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One Summer's Afternoon (Paperback): Tilly Bagshawe One Summer's Afternoon (Paperback)
Tilly Bagshawe
R113 Discovery Miles 1 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is no ordinary cricket match. This is the Swell Valley One Day Match... More exclusive than the Buckingham Palace Summer Garden Party, and more star-studded than Cartier Polo, the annual Fittlescombe vs Brockhurst cricket match is older than the Ashes, and every bit as hotly contested. The Fittlescombe team have their hopes pinned on local boy Will Nuttley, but 24 year-old Will has his heart set on winning back the love of his life, Emma Harwich. As the champagne goes on ice and the sandwiches are being cut, little do the Swell Valley residents know that Emma has got wind of Brockhurst's newly arrived 'secret weapon', the Argentine heartthrob Santiago de la Cruz. She's intent on sleeping with the enemy, and it's throwing Will into a spin...

Mr. and Mrs. Baby - And Other Stories (Paperback, Deluxe ed.): Mark Strand Mr. and Mrs. Baby - And Other Stories (Paperback, Deluxe ed.)
Mark Strand
R429 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R78 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Scatter Here Is Too Great (Paperback): Bilal Tanweer The Scatter Here Is Too Great (Paperback)
Bilal Tanweer
R383 R315 Discovery Miles 3 150 Save R68 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Very Mexican Christmas (Hardcover): Carlos Fuentes, Laura Esquivel, Amparo Davila, Sandra Cisneros, Carmen Boullosa, Sor... A Very Mexican Christmas (Hardcover)
Carlos Fuentes, Laura Esquivel, Amparo Davila, Sandra Cisneros, Carmen Boullosa, …
R649 R530 Discovery Miles 5 300 Save R119 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Guilty Creatures - A Menagerie of Mysteries (Paperback): Martin Edwards Guilty Creatures - A Menagerie of Mysteries (Paperback)
Martin Edwards
R416 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R65 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Sliver of Darkness (Paperback): C. J. Tudor A Sliver of Darkness (Paperback)
C. J. Tudor
R320 R256 Discovery Miles 2 560 Save R64 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

**PRE-ORDER NOW - THIS HALLOWEEN PREPARE TO BE TERRIFIED WITH C. J. TUDOR'S FIRST COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES** A creak of the floorboard, a shiver down your spine, the feeling that you're not alone... Join a group of survivors who wash up on a deserted island only to make a horrifying discovery. Meet a cold-hearted killer who befriends a strange young girl at a motorway service station. Travel along eerie country lanes in a world gone dark, enter a block of flats with the most monstrous of occupants and accompany a ruthless estate agent on a house sale that goes apocalyptically wrong. These eleven twisted tales of the macabre from the bestselling author of The Chalk Man are your perfect companions as the nights draw in...if you're brave enough. Praise for C. J. Tudor: 'If you like my stuff you'll like this' Stephen King 'C. J. Tudor is terrific. I can't wait to see what she does next' Harlan Coben 'Britain's female Stephen King' Daily Mail 'A mesmerizingly chilling and atmospheric page-turner' J.P. Delaney 'Her books have the ability to simultaneously make you unable to stop reading while wishing you could bury the book somewhere deep underground where it can't be found. Compelling and haunting' Sunday Express 'Some writers have it, and some don't. C. J. Tudor has it big time' Lee Child 'A dark star is born' A. J. Finn

