Extracts
Uittreksel: Vier susters deur Gerda Taljaard
10 May 2021
’n Verhaal van vier susters en hoe die Tweede Wêreldoorlog hul onderlinge verhoudings beïnvloed. En dan kom ’n Italiaanse krygsgevangene op hul geboorteplaas aan.
“DIE PAARTJIES WAT BEATRICE EN BOAS IN AUCKLANDPARK ONTMOET, is anders as dié in Westdene. Hulle hou skemerkelkie-aande, nie vleisbraaie...
Extract: The Promise by Damon Galgut
05 May 2021
There is nothing unusual or remarkable about the Swart family, oh no, they resemble the family from the next farm and the one beyond that, just an ordinary bunch of white South Africans, and if you don’t believe it then listen to us speak...
Over large jumps in time, people get older, faces and laws and lives all change, while a brother and...
Extract: Cunning Women by Elizabeth Lee
05 May 2021
A searing story of forbidden love and the curtailing of female wildness set amongst the long shadows cast by the Pendle Witch Trials is the bewitching debut from a magnetic new voice in historical fiction.
Lancashire, 1620
“ANNIE SLEEPS CURLED UP ON THE BED we share, wet thumb fallen from her mouth. I kneel, calling and shaking her...
Extract: The Ends of the Earth by Abbie Greaves
28 April 2021
The breath-taking new novel from the author of The Silent Treatment – for fans of Jojo Moyes, Joanna Cannon and Ruth Jones.
MARY CAN REMEMBER exactly where she was standing, the moment she first saw James. Not because of fate or the fixing point of Cupid’s arrow, or some other nonsense she didn’t have the head or time...
Extract: The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
28 April 2021
A moving and immersive debut: when a team of scholars compiles the first Oxford English Dictionary, one of their daughters starts a parallel book containing all the "objectionable" words the men choose to omit.
September 1898
DURING THE DAY I helped Mrs Ballard in the kitchen, and I only ventured towards the Scriptorium in the...
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