Judas Child - Carol O'Connell
R75,00
The plot involves a police investigator named Rouge Kendall whose twin sister was murdered years earlier. The present-day disappearance of two young girls brings back terrifying memories and leads him to connect the cases with a local academy and a past conviction.
Product code: 9780091801946
The Italian Matchmaker - Santa Montefiore
R110,00
The story follows Gianluca, a man whose high-pressure city life and marriage have failed to satisfy him. He flees to the Amalfi Coast of Italy to his family's restored Palazzo Montelimone in search of purpose. There, he encounters eccentric friends and the ghosts of a murderous past, forcing him to unravel a long-buried mystery and face his greatest fears.
Product code: 9780340840535
One Night in Winter - Simon Sebag Montefiore
R150,00
Inspired by a true story, the novel is an epic set in Stalin's Russia shortly after World War II. It begins with the deaths of a teenage boy and girl, children of prominent leaders, in Moscow. The subsequent investigation, directed by Stalin, becomes a terrifying witch-hunt that uncovers illicit love affairs and family secrets, with severe consequences for those involved.
Product code: 9781780891378
Chain of Events - Fredrik T Olsson
R125,00The story follows William Sandberg, a brilliant but troubled former military cryptologist whose life is in ruins after the collapse of his career and marriage. He is abruptly abducted by a shadowy, top-secret organization and given an impossible task: decode a hidden message within the human DNA sequence.
The stakes are raised when a potent and deadly virus begins to spread rapidly around the world, causing thousands of deaths. William's ex-wife, Christina, suspects foul play in his disappearance and begins her own investigation, which leads her to a mysterious chateau in the Alps, where the organization is operating.Â
Product code: 9780751553376
Nine perfect strangers - Liane Moriarty
R95,00
The story is set at Tranquillum House, a remote health-and-wellness resort. Nine stressed city dwellers arrive seeking a total transformation, without their phones or cars, effectively cutting them off from the outside world. Overseeing the retreat is the resort's director, Masha, a woman with a dark and unexpected agenda for her guests. The novel is a psychological thriller that mixes humor with suspense and has been praised for its witty characters and twisty plot.
Product code: 9780718180300
Time is a River - Mary Alice Monroe
R110,00
The novel is an environmental fiction story that follows Mia Landan, a woman recovering from breast cancer and the shock of her husband's infidelity. She flees her Charleston home for a remote cabin in the North Carolina mountains, where she finds the journal of a 1920s fly fisher named Kate Watkins. Inspired by Kate's story and wise words comparing life to a river, Mia begins a journey of healing, self-discovery, and forgiveness.
Product code: 9781416544364
Courting Emma - Sharlene MacLaren (3rd in the Little Hickman Creek Series)
R75,00Product code: 9781603740203
The Fifth Profession - David Morrell
R75,00
When Savage and Akira meet, they are shocked to realize they both have vivid memories of seeing the other die in a past assignment, a shared history that is undeniably false. As they join forces with Rachel and evade pursuit by unknown adversaries, they work to solve the mystery of their jumbled memories, a phenomenon Savage identifies as jamais vu. Their investigation points to a conspiracy involving experimental brain surgery, hypnosis, and the CIA, ultimately leading them to Japan to confront a truth that could shatter their reality.
Product code: 9780747202615
The Diviner's Tale - Bradford Morrow
R95,00
The novel is a mystery that follows Cassandra Brooks, a water diviner and schoolteacher in upstate New York, who discovers what she believes is the body of a young girl in the woods. When authorities arrive, the body has vanished, prompting a tale of self-discovery, dark forebodings, and an "unorthodox murder mystery".
Product code: 9781848875715
Love & Ruin - Paula McLain
R45,00
The novel is a work of historical fiction that focuses on the passionate and tumultuous marriage of the American writer and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn to the legendary author Ernest Hemingway. The story follows Gellhorn's journey as she travels to Madrid in 1937 to report on the Spanish Civil War, where she meets and falls in love with Hemingway. The narrative explores their life together against the backdrops of the Spanish Civil War, Finland, China, and Cuba, and the conflict Gellhorn faced in maintaining her own identity and career as a serious journalist while in the shadow of her famous husband.
Product code: 9780708898918
Quiver - Peter Leonard
R110,00
The novel is a fast-paced thriller set in and around Detroit and rural Michigan, centered on a family tragedy and the criminals it attracts.
Product code: 9780571241118
Middlemere - Judith Lennox
R95,00
The novel is a spellbinding story of love, loyalty, and family ties that follows Romy, a young woman who, at 19, still remembers the injustice of her family's violent eviction from their isolated tenant farm, Middlemere, years earlier. Determined to restore her family's fortunes and provide a better life for her mother and brother, she schemes to recover what she believes is rightfully theirs. A chance encounter with the owner of a London hotel changes her life forever as she navigates her quest for justice and forgiveness.
Product code: 9781405006187
The Expatriates - Janice Y K Lee
R95,00
Set in present-day Hong Kong, the novel follows the lives of three American women—Mercy, Margaret, and Hilary—who are part of the expatriate community. An unspeakable tragedy links two of the women and their individual perspectives are woven together, exploring themes of motherhood, grief, identity, privilege, and belonging in a foreign land.
