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"I watched my father run forward in his snowshoes the way one sometimes does in dreams, unable to make the legs move fast enough. I ran to the place where he knelt. I looked down into the sleeping bag. A tiny face gazed up at me, the eyes wide despite their many folds. The baby was wrapped in a bloody towel, and its lips were pale blue." The events of a December afternoon on which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow will forever alter eleven-year-old Nicky Dillon's understanding of the world which she is about to enter and the adults who inhabit it: a father who has taken great pains to remove himself from society in order to put behind him an unthinkable tragedy; a young woman who must live with the consequences of the terrible choices she has made; and a detective whose cleverness is superseded only by his sense of justice. Written from the point of view of thirty-year-old Nicky as she recalls the vivid images of that fateful December, hers is a tale of love and courage, of tragedy and redemption, and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself. About the author Anita Shreve is the author of ten other novels, including the international bestsellers The Pilot's Wife, an Oprah's Book Club selection, and The Weight of Water, short listed for the Orange Prize. She will be in South Africa early next year on a book tour. We'll keep you updated. Click here or on the book cover to purchase your copy of Light on snow from kalahari.net	Light on snow Anita Shreve R140 ISBN: 0316726664 Trade paperback 320 pages Pub date: November 2004
On a lonely stretch of road near a small coastal town, a murder is committed. There is no one to witness the act and no one who could predict the bizarre repercussions which must inevitably follow. In taking on the identity of his victim, the murderer cannot foresee the sequence of events which, once set in motion, are inescapable, not only for him, but for all the town’s inhabitants – from the light-fingered Valentine, who unwittingly leads them to the body, to Captain Mong, who cannot rest until he gets his man.       And beneath the apparent workings of justice, contradictory forces are at war … About the author Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs and The Quarry. The Good Doctor, published by Penguin in 2003 was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the African region Commonwealth Writers Prize 2004. Click here to purchase your copy of The Quarry from kalahari.net	The Quarry Damon Galgut R95 ISBN: 0143024620 Softcover 224 pages
In Maharanis Lucy Moore brilliantly recreates the lives of four princesses - two grandmothers, a mother and a daughter - of the Royal courts of India. Their extraordinary story takes in tiger hunts, exotic palaces and lavish ceremonies in India, as well as the glamorous international scene of the Edwardian and interwar era. It is also an intimate portrait of four remarkable women - Chimnabai, Sunity, Indira and Ayesha - who changed the world they lived in. Through their lives Lucy Moore tells the history of a nation during an era of great change: the rise and fall of the Raj from the Indian Mutiny to Independence and beyond. About the author Lucy Moore was born in 1970. She was brought up and educated in Britain and the United States before reading history at Edinburgh University. She lives in London. Click here to purchase your copy of Maharanis from kalahari.net	Maharanis Lucy Moore R100 ISBN: 0670912875 Hardcover 352 pages
At the start of World War One, German warships controlled Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa. The British had no naval craft at all upon 'Tanganjikasee', as the Germans called it. This mattered: it was the longest lake in the world and of great strategic advantage. In June 1915, a force of 28 men was despatched from Britain on a vast journey. Their orders were to take control of the lake. To reach it, they had to haul two motorboats with the unlikely names of Mimi and Toutou through the wilds of the Congo.       The 28 were a strange bunch -- one was addicted to Worcester sauce, another was a former racing driver -- but the strangest of all of them was their skirt-wearing, tattoo-covered commander, Geoffrey Spicer-Simson. Whatever it took, even if it meant becoming the god of a local tribe, he was determined to cover himself in glory. But the Germans had a surprise in store for Spicer-Simson, in the shape of their secret 'supership' the Graf von Gotzen . . .       Unearthing new German and African records, the prize-winning author of The Last King of Scotland retells this most unlikely of true-life tales with his customary narrative energy and style. Click here to purchase your copy of Mimi and Toutou go forth from kalahari.net	Mimi and Toutou go forth Giles Foden R160 ISBN: 0718145550 Hardcover 256 pages
When Noe orders his sons to build an ark, he can't tell them where the wood or other materials will come from, just that God will provide. When he orders his daughters-in-law to gather the animals, they have to set off on their difficult journeys with neither money nor protection . . . just Noe's faith that God will make it work.       And once the rain starts, the family is trapped on the ark with no experience in feeding or caring for animals, and no idea when the endless waters will recede. It's the story of a family caught in the midst of an extraordinary Biblical event - and a whole heap of manure to boot.       Dive into The Flood - a remarkable debut full of tension, humanity, and humour. Praise for The Flood "A funny, cheeky, irreverent, wonderfully original first novel, informed both by Biblical history and Dave Maine's joyous imagination" - Jim Fergus, author of One Thousand White Women "Funny, tender, intelligent, energetic, irreverent, and worshipful. It is an enormous juggling act of families, animals and faith, and it kept me engaged through every page" - Ann Patchett, author of Orange Prize winner Bel Canto " I loved The Flood. It's a funny, convincing amplification of the Biblical story" - Tracy Chevalier About the author David Maine lives in Pakistan with his wife, novelist Uzma Aslam Khan. Click here to purchase your copy of The Flood from kalahari.net	The Flood David Maine R224.95 ISBN: 184195537X Hardcover 272 pages

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