Engela, teatersuster in murg en been, keer terug hospitaal toe ná langverlof. Nie net lyk die gebou binne en buite nuut nie, maar dit spog ook met ’n hele paar vreemde gesigte, waaronder ’n nuwe dokter, Johan Kotze, en superintendent Gerhard de Beer. Engeltjie, soos die personeel haar noem, beland egter sommer met die intrapslag aan die superintendent se verkeerde kant, tot so ’n mate dat die verpleegsters dink hulle moet liewer ingryp. In dokter Johan Kotze ontdek Engela weer ’n opregte vriend,...
In this tour-de-force of invention, by ranging across Guyanese ethnicities, gender and time in the purported authorship of these stories, Mark McWatt creates a richly dialogic work of fiction. Back in 1966, each of a group of Guyanese sixth-formers is 'sentenced' to write a short story that reflects their newly independent country. Years later, Mark McWatt, one of the group, is handed the papers of his old school friend, Victor Nunes, who has disappeared, feared drowned, in the...
‘It’s like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off played out in the French sticks’ The Independent Anna Gavalda explores the themes of time passing and the highs and lows of family life, with characteristic wit, warmth, and brilliant characterisation. On the car journey to a family wedding, Garance reflects on how adult life, with its disappointments and responsibilities, has not always gone to plan for herself or her three siblings. ...
An early work by the Marquis de Sade «Justine, Or, The Misfortunes of Virtue» was originally written during a two week period in 1787 while the author was imprisoned in the Bastille. The story is concerned with the titular character, a twelve year old maiden who sets off, to make her way in France, and follows her through age twenty-six in her quest for virtue. In the search for work and shelter Justine continuously falls prey to a series of scoundrels who subject her to sexual torture and...
When Peter forged travel documents during Stalin’s formidable reign to see his parents in a Siberian labour camp before they perished, he knew he was facing the life-or-death challenge of his life. What followed in the years after that journey could not have been foreseen by Peter or his countrymen. In 1941, the Ukraine was invaded by Hitler’s army and remained under its control until its retreat two years later, taking Peter and his young family with them, as workers in Germany’s labour camps...
Sadistic Hamish McMurtrie ‘Hacka’ Blanchard hatches a brutal but brilliant plan, the cold-hearted brutality of which shocks even the hardest-nosed policemen. With the aid of three former cellmates, he contrives to kidnap two federal politicians and demand a $5 million ransom from the government. Nothing could go wrong. But Senior Sergeant Ken McLoughlin and his partner Tony Delarosa have other plans. In a dangerous race against time, they sweep through the sun-drenched Great Barrier Reef, the...
Sixteen year-old Air Cadet Willy Williams and his instructor are forced to make an emergency landing in their light aircraft at an isolated cattle station in the vast wilderness of Far North Queensland. As the repaired aircraft is taxiing to take off, a woman rushes toward them screaming for help. Behind her is an armed and dangerous criminal desperate to protect the secret he’s hiding at the station—at all costs. The man takes aim at the airplane and fires, thrusting Willy into the most...
Fourteen year-old Navy Cadet Andrew Collins enrols in a SCUBA diving course on the Great Barrier Reef to impress Muriel, the girl of his dreams. There’s only one problem: Andrew is terrified of diving, not to mention the sharks, eels, and every other dangerous critter inhabiting the Coral Sea. Despite his fears, Andrew inadvertently stumbles onto an old family mystery: the mysterious disappearance of his grandfather, lost at sea many years before. The deeper they delve into the mystery the...
For over 10 years, Samantha Honeycomb has changed the lives of its readers forever. Universally admired since 2006, Samantha Honeycomb has spread its alchemy around the world. Scott Zarcinas’ masterpiece tells the magical story of Samantha Honeycomb, who is wrongly punished for breaking the ancient laws. She is expelled by the queen into the wild and untamed Crazy Lands, her only hope of redemption an impossible quest—to find the fabled hive of Beebylon and bring back its secret of infinite...
Joe Harper ('Pop Pop') is a beloved grandfather, decorated war hero, and family patriarch. He is loved and respected by everyone that knows him especially his family but a stroke has brought his past under a cloud of suspicion because Joe came out of a coma no longer able to speak but has been heard murmuring German, a language he does not know. The Grandfather weaves the story of Joe's Harper from his heroic war efforts in WWII as a member of the 508th Infantry Regiment of the...