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Grasping At Straws (Paperback): Yvonne Maphosa Grasping At Straws (Paperback)
Yvonne Maphosa
R239 Discovery Miles 2 390 Ships in 4 - 8 working days
A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth - Stories (Paperback): Daniel Mason A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth - Stories (Paperback)
Daniel Mason
R456 R374 Discovery Miles 3 740 Save R82 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The American Roommate Experiment (Paperback): Elena Armas The American Roommate Experiment (Paperback)
Elena Armas 1
R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment.

Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn’t told her family and now has terrible writer’s block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina’s spare key while she’s out of town. But Rosie doesn’t know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking—for lack of a better word—on Instagram for the last few months. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armor. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and an irresistible accent. Oh, and he cooks.

Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing. And then he proposes an outrageous experiment to bring back her literary muse and meet her deadline: He’ll take her on a series of experimental dates meant to jump-start her romantic inspiration. Rosie has nothing to lose. Her silly, online crush is totally under control—but Lucas’s time in New York has an expiration date, and six weeks may not be enough, for either her or her deadline.

The Centre (Hardcover): Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi The Centre (Hardcover)
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
R520 R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Save R95 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who attends a mysterious language school which boasts complete fluency in just ten days, but at a secret, sinister cost. Anisa Ellahi dreams of being a translator of 'great works of literature,' but instead mostly spends her days subtitling Bollywood movies, living off her parents' generous allowance, and discussing the 'underside of life' with her best friend, Naima. Anisa's mediocre white boyfriend, Adam, only adds to her growing sense of inadequacy with his savant-level aptitude for languages, successfully leveraging his expansive knowledge into an enviable career. But when Adam learns to speak Urdu with native fluency practically overnight, Anisa forces him to reveal his secret. Adam begrudgingly tells Anisa about The Centre, an elite, invite-only program that guarantees near-instant fluency in any language. Skeptical but intrigued, Anisa enrolls-stripped of her belongings, contact with the outside world, and bodily autonomy-and emerges ten days later fluent in German. As Anisa enmeshes herself further within The Centre, seduced by all that it's made possible, she soon realizes the true cost of its services. By turns dark, funny, and surreal, and with twists page-turning and shocking, The Centre takes the reader on a journey through Karachi, London, and New Delhi, interrogating the sticky politics of language, translation, and appropriation with biting specificity, and ultimately asking: what is success really worth?

Barkskins (Paperback): Annie Proulx Barkskins (Paperback)
Annie Proulx 1
R694 R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Save R94 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Die Laaste Jagtog (Afrikaans, Paperback): Dot Serfontein Die Laaste Jagtog (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Dot Serfontein
R73 Discovery Miles 730 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

'n Boer met 'n voorliefde vir wilddiefstal moet teen die agtergrond van aanpassingsprobleme in sy huwelik en veranderende politieke omstandighede noodgedwonge sy (rampspoedige) laaste jagtog uitvoer. En dan is daar ou Drien, die kleremaakster, wat diep in haar middeljare uiteindelik 'n "regte" huweliksaansoek kry; Diederik Verster wat onbesorg met ’n uiters sonderlinge stokperdjie voortploeter; en die "antie" wat 'n "sirpraais" in die vorm van 'n bykorf vol bye kry en dan, ongelukkig, graag die bye wil bevriend. Die humor en deernis wat in die alledaagse skuil, kom in hierdie bundel kortverhale na vore – vertel soos net die skerpsinnige Dot Serfontein kan. Kleurvolle karakters beleef hartseer sowel as snaakse en soms pynlike avonture.

Horse (Paperback): Geraldine Brooks Horse (Paperback)
Geraldine Brooks
R280 R224 Discovery Miles 2 240 Save R56 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner tells a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamour of any racetrack. New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a 19th equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance. Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse-one studying the stallion's bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success. Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred, Lexington, who became America's greatest stud sire, Horse is an original ,gripping, multi-layered reckoning with the legacy of enslavement and racism in America.

