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This Thing Between Us - A Novel (Paperback): Gus Moreno This Thing Between Us - A Novel (Paperback)
Gus Moreno
R433 R374 Discovery Miles 3 740 Save R59 (14%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A surreal excursion into heartache and horror narrated by a man undone by grief . . . Along with allusions to Rod Serling and The Exorcist, there are shades of H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, zombie literature and, at least once, A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . . . You don't want to read this book right before bed. --Sarah Lyall, The New York Times Book Review "This intense cosmic horror with a touch of Mexican American folklore is incredibly creepy and moving." --Margaret Kingsbury, BuzzFeed It was Vera's idea to buy the Itza. The "world's most advanced smart speaker!" didn't interest Thiago, but Vera thought it would be a bit of fun for them amidst all the strange occurrences happening in the condo. It made things worse. The cold spots and scratching in the walls were weird enough, but peculiar packages started showing up at the house--who ordered industrial lye? Then there was the eerie music at odd hours, Thiago waking up to Itza projecting light shows in an empty room. It was funny and strange right up until Vera was killed, and Thiago's world became unbearable. Pundits and politicians all looking to turn his wife's death into a symbol for their own agendas. A barrage of texts from her well-meaning friends about letting go and moving on. Waking to the sound of Itza talking softly to someone in the living room . . . The only thing left to do was get far away from Chicago. Away from everything and everyone. A secluded cabin in Colorado seemed like the perfect place to hole up with his crushing grief. But soon Thiago realizes there is no escape--not from his guilt, not from his simmering rage, and not from the evil hunting him, feeding on his grief, determined to make its way into this world. A bold, original horror novel about grief, loneliness and the oppressive intimacy of technology, This Thing Between Us marks the arrival of a spectacular new talent.

Rain Gods (Paperback): James Lee Burke Rain Gods (Paperback)
James Lee Burke
R531 R502 Discovery Miles 5 020 Save R29 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Lethal Elixir (Paperback): Dennis Ross The Lethal Elixir (Paperback)
Dennis Ross
R486 R458 Discovery Miles 4 580 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
R.i.c.o. (Paperback): C J Hudson R.i.c.o. (Paperback)
C J Hudson
R406 R383 Discovery Miles 3 830 Save R23 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
How Other People Make Love (Paperback): Thisbe Nissen How Other People Make Love (Paperback)
Thisbe Nissen
R579 R533 Discovery Miles 5 330 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In How Other People Make Love, Thisbe Nissen chronicles the lives and choices of people questioning the heteronormative institution of marriage. Not best-served by established conventions and conventional mores, these people-young, old, gay, straight, midwestern, coastal-are finding their own paths in learning who they are and how they want to love and be loved, even when those paths must be blazed through the unknown. Concerning husbands and wives, lovers and leavers, Nissen's stories explore our search for connection and all the ways we undercut it, unwittingly and intentionally, when we do find it. How do we hold ourselves together-to function, work, and survive-while endlessly yearning to be undone, unraveled, and laid bare, however untenable and excruciating? How Other People Make Love contains nine stories. "Win's Girl" features a single woman who works at an Iowa slaughterhouse and uses the insurance money from a car accident to update the electric system in her dead parents' old house, only to be unwittingly embroiled with a shady electrician who ultimately forces her to stand up for herself. In "Home Is Where the Heart Gives Out and We Arouse the Grass," a young woman flees after cheating on her husband and winds up at a Nebraska roadside motel populated by participants in a regional dog show who help her decide what to do next. In "Unity Brought Them Together," a young man heads to his favorite New York coffee shop intending to finish the Christmas cards his vacationing fiancee insists on sending, but winds up meeting another displaced young midwestern man there and going home with him instead. All these stories explore the question, "how do we love?" as well as the answers we find, discard, follow, banish, and cling to in all our humanness and desperation. How Other People Make Love asserts that there aren't right and wrong ways to love; there are only our very complicated and contradictory human hearts, minds, bodies, and desires-all searching for something, whether we know what that is or not. These are stories for anyone who has ever loved or been loved.