God's Children Are Little Broken Things (Paperback): Arinze Ifeakandu God's Children Are Little Broken Things (Paperback)
Arinze Ifeakandu
R280 R224 Discovery Miles 2 240 Save R56 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'Although he writes about queer lives and loves in Nigeria, Arinze Ifeakandu's voice is sensually alert to the human and universal in every situation. These quietly transgressive stories are the work of a brilliant new talent' DAMON GALGUT, Booker Prize-winning author of The Promise 'Contemporary love stories with moments of real surprise and revelation' BRANDON TAYLOR, author of Real Life 'Gorgeous... A hugely impressive collection, full of subtlety, wisdom and heart' SARAH WATERS, author of Fingersmith 'Captures the tenderness and tumult of queer love, familial love, self-love, and the many ways love elates and eludes us.... Masterful. What a glorious collection!' DEESHA PHILYAW, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies 'Magic in motion... A staggering, heartshattering show' ELOGHOSA OSUNDE, author of Vagabonds! 'Raw tender grace... A serious literary talent has emerged' COLM TOIBIN, author of The Magician 'Quite simply a tour de force' SARAH HALL, author of Burntcoat In this stunning debut from one of Nigeria's most promising young writers, the stakes of love meet a society in flux A man revisits the university campus where he lost his first love, aware now of what he couldn't understand then. A daughter returns home to Lagos after the death of her father, where she must face her past - and future -relationship with his longtime partner. A young musician rises to fame at the risk of losing himself and the man who loves him. Generations collide, families break and are remade, languages and cultures intertwine, and lovers find their ways to futures; from childhood through adulthood; on university campuses, city centres, and neighbourhoods where church bells mingle with the morning call to prayer. These nine stories of queer male intimacy brim with simmering secrecy, ecstasy, loneliness and love in their depictions of what it means to be gay in contemporary Nigeria.

Gates of Eden (Paperback): Ethan Coen Gates of Eden (Paperback)
Ethan Coen
R385 R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Save R68 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A middle-aged man beheads his wife, then calmly explains how she drove him to it ... A fat little mafioso is going to war -- in the clean, well-mannered streets of Minneapolis...A Jewish boy watches with wonder the rise and fall of a Hebrew school rebel -- and sees the sadness at the heart of his own family.... Welcome to the world of Ethan Coen, one half of the filmmaking team that has unleashed a visionary, brutal, and uproarious portrait of America in such screen classics as Fargo and Raising Arizona. Now Ethan Coen translates that vision to the printed page -- in fourteen keenly imagined, sharply etched short stories. Blending parody with pathos, making the heinous heartbreaking. Coen demonstrates his unique gift for stunningly inventive narrative, brutal irony, offbeat characters, and crackling dialogue, delivering everything you would expect from such an original imagination.

Freeman's: Animals (Paperback): John Freeman Freeman's: Animals (Paperback)
John Freeman
R487 R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Save R72 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Featuring new work from Mieko Kawakami, Martin Espada, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Arthur Sze, Camonghne Felix, and more, the latest installment of the acclaimed literary journal Freeman's explores the irrevocably intertwined lives of animals and the humans that exist alongside themOver a century ago, Rilke went to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where he watched a pair of flamingos. A flock of other birds screeched by, and, as he describes in a poem, the great red-pink birds sauntered on, unphased, then "stretched amazed and singly march into the imaginary." This encounter--so strange, so typical of flamingos, with their fabulous posture--is also still typical of how we interact with animals. Even as our actions threaten their very survival, they are still symbolic, captivating and captive, caught in a drama of our framing This issue of Freeman's tells the story of that interaction, its costs, its tendernesses, the mythological flex of it. From lovers in a Chiara Barzini story, falling apart as a group of wild boars roams in their Roman neighborhood, to the soppen emergency birth of a cow on a Wales farm, stunningly described by Cynan Jones, no one has the moral high ground here. Nor is this a piece of mourning. There's wonder, humor, rage, and relief, too.Featuring pigeons, calves, stray dogs, mascots, stolen cats, and bears, to the captive, tortured animals who make up our food supply, powerfully described in Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk's essay, this wide-ranging issue of Freeman's will stimulate discussion and dreams alike.

