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On the 16th of January 2000, Nigel Fairhead lost his wife and daughter when they were abducted, raped and murdered by three men while fishing in Natures Valley on the Eastern Cape coast.        Overcoming adversity and learning to accept and finding beauty in the world around him are some of the elements that make his story an intense and powerful experience. Nigel has battled with drug addiction for many years, but always believed and trusted in the essential goodness, the divine self, that resides in each and every person. Coming to terms with a huge loss that many would feel overwhelmed by, Nigel has fought his own demons to get to a place of extreme peace and stillness. About the author: Marianne Thamm is an award-winning journalist who has worked for a variety of publications. She lives in Cape Town and is currently a freelance writer. Thamm and Alison are co-authors of I Have Life. Click here to purchase When all else falls away from kalahari.net now!	When all else falls away Nigel Fairhead with Marianne Thamm R110 ISBN: 0143024728 Non-fiction Published: August 2005 Penguin Paperback 220 pages
An explosive new SF novel from the UK's bestselling writer in the genre.        It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year.        The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilisation. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars.        Seconded to a military-religious order he’s barely heard of – part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony – Fassin Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer – a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he’s ever known.        As complex, turbulent, flamboyant and spectacular as the gas giant on which it is set, the new science fiction novel from Iain M Banks is space opera on a truly epic scale. About the author: Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. He has since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels. Click here or on the book cover to purchase your copy of The Algebraist from kalahari.net	The Algebraist Iain M Banks R110.00 ISBN: 1841492299 Published: August 2005 Time Warner Format: Paperback
Simple, surprising, cruel and humorous, these beautifully rendered tales display Alexander McCall Smith’s renowned story-telling skills and his love of Africa. About the author: Alexander McCall Smith was born in Zimbabwe and educated there and in Scotland. His books on Botswana's number one lady detective, Precious Ramotswe, captivated the hearts and imaginations of readers and became instantaneous bestsellers the world over. The last book in this series, In the Company of Cheerful Ladies is now available. McCall Smith recently began a new series of books about an Edinburgh amateur sleuth called Isabel Dalhousie. The first book in this series, The Sunday Philosophy Club, is now available in South Africa.         McCall Smith is a practising professor of medical law and the author of over 50 books, ranging from children's fiction and folk tales to the criminal law of Botswana. He is married to an Edinburgh doctor and has two daughters. Alexander McCall Smith lives in Edinburgh. Click here to purchase your copy of The Girl Who Married A Lion from kalahari.net	The Girl Who Married A Lion Alexander McCall Smith R110.00 ISBN: 1841 955302 Published: August 2005 Canongate
A sack of letters lost in a train crash nineteen years previously has mysteriously reappeared, and the inhabitants of a small town in Pakistan are waiting anxiously to see what long-buried secrets will come to light. Could the letters have any bearing on Judge Anwar's murder?         In one of the most exquisite fictional debuts of recent years, Nadeem Aslam creates an exotic and timeless world, but one whose traditional rituals of everyday life are played out against an ominous backdrop of faraway civil wars, assassinations, changing regimes and religious tensions. About the author: Nadeem Aslam is the highly acclaimed author and Betty Trask Award-winning of Maps for Lost Lovers. Click here to purchase Season of the Rainbirds from kalahari.net now!	Season of the Rainbirds Nadeem Aslam R100.00 ISBN: 0571224792 Faber & Faber Published: August 2005 Format: Soft cover
Olive Schreiner was born 150 years ago and to celebrate this milestone Penguin is proud to publish the public writings of one of our finest writers, collected for the first time. Words in Season is one of the first of four titles in the forthcoming South African Penguin Modern Classics series.        Words in Season is a selection of Schreiner's uncollected writings on key South African issues, supported by her own autobiographical pieces. It includes The Political Situation, written in collaboration with her husband in 1895; her Words in Season produced on the eve of the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1899; and her Closer Union booklet of 1908 which defines her vision of a non-racial, non-sexist South Africa of the future. About the author: Olive Schreiner was the ninth child born to Methodist missionary parents on the remote Wittebergen Reserve in the Cape Colony in 1855. Perhaps best remembered for The Story of an African Farm, her combative journalism and subsequent role as a spokesperson for progressive causes ultimately resulted in her being posthumously awarded South Africa's highest honour, the Medal of the Order of Ikhamanga in Gold, "for her exceptional contribution to literature and her commitment to the struggle for human rights and democracy". Click here to find out more about Words in Season and the other South African Penguin Modern Classics	Words in Season South African Penguin Modern Classics Olive Schreiner R90.00 ISBN: 0143185411 Published: August 2005 Penguin Format: Paperback 220 pages

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