Living with an Alien - Pam Whyte
R65,00
1001 answers to 1001 questions asked by millions of people on dog behaviour
Product code: 9781874848851
The Never-ending days of being dead - Marcus Chown
R50,00
Learn how the big bang may have been spawned by a collision between 'island universes'; how a single remarkable number contains the answer to every question we could ever ask; how the most widely accepted theory of the universe's origin suggests that Elvis never died; and how a computer program a mere four lines long could be generating the stars, the galaxies and the tip of your nose. Chown fearlessly addresses the big questions on the nature of the universe, the nature of reality, and the place of life in the universe. Ultimately, he says, science is about the down-to-earth things that matter to all of us. Where did the universe come from? Where did we come from? What the hell are we doing here?
Product code: 9780571220557
Hollywood Moon - Joseph Wambaugh
R100,00
The story follows LAPD officers Dana Vaughn, Nate Weiss, and the eccentric duo nicknamed Flotsam and Jetsam as they navigate the chaotic streets of Hollywood to investigate a series of bizarre attacks and complex local crimes.
Product code: 9781847248862
The Nest - Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
R85,00
The story revolves around the Plumb family, four middle-aged siblings—Leo, Beatrice, Jack, and Melody—who share a joint trust fund they have affectionately called "The Nest". They have all spent years prematurely counting on this inheritance to bail them out of various self-inflicted financial crises. However, the family dynamic fractures when the oldest brother, Leo, gets into a catastrophic, drug-fueled car accident. To pay for his rehab and cover up the scandal, their mother drains the trust fund, forcing the dysfunctional siblings to confront their choices, relationships, and financial dependencies.
Product code: 9780062414212
Angel Rock - Darren Williams
R65,00
Set in a hardscrabble, back country town in 1969, this begins with two half-brothers who get lost in the wild wooded countryside around the small town of Angel Rock. Only the eldest, 13-year-old Tom, finds his way home. A story of psychological suspense. Notable for its description of the Australian countryside in all its harshness and beauty.
Product code: 9780007137152
The Blood Doctor - Barbara Vine
R65,00
The First Lord Nanther clearly hoped to be the subject of an admiring posthumous biography. Having built a name for himself as Queen Victoria's favored physician expert on blood diseases and particularly the royal disease of hemophilia he fastidiously set about recording the details of his eminent life, carefully cataloguing every significant letter, diary and medical essay that he'd written. But when the present Lord Nanther begins to research the life of his great-grandfather, he soon realizes there is little of interest in his ancestor's dry-as-dust account. Indeed, he begins to suspect that these old records conceal more than they reveal....
No Night is too long - Barbara Vine
R65,00
Set in Alaska and Suffolk, this story involves a brother (Ivo) and sister (Isabel), each of whom has a sexual relationship with Tim. When Ivo is left for dead on a remote arctic island, the way seems clear for Tim and Isabel. But nothing quite plays itself out in the way one might expect.
Product code: 9780670855605
The Brimstone Wedding - Barbara Vine
R75,00
Stella is a secretive, elegant, elderly lady dying of cancer. Only Jenny, her young care assistant, seems aware of Stella's mysterious past. Allowed to use Stella's house for meetings with her lover, Jenny discovers clues to Stella's past, and a dark, shocking secret is finally revealed.
Product code: 9780670866106
Audition - Barbara Walters
R95,00
Barbara Walters’s perception of the world was formed at a very early age. Her father, Lou Walters, was the owner and creative mind behind the legendary Latin Quarter nightclub, and it was his risk-taking lifestyle that gave Barbara her first taste of glamour. It also made her aware of the ups and downs, the insecurities, and even the tragedies that can occur when someone is willing to take great risks, for Lou Walters didn’t just make several fortunes—he also lost them. Barbara learned early about the damage that such an existence can do to relationships—between husband and wife as well as between parent and child. Through her roller-coaster ride of a childhood, Barbara had a close companion, her mentally challenged sister, Jackie. True, Jackie taught her younger sister much about patience and compassion, but Barbara also writes honestly about the resentment she often felt having a sister who was so “different” and the guilt that still haunts her.
