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When sixteen-year-old Marianne Flowers is invited to a party in a genteel house she has no idea that the house - and what she experiences there - including the stately bathroom - will change her life. Not to mention the boy who introduces her to red wine, sophisticated conversation and an apparently liberated future.        But marriage to Charles turns out to be far from liberating and soon Marianne finds herself living in a basement flat, with a cramped, ignoble bathroom, and a way of life that is very far from her hopes, romantic or otherwise. Life, it seems, is going on elsewhere.        But Charles' mother starts feeding her with books - classics, feminist essays, fine literature - and soon Marianne realises that there is a whole, bright world unfolding before her. But how will this new, independently minded Marianne find her place in this brand new world? Click here to purchase Yesterday's Houses from kalahari.net now!	Yesterday's Houses R150.00 ISBN: 0571224237 Release date: March 2006 Faber & Faber
Leo Gursky is a man who fell in love at the age of ten and has been in love ever since. These days he is just about surviving life in America, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbour know he's still alive, drawing attention to himself at the milk counter of Starbucks. But life wasn't always like this: sixty years ago in the Polish village where he was born Leo fell in love with a young girl called Alma and wrote a book in honour of his love. These days he assumes that the book, and his dreams, are irretrievably lost, until one day they return to him in the form of a brown envelope.       Meanwhile, a young girl, hoping to find a cure for her mother's loneliness, stumbles across a book that changed her mother's life and she goes in search of the author. Soon these and other worlds collide in The History of Love, a captivating story of the power of love, of loneliness and of survival. Click here to purchase The History of Love from kalahari.net now!	The History of Love Nicole Krauss R100.00 ISBN: 0141019972 Released: March 2006 Penguin UK
Love, family, writing and Cape Town’s moods form the subject matter of Doo-Wop Girls of the Universe, Finuala Dowling’s second collection of poetry.       As in her much-loved debut, I Flying, Finuala’s distinctive tragicomic voice produces poems filled with wit, verve and poignancy. Ranging in tone from the delightful humour of “Straight Men of Cape Town” to the sadness of “Your Death”, this is another collection to be read from cover to cover. Click here to order your copy of Doo-Wop Girls of the Universe from Exclusive Books	Doo-Wop Girls of the Universe Finuala Dowling R80.00 ISBN: 014302504X Penguin Released: March 2006
Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to "My dear and unfortunate successor". Her discovery plunges her into a world she never dreamed of - a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an evil hidden in the depths of history.       In those few quiet moments, she unwittingly assumes a quest she will discover is her birthright - a hunt for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the Dracula myth. Deciphering obscure signs and hidden texts, reading codes worked into the fabric of medieval monastic traditions, and evading terrifying adversaries, one woman comes ever closer to the secret of her own past and a confrontation with the very definition of evil.       Elizabeth Kostova's debut novel is an adventure of monumental proportions - a captivating tale that blends fact and fantasy, history and the present with an assurance that is almost unbearably suspenseful - and utterly unforgettable. Click here to order The Historian from kalahari.net now!	The Historian Elizabeth Kostova R100.00 ISBN: 0751537284 Time Warner Released: March 2006
1919 SIBERIA: In the outer reaches of a country recently torn apart by civil war lives a small Christian sect and its enigmatic leader, Balashov. Stationed nearby is a regiment of Czech soldiers, desperate to get home but on the losing side of the recent conflict.       Uncertainty prevails.       Into this isolated community trudges Samarin, an escapee from Russia's northernmost gulag. Immediately apprehended, he is brought for interrogation before Captain Matula, the regiment's megalomaniac commander. But the stranger's arrival has caught the attention of others, including Anna, a beautiful, young war widow. And when the local shaman lies dead, suspicion and terror engulf the little town . . .       The People's Act of Love is a magnificent piece of storytelling, an unforgettable novel and a deeply satisfying read. Click here to buy People's Act of Love from kalahari.net now!	The People's Act of Love James Meek R110.00 ISBN: 1841957062 Canongate Release Date: March 2006
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