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This is the story of Carla Jensen, daughter of Anna Jensen. Carla has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Undermined by Carla’s dangerous behaviour and Anna’s addiction, mother and daughter struggle to cope.        We encounter Carla when denial of her illness has finally been medicated out of her and her rebellious nature subdued. Then she stumbles onto an act of savagery that propels her back across the border to the other side - into the maelstrom of madness and sexual deviance that she realises she has never left. But this time she is armed with a quest: in pulling aside the cobwebs that smother her family’s past she is forced to confront the enigma of her own urge to self-destruct.        Carla’s challenging, unforgettable journey takes the reader into the dark heart of the meaning of family. But it is in this no-man’s-land of the human spirit that Carla finds the gift she has sought all her life: the empowerment of a transcendent healing. Click here to purchase Madlands from kalahari.net now!	Madlands Rosemund Handler R95.00 ISBN: 0143025023 Penguin South Africa
In a thoughtful, moving, and ultimately inspiring memoir, bestselling author Martha Beck chronicles her difficult decision to leave behind her Mormon childhood and upbringing, and reveals her lifetime struggle to overcome a dark secret buried in her childhood. While growing up within the Mormon Church, Martha Beck was raised in a home frequented by the Church’s high elders and her existence was framed by their strict code of conduct. When her son was born with Down syndrome, she and her husband left their graduate programmes at Harvard to return to Provo, Utah, and the supportive Mormon community of Martha’s youth. But after Martha began teaching at Brigham Young University, she saw at first hand the Church’s ruthlessness as it silenced dissidents and masked truths that contradicted its beliefs. Most troubling of all, Martha was jolted into recovering memories of sexual abuse at the hands of one of the Church’s most respected leaders.         Filled with great insight and Martha Beck’s celebrated humour and entertaining wit, Leaving the Saints is an unforgettable autobiography that offers a rare glimpse inside one of the world’s most secretive religions while telling a profoundly moving story of personal courage, survival, and the transformative power of spirituality. Click here to purchase Leaving the Saints from kalahari.net now!	Leaving the Saints Martha Beck R110.00 ISBN: 0749950919 Piatkus
For years, Nadezhda and Vera, two Ukrainian sisters, raised in England by their refugee parents, have had as little as possible to do with each other - and they have their reasons. But now they find they'd better learn how to get along, because since their mother's death their aging father has been sliding into his second childhood, and an alarming new woman has just entered his life.         Valentina, a bosomy young synthetic blonde from the Ukraine, seems to think their father is much richer than he is, and she is keen that he leave this world with as little money to his name as possible. If Nadezhda and Vera don't stop her, no one will. But separating their addled and annoyingly lecherous dad from his new love will prove to be no easy feat - Valentina is a ruthless pro and the two sisters swiftly realize that they are mere amateurs when it comes to ruthlessness.         As Hurricane Valentina turns the family house upside down, old secrets come falling out, including the most deeply buried one of them all, from the War, the one that explains much about why Nadezhda and Vera are so different.         In the meantime, oblivious to it all, their father carries on with the great work of his dotage, a grand history of the tractor. Read our review of this book by Michelle McGrane Click here to purchase A Short History of Tractors in the Ukrainian from kalahari.net now!	A Short History of Tractors in the Ukrainian Marina Lewycka R100.00 ISBN: 0141020520 Penguin UK
In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world.         A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life. Click here to order Never Let Me Go from kalahari.net now!	Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro R110.00 ISBN: 057122413X Faber & Faber
Book 7 in the Mma Ramotswe series! Now that she is finally and happily married to her long-term suitor Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency of Botswana might have expected life to grow more sedate. But the many problems that lead customers to Mma Ramotswe's door seem, if anything, to have multiplied, and no sooner has she settled her traditionally-built person into the married state than she finds herself looking into several troublesome matters at once.        There is, to begin with, a disturbing case of blackmail and theft from the Government catering college, then while on an errand for her husband to the Mokolodi Game Reserve Mma Ramotswe is seconded to investigate an unpleasant atmosphere that may be down to witchcraft, or something worse. There are sinister goings-on at a health clinic to be looked into, not to mention any number of small wrongs to be righted along the path to detective triumph. And all the time Mma Ramotswe has weighty matters of a philosophical nature to consider, such as whether it is right to find happiness in small things, such as a new pair of blue shoes, a slice of cake, or a red sunset over the Kalahari. Click here to buy Blue Shoes and Happiness from kalahari.net now!	Blue Shoes and Happiness Alexander McCall Smith R180.000 ISBN: 1904598633 Polygon

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