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War Cry Wilbur Smith Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa in 1933. He was educated at Michaelhouse and Rhodes University. He became a full-time writer in 1964 after the successful publication of When the Lion Feeds, and has since written over thirty novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. His books are now translated into twenty-six languages. In a triumphant return to his much-loved Courtney series, Wilbur Smith introduces us to the bravest new member of the famed family, Saffron Courtney. Saffron grows up on a sprawling Kenyan country estate, under the watchful eye of her father, prominent businessman and distinguished war veteran Leon Courtney. Her life is idyllic and sheltered until a family tragedy forces her to grow up much faster than necessary – as she becomes a young woman her ambitions lead her to England for an education while her stubbornness and resilience draw her inevitably towards the complicated political machinations developing in the

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Cometh the Hour Jeffrey Archer Cometh the Hour is the penultimate book

in the Clifton Chronicles and, like the five

previous novels – all of which went to

number one on the Sunday Times best-

seller list – showcases Jeffrey Archer’s

extraordinary storytelling with his trade-

mark twists. Cometh the Hour opens with

the reading of a suicide note, which has

devastating consequences for Harry and

Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady

Virginia. Giles must decide if he should

withdraw from politics and try to rescue

Karin, the woman he loves, from behind

the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love

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The Park Gail Schimmell Rebecca doesn’t expect to make new friends at this stage of her life. But when she becomes mother to little Amy, she finds herself spending her afternoons in the park. There she meets other mothers: first flamboyant, fun Rose, and then single-mom Lilith, whose inner strength is tangible, and whose eyes never leave her toddler.

Very soon the women have formed a trio – the type of friends who feel at home in each other’s kitchens – and their daughters begin to behave like sisters. But Rebecca is about to learn that friendship is not always what it seems, and that sometimes you trust the wrong people. At exactly the moment when she needs to lean on them, one of her new friends harbours a shocking secret, and the other will turn on her in a way she could never have anticipated.

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Sacrificed Chanette Paul Caz Colijn receives a phone call from Belgium that tears her out of her reclusive life. In Belgium, where she tries to trace her and her daughter’s family origins, it becomes clear that that country’s colonial past has had as much impact on her life as the apart-heid years in South Africa did. “Tension, romance and the secret of unseen things are Chanette Paul’s forte. In Sacrificed she pushes these further to include megalomania, greed and a lust for power carried through to a third generation.” – Jeanette Ferreira


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Dark Traces Martin Steyn When a child is murdered, it always seems as if a light has been extinguished in a parent’s eyes. They find her decomposing body in the veld. A teenager. She was raped and tortured for days. She was hanged. She wasn’t the first. The South African Police Service’s Warrant Officer Jan Magson, estranged from his son and still grieving for his wife, is assigned to the case. He has to look the mothers and fathers in the eye. He has to answer their questions. And he can’t.

Headlines question the police’s ability to protect the community from this evil. A newspaper prints a mother’s heart-wrenching letter to the killer. A father offers a substantial reward. And every time another lead reaches a dead end, Magson finds himself looking down at another dead girl. Winner of the 2015 ATKV Prize for Suspense Fiction, Martin Steyn’s Dark Tracesdeals with two sides of homicide: sadistic murder and euthanasia: killing for pleasure and killing for love. Dark Traces is the English translation of Martin Steyn’s first suspense novel, Donker spoor.


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Born a Crime Trevor Noah

Trevor Noah’s path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show in New York began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Born a

Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. The eighteen personal essays collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic and deeply affecting. Whether being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping or simply trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his world with an incisive wit and an unflinching honesty.


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AB: The Autobiography AB de Villiers AB de Villiers is one of the finest batsmen ever to play cricket, and yet his achievements extend beyond his outrageous armoury of drives, pulls, paddles, scoops and flicks.This is AB’s story, in his own words … the story of the youngest of three talented, sports-mad brothers growing up in Warmbaths, of a boy who excelled at tennis, rugby and cricket, of a youngster who made his international debut at the age of 20 and was then selected in every single Test played by South Africa for the next 11 seasons, of a batsman who has started to redefine the art, being ranked among the world’s very best in Test, ODI and T20.

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The statistics tell barely half the story but, so far, AB DE VILLIERS has scored 8 000 runs in 98 Tests for South Africa, 8 000 runs in 190 one-day internationals and more than 40 000 runs in his professional career. He is mainly distinguished by the style in which he bats and his humble, determined captaincy of the South African national team in one-day international cricket.

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Arrival When twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world, linguistics professor Louise Banks is tasked with interpreting the language of the apparent alien visitors.

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The Magnificent Seven Seven gunmen in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves.


Bridget Jones’s Baby Bridget’s focus on single life and her career is interrupted when she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch ... she can only be fifty per cent sure of the identity of her baby’s father.


Doctor Strange A former neurosurgeon embarks on a journey of healing only to be drawn into the world of the mystic arts.



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Hot off the Press! · Cometh the Hour Jeffrey Archer Cometh the Hour is the penultimate book in the Clifton Chronicles and, like the five previous novels – all of which went to