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In Every Mirror She's Black (Paperback): Lola Akinmade Akerstrom In Every Mirror She's Black (Paperback)
Lola Akinmade Akerstrom; Narrated by Rosemarie Akwafo, Sara Powell
R295 R236 Discovery Miles 2 360 Save R59 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Three Black women are linked in unexpected ways to the same influential white man in Stockholm as they build their new lives in the most open society run by the most private people.

Successful marketing executive Kemi Adeyemi is lured from the U.S. to Sweden by Jonny von Lundin, CEO of the nation's largest marketing firm, to help fix a PR fiasco involving a racially tone-deaf campaign. A killer at work but a failure in love, Kemi's move is a last-ditch effort to reclaim her social life.

A chance meeting with Jonny in business class en route to the U.S. propels former model-turned-flight-attendant Brittany-Rae Johnson into a life of wealth, luxury, and privilege—a life she's not sure she wants—as the object of his unhealthy obsession.

And refugee Muna Saheed, who lost her entire family, finds a job cleaning the toilets at Jonny's office as she works to establish her residency in Sweden and, more importantly, seeks connection and a place she can call home.

Told through the perspectives of each of the three women, In Every Mirror She's Black is a fast-paced, richly nuanced yet accessible contemporary novel that touches on important social issues of racism, classism, fetishization, and tokenism, and what it means to be a Black woman navigating a white-dominated society.

The Island of Missing Trees - Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 (Paperback): Elif Shafak The Island of Missing Trees - Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 (Paperback)
Elif Shafak
R270 R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Save R59 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

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

Introducing Buster the Puggle (Paperback): Jodi Walker Introducing Buster the Puggle (Paperback)
Jodi Walker
R233 Discovery Miles 2 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Join the puppies and Buster as they find out you don't have to be related to be a family. Buster is a rescue puppy, rescued in February 2018. A percentage of the sales made from this book will be donated to Animal health trust.

The Warden - Discovering a Dark Secret (Hardcover): Anthony Trollope The Warden - Discovering a Dark Secret (Hardcover)
Anthony Trollope
R655 Discovery Miles 6 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Mirror of the Sea - Memories and Impressions (Hardcover): Joseph Conrad The Mirror of the Sea - Memories and Impressions (Hardcover)
Joseph Conrad
R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Killing Ourselves (Paperback): Peter Brickwood Killing Ourselves (Paperback)
Peter Brickwood
R339 Discovery Miles 3 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ramifications (Paperback): Daniel Saldana Paris Ramifications (Paperback)
Daniel Saldana Paris; Translated by Christina MacSweeney
R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The memories we return to most frequently are the most inaccurate, the least faithful to reality... This is the tragic realisation made by the narrator of _Ramifications _as he tries to make sense of the defining event of his childhood: the disappearance of his mother to join the Zapatista uprising that shook Mexico in 1994. Left behind with an emotionally distant father who is singularly unqualified to raise him, and an older sister who only wants to get on with being a teenager, he takes refuge in strange rituals that isolate him from his peers: favouring the left-hand side of his body, trying to tear leaves into perfect halves, obsessively shaping origami figures. Now, two decades older and withdrawn from the world, he folds and unfolds these memories, searching the creases for the truth of what happened to his mother, unaware that he is on the verge of a discovery that will destroy everything he believed he knew about his family.Award-winning Mexican author Daniel Saldana Paris masterfully evokes a child's attempts to interpret events beyond his understanding. Less a Bildungs-roman than a tale of arrested development, this story of a boy growing up in the aptly-named Educacion neighbourhood of Mexico City is a rich and moving portrait of a life thwarted by machismo and secrecy.

Double Feature (Paperback): Owen King Double Feature (Paperback)
Owen King
R484 R410 Discovery Miles 4 100 Save R74 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

SAM DOLAN is a young man coming to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film. He has a difficult relationship with his father, B-movie actor Booth Dolan--a boisterous, opinionated, lying lothario whose screen legacy falls somewhere between cult hero and pathetic. Allie, Sam's dearly departed mother, was a woman whose only fault, in Sam's eyes, was her eternal affection for his father. Also included in the cast of indelible characters: a precocious, frequently violent half-sister; a conspiracy-theorist second wife; an Internet-famous roommate; a contractor who can't stop expanding his house; a happy-go-lucky college girlfriend and her husband, a retired Yankees catcher; the morose producer of a true-crime show; and a slouching indie-film legend. Not to mention a tragic sex monster.
Unraveling the tumultuous, decades-spanning story of the Dolan family's friends, lovers, and adversaries, "Double Feature "is about letting go of everything--regret, resentment, dignity, moving pictures, the dead--and taking it again from the top. Against the backdrop of indie filmmaking, college campus life, contemporary Brooklyn, and upstate New York, Owen King's epic debut novel combines propulsive storytelling with mordant wit and brims with a deep understanding of the trials of ambition and art, of relationships and life, and of our attempts to survive it all.

