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“Wie sou kon dink dat ’n stem soos myne ooit gehoor sal word? Waar sal so ’n klank in elk geval vandaan kom?” Só begin die jongste outobiografiese roman van Ryk Hattingh – sy eerste boek in negentien jaar. Dit is ’n verweefde teks wat afspeel tussen die hier van Nieu-Seeland en die verlede van Ryk se kinderjare in die 1960’s aan die Oosrand. Wie wás die kind op die stoep saam met sy ma en pa en ouma en boeties en Outa Toon? En wie was Outa Toon, van wie ons slegs die skouer en rug sien op ’n...
| Автор | Ryk Hattingh |
In Going Back to Say Goodbye: A Boyhood on the Mine Kenneth de Kok describes his childhood in Stilfontein, a small mining town in the Western Transvaal. Set in the late 1950s and seen through the eyes of the young Kenneth, the story immerses the reader in a world of bicycle races down dirt roads, adventures in the veld, kleilat fights, childhood pacts and seaside holidays. It’s a world of Post Toasties, chickenpox, pellet guns and catties – a universe populated by brothers and sisters,...
| Автор | Kenneth de Kok |
For Kari du Toit, Valentine’s Day will never be the same again. When the love of her life reveals he’s been unfaithful to her, life, romance, and everything in-between come crashing down. Suddenly it seems as if her previous life – one far removed from Bloubergstrand’s sandy beaches – is slowly catching up with her. After ten years of silence, Kari receives a call from her estranged brother. At the foot of Devil’s Peak, where neighbourly salaams and burkas are as ordinary as yellow polka-dot...
| Автор | Qarnita Loxton |
In der kalten Winterzeit ist die Sonne besonders willkommen und das vorallem im kalten Norden … «Die Wintersonne an die Südländer» ist ein Gedicht von Jelissaweta Kulmann, fabelhaft interpretiert von Ulrike Hübschmann.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Der Vater bestellt zu Weihnachen allerlei Dinge und Gaben, die von den Bauern gebracht werden. Heimlich bringen die Bauern aber auch ein Päckchen von der Amme Wassilissa … Christian Rode liest eine Auszug aus Pjotr Krapotkins «Memoiren eines Revolutionärs».
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Dis die jaar 1955 en Suzanna Jansen woon saam met haar pa, ma en broer Gert in ’n riethuisie op ’n plaas naby Kakamas. Dis die Kersvakansie voor Sanna se laaste skooljaar en deesdae kry sy vlinders in haar maag elke keer as sy die buurseun, Johannes, in een van die veekampe raakloop. En dan is daar Inge wat soos die slapende skoonheid gevangene is in die Groothuis. Engela Ovies se debuutroman, Draairivier, is ’n deernisvolle verhaal oor familie, vriendskap, liefde en vergifnis.
| Автор | Engela Ovies |
Zoe is 'n bevryde vrou. Wel . . . soort van. Haar ma en Swietie-pie, 'n brak sonder 'n pedigree, kritiseer haar graag – verál Zoe se losloop-leefstyl. Zak, die wannabe danser, kan dalk die antwoord op almal se drome wees. Zander verskyn ook op die horison. Hy skryf moord- en doodslagboeke en is nou op sy derde vrou. 'n Man om te vermy. Maar ook 'n man wat haar verstand stil soen. Sal sy die regte besluit kan neem? Indien nie, sal sy 'n tweede kans kry om haar foute...
| Автор | Kristel Loots |
TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS, YOU THINK YOU'VE SEEN IT ALL. . .' Remshi is the oldest vampire in existence. He is searching for the werewolf named Talulla, whom he believes is the reincarnation of his long lost – and only – love. But he is not the only one seeking Talulla. Hunted by the Militi Christi, a religious order hell-bent on wiping out werewolves and vampires alike, Remshi and Talulla must join forces to protect their families, fulfil an ancient prophecy and save both their lives.
| Автор | Glen Duncan |
Feilamort can remember very little of his childhood before he became a choir boy in the home of the Laird and his French wife. Feilamort has one of the finest voices in the land. It is a gift he believes will protect him . . . Deirdre has lived in the castle all her short life. Apprentice to her mother, she embroiders the robes for one of Scotland's finest families. She can capture, with just a few delicate stitches, the ripeness of a bramble or the glint of bronze on a fallen leaf. But...
| Автор | Anne Donovan |
A fierce and fresh debut novel, set over the course of two decades in Nigeria, about sisterhood, fate and female resistance Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike are enjoying a relatively comfortable life in Lagos in 1996. Then their mother loses her job due to political strife and their father gambles away their home, and the siblings are thrust into the reluctant care of their traditional Yoruba grandmother. Inseparable while they had their parents to care for them, the twins’ paths diverge once...
