Extracts
Extract: Women of Troy by Pat Barker
29 July 2021
Troy has fallen and the Greek victors are primed to return home, loaded with spoils. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails.
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“INSIDE THE HORSE’S GUT: heat, darkness, sweat, fear. They’re crammed in, packed as tight as olives in a jar. He hates this contact with other bodies. Always has. Even clean,...
Uittreksel: Moord op Lake Panic deur Leon van Nierop
29 July 2021
’n Handvol sjefs by ’n meesterklas in die boendoes. ’n Vrou se lyk in die meer. ’n Privaat speurder wat moet vra: Wie het sy mes in vir wie?
“BEER STAP BUITENTOE, oor die lodge se gras na die hysbak se geopende deure. Kyk hoe die voëls oor die meer vlieg. ’n Wolk swaeltjies wat met gepunte...
Extract: Ancestral by Charlie Human
29 July 2021
Clementine Khoza is a hard person; hard to know, hard to love, hard to fight. When she was a little girl, her grandfather put a stick and a shield in her hands and taught her the ancient stick-fighting art of her Zulu ancestors. The hard way.
“I’VE GOT A BLOOD-SMEARED Perspex riot shield in one hand and an iron-capped stick in...
Extract: The Tearoom by Gretchen Haley
29 July 2021
Sprinkled with delicious humour and spoonfuls of local flavour, The Tearoom is a warm tale with characters you’ll never forget.
“BY FOUR-THIRTY I was sold out for the day. My last customer was Gayle Nair who, like me and many others, went by a name that wasn’t on her birth certificate. Her first name was actually...
Extract: This Shining Life by Harriet Kline
29 July 2021
A boy struggling to process an unexpected loss believes he has been given a series of clues to the biggest puzzle of all—the meaning of life—in this deeply felt debut novel.
PROLOGUE
“HE FELL OVER AND LAY in the grass, laughing. ‘I didn’t think I’d had that much to drink.’
The sky...
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