ahead as night finally falls.
Kan jy jou rug op jou verlede draai, jou foute vergeet en nuut begin?
Of leef jy vir die res van jou lewe onder die wolk van verhoudings wat
skeefgeloop het en verbintenisse wat jy nie kan verbreek nie? Die
gevolge van verkeerde keuses is vernederend en vernietigend. Dit
slaan jou tot jy omval. Maar God is ’n God van tweede kanse; Hy help
jou op en stuur jou na die plek waar jy eens gelukkig was, na mense
wat jou onvoorwaardelik liefhet. Die opvolg op Papierblomme.
From disco balls to Christmas baubles ... Ex-dancer Emily Williams
turned her back on the sparkle of popular dancing show Strictly
Dancing with Celebs to help those in need. Now the only dancing she
does is teaching lonely pensioners to waltz, and the closest she
gets to disco balls is making baubles with the homeless people in
her Christmas crafts class. She's certainly not star-struck when
Hollywood heart-throb Blake Harris is sent to her at short notice
for community service, and has no desire to babysit the arrogant
actor with his bad boy antics and selfish ways. Christmas might be
a time for miracles, but Blake seems to be a lost cause. But
Emily's reasons for abandoning her dancing passion means she
understands the Hollywood wild child more than she'd like to admit.
Could their time together, coupled with a dash of Christmas spirit,
lead to a miracle change of heart for them both?
It takes a man of understanding to rebuild a shattered soul, a man
with a deep and learned grasp of philosophy and poetry, a man who
can nurture and inspire an enquiring mind, a man with the wit and
humour to bring the world alive. That enigmatic man is Horatio
Hennessy. His grandson Blue is that shattered soul. Following the
death of twelve-year-old Blue's parents, his new home is a Finca in
the mountains of Mallorca, with the grandfather he has never met
before. But is Horatio up to the challenge, or is he merely trying,
through Blue, to make good his past? Gradually a bond evolves
between them through a shared love of poetry. But when secrets are
uncovered, will understanding turn to misunderstanding? Will two
souls be shattered this time? Absorbing, moving, witty and
profound, A Man of Understanding is a beautifully-told story of the
search for a higher understanding of the self and others,
interlaced with poetry, philosophy and love.
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