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A Fork in the Road by Andre Brink
38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Andre Brink grew up in the deep interior of South Africa, as his magistrate father moved from one dusty dorp to the next. With searing honesty he describes his conflicting experiences of growing up in a world where innocence was always surrounded by violence. From an early age he found in storytelling t ...Show more
A Fork in the Road by Andre Brink
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Andre Brink grew up in the deep interior of South Africa, as his magistrate father moved from one dusty dorp to the next. With searing honesty he describes his conflicting experiences of growing up in a world where innocence was always surrounded by violence. From an early age he found in storytelling t ...Show more
Before I Forget by Andre Brink
27.95 NZD
29.95 (6% off)
Category: Fiction
Chris Minaar is a distinguished South African writer, an old writer, but a writer who has lost whatever gift he had for writing. It is on New Year's Eve, courtesy of his stalled car, that he meets Rachel, a young sculptress who becomes the great love of his life, a love greater for being unfulfilled. He ...Show more
Islands by Dan Sleigh (tr from Afrikaans, Andre Brink)
29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
For the indigenous peoples of the Dutch settlement of the Cape, it is the beginning of the end of a way of life; its seasons and rhythms, its harshness and abundance. Pieternella is the daughter of the first 'mixed' marriage of the new colony and it is she who becomes the pivot of all the action in this ...Show more
Philida by Andre Brink
34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Soon there must come a day when I can say for myself: This and that I shall do, this and that I shall not. Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master. The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the liberation of the slaves. Philida decides to risk her ...Show more
Philida by Andre Brink
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the liberation of slaves. Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master. Francois has reneged on his promise to set her free and his father has ordered him to marry a white woman from a prominent family, selling P ...Show more
Praying Mantis by Andre Brink
26.99 NZD
29.99 (10% off)
Category: General Fiction
A magical novel from a world class writer about a remarkable historical figure. In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of his region. Coming under the spell of a wo ...Show more
Praying Mantis by Andre Brink
54.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the deep interior of the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach became the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of his region. Coming under the spell of a woman, the soap-boiler Anna, and particularly under the influence of the great Dr Johann ...Show more
The Blue Door by Andre Brink
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
"The Blue Door" is built around one of the oldest questions in storytelling: What if ...? What if I return home one day to find, behind a familiar door, an unfamiliar world? What if the people closest to me turn out to be strangers? What if strangers start claiming a place in my life I cannot imagine? W ...Show more
The Other Side of Silence by Andre Brink
54.95 NZD
62.99 (12% off)
Category: Fiction
As a small child in wintry Bremen, Hanna dreams about escaping from years of abuse in the orphanage and in service. She joins a shipload of young women transported in the early years of the 20th century to the colony of South-West Africa to assuage the needs of the male settlers.
The Other Side of Silence by Andre Brink
26.95 NZD
Category: General Fiction
As a small child in a wintry Bremen, Hanna dreams about the other side of silence, the place where the wind comes from and palm trees wave in the sun. Seeing her chance to escape from years of abuse in an orphanage and in service, Hanna joins one of the shiploads of young women transported in the early ...Show more
The Rights of Desire by Andre Brink
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Ruben Oliver's life is coming adrift from its moorings, he has lost his job, become a widower, and his children have emigrated. When Tessa arrives in response to his advertisement for a lodger, she restores passion to his life, but brings with her a turbulent past.
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