Our Perfect Moment (Paperback): Elena Aitken Our Perfect Moment (Paperback)
Elena Aitken
R454 Discovery Miles 4 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Goldenacre (Paperback): Philip Miller The Goldenacre (Paperback)
Philip Miller
R305 R278 Discovery Miles 2 780 Save R27 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'An outstanding mystery thriller... Noir fans won't want to miss it' - Publishers Weekly (Starred) 'A riveting, brutal journey into the high stakes world of legacy art and inherited wealth' - Denise Mina, author of the Garnethill trilogy and The Long Drop The Goldenacre - a masterpiece by the painter and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh - has been given to the people of Scotland. The beautiful canvas, the last work by the artistic genius, enthrals the art world, but behind it lies a dark and violent mystery. Thomas Tallis, an art expert with a trouble past, is trying to uncover the truth about the painting's complex history, while dogged newspaper reporter Shona Sandison is investigating a series of shocking murders in Edinburgh. Both investigators soon become engulfed in the machinations of money, crime and identity in a literary thriller set amid the seen and unseen forces at work in modern Scotland.

In a Holidaze (Paperback): Christina Lauren In a Holidaze (Paperback)
Christina Lauren
R445 R374 Discovery Miles 3 740 Save R71 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The flesh and the cross (Paperback): Peter G Quince The flesh and the cross (Paperback)
Peter G Quince
R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Brother Caleb, a Cistercian monk,has lived undisturbed in the Monasteryof the Holy Trinity for many years.When the young, alluring, red-hairedRosa stays on retreat, he becomesobsessed with her. But her presence unearthsthe ghost of an old, pre-monasticromance. Caleb experiences a terriblestruggle between his spiritual andcarnal nature, a struggle that canonly end in tragedy....

A Minute To Midnight (Paperback): David Baldacci A Minute To Midnight (Paperback)
David Baldacci 1
R376 Discovery Miles 3 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

‘My sister was abducted from here nearly thirty years ago. The person who took her was never found. And neither was she. Her abductor nearly killed me. So I’m back here now trying to find the truth.’

Atlee Pine has spent most of her life trying to find out what happened that fateful night in Andersonville, Georgia. Her six-year-old twin sister, Mercy, was taken and Atlee was left for dead while their parents were apparently partying downstairs. One person who continues to haunt her is notorious serial killer Daniel James Tor, locked away in a Colorado maximum security prison. Does he really know what happened to Mercy?

The family moved away. The parents divorced. And Atlee chose a career with the FBI dedicating her life to catching those who hurt others. When she oversteps the mark on the arrest of a dangerous criminal, she’s given a leave of absence offering the perfect opportunity to return to where it all began, and find some answers. But the trip to Andersonville turns into a roller-coaster ride of murder, long-buried secrets and lies.

And a revelation so personal that everything she once believed is fast turning to dust.

The Hermit of Eyton Forest (Paperback): Ellis Peters The Hermit of Eyton Forest (Paperback)
Ellis Peters
R633 R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Save R105 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Trees (Paperback): Percival Everett The Trees (Paperback)
Percival Everett
R320 R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Save R70 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist white townsfolk.

The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till, a young black boy lynched in the same town sixty-five years before. The detectives suspect that these are killings of retribution, but soon discover that eerily similar murders are taking place all over the country. Something truly strange is afoot. As the bodies pile up, the MBI detectives seek answers from a local root doctor who has been documenting every lynching in the country for years, uncovering a history that refuses to be buried.

In this bold, provocative book, Everett takes direct aim at racism and police violence, and does so in a fast-paced style that ensures the reader can’t look away. The Trees is an enormously powerful novel of lasting importance.

Christmas at Serenity Bay (Paperback): Helen Bridgett Christmas at Serenity Bay (Paperback)
Helen Bridgett
R270 R175 Discovery Miles 1 750 Save R95 (35%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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?

A Promise of Ankles - A 44 Scotland Street Novel (Hardcover): Alexander McCall Smith A Promise of Ankles - A 44 Scotland Street Novel (Hardcover)
Alexander McCall Smith
R258 Discovery Miles 2 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

At the bottom of a sharply descending street - in the topographical sense - in Edinburgh's Georgian New Town, new residents have moved in to number 44 Scotland Street, joining the already well-known and much-loved denizens of that remarkable building. They appear to be a bit of a mystery, but so, too, do other things. What exactly did Sister Maria-Fiore, the aphorism-coining socialite nun, find on the No. 23 bus? Could it be the remains of a hitherto unknown Neanderthal, homo Watsoniensis? On the romantic front, long-suffering Stuart's hopes of kindling a new relationship are dashed, thanks to chino-wearing narcissist Bruce, effortlessly exercising his powers of charm. The Promised Land beckons for Bertie who is off to Glasgow for a school exchange that takes him doon the watter. Back in Edinburgh, the Duke of Johannesburg's desire to learn a new language, involving his Gaelic-speaking driver Padruig, has gone horribly wrong; to be immersed in a language, it seems, can be a captivating linguistic mistake. And the patrons of Big Lou's cafe are in for a gastronomic treat. In other words, everything in Edinburgh is absolutely normal.