All of this—the financial responsibility for her family, the fear, the love—played a large part in the choices she made as she grew up: the friendships she developed, the relationships she had, the marriages she tried to make work. Ultimately, thanks to her drive, combined with a decent amount of luck, she began a career in television. And what a career it has been! Against great odds, Barbara has made it to the top of a male-dominated industry. She was the first woman cohost of the Today show, the first female network news co-anchor, the host and producer of countless top-rated Specials, the star of 20/20, and the creator and cohost of The View. She has not just interviewed the world’s most fascinating figures, she has become a part of their world.
Product code: 9780307266460
The Word - Irving Wallace
R60,00
The Word is a fast-paced theological thriller centered around the discovery of a lost gospel—the "Gospel According to James," the younger brother of Jesus. The ancient document dramatically reshapes mankind's understanding of the New Testament, but it quickly sparks a web of international conspiracies, deep-state political maneuvering, and existential questions about faith, authenticity, and forgery.
Product code: 0304938556
A Curable Romantic - Joseph Skibell
R150,00
I fell in love with Emma Eckstein the moment I saw her from the fourth gallery of the Carl Theater, and this was also the night I met Sigmund Freud.” So goes the life, times, and loves of Dr. Jakob Sammelsohn, a fairly incurable romantic venturing optimistically through modern history.
Product code: 9781565129290
The Corsican Woman - Madge Swindells
R50,00
In 1970, Sybilia, a young woman living on Corsica at the end of World War II, who had fallen in love with an American soldier, discovers a terrible secret about the death of her lover, a discovery that sets the stage for conflict and tragedy.
Product code: CN8178
Beneath a Scarlet Sky - Mark Sullivan
R65,00
Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager―obsessed with music, food, and girls―but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior.In an attempt to protect him, Pino’s parents force him to enlist as a German soldier―a move they think will keep him out of combat. But after Pino is injured, he is recruited at the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver for Adolf Hitler’s left hand in Italy, General Hans Leyers, one of the Third Reich’s most mysterious and powerful commanders.Now, with the opportunity to spy for the Allies inside the German High Command, Pino endures the horrors of the war and the Nazi occupation by fighting in secret, his courage bolstered by his love for Anna and for the life he dreams they will one day share.
Product code: 9781503943377
Testament - Kim Sherwood
R150,00
The story follows Eva, who is deeply impacted by the death of her grandfather, a charismatic painter and Holocaust survivor who kept many secrets about his past. When his identity papers are released alongside an archive of Nazi-looted art, Eva is forced to uncover the painful history of her family's survival, grief, and long-buried identities.
Product code: 9781786488664
The Law of Second Chances - James Sheehan
R90,00
Benny Avrile, an impoverished hood in New York City, is about to hit the big-time. His mark is a retired oil man who is visiting his mistress with $10,000 in his pocket. Benny is told that if he carries out the robbery he'll get a share of the profits - an offer that is far too good to refuse. But as he walks up to the oilman's car, gun in hand, a shot rings out, and the oilman falls dead. Benny is arrested and sentenced to death. Representing people on death row is what trial lawyer Jack Tobin does best. Based in Florida, he is meeting with Henry Wilson, a drug-user, career criminal, and one of the biggest men Jack has ever met. Henry has been on death row for seventeen years now and his execution by lethal injection is just six weeks away. Jack is convinced that Henry is innocent, but whether he can find a legal basis to delay execution and get Henry a new trial remains the question that may save Henry's life. The clock is ticking, two innocent men are facing the death penalty, yet the one person who Jack most wants to save - his beloved wife, Pat - has the least time of all ...
Product code: 9780593057216
Havana Bay - Martin Cruz Smith
R95,00
The body, at least what was left of it, was drifting in Havana Bay the morning Arkady arrived from Moscow. Only the day before, he had received an urgent message from the Russian embassy in Havana that his friend Pribluda was missing and asking that he come. The Cubans insisted that this corpse floating in an inner tube was Pribluda, but Arkady wasn't so sure. "You don't investigate assault, you don't investigate murder. Just what do you investigate?" Arkady asks Ofelia Osorio, a detective in the Policia Nacional de la Revolucion. "Or is it simply open season on Russians in Havana?" The comrades of the Cold War have parted bitterly, and the Russians who used to swarm through Havana's streets are now as rare as they are despised, much more so than Americans. Havana is overrun with color, music, and suspicion. The Revolution's heroes have outlived idealism. The Com-munist world has shrunk to Cuba. Paradise has become a stop on sex tours. It is a city of empty stores and talking drums, Karl Marx and sharp machetes, where an American radical rides around in Hemingway's car to tout island investments and a Wall Street developer on the run from the FBI flies a pirate flag.
