Penguin Random House South Africa

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Extract: The Cassandra Complex by Holly Smale

Cassandra Penelope Dankworth is a creature of habit. She likes what she likes (museums, jumpsuits, her boyfriend Will) and strongly dislikes what she doesn’t (mess, change, her boss drinking out of her mug). Her life runs in a pleasing, predictable order. Until now. She’s just been dumped. She’s just been fired. Her…

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Extract: Killing Moon by Jo Nesbo

Harry Hole is pushed to his limits when the woman who saved his life is put in grave danger, and he has no choice but to return to Oslo, the city that haunts him, and hunt for a murderer. When the killer took his first victim, he left an unusual signature, giving police reason to suspect he will strike again. They are facing a killer unlike any…

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Extract: The Curse of Saints by Kate Dramis

As Spymaster to the Queen, Aya’s blood oath ensures she protects those she fights alongside – including Will, the Queen’s Enforcer and Aya’s bitter rival. When rumours of dark magic rise in a nearby kingdom, both are sent to investigate. But when Aya’s power acts beyond her gods-given affinity, she risks being turned into a…

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Extract: The Well-Lived Life by Gladys McGarey

The Well-Lived Life offers a counterintuitive approach to living a rich, full, and purposeful life that isn’t about conserving energy, but rather about spending it wildly. By inspiring readers to find their “juice” and live in alignment with their true purpose, offering them healing at the deepest level – in body, mind, and spirit…

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Recipes: Onwards by Karen Dudley

When Karen Dudley closed her iconic restaurant, The Kitchen, in Woodstock, Cape Town, there were tears all over for the beloved establishment. Since then, Karen has found that connection does not necessarily reside only in bricks and mortar. She has found that she can carry that deliciousness onwards. This book is about how she has done just that…

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Uittreksel: Decima deur Eben Venter

Eben Venter se boek kombineer outofiksie, fabel, ’n speurverhaal en die wetenskap, en is ’n dringende pleidooi vir die bewaring van een van die wêreld se megaherbivore.  Decima  is ’n elegiese werk vir baie stemme waarin die skrywer die aard van verlies in sy vele gestaltes besing en besweer.  …

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Extract: Decima by Eben Venter

Eben Venter’s book, a creative blend of autofiction, animal fable, mystery and scientific enquiry, is an urgent plea to save one of earth’s megaherbivores. An elegiac work for numerous voices,  Decima  is a moving and thrilling lament to loss in all its many guises.  It is the day of my appointment with the…

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Extract: Each Mortal Thing by Michiel Heyns

When Natasha, a novice writer from South Africa, is nominated for a major British literary prize, Terence, a young university lecturer, undertakes to introduce her to the sights of London. However, London and its literary cliques are a far cry from Natasha’s Karoo hometown: through no fault of her own, she is disqualified, and their affair…

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Extract: Slikour by Siya Metane

Siya ‘Slikour’ Metane is a musician and entrepreneur best known as one of the founding members of the record-breaking hip-hop group Skwatta Kamp. Told with signature humour, this memoir gives readers an all-access pass to the moments and the music that made the man, detailing the courage it took to overcome his self-doubt and to mould…

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