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PICK OF THE MONTH
 Other Lives
By:
André Brink;
An artist comes to his studio in the afternoon. On his doorstep he sees a woman with curly hair and a dark complexion. She is a total stranger to him, yet she embraces him; she knows him intimately. As he steps past her, two strange children rush to his feet, yelling ‘Daddy!’ But he has never seen them before.
On the o ...
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AUTHOR OF THE MONTH
 Alex Smith
Born in Cape Town, Alex has lived in China, Taiwan and the UK, and when still working as a designer and textile merchant travelled extensively to other parts of the world, but she is thrilled to be back in Africa, writing, and living across the road from the sea. Secretly she thinks she's a fish, a walking fish, a mudskipper (as she confesses in this blog: On Fish and Men With Film In Their Socks), and there's no secret she's a dedicated booknik. To satisfy her duel habits of book and sea fetishism she walks along the sea ten kilometres a day to work in one of the finest bo ...
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COMING SOON
 Ladybird: My House Burnt Down, My Head is on Fire!
By:
Janita Sakoschek;
Release Date: August 2010
When the beautiful home that Janita Sakoschek had built for her family burned down it caused a catastrophic breakdown. She lost everything she owned: her clothes and furniture, her diaries and photographs, her antiques and paintings and, ultimately, her sanity.
We find her rooted to a borrowed sofa, chain-smoking, and blackly depressed. Friends and family try to intervene but she only resents the intrusions and the humiliations.When she finally a ...
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