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Innards
(Paperback)
Magogodi oaMphela Makhene
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R425
R379
Discovery Miles 3 790
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The fiery birth of a new star of South African fiction, Innards is an incendiary debut of linked stories that narrates the everyday lives of Soweto residents, from the early years of apartheid to its dissolution and beyond.
Set in Soweto, the urban heartland of South Africa, Innards tells the intimate stories of everyday black folks processing the savagery of apartheid. Rich with the thrilling textures of township language and life, it braids the voices and perspectives of an indelible cast of characters into a breathtaking collection flush with forgiveness, rage, ugliness and beauty.
Meet a fake PhD and ex-freedom fighter who remains unbothered by his own duplicity, a girl who goes mute after stumbling upon a burning body, twin siblings nursing a scorching feud, and a woman unravelling under the weight of a brutal encounter with the police. At the heart of this collection – of deceit and ambition, appalling violence and transcendent love – is the story of slavery, colonization and apartheid – and it shows in intimate detail how South Africans must navigate both the shadows of the recent past and the uncertain opportunities of the promised land.
Full to bursting with life, in all its complexities and vagaries, Innards is an uncompromising depiction of black South Africa. Visceral and tender, it heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.
From bestselling gothic horror author Darcy Coates comes a chilling
story of a quiet house on a forgotten suburban lane that hides a
deadly secret... Leigh Harker's quiet suburban home was her
sanctuary for more than a decade, until things abruptly changed.
Curtains open by themselves. Radios turn off and on. And a dark
figure looms in the shadows of her bedroom door at night, watching
her, waiting for her to finally let down her guard enough to fall
asleep. Pushed to her limits but unwilling to abandon her home,
Leigh struggles to find answers. But each step forces her towards
something more terrifying than she ever imagined. A poisonous
shadow seeps from the locked door beneath the stairs. The handle
rattles through the night and fingernails scratch at the wood. Her
home harbours dangerous secrets, and now that Leigh is trapped
within its walls, she fears she may never escape. Do you think
you're safe? You're wrong. Also By Darcy Coates: The Haunting of
Ashburn House The Haunting of Blackwood House Craven Manor The
House Next Door Voices in the Snow The Whispering Dead
It s Supergirl like you ve never seen her before, in a
character-defining sci-fi/fantasy masterpiece from Mister Miracle
writer Tom King and Wonder Woman artist Bilquis Evely! One of
NYPL's Best Books for Adults 2022. Kara Zor-El has seen some epic
adventures over the years, but she now finds her life without
meaning or purpose. Here she is, a young woman who saw her planet
destroyed and was sent to Earth to protect a baby cousin who ended
up not needing her. What was it all for? Wherever she goes, people
only see her through the lens of Superman s fame. Just when
Supergirl thinks she s had enough, everything changes. An alien
girl seeks her out for a vicious mission. Her world has been
destroyed, and the bad guys responsible are still out there. She
wants revenge, and if Supergirl doesn t help her, she ll do it
herself, whatever the cost. Now a Kryptonian, a dog, and an angry,
heartbroken child head out into space on a journey that will shake
them to their very core. This volume collects Supergirl: Woman of
Tomorrow #1-8.
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Phantastes
(Hardcover)
George MacDonald; Edited by Greville Macdonald; Illustrated by John Bell
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R593
Discovery Miles 5 930
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Agony
(Hardcover)
Federico De Roberto; Translated by Andrew Edwards
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R763
Discovery Miles 7 630
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Chiral Mad 5
(Hardcover)
Michael Bailey; Stephen King, Josh Malerman
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R924
Discovery Miles 9 240
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"I'm minded of the way a fire spreads in dry bracken when we burn
it off the fellside: tongues of flame this way and that - 'tis
human tongues and words that's creeping like flames in brushwood."
It all began up at High Gimmerdale with the sheep-stealing, a
hateful act in the shepherding lands around the bend in the Lune
river - the Crook o' Lune. Then came the fire at Aikengill house
and with the leaping of the flames, death, disorder and dangerous
gossip came to the quiet moorlands. Visiting his friends, the
Hoggetts, while searching for some farmland to buy up ahead of his
retirement, Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald's trip becomes a
busman's holiday when he is drawn to investigate the deadly blaze
and the deep-rooted motives behind the rising spate of crimes.
Renowned for its authentic characters and settings based partly on
the author's own experiences of life in the Lune valley, E.C.R.
Lorac's classic rural mystery returns to print for the first time
since 1953.
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