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Daar’s groot opgewondenheid in Feetjiedal. Dis amper tyd vir die
Hoogsomer-bal. Al die feeperdjies is gretig om uit te vind wie van
hulle Feekoningin se goue koets gaan trek. Krulkop wil so graag
gekies word, maar sy’s nie so sierlik en elegant soos die ander
feeperde nie. Haar droom lyk buite bereik...
Vonkel is die kleinste eenhorinkie in die Wonder-Woud. Almal se
sy’s te klein om te help bessies soek, en te klein om speletjies te
speel. Maar Vonkel is moeg daarvan om altyd eenkant toe geskuif te
word. Op ’n dag besluit Vonkel om te wys hoe dapper sy is. Op haar
eie gaan verken sy die diepste deel van die woud...
Sprankel het baie maatjies op die koraalrif waar sy woon, maar sy
wil so graag ’n ander seeperdjie ontmoet – ’n maatjie net soos sy …
Sy begin in die wye oseaan na ’n seeperd-maatjie soek, maar niemand
het al een gesien nie! Dan verander alles toe sy ’n vis-nar help...
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Kicking Tongues
Karen King-Aribisala
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R449
Discovery Miles 4 490
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Kicking Tongues is the magnificent tale of forty very different
travellers thrown together on a bus journey from Lagos to the new
capital, Abuja. Karen King-Aribisala brilliantly transposes
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to modern-day Nigeria. Carefully
selected by their hostess – an enigmatic figure who calls
herself, 'The Black Lady' – the passengers on this journey range
from a wealthy tribal chief to a humble petrol pump attendant, from
a rain-maker to a reserved woman observing purdah. They are united
only by their dissatisfaction with Nigeria's chaotic and corrupt
regime, a concern which is reflected in the widely differing
stories they tell on their journey – bawdy tales, sharp satires,
poignant narratives and moral fables. Blending poetry and prose,
rich visual images, and witty puns, Karen King-Aribisala succeeds
in transforming a fourteenth-century English classic into an
exuberant and distinctively African work.
Escape to Cornwall with this delightful summer read... Ellie
Truman's mum has been struggling to keep the family hotel in
Cornwall afloat since Ellie's dad passed away. Ellie is determined
to help her mum, even if that means moving back to the sleepy
Cornish village of Port Medden she fled from broken-hearted a few
years ago. Running the hotel isn't easy and Ellie is grateful for
the help from charming guest, Reece Mitchell. Ellie feels herself
falling for Reece but should she trust him and risk getting her
heart broken again? And will their hard work be enough to save the
hotel? A gorgeous feel-good read, perfect for fans of CATHY BRAMLEY
and PHILLIPA ASHLEY. Readers love Karen King's feel-good fiction:
'A great romance story by a superb author, I loved the main
character from the start' 5* Amazon review 'Such a lovely summer
book that I just couldn't put down! Absolutely loved the character
of Ellie and I was desperate to see how everything would work out'
5* Amazon review 'The story takes you to wonderful scenes of
pebbled beaches, rock pools, narrow streets and all the glory of
summer. It's a great holiday read and even you if aren't on holiday
it gives you a feel of that freedom and relaxation. You can't help
falling in love with the main characters and following their every
move with suspense. I loved this book and read it in a couple of
days because once I started reading, I couldn't put it down! Highly
recommended!' 5* Amazon review 'Most enjoyable read. Always
interesting. Very believable characters. I can thoroughly recommend
it. What could be a better summer read than one set in beautiful
Cornwall' 5* Amazon review 'This was a truly delightful book to
read. Just light-hearted feel good.' 5* Amazon review
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Healing Yarns
Karen King
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R251
R205
Discovery Miles 2 050
Save R46 (18%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Every summer has a story... Fun-loving travel rep Jess doesn't want
to be chief bridesmaid at her snooty cousin's wedding, but it will
cause a family feud if she refuses. She doesn't want to fall in
love either but when a raucous stag party arrives at her Majorcan
hotel, Jess hits it off instantly with best man, Eddie. A summer
romance is exactly what commitment-phobe Jess needs and, as the
stag-do draws to a close, so does the holiday fling. She has no
intentions of carrying on the summer fun but when Eddie turns up
again, Jess is faced with a big dilemma. Will this bridesmaid get
the happy-ever-after she never knew she wanted...
