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The Deals that Made the World – Jacques Peretti
R205.00While the laws that guide our lives are written by the politicians we elect, much of the world around us – from the food we eat to the products we buy to the medications we take – is shaped by private negotiations and business deals few of us know about.
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The Deathless – Peter Newman
R300.00The demons…In the endless forests of the Wild, humanity scratches a living by the side of the great Godroads, paths of crystal that provide safe passage and hold back the infernal tide. Creatures lurk within the trees, watching, and plucking those who stray too far from safety.
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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.