{"title":"Short Stories","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"9780143026235","title":"Girls at War and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the classic collection of Chinua Achebe's short fiction, written over twenty years and drawn from literary journals and magazines. The earliest, 'Marriage is a Private Affair' (1952), dates back to his student days at Ibadan, Nigeria, while the latest, 'Sugar Baby' (1972), uses a man's simple obsession with sugar as an allegory of the far greater evil of human behaviour during the time of war.\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+Chinua+Achebe\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eChinua Achebe\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Chinua Achebe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375427960995,"sku":"9780143026235","price":260.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780143026235_deac8042-ee86-4095-99bc-489eb5494a49.jpg?v=1776455393"},{"product_id":"9780795706967","title":"Affluenza","description":"\u003cp\u003eNiq Mhlongo returns with a collection of short stories that cover the span of our democracy: crime, xenophobia, racism and homophobia, the new black elite, land redistribution, the Zuma presidency. The stories have been published to critical acclaim in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and the USA but remain largely unknown in South Africa. A​ffluenza offers us a chance to savour Niq Mhlongo's take on the madness of the last twenty years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNiq Mhlongo was born in 1973 in Soweto. He has a BA from the University of the Witwatersrand, with majors in African Literature and Political Studies. His first novel, Dog Eat Dog, was published by Kwela in 2004 and was translated into Spanish under the title Perro Come Perro in 2006. This Spanish edition was awarded the Mar de Letras prize. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBesides writing novels and short stories, Niq has written a screenplay for the animated children's TV series Magic Cellar and scripts for a comic magazine called Mshana, the first issue of which appeared in February 2007. After Tears is his second novel.\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+Niq+Mhlongo\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eNiq Mhlongo\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Niq Mhlongo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375435333795,"sku":"9780795706967","price":340.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780795706967_6bd6fb42-185e-46ee-b7cc-490a0c629874.jpg?v=1776496830"},{"product_id":"9780795704543","title":"Searching for Simphiwe","description":"\u003cp\u003eDetectives in pursuit of criminals, a brother desperate to find his wunga-addicted sibling, a search for abducted girls, a quest to be reunited with a long-lost lover - these are just some of the searches that form the basis of the stories in this collection. On a more metaphysical level there are characters seeking some form of faith or purpose. Entertaining tales that keep the reader enthralled with tension and suspense, while reflecting the realities of contemporary South Africa.\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+Sifiso+Mzobe\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eSifiso Mzobe\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sifiso Mzobe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375575842979,"sku":"9780795704543","price":320.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780795704543_67da173a-b9fc-4055-aa4b-1795e7339cd9.jpg?v=1776496702"},{"product_id":"9780868522272","title":"The New Century of South African Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe New Century of South African Short Stories is a major, new anthology which revisits our storytelling from a 'post-apartheid' perspective. Its forerunner was the perennial favourite, A Century of South African Short Stories, first published almost 30 years ago. This compilation, however, is an entirely fresh selection of stories spanning well over a hundred years.\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+Various+Authors\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eVarious Authors\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Various Authors","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375697576099,"sku":"9780868522272","price":320.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780868522272_c678c257-f65f-4a0c-8f61-c897632e6af6.jpg?v=1776516792"},{"product_id":"9781415206881","title":"Mongrel: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom a carcass competition in the Karoo to a shambolic murder trial in Cape Town, William Dicey's essays freewheel across an open terrain of interests. Dicey is curious and inventive, weaving strands of essay, journalism, fiction and self-reportage into something uniquely his own. Mongrel investigates a range of topics - radical environmentalism, the fault lines between farmer and farm worker, the joys and sorrows of reading - yet drifts of concern and sensibility draw the collection together. Several essays touch on how books can move, and sometimes maul, their readers. Mongrel is idiosyncratic, witty, potent.  \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+William+Dicey\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eWilliam Dicey\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"William Dicey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375697805475,"sku":"9781415206881","price":300.