Extracts
Extract: Glass House by Chinenye Emezie
30 September 2021
Let me tell you a story. It’s about a war. This war is not the type fought with guns and machetes. It is a family type. A silent war. The type fought in the heart. It began long before I was formed.
“THE WAY THE BUILDING WAS SPREAD OUT, at first glance it appeared as if it were located in our compound, if you were...
Extract: Black Diamond by Zakes Mda
30 September 2021
Kristin Uys is a tough Roodepoort magistrate who lives alone with her cat. She is on a one-woman crusade to wipe out prostitution in the town for reasons that have personal significance for her.
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Free the Visagie Brothers
“NO ONE WILL BLAME YOU if you think Kristin Uys is dressed for a funeral. Not the black...
Extract: Little Suns by Zakes Mda
29 September 2021
Little Suns weaves the true events surrounding the death of Magistrate Hope into a touching story of love and perseverance that can transcend exile and strife.
Monday December 7, 1903
“THERE WERE OTHERS BEFORE HIM. But we start with Malangana because that is where our story begins. For him, though, it is...
Extract: Matrix by Lauren Groff
29 September 2021
Matrix is a bold vision of female love, devotion and desire from one of the most adventurous writers at work today.
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“SHE RIDES OUT OF THE FOREST ALONE. Seventeen years old, in the cold March drizzle, Marie who comes from France.
It is 1158 and the world bears the weariness of late Lent. Soon it will be Easter, which...
Extract: Shackleton: A Biography by Ranulph Fiennes
28 September 2021
In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice. The disaster left Shackleton and his men alone at the frozen South Pole, fighting for their lives. Their survival and escape is the most famous adventure in history.
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“THE GIGGLING, CRIES AND GASPS...
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