Blood Memory (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition): Greg Iles Blood Memory (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Greg Iles
R328 Discovery Miles 3 280 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Forensic expert "Cat" Ferry has a stellar reputation until a panic attack paralyzes her at a New Orleans murder scene. Praying the attack is a one-time event, she continues working, but when the same killer strikes again -- raising fears that a serial killer is at large -- Cat blacks out over the victim's mutilated corpse. Suspended from the FBI task force, Cat returns to her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, to regroup. Though her colleagues know her as a world-class forensic odontologist, Cat lives a secret life. Plagued by nightmares, and deeply involved with a married homicide detective, Cat holds herself together with iron nerves and alcohol, using her work as a substitute for life. But her family's secluded antebellum estate provides no sanctuary. When some of Cat's forensic chemicals are spilled in her childhood bedroom, two bloody footprints are revealed. This discovery sets in motion a quest to piece together Cat's past -- buried memories that could tie her father's murder to the grisly deaths occurring in New Orleans in the present. For only by finding this remorseless killer can Cat save her sanity -- and her life.

Pachinko (Paperback, New Edition): Min Jin Lee Pachinko (Paperback, New Edition)
Min Jin Lee 1
R295 R264 Discovery Miles 2 640 Save R31 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

* The million-copy bestseller*
* National Book Award finalist *
* One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 *
* Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club *

'This is a captivating book ... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity and success. It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion' BARACK OBAMA.

Yeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then Isak, a Christian minister, offers her a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife.

Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country in which she has no friends, no home, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja's salvation is just the beginning of her story.

Through eight decades and four generations, Pachinko is an epic tale of family, identity, love, death and survival.

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Paperback): Shehan Karunatilaka The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Paperback)
Shehan Karunatilaka
R325 R290 Discovery Miles 2 900 Save R35 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Now with added author content - a Map of Colombo as viewed from the afterlife + Dramatis Personae

A magical realism whodunnit set amid Sri Lanka's civil war

Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest.

But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. He has seven moons to try and contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to a hidden cache of photos that will rock Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka's foremost author delivers a rip-roaring epic, full of mordant wit and disturbing truths.

Wild (Paperback): Kristin Hannah Wild (Paperback)
Kristin Hannah
R285 R208 Discovery Miles 2 080 Save R77 (27%) Ships in 5 - 7 working days

From the New York Times number one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah, comes Wild, a remarkable story about the resilience of the human spirit, the triumph of hope and the promise of new beginnings.

In the rugged Pacific Northwest of the United States lies the Olympic National Forest – a vast expanse of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this mysterious woodland, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past.

Having retreated to her hometown after a scandal left her career in ruins, child psychiatrist Dr Julia Cates begins working with the extraordinary little girl. Naming her Alice, Julia is determined to free her from a prison of unimaginable fear and isolation, and discover the truth about Alice’s past. The shocking facts of Alice’s life test the limits of Julia’s faith and strength, even as she struggles to make a home for Alice – and find a new one for herself.

Checkmate to Murder - A Second World War Mystery (Paperback): E.C.R. Lorac Checkmate to Murder - A Second World War Mystery (Paperback)
E.C.R. Lorac
R367 R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Save R25 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Aftertaste (Hardcover): Daria Lavelle Aftertaste (Hardcover)
Daria Lavelle
R746 R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Save R83 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

What if you could have one last meal with someone you’ve loved, someone you’ve lost? Combining the magic of Under the Whispering Door with the high-stakes culinary world of Sweetbitter, Aftertaste is an epic love story, a dark comedy, and a synesthetic adventure through food and grief.

A food story to binge. A ghost story to devour. A love story to savor.

Konstantin Duhovny is a haunted man. His father died when he was ten, and ghosts have been hovering around him ever since. Kostya can’t exactly see the ghosts, but he can taste their favorite foods. Flavors of meals he’s never eaten will flood his mouth,a sign that a spirit is present. Kostya has kept these aftertastes a secret for most of his life, but one night, he decides to act on what he’s tasting. And everything changes.

Kostya discovers that he can reunite people with their deceased loved ones—at least for the length of time it takes them to eat a dish that he’s prepared. He thinks his life’s purpose might be to offer closure to grieving strangers, and sets out to learn all he can by entering a particularly fiery ring of Hell: the New York culinary scene. But as his kitchen skills catch up with his ambitions, Kostya is too blind to see the catastrophe looming in the Afterlife. And the one person who knows Kostya must be stopped also happens to be falling in love with him.

Set in the bustling world of New York restaurants and teeming with mouthwatering food writing, Aftertaste is a whirlwind romance, a heart-wrenching look at love and loss, and a ghost story about all the ways we hunger—and how far we’d go to find satisfaction.