Product code: 9781408706862
Live by Night - Dennis Lehane
R95,00he narrative, a sweeping epic covering the 1920s and 1930s, begins in Boston where Joe Coughlin, the son of a prominent police captain, progresses from a small-time thief to a formidable figure in organized crime. A pivotal early plot point involves his ill-fated love affair with Emma Gould, the mistress of a powerful Irish mob boss, which forces Joe to leave Boston and eventually join a rival Italian gang.
His journey takes him to the Latin Quarter of Tampa, Florida, and later to Cuba, where he becomes a successful rum runner and oversees a large criminal empire. The story explores themes of family, loyalty, betrayal, and redemption, placing Joe in a world of violence, crooked cops, Klansmen, and real-life crime kingpins like Lucky Luciano. The novel is critically acclaimed for its rich character development, engrossing plot twists, and atmospheric depiction of the Prohibition era.
Product code: 9781408703168
Blitz - Molly Lefebure
R90,00
Drawing on her time as a newspaper reporter in East London during the actual Blitz, Molly Lefebure brings a strong sense of realism to the story, conveying both the destruction of the city and the everyday humor and absurdity found even in wartime
Product code: 0575043067
The Keeper - John Lescroart
Product code: 9780755393244
Ibhayibhili Elingcwele (Ndebele Classic Navy) Bible
Product code: 9781928437505
Below Stairs - Margaret Powell
R65,00
The book recounts Margaret Powell's journey starting at age fifteen as a kitchen maid, the lowest rank in the servant hierarchy. She details the grinding labor, which began at 5:30 am and ended after dark, involving tasks such as scrubbing vegetables, blacking stoves, and even ironing bootlaces. Born into a poor but loving family in Hove, she was forced to leave school despite passing an exam for a grammar school scholarship due to financial necessity. Her memoir is a collection of anecdotes and observations from the various houses where she worked, highlighting the strict class system, the often harsh treatment by employers and senior staff (like the cook above her), and the limited opportunities for social mobility. She eventually worked her way up to the position of cook before leaving service, marrying a milkman, and later pursuing education and a writing career.
Product code: 432118004
Violets are Blue - James Patterson
Product code: 9780747274322
The Hot Zone - Richard Preston
R135,00
The book is a non-fiction thriller that recounts the dramatic and chilling story of outbreaks of highly lethal viruses from the tropical rain forest, most notably the 1989 emergence of an Ebola virus in a monkey house in suburban Washington, D.C.. It details the efforts of American laboratory workers and scientists to identify and contain the deadly pathogen close to the US capital.
Product code: 9780385406314
The Butcher's Boy - Thomas Perry
Product code: 9781847240330
Back from the Dead - Chris Petit
R100,00The story centers on McMahon, an aging and decadent rock star who begins receiving mysterious, obsessive letters signed with the name "Leah". The problem is that Leah, his former nanny, died 15-20 years earlier in France under circumstances that McMahon witnessed.
Unable to find a logical explanation, McMahon hires Youselli, a disillusioned and hard-bitten city cop, to investigate the source of the letters. As Youselli delves into the case, he is drawn into McMahon's world of drugs and parties, and soon becomes obsessed with the mystery of Leah's death and the letters' authenticity. The novel explores themes of self-destruction, obsession, and the past returning to haunt the present, leading Youselli toward his own undoing.
Product code: 9780333759745
Fall on your knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald
A sprawling, multi-generational saga, the novel explores the lives of four sisters in the Piper family in early 20th-century Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The story, which has been an Oprah's Book Club pick, delves into themes of family secrets, forbidden love, racial strife, and the bonds that tie the family together across generations, from the coal-mining communities of Nova Scotia to the battlefields of World War I and the jazz scene of New York City.Â
Product code: 9780099740513
Sally - Freya North
R50,00
The novel is a contemporary fiction story about a prim primary school teacher from Highgate who decides to reinvent herself as a "Jackie Collins heroine" and pursue a no-strings-attached affair with an architect named Richard, only for him to fall in love with her.Â
Product code: 9780749323387
Coming Home - Rosamunde Pilcher
R65,00
It is an epic story set against the backdrop of an elegant Cornwall mansion before World War II and follows the coming-of-age of Judith Dunbar as she endures the war years, grappling with love, sadness, and finding a sense of identity.
Product code: 9780340646854
The Reactive - Masande Ntshanga
R95,00
Set in Cape Town, the story follows the life of Lindanathi, who, along with his friends, sells illegal pharmaceuticals while grappling with the guilt of his brother's death. The novel explores themes of chemical abuse, family, memory, and the path to redemption, set against the backdrop of a "not-so-new South Africa".
Product code: 9781415207192
The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village - Joanna Nell
R95,00
It is a heartwarming and humorous story about 79-year-old Peggy Smart, whose quiet life in a retirement village is disrupted by the return of an old school friend, the glamorous Angie Valentine. The book explores themes of aging, friendship, community, and the idea that it's never too late for new adventures.
Product code: 9780733640353
The Fine Colour of Rust - P A O'Reilly
R95,00
This is a wryly funny, life-affirming novel about Loretta Boskovic, a single mother living in the fictional small Australian country town of Gunapan. When the local primary school is threatened with closure due to suspected local council corruption, Loretta, despite being short on money and influence, teams up with loyal friends to fight for her community.Â
Product code: 9780007434930