Peter Porter Bags A Banker (Paperback, New edition): Robert Cox Peter Porter Bags A Banker (Paperback, New edition)
Robert Cox
R298 Discovery Miles 2 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Child's Play (Paperback): Danielle Steel Child's Play (Paperback)
Danielle Steel 1
R475 R339 Discovery Miles 3 390 Save R136 (29%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

You think you know what’s best for your grown-up children. But you’ll find they have lessons they can now teach you.

Kate Morgan is an esteemed Manhattan lawyer. After losing her beloved husband in a tragic accident, she’s successfully raised their three children single-handedly. Now in their twenties, she slightly smugly feels that they are well set up to travel the path she planned. Except why is her eldest daughter, Tamara, a high-flying marketing executive, so secretive and why won’t she commit to a relationship? Then there’s Anthony, Kate’s middle child, who is engaged to a wealthy New York socialite – it will be the wedding of the year, so why doesn’t he seem happy? And as for her youngest daughter, Claire, at twenty-six she’s on a successful career path until she suddenly reveals she’s in love with, in Kate’s opinion, the ‘wrong man’.

We all know that life rarely turns out the way we plan for our children. But it’s about listening, learning when to let go and letting them live the life that makes them happy.

The Shadow of the Wind - The Cemetery of Forgotten Books 1 (Paperback): Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Shadow of the Wind - The Cemetery of Forgotten Books 1 (Paperback)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon 3
R305 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R61 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

THE MODERN CLASSIC: OVER 20 MILLION COPIES SOLD A Sunday Times bestseller and a Richard & Judy book club pick 'The real deal: one gorgeous read' Stephen King 'This book will change your life. An instant classic' Daily Telegraph 'A book lover's dream' The Times Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'Cemetery of Lost Books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Julian Carax. But as he grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find. Then, one night, as he is wandering the old streets once more, Daniel is approached by a figure who reminds him of a character from the book, a character who turns out to be the devil. This man is tracking down every last copy of Carax's work in order to burn them. What begins as a case of literary curiosity turns into a race to find out the truth behind the life and death of Julian Carax and to save those he left behind... 'Marvellous' Sunday Times 'A hymn of praise to all the joys of reading' Independent 'Gripping and instantly atmospheric' Mail on Sunday 'Irresistibly readable' Guardian 'Diabolically good' Elle

Death at the Salon (Paperback): Louise R Innes Death at the Salon (Paperback)
Louise R Innes
R228 R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Save R36 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover): Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
Ernest Hemingway
R409 Discovery Miles 4 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Die Nuwe Afrikaanse Prosaboek (Afrikaans, Paperback): Die Nuwe Afrikaanse Prosaboek (Afrikaans, Paperback)
R430 R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Save R61 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Die nuwe Afrikaanse prosaboek is ’n viering van verskeidenheid. Dit bied ’n verruimende, vars blik op die Afrikaanse kortverhaal met sowel klassieke verhale deur welbekende skrywers asook voorheen ongepubliseerde verhale deur nuwe stemme. Jan Rabie, wat in die laat-1950’s die kontoere van die literęre landskap verlę het met sy soms absurde, soms filosofiese, soms politieke “prosas”, dien as inspirasie. 

Sense and Sensibility (Paperback): Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
Jane Austen
R88 R79 Discovery Miles 790 Save R9 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.

'Oh Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat.'

Spirited and impulsive, Marianne Dashwood is the complete opposite to her controlled and sensible sister, Elinor. When it comes to matters of the heart, Marianne is passionate and romantic and soon falls for the charming, but unreliable Mr Willoughby. Elinor, in contrast, copes stoically with the news that her love, Edward Ferrars is promised to another.

It is through their shared experiences of love that both sisters come to learn that the key to a successful match comes from finding the perfect mixture of rationality and feeling.

Sing Down the Stars (Paperback): Nerine Dorman Sing Down the Stars (Paperback)
Nerine Dorman
R260 R224 Discovery Miles 2 240 Save R36 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Nuri survives in the desolate barrens surrounding a farfuture city by running with a gang, meaning that she steals and can get away with the packages. Her unknown parentage (she’s halfhuman and half mysterious alien) makes her feel alone and out of place, until she is called to a highsecurity facility by strange psychic forces. At the facility, she discovers that she is a contender to bond with an alien starjumper and have a life among the stars. First she has to make friends, survive hazing and stay alive against powerful elites that want her out.

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