Of Women and Salt (Paperback): Gabriela Garcia Of Women and Salt (Paperback)
Gabriela Garcia
R433 R356 Discovery Miles 3 560 Save R77 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
'n Bekkersdal-marathon - en ander voorkamerstories (Afrikaans, Paperback): Herman Charles Bosman 'n Bekkersdal-marathon - en ander voorkamerstories (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Herman Charles Bosman 1
R186 Discovery Miles 1 860 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Jurie Steyn het 'n probleem. Nie net moet hy 'n bestaan probeer voer uit boerdery in die Marico nie, maar boonop dien sy voorkamer as die Drogevlei-poskantoor – en Jurie as die posmeester. "Tussen posorders en bloutong weet ek nie watter werk die ergste is nie. Ek moet wa-ghries op my muilkar smeer en seelwas op die possak sit. Partykeer raak ek deurmekaar. Eendag gaan ek nog 'n inkomsteseel op my hotkantmuil plak en die Bekkersdal-possak met 'n halfmaan en 'n streep brandmerk. Dan sal daar moeilikheid wees," se Jurie. "Met my hotmuil, bedoel ek." Elke week kom die halfdowe Oupa Bekker, At Naude (wat 'n draadloos besit), buurman Gysbert van Tonder, die berese Johnny Coen, wat eens op 'n tyd 'n railway shunter op Ottoshoop was, en ander kleurryke karakters in Jurie Steyn se voorkamer bymekaar om te wag vir die Goewermentlorrie van Bekkersdal, wat hul pos en melkkanne moet bring. Sake van die dag word druk bespreek, en die gesprekke waartoe dit lei, is gewoonlik skreeusnaaks. Herman Charles Bosman het in die laaste 18 maande van sy lewe sowat 80 stories vir die reeks In the Voorkamer in die nuusblad The Forum geskryf. Bosman het dit self bestempel as die beste werk wat hy ooit gelewer het. 'n Bekkersdal-marathon en ander voorkamerstories volg op die sukses van In die withaak se skadu, die eerste Afrikaanse versameling Oom Schalk Lourens-stories.

Rouge (Paperback): Mona Awad Rouge (Paperback)
Mona Awad
R410 R328 Discovery Miles 3 280 Save R82 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother’s fate—and find a connection that is more than skin deep?

For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse , the same lavish, culty spa her mother to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother’s) obsession with the mirror—and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass.

Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, ROUGE explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry—as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, ROUGE holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.

Girl, Woman, Other - WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 (Paperback): Bernardine Evaristo Girl, Woman, Other - WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 (Paperback)
Bernardine Evaristo 1
R240 R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Save R48 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

THE SUNDAY TIMES 1# BESTSELLER & BOOKER PRIZE WINNER BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR & FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'The most absorbing book I read all year.' Roxane Gay ____________________________ This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope . . . ____________________________ '[Bernardine Evaristo] is one of the very best that we have' Nikesh Shukla on Twitter 'A choral love song to black womanhood in modern Great Britain' Elle 'Beautifully interwoven stories of identity, race, womanhood, and the realities of modern Britain. The characters are so vivid, the writing is beautiful and it brims with humanity' Nicola Sturgeon on Twitter 'Bernardine Evaristo can take any story from any time and turn it into something vibrating with life' Ali Smith, author of How to be both 'Exceptional. You have to order it right now' Stylist 'Sparkling, inventive' Sunday Times

Big Summer (Paperback): Jennifer Weiner Big Summer (Paperback)
Jennifer Weiner
R454 R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Save R75 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Die Vlieende Ovambo En Ander Verhale Van Ou Suidwes (Afrikaans, Paperback): E.T. Meyer Die Vlieende Ovambo En Ander Verhale Van Ou Suidwes (Afrikaans, Paperback)
E.T. Meyer
R191 Discovery Miles 1 910 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

E.T. Meyer matrikuleer in Windhoek, gaan studeer in Suid-Afrika en gee daarna by verskeie skole in die destydse Suidwes onderwys. In sy drie bundels kortverhale, Die vlieende Ovambo, Waar’s my Tande en Tussen krokodille en Kavangovroue herroep hy die ligte kant en verrassende situasies wat hy destyds in hierdie ruwe omstandighede teegekom het.

