Extracts
Extract: Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
25 May 2021
This monumentally powerful epic weaves together the astonishing lives of a daredevil female aviator, and the Hollywood rebel who will play her on screen.
Los Angeles, December 2014
“I ONLY KNEW ABOUT MARIAN GRAVES because one of my uncle’s girlfriends liked to dump me at the library when I was a kid, and one time I picked up...
Extract: Blues for the White Man by Fred de Vries
25 May 2021
A fascinating, insightful journey through time and space, Blues for the White Man is a celebration of multiculturalism.
“ATTRACTED BY COMPARABLE SENTIMENTS, other black activists from different parts of America had moved to Jackson over the years. In 1990 some of them formed the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) which, just like...
Extract: Unbecoming by Joanne Fedler
24 May 2021
“LIZ THINKS. ‘I’M SORRY I HURT THEM. It would probably have been
better for everyone if I’d never had kids.’
I’ve never heard such a candid expression of remorse, the kind
whispered at confession, if at all. Procreation is exclusively a liturgical
discourse of the ‘miraculous’ and the ‘...
Extract: Death on the Limpopo by Sally Andrew
18 May 2021
Tannie Maria might be the Karoo’s favourite agony aunt, but when it comes to matters of her own heart, she doesn’t have all the answers. Why is she having trouble telling her beau – the dashing Detective Henk Kannemeyer with the chestnut moustache – that she loves him? Ladismith’s famous crime fighter is back...
Extract: Tannie Maria and the Satanic Mechanic by Sally Andrew
18 May 2021
Everybody’s favourite agony aunt and crime fighter Tannie Maria needs some counselling advice of her own. Lingering troubles from a previous marriage still sit heavy on her, while fresh worries about Slimkat, a local man whose fight for his people’s land threatens his life, keep her up at night. Tannie Maria seeks out counsellor,...
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