All Aunt Hagar's Children - Stories (Paperback): Edward P Jones All Aunt Hagar's Children - Stories (Paperback)
Edward P Jones
R408 R343 Discovery Miles 3 430 Save R65 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Three years after the publication of his much-heralded, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Known World," Edward P. Jones returned with an elegiac, luminous masterpiece, "All Aunt Hagar's Children." In these fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, Jones resurrects the minor characters in his first award-winning story collection, "Lost in the City." The result is vintage Jones: powerful, magisterial tales that showcase his ability to probe the complexities and tenaciousness of the human spirit.

"All Aunt Hagar's Children" is filled with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is the city's ordinary citizens, not its power brokers, who most concern Jones. Here, everyday people who thought the values of the South would sustain them in the North find "that the cohesion born and nurtured in the south would be but memory in less than two generations."

The Debutante and Other Stories (Paperback): Leonora Carrington The Debutante and Other Stories (Paperback)
Leonora Carrington; Introduction by Sheila Heti; Foreword by Marina Warner
R362 R294 Discovery Miles 2 940 Save R68 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Deserter: Junji Ito Story Collection (Hardcover): Junji Ito Deserter: Junji Ito Story Collection (Hardcover)
Junji Ito
R407 Discovery Miles 4 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An ever-increasing malice. A mind-numbing terror. The seeds of horror are sown in this collection of Junji Ito's earliest works. A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after the end of World War II, cocooning him in a false reality where the war never ended. A pair of girls look alike, but they're not twins. And a boy's nightmare threatens to spill out into the real world... This hauntingly strange story collection showcases a dozen of Junji Ito's earliest works from when he burst onto the horror scene, sowing fresh seeds of terror.

My Goat Ate Its Own Legs - Tales for Adults (Paperback): Alex Burrett My Goat Ate Its Own Legs - Tales for Adults (Paperback)
Alex Burrett
R336 R278 Discovery Miles 2 780 Save R58 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In a voice so unfailingly chipper it's suspicious, Alex Burrett poses in fiction some disturbing yet certainly possible futures for the human race (and other ambitious, earthbound mammals). Always ready with an impeccable phrase or a sly wink, he shares stories of the most darkly ironic sort, including a field report from a human abattoir, a chronicle of dating Death, and, of course, the tale of the goat that ate its own legs. These thirty brilliant, bizarre, and morbidly hilarious "tales for adults" will delight anyone who doesn't take life (or death) too seriously.

Axiomatic - Short Stories of Science Fiction (Paperback): Greg Egan Axiomatic - Short Stories of Science Fiction (Paperback)
Greg Egan
R531 R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Save R89 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Wonderful, mind-expanding stuff, and well written too."-The Guardian Axiomatic is a wonderful collection of eighteen short stories by Hugo Award-winning author Greg Egan. The stories in this collection have appeared in such science fiction magazines as Interzone and Asimov's between 1989 and 1992. From junkies who drink at the time-stream to love affairs in time-reversed galaxies; from gene-altered dolphins that converse only in limericks to the program that allows you to design your own child; from the brain implants called axiomatics to the strange attractors that spin off new religions; from bioengineering to the new physics; and from cyberpunk to the electronic frontier, Greg Egan's future is frighteningly close to our own present. Included in this collection are such wonderful stories as: "Axiomatic" "Into Darkness" "The Safe-Deposit Box" "Blood Sisters" And many more! Axiomatic is the perfect collection for any science fiction fan, especially one who enjoys Greg Egan's work. The stories are imaginative and insightful, and written only the way that Greg Egan can do so. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams - Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts (Paperback): Sylvia Plath Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams - Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts (Paperback)
Sylvia Plath
R448 R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Save R76 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Renowned for her poetry, Sylvia Plath was also a brilliant writer of prose. This collection of short stories, essays, and diary excerpts highlights her fierce concentration on craft, the vitality of her intelligence, and the yearnings of her imagination. Featuring an introduction by Plath's husband, the late British poet Ted Hughes, these writings also reflect themes and images she would fully realize in her poetry. "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams" truly showcases the talent and genius of Sylvia Plath.

