Extracts
Extract: Hammerman by Mike Nicol
25 March 2022
June 2018
“He’s known as AJ. Has been called AJ forever. The nickname his mother gave him. The A stands for André. The J for Jacobs, his surname. No one ever calls him André. Nor would he answer to it. Anyone calls him André over the phone, he disconnects. To his subordinates in the cops he’s Colonel...
Extract: Burning Questions by Margaret Atwood
10 March 2022
An exhilarating collection of non-fiction from the bestselling, double Booker Prize-winning phenomenon. In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds.
Frozen in Time
INTRODUCTION (2004)
"Frozen in Time by Owen Beattie and...
Extract: The Flames by Sophie Haydock
10 March 2022
Vienna, at the beginning of the 20th century, is an exhilarating social whirl, a city of ideas, of music, of groundbreaking art. Into this world come four women, each with a story to tell. In a city like Vienna, everything seems possible – until an act of betrayal changes everything.
Prologue
4 May 1968
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Uittreksel: Die geheim van Mussolini se Kaart deur Constant van der Merwe
10 March 2022
Elena ontdek ’n ou kaart in die solder op hul plaas, ’n kaart wat haar Italiaanse oupa as krygsgevangene na Suid-Afrika gebring het. Dis ’n vonds wat kan lei na ’n goudskat wat die diktator Mussolini in oorlogsbunkers weggesteek is. Wanneer sy die kaart vir haar vriend in Stellenbosch, historikus Ernst, wys, bars alle hel...
Extract: A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
09 March 2022
Tolle provides the spiritual framework for people to move beyond themselves in order to make this world a better, more spiritually evolved place to live. Shattering modern ideas of ego and entitlement, self and society, Tolle lifts the veil of fear that has hung over humanity, and shines an illuminating light that leads to happiness and health...