Extracts
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,...
Extract: Recipes for Love and Murder by Sally Andrew
18 May 2021
Meet Tannie Maria: She's fifty-something, short and soft (perhaps a bit too soft in the wrong places) with brown curls and untidy Afrikaans. She is also the agony aunt for the local paper, the Klein Karoo Gazette. One day, her life takes a sinister turn when a woman in the area is murdered and she becomes entangled in the investigation... to...
Extract: The Scandalous Times of a Book Louse by Robert Muponde
12 May 2021
Laughter guaranteed with this poetic and poignant coming-of age story of Ronald Guramatunhu, the rural Zimbabwean boy who devours words.
“SOMETIMES, MR RG MUWENGWA LURED US INTO WORKING FOR HIM whilst he told his stories. He was a genius when it came to telling ones that were all too familiar but became new and strange with each...
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