Ugly Man - Stories (Paperback, New): Dennis Cooper Ugly Man - Stories (Paperback, New)
Dennis Cooper
R410 R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Save R72 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Acclaimed cult-writer Cooper continues to study the material he's always explored so honestly--pornography, violence, and mutilation--but with a satirical touch. This is high-risk literature.--"The New York Times Book Review."

Die Leeu Van Okarusewa (Afrikaans, Paperback): Doc Immelman Die Leeu Van Okarusewa (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Doc Immelman
R163 Discovery Miles 1 630 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Nie net ontglip die gevreesde maanhaar Tom se jaggeweer keer op keer op onverklaarbare wyse nie ook in die Stroebel-huishouding draai die duiwel rond en tart Tom se verlede hom telkens in die gestalte van beeldskone Maria Stroebel, wie se huwelik duidelik wankel onder die druk van die boerdery. Hoewel die plaasvoorman, Adolf Freimut, skynbaar die leisels stewig vashou, is daar iets verdag omtrent die arrogante jong Duitser en ook oom Wolfgang se sekretaresse, June Crosby, blyk n slinkse geaardheid agter haar bril en bolla te verberg. Boonop is Theresa Stroebel lank nie meer die rabbedoe-tiener wat Tom van sy vorige besoeke onthou nie, maar n sjarmante jong dame met n uitgesproke wil Is die mensvreterleeu werklik die bron van die spanning tussen die Stroebels of die rookskerm waaragter groter kwaad gestook word? En sal Tom daarin slaag om die dreigende krisis suksesvol af te weer?

Games and Rituals (Hardcover): Katherine Heiny Games and Rituals (Hardcover)
Katherine Heiny
R376 Discovery Miles 3 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us eleven glittering stories of love - friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet teenagers, ill-advised trysts - in all its forms, both ridiculous and sublime. The games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny's characters range from mischievous to tender. In 'Bridesmaid, Revisited,' Marilee, suffering from a laundry and life crisis, wears a massive bridesmaid's dress to work. In 'Twist and Shout,' Ericka's elderly father mistakes his four-thousand-dollar hearing aid for a cashew and eats it. In 'Turn Back, Turn Back,' a bedtime story coupled with a receipt for a Starbucks babyccino reveal a struggling actor's deception. And in '561,' Charlene pays the true price of infidelity and is forced to help her husband's ex-wife move out of the family home. From one of our most celebrated writers, our bard of waking up in the wrong bed, wearing the wrong shoes, late for the wrong job, but loved by the right people, Katherine Heiny has delivered a work of glorious humour and immense kindness.

Simple Fire - Selected Short Stories (Paperback): George Mackay Brown Simple Fire - Selected Short Stories (Paperback)
George Mackay Brown; Selected by Malachy Tallack
R396 R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Save R37 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

George Mackay Brown was a master of the short story form and produced a steady stream of short fiction collections, starting with A Calendar of Love (1967) and include A Time to Keep (1969) and Hawkfall (1974), as well as his poetry collections and novels. In this selection, edited and introduced by Malachy Tallack, we explore the author's Orkney and the ups and downs of the crofters and fishermen there. These magical stories, drawn from ancient lore and modern life, strip life down to the essentials.

The Seduction of Silence (Paperback): Bem Le Hunte The Seduction of Silence (Paperback)
Bem Le Hunte
R411 R347 Discovery Miles 3 470 Save R64 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Follow Five Generations of One Remarkable Indian Family on a Quest for Enlightenment.

Elvezia's House (Paperback): Alexandre Hmine Elvezia's House (Paperback)
Alexandre Hmine; Translated by Elena Pala
R169 Discovery Miles 1 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Disruption - New Short Fiction From Africa (Paperback): Rachel Zadok, Karina Szczurek, Jason Mykl Snyman Disruption - New Short Fiction From Africa (Paperback)
Rachel Zadok, Karina Szczurek, Jason Mykl Snyman
R267 Discovery Miles 2 670 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

“disruption[noun] - Disturbance or problems which interrupt an event, activity, or process.”