The Wayward Man (Paperback): St. John G. Ervine The Wayward Man (Paperback)
St. John G. Ervine
R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Mona At Sea (Paperback): Elizabeth Gonzalez James Mona At Sea (Paperback)
Elizabeth Gonzalez James
R593 Discovery Miles 5 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback): Agustina Bazterrica Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
Agustina Bazterrica; Translated by Sarah Moses
R433 R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Save R36 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Recovery Agent (Paperback): Janet Evanovich The Recovery Agent (Paperback)
Janet Evanovich
R442 R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Save R30 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Siddhartha - The Classic Novel (Paperback): Hermann Hesse Siddhartha - The Classic Novel (Paperback)
Hermann Hesse
R263 R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Save R20 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Seven Sisters (Paperback): Lucinda Riley The Seven Sisters (Paperback)
Lucinda Riley 2
R299 R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Save R28 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The Seven Sisters is a sweeping epic tale of love and loss by the international number one bestseller Lucinda Riley.

Maia D’Aplièse and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home – a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva – having been told that their beloved adoptive father, the elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died.

Each of them is handed a tantalising clue to their true heritage – a clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil . . .

Eighty years earlier, in the Belle Époque of Rio, 1927, Izabela Bonifacio’s father has aspirations for his daughter to marry into aristocracy. But Izabela longs for adventure, and convinces him to allow her to accompany the family of a renowned architect on a trip to Paris. In the heady, vibrant streets of Montparnasse, she meets ambitious young sculptor Laurent Brouilly, and knows at once that her life will never be the same again.

The Seven Sisters is the first book in the spellbinding Seven Sisters series.

The Paris Hours (Paperback): Alex George The Paris Hours (Paperback)
Alex George
R415 R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Save R29 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ella Minnow Pea (Paperback, New edition): Mark Dunn Ella Minnow Pea (Paperback, New edition)
Mark Dunn 3
R333 Discovery Miles 3 330 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Nevin Nollop left the islanders of Nollop with the treasured legacy of his pangram the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. But as the letters begin to crumble on the monumental inscription, the island's council forbids the use of the lost letters and silence threatens Ella and her family.

Great Big Beautiful Life (Hardcover): Emily Henry Great Big Beautiful Life (Hardcover)
Emily Henry
R619 R550 Discovery Miles 5 500 Save R69 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens - A Riveting New Regency Historical Mystery (Paperback): Andrea Penrose Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens - A Riveting New Regency Historical Mystery (Paperback)
Andrea Penrose
R437 R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Save R23 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Dictionary of Lost Words - A Novel (Paperback): Pip Williams The Dictionary of Lost Words - A Novel (Paperback)
Pip Williams
R471 R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Save R59 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Sourdough (with Bonus Story the Suitcase Clone) (Paperback): Robin Sloan Sourdough (with Bonus Story the Suitcase Clone) (Paperback)
Robin Sloan
R475 R446 Discovery Miles 4 460 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
These Violent Delights (Paperback): Micah Nemerever These Violent Delights (Paperback)
Micah Nemerever
R338 R282 Discovery Miles 2 820 Save R56 (17%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A compulsively readable debut novel about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence.

When Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, it’s with the hope of moving past the recent death of his father. Sensitive, insecure, and like a stranger to his family, Paul feels isolated and alone. When he meets the worldly Julian in his freshman ethics class, Paul is immediately drawn to his classmate’s effortless charm.

Paul will stop at nothing to prove himself worthy of their friendship. But Julian is as volatile and cruel as he is charismatic, and Paul begins to suspect that he can never live up to what Julian expects of him.

As their friendship spirals into all-consuming intimacy, they each learn the lengths to which the other will go in order to stay together, their obsession ultimately hurtling them toward an act of irrevocable violence. From then on, everything changes…

These Violent Delights is an exquisitely plotted excavation of the depths of human desire and the darkness it can unleash upon us...

The Story Of The Lost Child (Paperback): Elena Ferrante The Story Of The Lost Child (Paperback)
Elena Ferrante; Translated by Ann Goldstein
R341 R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Save R29 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

“Nothing quite like this has ever been published before,” proclaimed The Guardian about the Neapolitan novels in 2014. Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, Elena Ferrante tells the story of a lifelong friendship between two women with unmatched honesty and brilliance.

The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women― the brilliant, bookish Elena, and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults, with husbands, lovers, aging parents, and children. Their friendship has been the gravitational center of their lives. Both women fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up―a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. In this final novel she has returned to Naples, drawn back as if responding to the city’s obscure magnetism. Lila, on the other hand, could never free herself from the city of her birth. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect the neighborhood. Proximity to the world she has always rejected only brings her role as its unacknowledged leader into relief. For Lila is unstoppable, unmanageable, unforgettable.

The four volumes in this series constitute a long remarkable story that readers will return to again and again, and each return will bring with it new revelations.

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