It is 1989 and all over Europe Communism is crumbling. Arvid Jansen, 37, is in the throes of a divorce. At the same time, his mother is diagnosed with cancer. Over a few intense autumn days, we follow Arvid as he struggles to find a new footing in his life, while all the established patterns around him are changing at staggering speed. As he attempts to negotiate the present, he casts his mind back to holidays on the beach with his brothers, to courtship, and to his early working life, when as a young Communist he abandoned his studies to work on a production line. I Curse the River of Time is an honest, heartbreaking yet humorous portrayal of a complicated mother-son relationship told in Petterson's precise and beautiful prose.
Die Benederyk
Ingrid Winterbach
Softback / 213 x 137 x 26mm / 335 pages
ISBN 9780798151474
April 2010
n Nuwe roman deur hierdie skrywer is n belangrike gebeurtenis. En sy stel haar lesers nie teleur nie: Dis die verhaal van twee broers Aaron en Stefaans Adendorff die een n skilder, die ander n eks-verslaafde. Aaron se galery-eienaar, Eddie Knuvelder, laat hom lelik in die steek (nadat Aaron gehoop het Knuvelder sal van sy jongste skilderye kies vir n uitstalling in Duitsland) en Bubbles Bothma, buurvrou en vriendin extraordinaire, kom met verskeie onwaarskynlike oplossings vir sy benarde situasie. Terwyl broer Stefaans deurentyd verslag lewer van sy labirintiese dwaalweë en sy soektog na die herkoms van hulle ontwykende derde oupa. Apokalipties en burlesk!
What The Ladybird Heard
Julia Donaldson & Lydia Monks
Softback / 250 x 250 x 4mm / 32 pages
ISBN 9780230706507
March 2010
32 colour illustrations
'Oink!' said the cats ...With all the MOOing and HISSing and BAAAing and CLUCKing, the farmyard is full of noise. But when Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len hatch a plot to steal the fine prize cow, it's the quietest animal of all who saves the day! Spot the glittery ladybird on every page of this wonderful rhyming tale from the creators of the bestselling The Princess And The Wizard and Sharing A Shell
The Forgotten Waltz
Anne Enright
Softback / 215 x 135 x 18mm / 229 pages
ISBN 9780224089043
June 2011
The Forgotten Waltz is a memory of desire: a recollection of the bewildering speed of attraction, the irreparable slip into longing. In Terenure, a pleasant suburb of Dublin, in the winter of 2009, it has snowed. Gina Moynihan, girl about town, recalls the trail of lust and happenstance that brought her to fall for 'the love of her life', Sean Vallely. As the city outside comes to a halt, Gina remembers the days of their affair in one hotel room or another: long afternoons made blank by bliss and denial. Now, as the silent streets and the stillness and vertigo of the falling snow make the day luminous and full of possibility, Gina waits the arrival on her doorstep of Sean's fragile, twelve-year-old daughter, Evie - the complication, and gravity, of this second life.
The End of Everything
Megan Abbott
Softback / 216 x 135mm (L x W) / 304 pages
ISBN 9780330535458
October 2011
A close-knit street, the clink of glass on glass, summer heat. Two girls on the brink of adolescence, throwing cartwheels on the grass. Two girls who tell each other everything. Until one shimmering afternoon, one of them disappears. Lizzie is left with her dread and her loss, and with a fear that won't let her be. Had Evie tried to give her a hint of what was coming, a clue that she failed to follow? Caught between her imaginary guilt, her sense of betrayal, her own powerful need, and the needs of the adults around her, Lizzie's voice is as unforgettable as her story is arresting. This is no ordinary tale of innocence lost ...'A gripping and disturbing novel, a fever dream of adolescent desire and adult complicity' Tom Perrotta 'Deft, enthralling and intelligent' Kate Atkinson
Selected Poems of Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott
Softback / 198 x 130 x 21mm / 269 pages
ISBN 9780571227112
2008
This new Selected Poems offers an ordered retrospective of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, spanning six decades and drawing on twelve collections. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, Walcott has, in the words of Seamus Heaney, 'moved with gradually deepening confidence to found his own poetic domain, independent of the tradition he inherited yet not altogether orphaned from it'.
Missing
Beverly Rycroft
Softback / 140mm x 216mm / 80 pages
ISBN 9781920397067
2010
Beverly Rycroft is a Cape Town poet and journalist. Missing is her first collection of poems, although her work has been published in literary magazines for some years. Bev writes with a dry humour, and precise observation of both her inner and outer worlds.
Thank You, Judge Mostert
Carmel Rickard
Hardback / / pages
ISBN 9780143026754
August 2010
Anton Mostert was one of South Africa's youngest judges when he was appointed to head a commission of inquiry into exchange control regulations in 1978. His inquiry, seemingly innocuous, unearthed what was at that time the greatest political scandal in the country's history - massive corruption in the department of information. In defiance of warnings by Prime Minister PW Botha not to disclose his findings, Mostert released all the evidence that had been led before him, exposing some of the most powerful men in the country and effectively changing history. Thank You, Judge Mostert, is taken from the inscription which appeared overnight on bumper stickers all over South Africa in the weeks following Judge Anton Mostert's revelations of the Information Scandal. This overt, spontaneous outburst of public appreciation and support requires history to be retold - for this is the story of a principled and courageous judge who not only fiercely fought for the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law in South Africa, but who also fearlessly confronted the Afrikaner executive at a critical juncture in South Africa's history.
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