Product code: 9780333766293
Puppy Love - Frauke Scheunemann
R60,00
The story is narrated by Hercules, a rescue dachshund puppy with exceptionally high standards. When his beloved owner, Caroline, is poorly treated by her dog-hating boyfriend, Hercules takes it upon himself to intervene. He goes on a humorous, determined quest to find his human companion the absolute perfect partner.
Product code: 9780857893147
Devil's Juggler - Murray Smith
R85,00
While a tough New York cop investigates a young woman's drug overdose, an Irish judge is blackmailed into helping the IRA, and the British Secret Intelligence Service attempts to plant an informer inside Colombia's most ruthless drug cartel.
Product code: 0671784641
Starboard - Nicola Skinner
R95,00
This is the story of Kirsten, an apparently happy and successful 11-year-old YouTube star who meets a ship that comes alive”¦ and is claimed by it as its new captain as it breaks free from its dry dock.Inspired by the true history of the SS Great Britain, Starboard is about the friendship, heroism and bravery that you can find in others, whether they’re made of flesh or iron. It’s about taking control of your own life and going on epic adventures. But most of all, it’s about finding out who you really dare to be, when you’re completely out of your depth”.
Product code: 9780008422417
Roseanna - Sjöwall & Wahlöö (A Martin Beck Novel)
R50,00
The first book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s -- the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing. Hugely acclaimed, the Martin Beck series were the original Scandinavian crime novels and have inspired the writings of Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbo. Written in the 1960s, 10 books completed in 10 years, they are the work of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo -- a husband and wife team from Sweden. They follow the fortunes of the detective Martin Beck, whose enigmatic, taciturn character has inspired countless other policemen in crime fiction; without his creation Ian Rankin's John Rebus or Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander may never have been conceived. The novels can be read separately, but are best read in chronological order, so the reader can follow the characters' development and get drawn into the series as a whole. 'Roseanna' begins on a July afternoon, the body of a young woman is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. Three months later, all that Police Inspector Martin Beck knows is that her name is Roseanna, that she came from Lincoln, Nebraska, and that she could have been strangled by any one of eighty-five people.
Product code: 9780007439119
Martin Sloane - Michael Redhill
R75,00
The story spans two decades and follows a woman named Jolene Iolas. When her partner, an enigmatic artist named Martin Sloane, vanishes from their home without warning, Jolene is left consumed by grief. A decade later, a clue surfaces in Dublin, prompting her to travel there to uncover the truth behind his disappearance and explore the complex boundaries of love, memory, and art.
Product code: 9780434010257
Black Dog Summer - Miranda Sherry
R65,00
SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG WITH MY DYING. Until the day of the attack, Sally and her teenage daughter Gigi lived a charmed bohemian life in the African bush. Now Sally is dead and Gigi has been sent to live with her aunt and uncle in the suburbs. But Gigi's arrival stirs up secrets that were buried long ago. And Sally, lingering in the shadows, is powerless to stop them...
Product code: 9781781859582
Big Fat Love - Peter Sheridan
R45,00
When Philo knocks on the door of the Good Shephard convent seeking sanctuary from her husband Tommo, it's not just her own life she's about to overhaul. Swearing and smoking like a trooper, she sticks out like a sore thumb amidst all that convent holiness, but to both the nuns and the OAPs at the day-care centre, whose bitternesses and loves have been simmering away for years, Philo's earthiness and honesty bring just the kind of lifeforce they've been missing. While fighting a battle with her weight and a war with social services, who've temporarily placed her children in a local orphange, Philo artlessly manages to heal social rifts that have split the community and her family for years. Sheridan's charming debut novel is beautifully characterised and alive with the sights and sounds of Dublin's North Wall. In turns moving, hilarious, raw and heart-warming, this gem of a story is hard to resist.
Product code: 9780330413374
Stalin's Ghost - Martin Cruz Smith
Moscow lies deep under snow, and Arkady Renko is on the trail of a suspect police officer, a former Black Beret who served with glory against the insurgency in Chechnya. But proof of the man's corruption is proving more elusive to gather. Then Renko's unpopular boss calls him in to handle a delicate matter: passengers riding the last metro of the night have reported seeing the ghost of Stalin waving to them from the platform edge. Every night at the same time, regular as clockwork. Meanwhile, his adopted son, Zhenya has disappeared, and his girlfriend, Eva, has reignited an affair with the very officer Arkady is investigating. Renko is assigned the help of an expert Stalinist, a decorated war hero and chess grandmaster. Not everyone, it seems, likes the fact that Stalin is dead..
Product code: 9780230013940
Stalin's Daughter - Rosemary Sullivan
R100,00
Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy—the loss of everyone she loved, including her mother, two brothers, aunts and uncles, and a lover twice her age, deliberately exiled to Siberia by her father. As she gradually learned about the extent of her father’s brutality after his death, Svetlana could no longer keep quiet and in 1967 shocked the world by defecting to the United States—leaving her two children behind. But although she was never a part of her father’s regime, she could not escape his legacy. Her life in America was fractured; she moved frequently, married disastrously, shunned other Russian exiles, and ultimately died in poverty in Wisconsin. With access to KGB, CIA, and Soviet government archives, as well as the close cooperation of Svetlana’s daughter, Rosemary Sullivan pieces together Svetlana’s incredible life in a masterful account of unprecedented intimacy. Epic in scope, it’s a revolutionary biography of a woman doomed to be a political prisoner of her father’s name. Sullivan explores a complicated character in her broader context without ever losing sight of her powerfully human story, in the process opening a closed, brutal world that continues to fascinate us. Illustrated with photographs.
Product code: 9780007491131
A Change in Altitude - Anita Shreve
R85,00
Margaret and Patrick, married just a few months, set off on a great adventure - a year living in Kenya. While Patrick practices medicine, Margaret works as a photojournalist, capturing a dizzying and sometimes dangerous city on film. When a British couple invites the newlyweds on a climbing expedition to the summit of Mount Kenya, they eagerly agree. But during their arduous ascent a horrific accident occurs. In its aftermath, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the mountain and how it has transformed her and her marriage, perhaps for ever.
Product code: 9781408700723
Fairytale: A Quest for muchness - Natasha Sutherland
R75,00
What happened to the fairytale life I used to dream of? And how do I reclaim my muchness?
Product code: 9781770312593
The Man of my dreams - Curtis Sittenfeld
R45,00
Hannah is a confused fourteen-year-old. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah's own life, her parents' marriage is crumbling.
Over the next decade and a half, love throws her some complicated questions. At what point can you no longer blame your adult failures on your messed up childhood? Is settling for someone who's not your soulmate an act of maturity or an admission of defeat? And if you move to another state for a guy who might not love you back, are you being plucky - or just pathetic?
Product code: 9780552776837
Curses & Smoke A Novel of Pompeii - Vicky Alvear Shecter
Two star-crossed lovers. One city on the brink of destruction. Tages is a medical slave, doomed to spend the rest of his life healing his master's injured gladiators. But his warrior's heart yearns to fight in the gladiator ring himself and earn enough money to win his freedom. Lucia is the daughter of Tag's owner, doomed by her father's greed to marry a much older Roman man. But she loves studying the natural world around her home in Pompeii, and lately she's been noticing some odd behavior in the landscape: small lakes disappearing; a sulfurous smell in the air. . . . When the two childhood friends reconnect, each with their own longings, they fall passionately in love. But soon after an argument divides them, she's sent to Rome for her wedding, while he's thrust into his first gladiatorial contest. Then an earthquake shakes Pompeii, in the first sign of the chaos to come. Will they be able to find each other again before the volcano destroys their whole world?
Product code: 9781407146621
Fault Lines - Anne Rivers Siddons
R120,00
Siddons' new novel tells of a self-sacrificing housewife who is tempted to walk away from her old life. It's apparent from the get go, though, that Siddons is working more along the lines of Waller's melodrama than Tyler's wry sendup. Merritt Fowler is exhausted from caring for her elderly mother-in-law, who's suffering from Alzheimer's disease. When a nasty argument compels her fragile 16-year-old daughter, Glynn, to seek refuge with Merritt's glamorous sister in California, Merritt follows, leaving her workaholic husband behind. The three women soon decide to take a trip to the Santa Cruz Mountains for a little R and R. In a remote lodge in the redwoods, Merritt meets and falls for an amateur seismologist, and Glynn is wooed by a Warren Beatty-like director. Then an earthquake hits, and as the three women make the long, arduous trek to safety, they reevaluate their lives and goals.
Product code: 9780316913119
Wish you were here - Graham Swift
R95,00
On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. For Jack and his wife Ellie this will have a potentially catastrophic impact. For Jack in particular it means a crucial journey--to receive his brother's remains, but also into his own most secret, troubling memories and into the land of his and Ellie's past.
Product code: 9780330535878
Looking down - Frances Fyfield
R65,00
Richard Beaumont hoped to see the elusive chough on the Dover cliffs. Instead he sees a young woman falling to her death. No-one recognises her, no-one has reported her missing, and Richard returns, shaken, to his new young wife, but instead of finding solace in Lilian's company, he locks himself away and obsessively paints the scene of the woman's broken body on the rocks. His cool behaviour towards her takes Lilian to the flat below and the wordly-wise company of Sarah Fortune. But Sarah, once Richard's lover, is awkward with her and is also preoccupied with her brother's unbreakable habit of cat-burglary, and the suspicious traffic to the penthouse at the top of the mansion block. Unable to forget what he witnessed, Richard returns to the coast and is befriended by the local police surgeon. Recently widowed, John is depressed, not so much by his wife's death but by the realisation that his marriage had been a loveless void. Recognising the symptoms, Richard introduces him to Sarah, so that she can no longer ignore the Beaumonts' troubles and is drawn into helping to trace where the dead girl came from and in so doing reveals a trade which is both breath-takingly lucrative and chillingly cruel.
Product code: 9780316861786
The Mayor of Lexington Avenue - James Sheehan
R95,00
Jack Tobin is a trial lawyer with a searing-hot reputation in Miami, far removed from his scrappy youth on the streets of New York. But when a young Florida man is railroaded into a murder conviction in the tiny Florida backwater of Bass Creek, Tobin is driven to pay back a debt to his best friend, the boy who once dubbed him 'the Mayor of Lexington Avenue'.In his efforts to get the death penalty overturned, Tobin moves back to South Florida, where he finds himself up against the small-town legal establishment, where favours are routinely traded at the expense of truth, and where police corruption has become an art form.
Product code: 9780593057209
Child 44 - Rom Rob Smith
R100,00
MGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken. He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured. And then he is told to arrest his own wife. Leo understands how the State works: Trust and check, but check particularly on those we trust. He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life. And still the killings of children continue...
Product code: 9781847371270
Capture - Roger Smith
R95,00
In a city where the lines between rich and poor are drawn in blood, the truth is just the lie you believe the most ...
Capture tells the stories of three desperate people. A father who is broken by grief and guilt. A son still haunted by the ghosts of his past. And a mother, desperate to save her child.
In Cape Town, these three are drawn into a spiral of manipulation and murder that leaves them fighting for their sanity and their lives.
Remember: the truth won't set you free ...
Product code: 9781781250020
The Good Jihadist - Bob Shepherd
R95,00
Disillusioned SAS veteran Matt Logan is struggling on civvy street. The life he dreams of can be his - if he takes a private security job with the American commander who ended his military career. But when a seemingly random act of terror destroys everything Matt holds dear, the only way to settle the score is to sell his soul. Matt returns to the murky world of Black Ops. But this time, he's not part of an elite crew. To find and kill an elusive insurgent leader, he must go undercover in Pakistan to single-handedly unravel a jihadist network more complex than he realizes and closer than he knows. Stalked by fundamentalists and Pakistani intelligence, Matt ends up a pawn in a conspiracy to redraw the boundaries of global power; a secret war that is ripping a nation apart. But not the one he thinks ...From ex-SAS soldier and bestselling author Bob Shepherd comes an action thriller torn from tomorrow's headlines. A heart-pumping journey through the breeding grounds of Islamic terrorism, The Good Jihadist combines the intrigue of a spy novel with all the adrenaline you'd expect from an elite warrior turned writer.
