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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.
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The Centre
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Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
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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?
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Barkskins
(Paperback)
Annie Proulx
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'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.
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Horse
(Paperback)
Geraldine Brooks
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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.
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.
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Rouge
(Paperback)
Mona Awad
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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.
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
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Big Summer
(Paperback)
Jennifer Weiner
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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.
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.
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Type B
(Paperback)
Steve Mitchell
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Pandemic Pals
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Gabrielle Arron, Gillian Hotz; Illustrated by Sari Richter
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'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.
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.
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
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 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.
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