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The Dogs of Littlefield – Suzanne Berne
R260.00A brilliantly executed psychological novel that deals with the hazards – real, imagined and created – of modern-day life and relationships, The Dogs of Littlefield is at once completely unsettling and utterly engrossing. Residents of Littlefield, a fictional town in New England (recently named one of the Ten Best Places to Live in America), enjoy a ‘good quality of life’. But when someone starts poisoning its dogs, a darker side of this seemingly idyllic small town begins to emerge. So it is in fact an unstable and fragile environment that Dr Clarice Watkins, a sociologist at the University of Chicago, enters when she decides to come and live Littlefield to study the ways of its apparently contented inhabitants. Very, very good.
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The Echo of a Noise: A memoir of Now and Then – Pieter-Dirk Uys
R280.00A memoir by the South African icon Pieter-Dirk Uys in which he reveals the ‘person behind the persona.’ We learn of his domineering, musical father and his ‘brilliant but troubled’ mother, Sannie Abader, his Cape Flats ‘Ma’ who did most of the child-raising, as well as other colourful family members.
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The Enumerations – Máire Fisher
R280.00Capetonian author Máire Fisher has just released her second title, The Enumerations, after a four-year period following Birdseye in 2014. Noah is seventeen-years-old and suffers from OCD, and the story centres on the repercussions of a schoolyard confrontation during which he breaks the arm of a bully.
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The Exorcist – William Peter Blatty
R135.00Originally published in 1971, The Exorcist is now a major television series on FOX. It remains one of the most controversial novels ever written and went on to become a literary phenomenon: It spent fifty-seven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, seventeen consecutively at number one. Inspired by a true story of a child’s demonic possession in the 1940s, William Peter Blatty created an iconic novel that focuses on Regan, the eleven-year-old daughter of a movie actress residing in Washington, D.C. A small group of overwhelmed yet determined individuals must rescue Regan from her unspeakable fate, and the drama that ensues is gripping and unfailingly terrifying.
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The Extended Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
R300.00The Selfish Gene is a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. In it Professor Dawkins articulates a gene’s eye view of evolution – a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for the replication of genes.
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The Farm by Tom Rob Smith
R275.00Deliciously creepy and unexpected, The Farm begins with a phone call. Daniel, living in London, is called by his seemingly distraught father with the news that his mother has been committed to a mental hospital. That his mother is accusing people, his father included, of terrible acts of violence and depravity, comes as a shock to Daniel, who believes that his parents have been living a quiet life on a farm in Sweden. His mother’s story, however, is a compelling one, and he finds his loyalties divided as he searches for the truth. Tom Rob Smith, author of the bestselling Child 44, is skilled at crafting a plot that seems it could go in several directions – and then moves in a completely different one. The Farm will keep you guessing until the very end.
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The Father – Made in Sweden: Part 1 — Anton Svensson
R335.00The novel is based on a true story of 3 brothers and their friend who commit a series of robberies in an escalation of audacity and violence. They are relentlessly pursued by a detective whose own childhood mirrors that of the boys’: domestic violence and abuse. The brothers’ father casts a shadow in their lives making this a convincing portrait of the psychological damage handed down from father to son.