Product code: 9781847377760
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
R200,00
Macbeth is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. Set mainly in Scotland, the play dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. The play is believed to have been written between 1599 and 1606. The earliest account of a performance of what was probably Shakespeare's play is April 1611, when Simon Forman recorded seeing such a play at the Globe Theatre. It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book. It was most likely written during the reign of James I (of England), who had already been crowned James VI of Scotland before he succeeded to the English throne as well in 1603. James VI/I was a patron of Shakespeare's acting company, and of all the plays Shakespeare wrote during James's reign, Macbeth most clearly reflects the playwright's relationship with the sovereign. Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy, and tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia, and he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler as he is forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness, and death.
Product code: 9781533379238
Two Gentlemen of Verona - William Shakespeare
R75,00
This early experimental play illuminates the comic vision that informs all Shakespeare's later successes including his last great plays. Two pairs of lovers are forcibly parted and human fickleness is contrasted with constancy, reality with illusion, and the bonds of friendship with those of sexual attraction. The serious elements of Romance are fused with satire and burlesque as The Two Gentlemen of Verona examines the importance of identity with lucid charm and hilarious comedy.
The Mind's Eye - Oliver Sacks
R60,00
The bestselling author of "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat" describes how we experience the visual world. In "Musicophilia", Oliver Sacks explored music and the brain; now, in "The Mind's Eye", he writes about the myriad ways in which we experience the visual world: how we see in three dimensions; how we recognize individual faces or places; how we use language to communicate verbally; how we translate marks on paper into words and paragraphs, even how we represent the world internally when our eyes are closed. Alongside remarkable stories of people who have lost these abilities but adapted with courage, resilience and ingenuity, there is an added, personal element: one day in late 2005, Sacks became aware of a dazzling, flashing light in one part of his visual field; it was not the familiar migraine aura he had experienced since childhood, and just two days later a malignant tumor in one eye was diagnosed. In subsequent journal entries - some of which are included in "The Mind's Eye" - he chronicled the experience of living with cancer, recording both the effects of the tumor itself, and radiation therapy. In turning himself into a case history, Sacks has given us perhaps his most intimate, impressive and insightful book yet.
Product code: 9780330513999
Six Suspects - Vikas Swarup
R65,00
There's a caste system even in murder.Seven years ago, Vivek 'Vicky' Rai, the playboy son of the Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh, murdered Ruby Gill at a trendy restaurant in New Delhi simply because she refused to serve him a drink. Now Vicky Rai is dead, killed at his farmhouse at a party he had thrown to celebrate his acquittal. The police search each and every guest. Six of them are discovered with guns in their possession. In this elaborate murder mystery we join Arun Advani, India's best-known investigative journalist, as the lives of these six suspects unravel before our eyes: a corrupt bureaucrat; an American tourist; a stone-age tribesman; a Bollywood sex symbol; a mobile phone thief; and an ambitious politician. Each is equally likely to have pulled the trigger. Inspired by actual events, Vikas Swarup's eagerly awaited second novel is both a riveting page turner and an insightful peek into the heart and soul of contemporary India.
Product code: 9780385608169
Over the Line - Faye Sultan
R90,00
The book is a psychological fiction thriller based on a true-life murder. The story follows Portia McTeague, a forensic psychologist, who is called in to evaluate Jimmy Wier. Jimmy is a seemingly naive delivery worker charged with the brutal murder of two elderly women. Portia must examine him to understand the dark impulses that drove him across the line and determine if he is mentally stable.
Product code: 9781857027426
Poison Study - Maria V Snyder
R100,00The story follows Yelena, a young woman locked in a dungeon and sentenced to death for murdering her abuser. On the eve of her execution, she is offered an extraordinary reprieve: become the personal food taster for the Commander of Ixia.
While she gets to live in the palace, she faces constant threat of assassination from political factions. To ensure her absolute loyalty, the chief of security deliberately poisons her with a substance called Butterfly's Dust, requiring her to receive a daily antidote to survive. As rebels plot to overthrow the government, Yelena begins to develop magical powers she cannot control, forcing her to unravel her mysterious past to survive
Product code: 9780373802302
Cold - John Smolens
Set in one three day blizzard in the remote woods of the deepest Mid-West, COLD tells the story of an escaped prisoner (who may or may not have committed the crimes that he was locked up for), a lonely widow who rescues him, half-dead, from the storm, an enigimatic Sheriff and a not-so-innocent ex-wife. As the temperature drops and the snow buries the land, these characters act-out a macabre play which will leave few standing at its end.
Product code: 9780340792339
Larry's Party - Carol Shields
R120,00
The novel is a warm, witty coming-of-middle-age story following the life of its protagonist, Larry Weller, between 1977 and 1997. It explores the changing landscape of masculinity and self-discovery at the end of the twentieth century through Larry's unique passion for creating hedge mazes.
Product code: 9781857026160
The British Ambassador - Michael Shea
R75,00
Sir Martin Milner is set to become Her Majesty's Ambassador in Washington. An assassination attempt on his life leaves his son ill and his wife on the verge of a breakdown. He must find the strength to take up his post, even though the next attempt to kill him might prove to be successful.
Product code: 9780002252348
R75,00
Hill Towns - Anne Rivers Siddons
A couple traveling through the hill towns of Italy find themselves and learn something about marriage on their journey
Product code: 9780316909150
Gister is 'n ver land - Malene Breytenbach
R150,00
Wanneer Maureen Sneddon Barnard die uitsettingsbevel in Zimbabwe kry, vertrek sy met haar waardevolste besitting, die bruin skooltassie met jarelange dagboeke. 'n Aangrypende roman wat temas soos besitreg, verganklikheid en verlies op roerende wyse aanspreek.
Product code: 9780624047278
R150,00
McNally's Caper - Lawrence Sanders
R95,00
Called in by patriarch Griswold Forsythe, II, to discover which relative is stealing family valuables piece by piece, eccentric discreet detective Archy McNally plunges to the perilous depths of Palm Beach high society.
Product code: 9780450610011
R95,00
A Model for Living - Julian Short
R65,00
How to have a happy relationship. The author draws upon over 30 years' experience as a psychiatrist to offer hints, tips and guidelines for coping with many of the problems we face every day. In a simple, no-nonsense style he shows you how to: cope with rejection - how to deal with being dumped or being turned down for a job; improve self esteem - learn to feel better about yourself and gain the admiration of others; win every argument, even when you lose - a simple strategy for making sure you walk away from any dispute feeling great; deal with family relationships - whether you are a parent, husband, wife or child. A Model for Living has advice and tips that really help, and they are all easy to introduce into your daily life.
Product code: 9781906321826
R65,00
The Pumpkin Coach - Susan Sallis
R45,00
Set in the late 1940s near Gloucester, England, the story follows Alice Pettiford, who takes a job as a railway secretary. Her life shifts focus when she and a character named Joe discover an abandoned railway coach hidden in the Forest of Dean. This hidden coach becomes a crucial sanctuary and emotional focal point as they navigate personal drama and relationships.
Product code: 9780552151443
R45,00
Wat sê Die Bybel oor ... - Marius Nel
R250,00
Konkordansie en Bybel in een - Vergemaklik Bybelstudie omdat die onderwerpindeling en die Woord in een bundel vervat is.Alfabetiese & Tematiese indeling vergemaklik naslaan sodat die regte onderwerp vir die regte situasie maklik opgespoor kan word.
Product code: 9781770003217
Dink soos Jesus - Kobus Neethling
R95,00
'n Praktiese geestelike selfhelpboek wat lesers aanmoedig om te dink soos Jesus deur kreatiewe probleemoplossing, nuwe geleenthede te skep en die beginsels van Jesus se denke en optrede op moderne lewe toe te pas. Dit verbind geestelike refleksie met alledaagse uitdagings en visiegedrewe optrede.
Product code: 9781919818467
R95,00
Uiltjie, Uiltjie in die spieël - Pieter W Grobbelaar
R75,00
Uilspieël geniet dit om menslike swakhede aan die kaak te stel. Is 'n boer te beterweterig of 'n buurman te vrekkerig of 'n keiser te hooghartig, sal hy wel met hierdie aartspoetsbakker te doen kry.
Product code: 9780798147354