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781415206881_399a96cc-dc26-44a9-bcec-ef87eb6c045f.jpg?v=1776531244"},{"product_id":"9780620731041","title":"The Man Who Cursed the Wind - And Other Stories from the Karoo (","description":"\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+Jose+Manuel+de+Prada-Samper\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eJose Manuel de Prada-Samper\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Jose Manuel de Prada-Samper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375793029283,"sku":"9780620731041","price":350.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780620731041_bf51c06b-d550-4573-9fdd-a39e599e4ef4.jpg?v=1776477074"},{"product_id":"9780956774521","title":"Marico Moon","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarico Moon is a collection of 60 stories by the well-known, much-loved Herman Charles Bosman. Almost all of the Oom Schalk Lourens classics are included; also some less well known, but equally brilliant and amusing stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe ‘problem’ with many Bosman stories is that, as previously published, they use language that is today considered by many to be unacceptably offensive. For this reason, Bosman has been in serious danger of being sidelined by all except diehard fans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a quest to overcome this difficulty, the publisher experimented with minor editorial adjustments and omissions, and concluded that Bosman can be presented in ways that faithfully present his storytelling brilliance without giving any offence. The result is Marico Moon: 60 stories with minimal editing, retaining the integrity of the original text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese Bosman stories represent a superbly eclectic collection, with no consciously unifying factor other than that they inspire readers to smile, laugh, think, wonder or wander. The stories in Marico Moon are 60 excellent reasons why Lionel Abrahams referred to Bosman as ‘a South African literary genius’.\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+Herman+Charles+Bosman\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eHerman Charles Bosman\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Herman Charles Bosman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375846310051,"sku":"9780956774521","price":275.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780956774521_c432608d-7327-4c48-a9fb-7b4959468f47.jpg?v=1776517174"},{"product_id":"9780795708374","title":"Soweto, Under the Apricot Tree","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf the apricot trees of Soweto could talk, what stories would they tell? This short story collection provides an imaginative answer as it captures the vibrancy of the township and surrounds. Told with satirical flair, life and death intertwine in these tales where funerals and the ancestors feature strongly; where cemeteries are places to show off a new car and catch up on gossip.\u003cbr\u003e Take a seat under the apricot tree and be enthralled by tales both entertaining and thought-provoking.\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+Niq+Mhlongo\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eNiq Mhlongo\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Niq Mhlongo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47376520937635,"sku":"9780795708374","price":325.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780795708374_fc593d39-3331-4375-9629-0fb807c52114.jpg?v=1776497062"},{"product_id":"9781784755898","title":"The Bone Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of chilling tales featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan - including the untold story of her first case. No matter where she goes, Tempe's cases make for the most gripping reading. Dr Temperance Brennan thought she'd seen it all until she came across Bones in Her Pocket in the foothills of North Carolina. Down in the Everglades Tempe investigates Swamp Bones- - a grisly discovery in the stomach of an eighteen-foot Burmese python. In the heights of Mount Everest a frozen corpse means Bones On Ice. And First Bones gets under Tempe's skin with the untold story of her first case and her decision to become a forensic anthropologist.\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+Kathy+Reichs\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eKathy Reichs\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kathy Reichs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47376550756515,"sku":"9781784755898","price":275.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781784755898_dad5c6d1-7a0c-435a-bd5e-b68aa149ded0.jpg?v=1776589252"},{"product_id":"9781784705374","title":"Men Without Women","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic\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+Haruki+Murakami\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eHaruki Murakami\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haruki Murakami","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47376561701027,"sku":"9781784705374","price":275.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781784705374_486519a9-ce4c-464b-9e5d-4274182313cd.jpg?v=1776588524"},{"product_id":"9781415207055","title":"Here Comes The Snake In The Grass","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Did Mandela work for nothing?'\u003cbr\u003e'Mr Sushi comes to town'\u003cbr\u003e'Give me a corrupt black any day'\u003cbr\u003eThese are just some of Eric Miyeni's newspaper columns and opinion pieces, which have earned him friends and enemies alike. Known for his straight-talking frankness, his views on subjects ranging from politics and travel to big business and sport elicit strong responses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere Comes The Snake In The Grass is a selection of Eric Miyeni's columns and occasional writings covering a variety of topics, from Julius Malema, Oprah Winfrey and Brenda Fassie to the value of radio, the true cost of crime, the need for excellence in South Africa and the difficulty of finding love in the modern world. Some of the writings in this collection court controversy, addressing issues many want hidden from view; others provide glimpses of the writer's softer side. All show why Eric Miyeni's is an unmistakeable voice in the South African media.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlternately hard-hitting and personal, rousing and funny, Here Comes The Snake In The Grass is an entertaining and informative look at the South African cultural landscape.\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+Eric+Miyeni\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eEric Miyeni\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Eric Miyeni","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47376785375395,"sku":"9781415207055","price":220.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781415207055_e2ff0c33-8197-4f4c-8337-37105f9e5a4c.jpg?v=1776531293"},{"product_id":"9780795708985","title":"Talk of the Town","description":"\u003cp\u003eTalk of the Town by award-winning writer Fred Khumalo comprises short stories he wrote over many years. In this vibrant collection Khumalo explores identity and belonging through tales about African foreign nationals in South Africa, xenophobia, South Africans abroad, exiled comrades during apartheid, and past and current township life. At times hilarious and at times gut-wrenching, this is a collection that will move you.\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+Fred+Khumalo\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eFred Khumalo\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fred Khumalo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47376947708067,"sku":"9780795708985","price":340.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780795708985_78d55fe5-0bb0-4762-891d-d38bb4b0cbce.jpg?v=1776497152"},{"product_id":"9780141038018","title":"First Person and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe First Person and Other Stories is the fourth collection of short stories by Ali Smith. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe First Person and Other Stories effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones. Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and funny, Smith explores the ways and whys of storytelling. In one, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen-year-old self. In another, an innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting and beautiful child. Challenging the boundaries between fiction and reality, a third presents its narrator, 'Ali', as she drinks tea, phones a friend and muses on the relationship between the short story and - a nymph. Innovative, sophisticated and intelligent, the stories in The First Person and Other Stories are packed full of ideas, jokes, nuance and compassion. Ali Smith and the short story are made for each other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Smith's is a profoundly optimistic vision. These stories are frightening yet funny, and the sheer exuberance and playfulness of her language endows dark matters with a lightness of touch' New Statesman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Terrific . . . hurrah for Ali Smith . . . The best short-story writers make it look as easy as making a cup of tea. Ali Smith is one o\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+Ali+Smith\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eAli Smith\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ali Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377003380899,"sku":"9780141038018","price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780141038018_f8e8f3ce-b88a-4cf5-b520-3739e27c8bad.jpg?v=1776453517"},{"product_id":"9780141018010","title":"Other Stories and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eOther Stories and Other Stories is a stunning collection of short stories from Ali Smith.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndividually lucid and luminous, these formally inventive and exquisite tales resonate subtly together. In examining the distances and connections between ourselves and others, and lightly and expertly inching us closer to the bone, storytelling itself has never seemed so necessary, so moving or so joyous.\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+Ali+Smith\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eAli Smith\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ali Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377003544739,"sku":"9780141018010","price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780141018010_996d13f3-93ff-4261-8944-2ada6ffca183.jpg?v=1776453418"},{"product_id":"9780241974599","title":"Public Library and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eA richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize and the Costa Novel Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy are books so very powerful?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal libraries - make of us?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once; how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublic libraries are places of joy, freedom, community and discovery - and right now they are under threat from funding cuts and widespread closures across the UK and further afield. With this brilliantly inventive collection, Ali Smith joins the campaign to save our public libraries and celebrate their true place in our culture and history.\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+Ali+Smith\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eAli Smith\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ali Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377003708579,"sku":"9780241974599","price":275.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780241974599_72340156-74c1-415b-9612-1dfaf09252e6.jpg?v=1776469033"},{"product_id":"9780525508687","title":"All the Names They Used for God","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnjali Sachdeva's debut collection spans centuries, continents, and a diverse set of characters but is united by each character's epic struggle with fate: A workman in Andrew Carnegie's steel mills is irrevocably changed by the brutal power of the furnaces; a fisherman sets sail into overfished waters and finds a secret obsession from which he can't return; an online date ends with a frightening, inexplicable dissapearance. Her story 'Pleiades' was called 'a masterpiece' by Dave Eggers. Sachdeva has a talent for creating moving and poignant scenes, following her highly imaginative plots to their logical ends, and depicting how one small miracle can affect everyone in its wake.\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+Anjali+Sachdeva\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eAnjali Sachdeva\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Anjali Sachdeva","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377030873251,"sku":"9780525508687","price":390.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780525508687_351dd9c4-3aef-4822-b74d-b8c0b533c0a0.jpg?v=1776473595"},{"product_id":"9780007306213","title":"The Thing Around Your Neck","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A Private Experience', a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she's been pushing away. \u003cbr\u003eIn 'Tomorrow Is Too Far', a woman unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother's death. The young mother at the center of 'Imitation' finds her comfortable life threatened when she learns that her husband back in Lagos has moved his mistress into their home. And the title story depicts the choking loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing like the country she expected; though falling in love brings her desires nearly within reach, a death in her homeland forces her to re-examine them. \u003cbr\u003eSearing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's prodigious storytelling powers.\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+Chimamanda+Ngozi+Adichie\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eChimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377032741027,"sku":"9780007306213","price":310.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780007306213_96f2e150-1a15-4b09-b7ce-df17b886fa78.jpg?v=1776446892"},{"product_id":"9780241311905","title":"Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable works being written today. Short story writers already well-known to English-language readers are all included here - Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surprising new finds. From Yuko Tsushima's 'Flames' to Yuten Sawanishi's 'Filling Up with Sugar', from Shin'ichi Hoshi's 'Shoulder-Top Secretary' to Banana Yoshimoto's 'Bee Honey', The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is filled with fear, charm, beauty and comedy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCurated by Jay Rubin, who has himself freshly translated several of the stories, and introduced by Haruki Murakami, this book will be a revelation to its readers.\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+Jay+Rubin\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eJay Rubin\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Jay Rubin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377056759971,"sku":"9780241311905","price":345.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780241311905_16bb15c4-c9fd-467b-96b3-9af06fd1d4e5.jpg?v=1776461508"},{"product_id":"9780241383476","title":"Star","description":"\u003cp\u003eAll eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screaming and yelling to attract his attention. They would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the camera begins to roll, someone yells 'action'; Rikio, for a moment, transforms into another being, a hardened young yakuza, but as soon as the shot is finished, he slumps back into his own anxieties and obsessions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten shortly after Yukio Mishima himself had acted in the film Afraid to Die, this novella is a rich and unflinching psychological portrait of a celebrity coming apart at the seams as the absurdity of his existence comes sharply into focus. With exquisite, vivid prose, Star begs the question: is there ever any escape from how we are seen by others?\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+Yukio+Mishima\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eYukio Mishima\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Yukio Mishima","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377057284259,"sku":"9780241383476","price":110.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780241383476_ed27b076-82db-4cd8-ae8a-cfeca82c01e1.jpg?v=1776463160"},{"product_id":"9780241386705","title":"The Frolic of the Beasts","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in rural Japan shortly after World War II, The Frolic of the Beasts tells the story of a strange and utterly absorbing love triangle between a former university student, Koji; his would-be mentor, the eminent literary critic Ippei Kusakado; and Ippei's beautiful, enigmatic wife, Yuko. When brought face-to-face with one of Ippei's many marital indiscretions, Koji finds his growing desire for Yuko compels him to action in a way that changes all three of their lives profoundly. Originally published in 1961 and now available in English for the first time, The Frolic of the Beastsis a haunting examination of the various guises we assume throughout our lives, and a tale of psychological self-entrapment, seduction, and murder.\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+Yukio+Mishima\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eYukio Mishima\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Yukio Mishima","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377058037923,"sku":"9780241386705","price":295.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780241386705_b0600581-71d0-40a7-8535-f1c3f857d0a9.jpg?v=1776463268"},{"product_id":"9780241302620","title":"Springtime in a Broken Mirror","description":"\u003cp\u003eSantiago is trapped. Taken political prisoner in Montevideo after a brutal military coup, he can do nothing but write letters to his family, and try to stay sane.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFar away, his nine-year-old daughter Beatrice wonders at the marvels of 1970s Buenos Aires, but her grandpa and mother - Santiago's beautiful, careworn wife, Graciela - struggle to adjust to a life in exile. Graciela fights to retain the fiery passion that suffused her marriage, her politics, her whole life, as day by day Santiago edges closer to freedom. But Santiago's rakish, reckless best friend is a constant, brooding presence in the exiles' lives, and Graciela finds herself drawn irresistibly towards him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA lucid, heart-wrenching saga of a family torn apart by the forces of history, Springtime in a Broken Mirror tells with tenderness and fury of the indelible imprint politics leaves on individual lives. Generous and unflinching, it asks whether the broken bonds of family and history can ever truly be mended.\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+Mario+Benedetti\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eMario Benedetti\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mario Benedetti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377058824355,"sku":"9780241302620","price":275.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780241302620_9c33bbee-8451-44db-b6c5-b3c988f64d02.jpg?v=1776460335"},{"product_id":"9780241312629","title":"Territory Of Light","description":"\u003cp\u003eTerritory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter. Its twelve chapters follow the first year of the narrator's separation from her husband. The novel is full of light, sometimes comforting and sometimes dangerous: sunlight streaming through windows, dappled light in the park, distant fireworks, dazzling floodwater, de-saturated streetlamps and mysterious explosions. The delicate prose is beautifully patterned: the cumulative effect is disarmingly powerful and bright after-images remain in your mind for a long time\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+Yuko+Tsushima\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eYuko Tsushima\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Yuko Tsushima","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377059020963,"sku":"9780241312629","price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780241312629_0f8be78c-7f0b-422c-9bbb-1792631cb511.jpg?v=1776461529"},{"product_id":"9780798179850","title":"Tjieng Tjang Tjerries and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eTjieng Tjang Tjerries and Other Stories received the HSS Award for Best Fiction Single Authored 2018 and was short-listed for the UJ Debut Prize in 2017. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTjieng Tjang Tjerries and Other Stories documents the unique dialect and lives of the Gansbaai fishing community. Phillips' stories reflect the natural disorder of daily life and explores how the impact of love and loss defines - and divides - families and communities. An award-winning collection of short stories and sketches set in the Overberg district.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the author's own words: “This book is a collection of my soul, who I am as a human being, and how I connect to the people I come from.”   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An impressive debut that brings across voices never heard before in South African English - not only in rhythm and timbre, but plumbing the unspoken. With such a remarkable ear, Jolyn Phillips is a young writer to watch.” - Antjie Krog\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+Jolyn+Phillips\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eJolyn Phillips\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Jolyn Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377119379619,"sku":"9780798179850","price":255.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780798179850_c44604e5-37a5-4a7b-b6d4-ad78c3337e58.jpg?v=1776505008"},{"product_id":"9780525534884","title":"Verge","description":"\u003cp\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Bustle and Lit Hub A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction. Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer of rare insight into the jagged boundaries between pain and survival. Her characters are scarred by the unchecked hungers of others and themselves, yet determined to find salvation within lives that can feel beyond their control. In novels such as The Small Backs of Children and The Book of Joan, she has captivated readers with stories of visceral power. Now, in Verge, she offers a shard-sharp mosaic portrait of human resilience on the margins. The landscape of Verge is peopled with characters who are innocent and imperfect, wise and endangered: an eight-year-old black-market medical courier, a restless lover haunted by memories of his mother, a teenage girl gazing out her attic window at a nearby prison, all of them wounded but grasping toward transcendence. Clear-eyed yet inspiring, Verge challenges us with moments of uncomfortable truth, even as it urges us to place our faith not in the flimsy guardrails of society but in the memories held--and told--by our own individual bodies.\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+Lidia+Yuknavitch\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eLidia Yuknavitch\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Lidia Yuknavitch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47377452105891,"sku":"9780525534884","price":365.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780525534884_cb444f57-3a80-44a9-a8b2-126e6801acc8.jpg?v=1776473644"},{"product_id":"9780241983126","title":"Grand Union","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first ever collection of stories from the bestselling and beloved author of Swing Time and White Teeth 'She's already one of our best novelists and essayists, this reminds us that her short stories are right up there too' Observer 'Sexy and hilarious. There is no moment in Grand Union when we are not entertained, or doubt that we are in the company of one of our best contemporary writers' Guardian 'Brilliant. Another slam dunk. Street life, patois, music, food, clothes, hair: Smith has her finger on the pulse of life and the utter weirdness of whatever has just become normal. This is a book of and for the times, sobering in its clarity but bracingly witty and clever' Evening Standard 'Smith's dialogue crackles with mordant wit. This dazzling collection of stories will leave you with plenty to think about' Independent Interleaving ten completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere, Zadie Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied collection of fiction. Moving exhilaratingly across genres and perspectives, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly dystopian, Grand Union is a sharply alert and prescient collection about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us.\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+Zadie+Smith\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eZadie Smith\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Zadie Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378528567459,"sku":"9780241983126","price":275.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780241983126_d2b523df-d6fa-45d6-ae55-4e1087c2d952.jpg?v=1776469219"},{"product_id":"9780241973424","title":"Supporting Cast","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of My Name is Leon\u003cbr\u003e'Stories of everyday lives that will resonate and move you utterly' Stylist \u003cbr\u003eAs she walks out of her marriage, a woman remembers the day her husband rescued a boy from drowning. A blind man on his wedding day celebrates the pursuit of love. And a young man leaves prison with only one desire - to see his son again. Kit de Waal's characters light up the page in vivid stories of thwarted desire, love and loss. With power and precision, humanity and insight, Supporting Cast captures the extraordinary moments in our ordinary lives, and the darkness and the joy of the everyday. \u003cbr\u003e'It's so good. Full of Kit's trademark humanity. I can feel my heart grow with every word' Cathy Rentzenbrink \u003cbr\u003e'Stunning. Kit is in utter command of language and story here, and wields them like no other writer' Donal Ryan \u003cbr\u003e'A magnificent study of humanity in all its various sorrows. Her writing is exquisite' Liz Nugent\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+Kit+de+Waal\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eKit de Waal\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kit de Waal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378542035107,"sku":"9780241973424","price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780241973424_79fd7d3d-78f7-4aa1-a74e-805f0ac24d69.jpg?v=1776469025"},{"product_id":"9781784705893","title":"Labels and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eTransporting us to all corners of the globe, the tales in Louis de Bernieres' worldly and entertaining collection Labels and Other Stories feature a cast of unlikely and unforgettable heroes who can be found collecting luxury tinned cat-food labels, posting fish to the President, falling in love with dolphin deities and dining with Brazilian street thieves. And in 'Gunter Weber's Confession', we return once more to the Greek island of Captain Corelli's Mandolin and its much-loved characters. Full of wit, charm and warmth, Labels and Other Stories shows the imaginative range and unique storytelling power of one of our msot treasured writers.