A Library To Flee (Paperback): Etienne Van Heerden A Library To Flee (Paperback)
Etienne Van Heerden
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R410 R352 Discovery Miles 3 520 Save R58 (14%) In Stock

In a moment of weakness, lawyer Ian Brand sends out a tweet; it changes his life irrevocably. Thuli Khumalo, Fallist leader on a campus that stinks of petrol and teargas, must choose between betraying her father and forsaking her principles. Snaar Windvogel, once the little violin girl of Matjiesfontein, is now in transition under the knife of Piekenier Leqluerck, plastic surgeon and fossa impresario.

These colourful characters populate a carnivalesque landscape where the only certainty is that the Mother City’s mysterious crossbow killer will strike again . . . while Twitter gangs spread suspicion, truck drivers are attacked on national roads, and Number One meets with gang leaders – all under the watchful eye of the Institute for Encouragement in a nameless city in China.

An astonishing novel documenting the turbulent time in which we live, where issues such as privacy and identity, fake news and fact, and race and ethnicity inflame passions.

Translated by Henrietta RoseInnes.

Type B (Paperback): Steve Mitchell Type B (Paperback)
Steve Mitchell
R464 R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Save R67 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pandemic Pals (Paperback): Gabrielle Arron, Gillian Hotz Pandemic Pals (Paperback)
Gabrielle Arron, Gillian Hotz; Illustrated by Sari Richter
R338 R273 Discovery Miles 2 730 Save R65 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jagkonings (Afrikaans, Hardcover): Jagkonings (Afrikaans, Hardcover)
R287 Discovery Miles 2 870 Ships in 4 - 8 working days
Hungry Ghosts (Hardcover): Kevin Jared Hosein Hungry Ghosts (Hardcover)
Kevin Jared Hosein
R531 R436 Discovery Miles 4 360 Save R95 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Hungry Ghosts is an astonishing novel - linguistically gorgeous, narratively propulsive and psychologically profound' BERNARDINE EVARISTO' 'Deeply impressive . . . Energy and inventiveness distinguish every page' HILARY MANTEL 'Beautiful, biblical, vast in scope and power . . . Hosein is a new enormous giant of fiction' DAISY JOHNSON 'The biggest, most frightening, beautiful and alive novel I've read in as long as I can remember' EVIE WYLD The music was still playing when Dalton Changoor vanished into thin air . . . On a hill overlooking Bell Village sits the Changoor farm, where Dalton and Marlee Changoor live in luxury unrecognisable to those who reside in the farm's shadow. Down below is the barrack, a ramshackle building of wood and tin, divided into rooms occupied by whole families. Among these families are the Saroops - Hans, Shweta, and their son, Krishna, who live hard lives of backbreaking work, grinding poverty and devotion to faith. When Dalton Changoor goes missing and Marlee's safety is compromised, farmhand Hans is lured by the promise of a handsome stipend to move to the farm as watchman. But as the mystery of Dalton's disappearance unfolds their lives become hellishly entwined, and the small community altered forever. Hungry Ghosts is a mesmerising novel about violence, religion, family and class, rooted in the wild and pastoral landscape of colonial central Trinidad.

Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick (Paperback): Jason Pargin, David Wong Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick (Paperback)
Jason Pargin, David Wong
R503 R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Save R84 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Other Side of Night (Paperback): Adam Hamdy The Other Side of Night (Paperback)
Adam Hamdy
R432 R354 Discovery Miles 3 540 Save R78 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
You Never Really Know (Paperback): John Hunt You Never Really Know (Paperback)
John Hunt
R300 R234 Discovery Miles 2 340 Save R66 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

One lowly barista. One coffee-drinking dictator. John Hunt’s playful and damning satire on political power Meet our hero Cappuccino – barista to the President – who’s never lived anywhere other than in the big man’s compound. Left in the care of Maria-I’m-not-your-mother when his real mom died, Cappuccino spent his boyhood in the laundry room before receiving his true calling.

From behind his impressive chrome coffee machine, Cappuccino is a fly on a very important wall. And, more importantly, he is in love with the captivating Naomi, an assistant to the President.

But life is about to serve Cappuccino a bitter cup when he finds the Minister without Portfolio – and moral compass to The Boss – dead in the presidential home.

Filled with warm humour, John Hunt’s novel serves up a double shot of pathos as it moves from playful satire to true tragedy whilst examining the inner workings of power.

Death and Croissants - The most hilarious murder mystery since Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Paperback): Ian... Death and Croissants - The most hilarious murder mystery since Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Paperback)
Ian Moore
R265 R212 Discovery Miles 2 120 Save R53 (20%) In Stock

Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the fictional Val de Follet in the Loire Valley. Nothing ever happens to Richard, and really that's the way he likes it. One day, however, one of his older guests disappears, leaving behind a bloody handprint on the wallpaper. Another guest, the exotic Valerie, persuades a reluctant Richard to join her in investigating the disappearance. Richard remains a dazed passenger in the case until things become really serious and someone murders Ava Gardner, one of his beloved hens... and you don't mess with a fellow's hens! Unputdownable mystery set in rural France, by TV/radio regular and bestselling author Ian Moore - perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club

One True Loves (Paperback): Taylor Jenkins Reid One True Loves (Paperback)
Taylor Jenkins Reid
R270 R216 Discovery Miles 2 160 Save R54 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Named a Best Book of Summer by Cosmopolitan * InStyle *PopSugar * Buzzfeed * Bustle * Brit+Co * Parade "No one does life and love better." InStyle "Earth-shaking...you will flip for this epic love story." Cosmopolitan In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. They travel the world together, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure. On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. Just like that, Jesse is gone forever. Emma quits her job and moves home in an effort to put her life back together. Years later, now in her thirties, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again. When Emma and Sam get engaged, it feels like Emma's second chance at happiness. That is, until Jesse is found. He's alive, and he's been trying all these years to come home to her. With a husband and a fiance, Emma has to now figure out who she is and what she wants while trying to protect the ones she loves. But who is her one true love? What does it mean to love truly? Don't miss the new novel from Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto is Back, out now

The Exquisite Art of Getting Even (Paperback, New in Paperback): Alexander McCall Smith The Exquisite Art of Getting Even (Paperback, New in Paperback)
Alexander McCall Smith
R273 R247 Discovery Miles 2 470 Save R26 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The characters in this delicious book are pushed to the point of no return and seek retribution. But how we get even is not always the best road to redemption. On the island of Mull, it takes an incomer to make the locals realise that they need to take matters into their own hands to maintain the community's reputation. In 'The Principles of Soap' the value of friendship overcomes adversity and opportunistic nepotism. In suburban Edinburgh opposing neighbours find out the hard way that the best method of dealing with a canine disturbance is not to bury one's head in the sand. And in the final tale we meet an author on the brink of public ruin who sees the error of his ways after an act of kindness saves the day. These four tales show that the exquisite art of getting even is a skill that sees kindness win over malice. Tantalising and amusing, these stories show off a darker side but carry with them the author's trademark warmth and humour.

Fred Se Storie (Afrikaans, Paperback): Lien Roux-de Jager Fred Se Storie (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Lien Roux-de Jager
R58 Discovery Miles 580 Ships in 4 - 8 working days
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