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For A City Imagined, editor Stephen Watson asked twenty South African writers to express their relationship to Cape Town and, above all, their sense of the unique genius or spirit of this city.        The range of voices is wide, the angles of vision many, the results always surprising. What emerges from A City Imagined is a composite portrait of Cape Town which is infinitely more various, heterogeneous, complex even in its beauty, than that to be found in the standard treatments of the place. Each piece underlines the conviction expressed by editor Stephen Watson in his introduction to this book: “If a city hasn’t been used by a writer or artist, not even its inhabitants live there imaginatively.”        The collection contains contributions from André Brink, Damon Galgut, Sindiwe Magona, Jeremy Cronin, Jenefer Shute, Anthony Sher, Mar Behr, Henriette Rose-Innes, Juston Cartwright, Finuala Dowling, Michiel Heyns, Karen Press, Luke Fiske, Mike Nicol, Marlene van Niekerk, Nkululeko Mabandla and PR Anderson. Click here to purchase A City Imagined from kalahari.net now!	A City Imagined Stephen Watson R120.00 ISBN: 0143024736 Penguin SA
This June we're going back to our roots with the Penguin Epics: twenty short tales of human adventure, legend and myth. These epics depict the most extreme acts of heroism, ambition, bravery and violence, revealing mankind's most profound aspirations and deepest fears. Click here to visit the site and find out more! Read more about the Penguin Epic titles: Jason and the Golden Fleece - Apollonius The Serpent's Teeth - Ovid The Madness of Nero - Tacitus The Destruction of Troy - Virgil Cupid And Psyche - Apuleius Odysseus Returns Home - Homer Click to purchase Penguin Epics: Jason and the Golden Fleece - Apollonius, The Serpent's Teeth - Ovid, The Madness of Nero - Tacitus, The Destruction of Troy - Virgil, Cupid and Psyche - Apuleius, Odysseus Returns Home - Homer from kalahari.net now!	Penguin Epics:
Once he’d reached his early thirties, Seb Hunter knew it was time to try to grow up – but that, of course, meant attempting to enjoy classical music. Pretending just wouldn’t do.        His musical tastes had always been catholic, but this was a step into the unknown – down beyond the glass partition and into the record-shop basement. It might as well have been beyond the looking-glass, yet our intrepid hero reckoned he was up to the task. And, not one to do things by halves, he embarked on a haphazard journey across Europe that took in hallucinating nuns, a Yoda-like mentor, angry eunuchs, frustrated minstrels, trying really hard not to vomit at the opera in Rome, an assault on the Kremlin and several run-ins with his mother. But would Beethoven roll over? Would Nigel Kennedy return his calls? No.        From chanting monks to music played with helicopters via twenty different varieties of Austrian sausage, it’s a passionate, unlikely and very funny story. If you’ve ever wondered whether classical music is all it’s made out to be, now you’ll never have to listen to any in order to find out – just read this instead. Click here to purchase Rock Me Amadeus from kalahari.net now!	Rock Me Amadeus Seb Hunter R150.00 ISBN: 0718148347 Penguin UK
Three women live on The Wonder House, a boat moored on Nagin Lake and carved from the cedars that watch over the Kashmir Valley. Suriya is mute and carries a terrible secret. Her daughter, Lila, wants to escape the past and live a different kind of life. But, together, they tend to Gracie, a defiant Yorkshirewoman living out her widowhood by the lake.        A military coup over the border brings violence crashing back into the valley. When an English journalist arrives to report on the conflict, Gracie invites him to stay on The Wonder House. But Hal is a man adrift and his love for one of the women threatens more than just the fragile peace on the houseboat. Click here to purchase The Wonder House from kalahari.net now!	The Wonder House Justine Hardy R110.00 ISBN: 1843544342 Atlantic Books
Voltaire is widely thought to have been the central figure in the eighteenth-century revolution of ideas known as the Enlightenment. But few are aware of the essential contribution of a beautiful aristocrat, a brilliant and passionate mathematician who popularised Newton and transformed our understanding of energy: Voltaire’s lover, Emilie du Chatelet. Only after swordfights, imprisonment, wild affairs, lottery scams and border escapes did they find love together. But then their radical ideas flourished and they challenged the social norms and the great injustices of the era. In improvised laboratories they considered the nature of light and the influence of gravity on the planets.        In this fabulously entertaining and accessible account, Bodanis once more proves himself to be a master storyteller. Using original research, he lucidly evokes the social climate of the age, combining humour and anecdote with scientific understanding, and sheds light on the tempestuous – and, ultimately, tragic – relationship at the forefront of Europe’s intellectual revolution. Click here to order Passionate Minds from kalahari.net now!	Passionate Minds: The Great Enlightenment Love Affair David Bodanis R160.00 ISBN: 0316730858 Little, Brown

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