| Автор | Tola Rotimi Abraham |
In 1788 Daniel Rooke sets out on a journey that will change the course of his life. As a lieutenant in the First Fleet, he lands on the wild and unknown shores of New South Wales. There he sets up an observatory to chart the stars. But this country will prove far more revelatory than the skies above. Based on real events, The Lieutenant tells the unforgettable story of Rooke’s connection to an Aboriginal child – a remarkable friendship that resonates across the oceans and the centuries.
| Автор | Kate Grenville |
Phantastisches und Unheimliches, Paradoxes und Absurdes: Kafka beschreibt die unglaublichsten Sachverhalte nüchtern und minutiös. Grenzbereiche werden ausgeleuchtet, existenzielle Grund- oder Ausnahmesituationen in unvergessliche Bilder gefasst. Seine Texte haben die gleiche Intensität wie Träume.
| Автор | Franz Kafka |
Wer kennt schon die köstliche Geschichte vom Wassertropfen? Diese und andere witzige, hinreißende und auch nachdenkliche Kindergeschichten aus den 20er Jahren sind ein Hörerlebnis für die ganze Familie.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
In geselliger Männerrunde bei einer Feuerzangenbowle beschließt der erfolgreiche Schriftsteller Dr. Hans Pfeiffer, entgangene Schulerlebnisse nachzuholen. Smoking und Zigarren, mondäne Freundin und Mercedes bleiben in Berlin zurück. Als Oberprimaner Pfeiffer nimmt er sich ein möbliertes Zimmer, geht ins Babenberger Gymnasium und wird zum Helden zahlreicher berühmter Streiche…
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
There's a woman here who wishes to be introduced to you Mr Pemberton . . . I should caution you, though. She has frightened off every other bachelor in Boston . . . Just remember you were warned, just as I've warned her. 1929. George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the wilds of the North Carolina mountains to build a life together in a rural logging town. Unlike any woman the timber empire has ever seen, Serena oversees crews, hunts rattlesnakes and saves her husband's life in the...
| Автор | Ron Rash |
Imprisoned by the Philistines, blind and chained, his hair shorn and his strength sapped, Samson's story is one of great feats of violence and even greater hubris. He believes that he has been sent by God to deliver his people from the heathens, and so strong is his conviction in his divine mission that his behaviour verges on the psychopathic. His delight in killing for God knows no bounds, and his Herculean speed and strength seems unstoppable, but then there's Dalila… In...
| Автор | David Maine |
London, 1593. A city on edge. Under threat from plague and war, strangers are unwelcome, suspicion is wholesale, severed heads grin from the spikes on Tower Bridge. Playwright, poet and spy, Christopher Marlowe walks the city's mean streets with just three days to find the murderous Tamburlaine, a killer escaped from the pages of his most violent play. Tamburlaine Must Die is the searing adventure of a man who dares to defy both God and the state and whose murder remains a taunting...
| Автор | Louise Welsh |
There's Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler, cranky reprobate and fierce opponent of the work ethic. Thanks to his home-distilled hooch, Ol' Death Whisper, he reckons he's in with good shot at immortality. And then there's Tiny, adopted at the age of four by Grandaddy Jake, a giant young man as gentle as Jake is belligerent. And then there's Fup, an uncompromising twenty-pound mallard, partial to a drink herself, whose unique presence transforms the Santee household. ...
| Автор | Jim Dodge |
In a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an American photographer captures a heart-stopping image: a young girl fleeing a fiery explosion that has engulfed her home and family. It becomes an icon for millions, winning acclaim and prizes – and a subject of obsession for one writer, the photographer's best friend, who has suffered a tragedy of her own. With the flash of a camera, one girl's life is shattered and another's is altered forever.
| Автор | Lidia Yuknavitch |
Now available in eBook. One hot summer afternoon in South Yorkshire, Faro sits at a lecture on genetic inheritance. She has travelled from London to the Northern mining town where generations of her family have lived and worked, to explore her own past. Decades before, in the early twentieth century, Bessie Bawtry also ponders her place in the world. A child of unusual determination and precocious intelligence, she longs for the day she will eventually escape the working class life her...
| Автор | Margaret Drabble |
Captured American airmen, their faces a ghastly purple, are leading savage suicide attacks against their own men. Backed by his Battle Aces, G-8 uses all his powers of disguise and daring to smash the devilish plot – and all his fighting nerve as his Spad takes to the air against the mystery staffel of the Purple Aces.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |