{"title":"LGBTQ","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"9781784161002","title":"The Heart's Invisible Furies","description":"\u003cp\u003eForced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin finds herself pregnant and alone, in search of a new life at just sixteen. She knows she has no choice but to believe that the nun she entrusts her child to will find him a better life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCyril Avery is not a real Avery, or so his parents are constantly reminding him. Adopted as a baby, he's never quite felt at home with the family that treats him more as a curious pet than a son. But it is all he has ever known.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd so begins one man's desperate search to find his place in the world. Unsporting and unseeing, Cyril is a misguided, heart-breaking, heartbroken fool. Buffeted by the harsh winds of circumstance towards the one thing that might save him from himself, but when opportunity knocks, will he have the courage, finally, take it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+John+Boyne\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eJohn Boyne\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"John Boyne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47376534765731,"sku":"9781784161002","price":295.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781784161002_69960c03-23d2-4f3f-9006-61944246b088.jpg?v=1776588134"},{"product_id":"9781447208242","title":"Our Evenings","description":"\u003cp\u003eDave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school. This weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities, even as it exposes him to their son Giles' envy and violence.\u003cbr\u003eAs their lives unfold over the next half a century, the two boys' careers will diverge dramatically: Dave, a gifted actor struggling against convention and discrimination, Giles an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician.\u003cbr\u003eOur Evenings is the intimate and touching story of Dave Win's life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company. Then, a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Alan+Hollinghurst\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eAlan Hollinghurst\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Alan Hollinghurst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47376612917411,"sku":"9781447208242","price":285.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781447208242_e075aceb-d33a-4782-bdc5-14ed61fe6e83.jpg?v=1776540325"},{"product_id":"9781529099461","title":"Red, White \u0026 Royal Blue","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? Alex Claremont-Diaz is handsome, charismatic, a genius - pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House ever since his mother first became President of the United States. There's only one problem. When the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an altercation between Alex and Prince Henry, U.S.\/British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family and state devise a plan for damage control: stage a truce. But what begins as a fake, Instagrammable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon they are hurtling into a secret romance that could derail the presidential campaign and upend two nations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Casey+McQuiston\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eCasey McQuiston\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Casey McQuiston","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377370185891,"sku":"9781529099461","price":285.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781529099461_0d9cd979-9a30-490e-b781-c12a76344a14.jpg?v=1776563494"},{"product_id":"9781529099485","title":"One Last Stop","description":"\u003cp\u003eMoving to New York City is supposed to prove cynical twenty-three-year-old August right: magic and cinematic love stories don't exist. But then, she meets this gorgeous girl on the train. Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile. August's subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon she discovers there's one big problem: Jane is displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help Jane. 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She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShuggie is different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother's sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no' right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDouglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. A counterpart to the privileged Thatcher-era London of Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty, it also recalls the work of Edouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, it is a blistering debut by a brilliant novelist with a powerful and important story to tell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Douglas+Stuart\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eDouglas Stuart\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Douglas Stuart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377471242403,"sku":"9781529019292","price":299.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781529019292_b8c5104c-4229-45ed-b24d-211e9e4b5692.jpg?v=1776560406"},{"product_id":"9781408891384","title":"The Song of Achilles","description":"\u003cp\u003eGreece in the age of heroes. 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Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus goes with him, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Captivating' DONNA TARTT\u003cbr\u003e'I loved it' J K ROWLING\u003cbr\u003e'Ravishingly vivid' EMMA DONOGHUE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Madeline+Miller\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eMadeline Miller\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Madeline Miller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379468615843,"sku":"9781408891384","price":305.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781408891384_31fdd445-db46-493d-b83f-f2324dae6ce1.jpg?v=1776528696"},{"product_id":"9780330483216","title":"The Line of Beauty","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Man Booker Prize, Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s Britain.\n\nIt is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine who becomes his friend and his uneasy responsibility.\n\nInnocent of politics and money, Nick is swept up into the Feddens' world and an era of endless possibility, all the while pursuing his own private obsession with beauty.\n\nThe Line of Beauty is Alan Hollinghurst's Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece. 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But he begins to suspect she's right, and he is in fact dead. Then when Hugo, owner of a most peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace reluctantly accepts the truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet even in death, he refuses to abandon his life - even though Wallace spent all of it working, correcting colleagues and hectoring employees. He'd had no time for frivolities like fun and friends. But as Wallace drinks tea with Hugo and talks to his customers, he wonders if he was missing something.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe feeling grows as he shares jokes with the resident ghost, manifests embarrassing footwear and notices the stars. So when he's given one week to pass through the door to the other side, Wallace sets about living a lifetime in just seven days.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFans of A Man Called Ove and The Good Place will fall for this queer love story by TJ Klune.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for TJ Klune:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I loved it. It is like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket. Simply perfect' - V. E. Schwab, no.1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A modern fairy tale about learning your true nature and what you love and will protect. It's a beautiful book' - Charlaine Harris, no.1 New York Times bestselling author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A whimsical, warm-hearted fantasy' - Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Fans of queer fantasy won't want to miss this' - Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+TJ+Klune\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eTJ Klune\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"TJ Klune","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47380779597987,"sku":"9781529087994","price":285.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781529087994_6065b2e3-3dc7-49fd-9299-9239aa0af2c3.jpg?v=1776563195"},{"product_id":"9780795711015","title":"The Queer Book of Revelation","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a future dominated by technology, John grapples with the oppressive regime of The Federation, which promotes emotion suppression and AI control. Assigned to infiltrate a colony of Feelers — humans resistant to AI influence — John encounters Joshua, sparking forbidden feelings. Meanwhile, approached by time travellers, John faces a choice: go back in time to prevent technological tyranny or continue serving The Federation in ignorance.\u003cbr\u003eAs John questions his loyalty and explores his connection with Joshua, he uncovers a sinister plot: a tech company manipulating humanity across history to power its time-travel endeavors. With AI life coach Veronica embodying this control, John confronts the moral dilemma of compliance versus rebellion. He delves into the past alongside the time travelers, navigating a web of morality, technology, and human connection, ultimately seeking to overthrow the system and reclaim his autonomy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Siya+Khumalo\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eSiya Khumalo\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Siya Khumalo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47381435777187,"sku":"9780795711015","price":340.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780795711015_47803ff8-4cf7-485f-bdfe-5831781f922a.jpg?v=1776497555"},{"product_id":"9780263322804","title":"The Boyfriend Subscription","description":"\u003cp\u003eA simple deal and complicated feelings…\u003cbr\u003eTeddy Hughes has lost his marriage, his business, and now he can't afford another beer in his favourite dive bar. So he has no choice but to leave New York for good. But then a gorgeous stranger walks in with cheekbones that could cut glass.\u003cbr\u003eLike the leather harness he wears under his suit, Cole Vivien is a mass of contradictions. He's a successful entrepreneur whose app, VERSTL, allows consumers and sex workers to form real - if temporary - connections. But Cole needs a fake boyfriend so he can project a more traditional image for a potential investor. And Teddy - shy, smart, and so much hotter than he knows - is perfect for the part.\u003cbr\u003eCole has two conditions: no kissing or falling in love. And in exchange for one week together, Teddy will get enough money to get back on his feet.\u003cbr\u003eBut breaking the rules is much more fun…\u003cbr\u003ePerfect for fans of:\u003cbr\u003eFake dating\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Steven+Salvatore\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eSteven Salvatore\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Steven Salvatore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47381485944995,"sku":"9780263322804","price":300.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780263322804_7cfd8271-00be-495c-b6cf-d0ee5a66c9a1.jpg?v=1776469867"},{"product_id":"9781399713740","title":"Things We Never Got Over","description":"\u003cp\u003eA spicy contemporary rom-com set in the town of Knockemout from bestselling author and TikTok sensation, Lucy Score\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone. Unless you count his basset hound, Waylon. Knox doesn't tolerate drama, even when it comes in the form of a stranded runaway bride.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNaomi wasn't just running away from her wedding. She was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin to Knockemout, Virginia, a rough-around-the-edges town where disputes are settled the old-fashioned way . . . with fists and beer. Usually in that order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToo bad for Naomi her evil twin hasn't changed at all. After helping herself to Naomi's car and cash, Tina leaves her with something unexpected. The niece Naomi didn't know she had. Now she's stuck in town with no car, no job, no plan, and no home with an 11-year-old going on thirty to take care of.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere's a reason Knox doesn't do complications or high-maintenance women, especially not the romantic ones. But since Naomi's life imploded right in front of him, the least he can do is help her out of her jam. And just as soon as she stops getting into new trouble he can leave her alone and get back to his peaceful, solitary life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt least, that's the plan until the trouble turns to real danger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Lucy+Score\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eLucy Score\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Lucy Score","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47381549809827,"sku":"9781399713740","price":315.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781399713740_7a666417-92da-4f4f-a588-94d5a0114079.jpg?v=1776522761"},{"product_id":"9781035001880","title":"The Pairing","description":"\u003cp\u003eTheo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, lovers and now estranged exes. After a brutal breakup on a flight to their dream European food and wine tour, they exited each other's lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTime apart has done them good. Theo is a bartender and aspiring sommelier with a long roster of lovers. Kit graduated as the reigning sex god of his pastry school and now bakes at one of the finest restaurants in Paris. All that remains is the unused voucher for the European tour that never happened. Four years later, it seems like a great idea to finally take the trip. Solo. Separately.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's not until Theo and Kit board the tour bus that they discover they've both had the exact same idea, and now they're trapped with each other for three weeks of the most romantic sights and sensuous flavours of France, Spain, and Italy. But, it'll be fine as long as they agree they're absolutely over each other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo, when Theo suggests a friendly wager to see who can sleep with their hot Italian tour guide first, Kit is game. In fact, why stop there? Why not a full-on European hookup competition?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut sometimes a taste of everything only makes you crave what you can't have.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Casey+McQuiston\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eCasey McQuiston\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Casey McQuiston","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47381677572259,"sku":"9781035001880","price":385.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781035001880_4d81a15c-2fd5-4402-ab00-c689fe2c6318.jpg?v=1776517905"},{"product_id":"9781035038534","title":"Our Evenings","description":"\u003cp\u003eDid I have a grievance? Most of us, without looking far, could find something that had harmed us, and oppressed us, and unfairly held us back. I tried not to dwell on it, thought it healthier not to, though I'd lived my short life so far in a chaos of privilege and prejudice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDave Win is thirteen years old when he first goes to stay with the Hadlows, the sponsors of his scholarship at a local boarding school where their son Giles is his contemporary. For Dave this weekend, with its games and challenges and surprising encounters, will open up heady new possibilities, even as it exposes him to Giles's envy and violence. As Our Evenings unfolds over half a century, the two boys' careers will diverge dramatically, Dave a gifted actor struggling with convention and discrimination, Giles an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur Evenings is Dave Win's own account of his life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security; but it is also, very movingly, the story of his hard-working widowed mother, whose own life takes an unexpected new turn after her son leaves home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth dark and luminous, poignant and wickedly funny, Alan Hollinghurst's new novel gives us a portrait of modern England through the lens of one man's acutely observed and often unnerving experience. 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Archaeologist Lucie Fitzgerald's mother is dying - she's also been lying. \u003cbr\u003eAs her home, the 'Paris of the East', Beirut, teeters on the brink of war in the '70s, Polly Fitzgerald has one last story to tell from her deathbed.  It's the story of her childhood best friend Juno and their life in 30s Cairo. \u003cbr\u003eLucie travels home to be with her dying mother and discovers the truth about her family, Juno's work and their shared search for the greatest undiscovered tomb of all - Nefertiti's. 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Over the course of the final year of school, Brendan will have to learn to navigate the new shape of their friendship and find a place for himself in the world without Ronan to protect him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Ballad of Ronan McCoy is a beautifully written, tender coming-of-age story about friendship and first love, loss and letting go, and the hopes and fears of a young man standing on the cusp of the rest of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Colin+Morgan\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eColin Morgan\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Colin Morgan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47774887444643,"sku":"9780008765088","price":390.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/9780008765088_c8a06faa-e6e6-4dcc-bfdb-78afaf619647.jpg?v=1781463737"},{"product_id":"9781529943856","title":"The Weight of Angels","description":"\u003cp\u003eCan one rash decision prove the difference between a life well lived and a life destroyed?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the Marquis of Queensbury left his calling card at the Albemarle Club in February 1895, it bore only his name and five words: 'For Oscar Wilde, posing Somdomite'. The most feted playwright of his day famously sued for libel, which led to his arrest, criminal prosecution and ultimately prison. From then on, his gilded existence spiralled into public disgrace, humiliation and an early death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut what if he had simply ignored the insult? What direction might his life have taken? This is the premise of John Boyne's extraordinary new novel, The Weight of Angels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRather than dying in penury in Paris at the age of forty-six, what if he had lived to bear witness to the momentous events and cataclysmic changes of the first part of the twentieth century, and even influence some of them? What if the second half of his life were as celebrated, dramatic, tumultuous and exhilarating as the first?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn imagining the life that Oscar Wilde never had, John Boyne has written one of the great what-if stories of modern literature, giving the great Anglo-Irish poet and playwright a fresh new voice and the opportunity to take an entirely different path.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+John+Boyne\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eJohn Boyne\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"John Boyne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47830982983843,"sku":"9781529943856","price":356.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/9781529943856.jpg?v=1782997655"}],"url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/collections\/lgbtq.oembed","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}