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Marc se ou kunsdosent Simon kom kuier en hulle wys die hele land vir hom. Ma se Mara en haar oppasser Anna kom kuier in Jerusalem en Mara begin al meer haar Joodse afkoms verwelkom. Dit is Yoshi se bar mitzvah? Die dae is vir die Kriges soms donker, maar soms ook wondermooi. Shir-HaShirim - 'n hooglied? Dikwels nie. Tog is daar altyd 'n lied om te sing. Die hooglied van Israel is die elfde boek in die reeks.
'Playful, moving and wholly remarkable' Guardian 'A small miracle'
New Statesman 'Mastery of craft, resonance and deep feeling on
every page' Telegraph An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock
squints at the world with his lazy eye. Living alone in an old
house, he reads comics, collects birds' eggs and plays with his
marbles. When, one day, a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker
appears, exchanging an empty jar of a cure-all medicine and a
donkey stone for a pair of Joseph's pyjamas and a lamb's shoulder
blade, a mysterious friendship develops between them. A fusion of
myth, magic and the stories we make for ourselves, Treacle Walker
is an extraordinary novel from one of our greatest living writers.
'All the exuberance and eccentricity, all the deep thought and
resounding mythology of [Garner's] best work' Observer 'Spare and
allusive... luminous and understated' Rowan Williams, New Statesman
'Cryptic, evocative, sparely told and deceptively simple' Carolyne
Larrington, TLS A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR * A TLS BOOK OF
THE YEAR * A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021
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The Idiot
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Fyodor Dostoevsky; Translated by Constance Garnett; Introduction by Agnes Cardinal; Notes by Agnes Cardinal; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction and Notes by
Agnes Cardinal, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature
at the University of Kent. Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an
asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic
amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of
brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to
tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal
of perfection and Dostoevsky's own views, afflictions and manners.
His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of
every other character in the novel. Dostoevsky supplies a harsh
indictment of the Russian ruling class of his day who have created
a world which cannot accomodate the goodness of this idiot.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022 A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK
CLUB PICK SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021 A rich,
magical novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38
Seconds in this Strange World - now a top ten Sunday Times
bestseller It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from
opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they
both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is
Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can
meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang
garlands of garlic, chilli peppers and wild herbs. This is where
one can find the best food in town, the best music, the best wine.
But there is something else to the place: it makes one forget, even
if for just a few hours, the world outside and its immoderate
sorrows. In the centre of the tavern, growing through a cavity in
the roof, is a fig tree. This tree will witness their hushed, happy
meetings, their silent, surreptitious departures; and the tree will
be there when the war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to
rubble, when the teenagers vanish and break apart. Decades later in
north London, sixteen-year-old Ada Kazantzakis has never visited
the island where her parents were born. Desperate for answers, she
seeks to untangle years of secrets, separation and silence. The
only connection she has to the land of her ancestors is a Ficus
Carica growing in the back garden of their home. The Island of
Missing Trees is a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity,
love and trauma, nature, and, finally, renewal. 'This book moved me
to tears . . . in the best way. Powerful and poignant' Reese
Witherspoon 'A brilliant novel -- one that rings with Shafak's
characteristic compassion' Robert Macfarlane 'This is an
enchanting, compassionate and wise novel and storytelling at its
most sublime' Polly Samson
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER An unforgettably powerful new
novel of the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of
their childhood, and a past that will not let them go - from the
Number One New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and
Bel Canto 'The book of the autumn. The American author of
Commonwealth (brilliant) and Bel Canto (even better) releases
perhaps her finest novel yet' - Sunday Times 'The buzz around The
Dutch House is totally justified. Her best yet, which is saying
something' - John Boyne "'Do you think it's possible to ever see
the past as it actually was?' I asked my sister. We were sitting in
her car, parked in front of the Dutch House in the broad daylight
of early summer." Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a
lavish mansion. Though his father is distant and his mother is
absent, Danny has his beloved sister Maeve: Maeve, with her wall of
black hair, her wit, her brilliance. Life is coherent, played out
under the watchful eyes of the house's former owners in the frames
of their oil paintings. Then one day their father brings Andrea
home. Though they cannot know it, her arrival to the Dutch House
sows the seed of the defining loss of Danny and Maeve's lives. The
siblings are drawn back time and again to the place they can never
enter, knocking in vain on the locked door of the past. For behind
the mystery of their own exile is that of their mother's: an
absence more powerful than any presence they have known. Told with
Ann Patchett's inimitable blend of humour, rage and heartbreak, The
Dutch House is a dark fairy tale and story of a paradise lost; of
the powerful bonds of place and time that magnetize and repel us
for our whole lives.
Can a stranger share your memories? That's the question that haunts
PI Brenna Spector when she first sees footage of missing webcam
performer Lula Belle. Naked but hidden in shadow, the 'performance
artist' shares her deepest, darkest secrets with her unseen male
audience . . . secrets that, to Brenna, are chillingly familiar.
Brenna has perfect memory, able to recall in astonishing detail
every moment of every day of her adult life. But her childhood -
those carefree years before the traumatic disappearance of her
sister, Clea - is frustratingly vague. When Brenna listens to the
stories Lula Belle tells her audience, stories only Brenna and Clea
could know, those years come to life again in vivid detail.
Convinced the missing internet performer has ties to her sister,
Brenna takes the case - and in her quest for Lula Belle unravels a
web of obsession, sex, guilt, and murder that could regain her
family . . . or cost her life.
The Butler is an extraordinary tale of family, difficult decisions
and destiny, from the world's favourite storyteller, Danielle
Steel. Joachim von Hartmann was born and raised in Buenos Aires by
his loving German mother, Liese, along with his identical twin. But
when Joachim moves to Paris with Liese in his late teens, his twin
enters a dark world and refuses to leave his beloved Argentina.
Joachim begins training to be a butler, fascinated by the
meticulous precision and intense demands it involves, and goes on
to work in some of the grandest homes in England. Olivia White has
given ten years of her life to her magazine, which failed, taking
all of her dreams with it. A bequest from her mother allows her a
year in Paris to reinvent herself. She needs help setting up a home
in a charming Parisian apartment. It is then that her and Joachim's
paths cross. Joachim, on a whim, takes a job working for Olivia for
a few weeks, which turn to months as the unlikely pair discover
they enjoy working side by side. At the same time, Joachim is
shocked to learn the family history he never knew, involving his
grandfather's sinister wartime activity, and also to hear news of
the dangerous criminal his twin has become. While Olivia struggles
to put her life back together, Joachim's falls apart. Stripped of
their old roles, they strive to discover the truth about each other
and themselves, first as employer and employee, then as friends.
Their paths no longer sure, they are a man and woman who reach a
place where the past doesn't matter and only what they are living
now is true.
THIS IS MY STORY. NOT MY DEAD BEST FRIEND'S STORY.
Dylan Read, the legendary country pop star, has spent fifteen years
learning to craft the perfect good-girl image. But Dylan is privately
haunted by the loss of her best friend Kelsey, who went missing the
year before Dylan’s meteoric rise to fame.
When Kelsey’s body is found at the bottom of a New England lake, Dylan
is drawn back to her hometown where she must revisit their ill-fated
teenage friendship and reckon with secrets that have stayed hidden for
decades…
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Unthology 5, 5
(Paperback)
Ashley Stokes, Robin K. Jones
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In the latest of our celebrated series, you find yourself
surfacing, dazed in the waiting room. You read snatches of lines
over the shoulders of raincoats. In the carriage you have glimpses
and visions. At your destination you can hear space, see thunder,
taste realization. You are running towards something, someone in
the trees who holds out to you an understanding hand. Welcome to
the wonderful and sometimes frightening world of Unthology 5.
The first in a stunning new series introducing the Marlow Murder
Club! 'A hugely enjoyable murder mystery written with wonderful
verve, humour and compassion. Utterly delightful' Robert Webb
'Agatha Christie with a modern twist' SUN From the creator of the
BBC One hit TV series, Death in Paradise To solve an impossible
murder, you need an impossible hero... Seventy-seven-year-old
Judith Potts is blissfully happy. She lives alone in a faded
mansion in Marlow, sets crosswords for The Times, and there's no
man in her life to tell her what to do or how much whisky to drink.
One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a
brutal murder. When the local police don't believe her story,
Judith and two unlikely friends decide to investigate for
themselves. Together, they are the Marlow Murder Club. But soon
another body turns up, and it seems they have a real-life serial
killer on their hands. Now the puzzle they set out to solve has
become a trap from which they might never escape... READERS LOVE
THE MARLOW MURDER CLUB 'Miss Marple with attitude' 5* Amazon Review
'I want to be Judith Potts when I grow up' 5* Amazon Review
'Wonderful escapism!' 5* Amazon Review 'Absolutely loved it!' 5*
Amazon Review 'My favourite book of the year!' 5* Amazon Review 'I
had an absolute blast reading this book' 5* Amazon Review 'So
enjoyable, I laughed out loud !' 5* Amazon Review
Draairivier, Engela Ovies se debuutroman, is ’n deernisvolle verhaal oor familie, vriendskap, liefde en vergifnis.
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'Stunning' Lisa Taddeo, author of
THREE WOMEN 'Warm and wise' Stephanie Merritt, Observer 'Glamorous,
sexy, compelling' Dolly Alderton, Sunday Times 'I fell in love with
Vivian from page one' Daisy Buchanan 'An education in love, and an
iridescent delight' Rowan Pelling, Spectator New York, 1940. Young,
glamorous and inseparable, Vivian and Celia are chasing trouble
from one end of the city to the other. But there is risk in all
this play - that's what makes it so fun, and so dangerous.
Sometimes, the world may feel like it's ending, but for Vivian and
Celia, life is just beginning. City of Girls is about daring to
break conventions and follow your desires: a celebration of
glamour, resilience, growing up, and the joys of female friendship
- and about the freedom that comes from finding a place you truly
belong.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. Every summer, the Ramsays visit
their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the
excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia
Woolf's own joyful holidays of her youth. But as time passes, and
in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes
ever more apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and
observations of the novel's disparate cast. A landmark of high
modernism and the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels,
To the Lighthouse explores themes of loss, class structure and the
question of perception, in a hauntingly beautiful memorial to the
lost but not forgotten. Chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100
best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.
