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Pastoral
Published: 2014-05-13
Paperback: 160 pages
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There were plans for an official welcome. It was to take place the following Sunday. But those who came to the rectory on Father Pennant's second day were the ones who could not resist seeing him sooner. Here was the man to whom they would confess the darkest things. It was important to fe...
Godsend: A Novel
Published: 2018-10-09
Hardcover: 240 pages
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Inspired by the story of John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban,” Whiting Award–winning author John Wray explores the circumstances that could impel a young American to abandon identity and home to become an Islamist militant.Like many other eighteen-year-olds, Aden Sawyer is inten...
The Losers Club
Published: 2018-07-10
Paperback: 256 pages
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The beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Frindle celebrates books and the joy of reading with a new school story to love! Sixth grader Alec can’t put a good book down. So when Principal Vance lays down the law—pay attention in class, or else—Alec take...
The Exploded View
Published: 2017-03-28
Paperback: 196 pages
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The Exploded View, from the masterful South African novelist Ivan Vladislavi?, tells the story of four lives intertwined through the sprawling infrastructure on the margins of Johhanesburg: a stastician taking the national census, an engineer out on the town with city officials, an artist ...
Becoming Him – A Trans Memoir of Triumph
Published: 2018-07-01
Kindle Edition: 207 pages
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In April 1981, Landa Mabenge enters this world, trapped in a girl’s body. From an early age, Landa is aware that he does not relate to his female form, despite being socialised as a girl. In this groundbreaking and brutally honest memoir, Landa Mabenge establishes himself as a resounding...
Tigerman
Published: 2015-06-23
Paperback: 352 pages
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A KIRKUS REVIEWS and NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST AND ALA NOTABLE BOOK From the award-winning author of Angelmaker, Tigerman is a novel at once heartfelt and thrilling—about parenthood, friendship and secret identities, about heroes of both the super and the everyday kind...
Khwezi: The remarkable story of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo
Published: 2017-09-18
Kindle Edition: 260 pages
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In May 2006 Jacob Zuma was found not guilty of the rape of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo – better known as Khwezi – in the Johannesburg High Court. Another nail was driven into the coffin of South Africa's fight against sexual violence. Vilified by Zuma's many supporters, Khwezi was forced...
Zoo Time: A Novel
Published: 2012-10-16
Hardcover: 384 pages
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Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blisterin...
The Fifth Mrs Brink: A Memoir
Published: 2017-07-25
Kindle Edition: 240 pages
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The Fifth Mrs Brink is Karina M. Szczurek's memoir of her life before, during and after her marriage to André P. Brink. Polish-born Karina was twenty-seven when she met the acclaimed writer, forty-two years her senior, and they spent a decade together. Here she chronicles their relationsh...
A Little Piece of Light: A Memoir of Hope, Prison, and a Life Unbound
Published: 2018-06-05
Hardcover: 272 pages
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Random Family meets Orange Is the New Black in A Little Piece of Light, a memoir of survival, redemption, hope, and sisterhood from a bold new voice on the front lines of the criminal justice reform movement. Like so many women before her and so many women yet to come, Donna Hylton's early...
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