Extracts
Extract: CharacterScan by Douglas Kruger
01 August 2023
Katrina Hunt has a disturbing secret. Since her earliest days fighting for survival in the poverty of a trailer park, she’s been able to sense moral corruption. And her gift is never wrong. This strange ability affects every relationship, for people have no way to hide from her. Katrina harnesses her gift and sets it to work, sniffing out...
Uittreksel: Sluitstuk deur Johann Rossouw
28 July 2023
Drie jaar ná die dood van een van Afrikaans se grootste skrywers kom ’n Nederlandse vrou Suid-Afrika toe om navorsing vir ’n biografie oor sy lewe te doen. Sy besoek die skrywer se voormalige vakleerling om meer oor die enigmatiese figuur vas te stel – bykans dertig jaar nadat die twee mans se weë pynlik geskei het....
Extract: Ikigai by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles
14 July 2023
We all have an ikigai. It's the Japanese word for 'a reason to live'. The place where your needs, ambitions, skills and satisfaction meet. A place of balance. From authors Héctor García and Francesc Miralles comes a book that will help you unlock what your ikigai is and equip you to change your life.
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Extract: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
14 July 2023
What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget, and what treatments could help restore them to a life with purpose and joy? Here, Dr Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm for effectively treating traumatic stress.
Facing Trauma
One does not have be a combat soldier, or visit a refugee camp in...
Extract: The Girls of Summer by Katie Bishop
14 July 2023
'That place has been my whole life. Everything I thought I knew about myself was constructed in those few months I spent within touching distance of the sea. Everything I am is because Alistair loved me.'
What if everything you remember was a lie? The explosive and conversation-starting book-club debut from a stunning new talent. A book...
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