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The Safety Net
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Andrea Camilleri; Translated by Stephen Sartarelli
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Set on the coast of Sicily, The Safety Net is the twenty-fifth
novel in the bestselling Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea
Camilleri. ***Adapted for BBC4's Inspector Montalbano series***
Vigata is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish
television series set in 1950. In the production frenzy, the
director asks the locals to track down movies and vintage photos to
faithfully recreate the air of Vigata at that time. Meanwhile,
Montalbano is grappling with a double mystery, one that emerges
from the past and another that leads him into the future . . .
Engineer Ernesto Sabatello, rummaging in the attic of his house,
finds some films shot by his father between 1958 and 1963, always
on the same day, 27 March, and always the same shot: the outside
wall of a country house. Montalbano hears the story and, intrigued,
begins to investigate its meaning. Meanwhile, a middle school is
threatened by a group of armed men, and a closer look at the case
finds Montalbano looking into the students themselves and delving
into the world of social media.
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Septology
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Jon Fosse; Translated by Damion Searls
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What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not
another? Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the
southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only
friends are his neighbour, Asleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer,
and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjorgvin,
lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by
alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgangers - two versions of the same
person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with
existential questions about death, love, light and shadow, faith
and hopelessness. Jon Fosse's Septology is a transcendent
exploration of the human condition, and a radically other reading
experience - incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique.
The New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of
America's most consistently astonishing writers. The Trilogy is
three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of
standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the
more gripping for its starkness. It is a riveting work of detective
fiction worthy of Raymond Chandler, and at the same time a profound
and unsettling existentialist enquiry in the tradition of Kafka or
Borges. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable
coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man
ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be
human. The New York Trilogy is the modern novel at its finest: a
truly bold and arresting work of fiction with something to transfix
and astound every reader. 'Marks a new departure for the American
novel.' Observer 'A shatteringly clever piece of work . . . Utterly
gripping, written with an acid sharpness that leaves an indelible
dent in the back of the mind.' Sunday Telegraph 'The New York
Trilogy established him as the only author one could compare to
Samuel Beckett.' Guardian
The Lake House by Kate Morton is the mysterious and enchanting
fifth novel from the number one bestselling author of The House at
Riverton and The Secret Keeper. June 1933, and the Edevane family's
country house, Loeanneth, is polished and gleaming, ready for the
much-anticipated Midsummer Eve party. Alice Edevane, sixteen years
old and a budding writer, is especially excited. Not only has she
worked out the perfect twist for her novel, she's also fallen
helplessly in love with someone she shouldn't. But by the time
midnight strikes and fireworks light up the night skies, the
Edevane family will have suffered a loss so great that they leave
Loeanneth forever. Seventy years later, after a particularly
troubling case, DC Sadie Sparrow is sent on an enforced break from
her job with the Metropolitan Police. She retreats to her beloved
grandfather's cottage in Cornwall, but soon finds herself at a
loose end. Until one day, Sadie stumbles upon an abandoned house
surrounded by overgrown gardens and dense woods, and learns the
story of a baby boy who disappeared without a trace. Meanwhile, in
the attic writing room of her elegant Hampstead home, the
formidable Alice Edevane, now an old lady, leads a life as neatly
plotted as the bestselling detective novels she writes. That is
until a young police detective starts asking questions about her
family's past, seeking to resurrect the complex tangle of secrets
Alice has spent her life trying to escape . . .
PS, I Love You meets One Day in this magical tearjerker from Ali
Harris How do you hold on to a love that is slowly slipping away
from you? Can you let go of the past when you know what is in the
future? And how do you cope when you know that every kiss is a
countdown to goodbye? This is the story of a love affair, of Ryan
and Molly and how they fell in love and were torn apart. The first
time Molly kissed Ryan, she knew they'd be together forever. Six
years and thousands of kisses later she's married to the man she
loves. But today, when Ryan kisses her, Molly realises how many of
them she wasted because the future holds something which neither of
them could have ever predicted... 'An adorable, heartwarming tale
of love and friendship which bubbles with tenderness. Love it'
Marie Claire 'Not since One Day's Emma and Dexter have we fallen so
hard for a literary couple...The First Last Kiss will burrow deep
inside your head and heart, and will stay there long after you
finish reading. 5 stars.' Heat
Ester Labuschagne en Nonthando Majolo het saam groot geword op 'n afgeleë plaas in die Oos-Kaap. Boesemvriendinne gewees – tot een dag van verraad. Nou, soveel jare later, met Nonthando se dogter Mila self al 'n volwasse vrou, kom spook die verlede by Ester. Sy besef sy kan nie langer hul geheime met haar haar saamdra nie. Met Somtotaal vestig Troskie haar opnuut as meevoerende skrywer. Dit is 'n storie wat geen leser onaangeraak sal laat nie.
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