'Fab, original . . . I loved it!' SUE MOORCROFT ________ Readers
LOVE Karen King! 'A great romance story by a superb author' Amazon
reviewer 'I couldn't put it down! Highly recommended!' Amazon
reviewer 'Another absolutely fabulous story!' Amazon reviewer 'I
just couldn't put down!' Amazon reviewer ________ Some people are
romantics. Some aren't. When Sophie and Maddie are summoned to a
mysterious, top-secret meeting by their best friend Kate's partner,
and told that he's planning to whisk Kate away for a surprise
wedding in Gibraltar, it's immediately clear that bubbly florist
Sophie is a total romantic. And that freewheeling, purple-haired
Maddie is not. Soon, Maddie finds herself reluctantly organising
venues, planners and ceremonies; trying not to think of her own
memories of Andalucia, and those she's lost touch with there.
Meanwhile Sophie's hoping this dreamy gesture might spur on her own
boyfriend to similar plans . . . and absolutely not thinking at all
about Kate's gorgeous brother-in-law-to-be. But Kate's got no idea
what's going on. And as the stresses pile up and the group jet off
to the sunny south, it seems it's not just Kate who might get a
surprise in Spain - one that could change everything . . .
A young Guyanese woman sets out to write an historical novel based
on the 1823 Demerara Slave Rebellion and the fate of an English
missionary who is condemned to hang for his alleged part in the
uprising, but who dies in prison before his execution. She has
wanted to document historical fact through fiction, but the
characters she invents make an altogether messier intrusion into
her life with their conflicting interests and ambivalent
motivations. As an African-Guyanese in a country where a Black
ruling elite oppresses the population, she begins to wonder what
lay behind her 'ancestral enslavement', why fellow Africans had
'exchanged silver for the likes of me'. As a committed Christian,
she also wonders why God has allowed slavery to happen. Beset by
her unruly characters and these questions, the novel is stymied. In
an attempt to unblock it, she decides that she should take up a
family contact to spend some time in Nigeria, to experience her
African origins at first hand. For a couple of years, falling in
love, marriage to a Nigerian university professor and the birth of
their first child silence the characters in her head. Then the
hanging of a family friend by El Presidente, Butcher Boy's
murderous military regime brutally plunges her back into the world
of her novel. To her consternation, one after the other, the seven
main characters in the novel reveal themselves in contemporary
Nigerian guise and she finds herself implicated in uncomfortably
personal ways in a narrative where the distinctions between her
'life' and the 'fiction' she is writing have become utterly
permeable. Almost uncontrollably, the novel begins to write itself.
To try to regain the semblance of control, she falls back on a game
of childhood, Hangman, which she plays with the Nigerian
'manifestation' of the most personally threatening of her
characters, as a form of sympathetic magic to try to ensure her
survival. Not until the last page do we know whether she succeeds.
Karen King-Aribisala has written a densely layered, challengingly
ambitious work of fiction. There is the actual historical novel,
her thoughts about it, the drama of her life in Nigeria and the
seepage between the different worlds. As such, "The Hangman's Game"
has much to say about the Guyanese past and present, and the nature
of postcolonial power in both Africa and the Caribbean. And, if
"The Hangman's Game" is provocatively post-modern in its
self-reflexivity on the nature of both historical and fictional
writing, its ideas are dramatically communicated through action in
a novel that is rich in tension, dark humour and complex,
strikingly drawn characters.
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Treasure Island (Hardcover)
Karen King; Illustrated by Ben Mantle
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R305
R186
Discovery Miles 1 860
Save R119 (39%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Read the story and then press out and build an amazing model to
bring the story to life.
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