The title and topic chosen for our seventh collection of stories from around Africa, decided before the world as we knew it changed, turned out to be eerily prescient. Drawn from the four corners of the continent, from Libya and Sierra Leone to Kenya and Botswana, these twenty-one stories serve up an imaginative feast, many unfolding the consequences of the environmental degradation of the planet.

But the contributors have not parroted the doom and gloom often found in dystopian or apocalyptic fiction. Instead, they have opted for wildly original narratives featuring sea monsters, zombies, time and space travel, cyborgs, immortals, gods and goddesses both benevolent and terrifying, and even a one-eyed octopus. This riot of colour and creativity offers fierce and rich allegories of colonial conquest and late capitalism, and probes patriarchal family and social structures with deft fingers.

The reader will find comedy, the absurd, and the surreal in these pages, as well as lovingly drawn and often valedictory accounts of the natural world and its denizens. Above all, these stories tell of human connection in the face of impossibly difficult circumstances, providing much-needed comfort and inspiration.

Prepare to be disturbed, moved, and entertained. This is the disruption you’re really looking for.

Concrete Fields (Paperback): David Gaffney Concrete Fields (Paperback)
David Gaffney
R225 Discovery Miles 2 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The countryside – what is it for? A paradise on earth where you can relax and get creative? Or an outdoor wool factory where every other house is an Airbnb and there are fewer trees than Camden. In his new collection of short stories David Gaffney explores the theme of town versus country through a number of different lenses, including his own experience of being brought up in west Cumbria then moving to Manchester. A creative residency on the coast of Scotland becomes weirder and weirder in “The Retreat”; ‘I’ve always had the feeling that the countryside has something against me and that one day it will take its revenge.’ In “The Table”, a recluse in Penrith uses mid-century furniture to lure city dwellers into a world of ‘depressed farmers with shotguns and bottomless pits of slurry that will swallow you so hard you'll never be seen again. And in “The Garages” the pressure of city living forces a man to become oddly obsessed with empty spaces. Often funny, often haunting, often profound, Gaffney uses dark humour and surreal characters to demonstrate a deep understanding of how places, urban or rural, can shape, influence and sometimes distort our lives. ‘People who like the countryside tend to believe in things that aren’t really there,’ says a character in “The Country Pub”. These are indeed stories about things that aren’t really there, and this is why they resonate with you long after you have stopped reading.

Brief Encounters with Che Guevara - Stories (Paperback): Ben Fountain Brief Encounters with Che Guevara - Stories (Paperback)
Ben Fountain
R502 R411 Discovery Miles 4 110 Save R91 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The well-meaning protagonists of "Brief Encounters with Che Guevara" are caught--to both disastrous and hilarious effect--in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. Ben Fountain's prize-winning debut speaks to the intimate connection between the foreign, the familiar, and the inescapably human.

Flying Leap (Paperback): Judy Budnitz Flying Leap (Paperback)
Judy Budnitz
R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Brothers Grimm take lessons in fiction from Angela Carter to produce this uncanny and surreal work. Judy Budnitz might just be the most exciting and unusual literary figure to emerge from the US literary thicket in 2000. She marries great technical skill to quirky humour and dizzying metaphor. She has an uncanny knack for the destabilizing and indelible image, but does not abandon sense for sensibility. She is always readable, albeit strangely so. She might yet be an Americanized heir to the throne left vacant by Angela Carter. This collection of stories is strikingly surreal and hugely entertaining. It will appeal to fans of everyone from Tibor Fischer via Lorrie Moore to Nicholson Baker, or put another way, from Heathers to Edward Scissorhands via Annie Hall. Among the storylines: a young man is persuaded to donate his heart to his dying mother; a girl comes of age in strange suburbia, her only friend a man dressed in a dogsuit; a man and a woman conduct a passionate love affair on a park bench.

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