\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+Louis+de+Bernieres\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eLouis de Bernieres\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Louis de Bernieres","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378587091107,"sku":"9781784705893","price":275.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781784705893_e2da68a7-641a-4a68-9890-3068ef53081a.jpg?v=1776588572"},{"product_id":"9780552149235","title":"The Veteran","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of five stories from a master thriller writer. They range from London to Italy and from the battle of Little Big Horn to World War II. This collection displays all of Forsyth's skills as a story-teller - a perfect Christmas present.\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+Frederick+Forsyth\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eFrederick Forsyth\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Frederick Forsyth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378610389155,"sku":"9780552149235","price":275.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780552149235_532a7e40-75da-4862-8ff3-c28629e7c2ea.jpg?v=1776473867"},{"product_id":"9780798183963","title":"Of Fathers and Fugitives","description":"\u003cp\u003eDaniel is a journalist, moving between London and Cape Town, until his elderly and demented father passes away. There is an unusual clause in the old man's will: Daniel will only inherit his half of the estate once he has paid his estranged cousin a visit on the old family farm in the Free State. It is a visit that will result in Daniel, his cousin and a sick young boy making a hopeful trip to Tokyo - a journey that will change all of their lives.\u003cbr\u003eAn exquisite, tender novel by the award-winning writer SJ Naudé, author of The Alphabet of Birds, The Third Reel and Mad Honey. An exploration of the relationships between fathers and sons, and of fatherhood, masculinity and loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated into English by Michiel Heyns. Also available in Afrikaans as: Van vaders en vlugtelinge .\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+SJ+Naud%C3%A9\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eSJ Naudé\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"SJ Naudé","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378623463587,"sku":"9780798183963","price":350.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780798183963_0a30f79d-33c9-4c0b-a49d-da783587d8e4.jpg?v=1776506140"},{"product_id":"9781415201077","title":"Flashback Hotel","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo sought-after collections of short stories by Ivan Vladislavic are brought together and made available again in this new volume. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVladislavic’s mastery of understatement and brevity is brilliantly demonstrated in these stories from Missing Persons (1989), for which he received the Olive Schreiner Prize, and Propaganda by Monuments and Other Stories (1996), featuring the two stories that won him the Thomas Pringle Award.\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+Ivan+Vladislavic\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eIvan Vladislavic\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ivan Vladislavic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378723864739,"sku":"9781415201077","price":300.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781415201077_532f6c15-0446-4c8b-a490-fba845d950c1.jpg?v=1776530990"},{"product_id":"9780997968903","title":"Sunshine Noir","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn these stories, seventeen writers from around the globe explore dark deeds in sunlit places.\u003cbr\u003eTravel to the Dominican Republic, the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, chic Mykonos, midnight streets in Seville, and the beaches of Ghana, where a man is consumed by revenge. Follow an NGO worker kidnapped in Yemen, an engineer repairing a dam in conflict-ridden Ethiopia, and a foolish young Englishman hitchhiking across the Sahara.\u003cbr\u003eYou will also visit historic Istanbul and Mombasa, while uncovering family conflicts and hidden tensions in Singapore, Puerto Rico, and New Orleans.\u003cbr\u003eThe authors in this collection prove that evil under the sun creates some of the most compelling and entertaining crime fiction anywhere in the world.\u003cbr\u003eFeatured authors and settings include:\u003cbr\u003eLeye Adenle — Nigeria\u003cbr\u003eAnnamaria Alfieri — British East Africa\u003cbr\u003eColin Cotterill — Thailand\u003cbr\u003eSusan Froetschel — Yemen\u003cbr\u003eJason Goodwin — Istanbul\u003cbr\u003ePaul Hardisty — Ethiopia\u003cbr\u003eGreg Herren — New Orleans\u003cbr\u003eTamar Myers — Arizona\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Nadel — Istanbul\u003cbr\u003eRichie Narvaez — Puerto Rico\u003cbr\u003eKwei Quartey — Ghana\u003cbr\u003eJeffrey Siger — Mykonos\u003cbr\u003eMichael Stanley — Botswana\u003cbr\u003eNick Sweet — Spain\u003cbr\u003eTimothy Williams — Guadeloupe\u003cbr\u003eRobert Wilson — the Sahara\u003cbr\u003eOvidia Yu — Singapore\u003cbr\u003eA gripping international crime collection filled with suspense, danger, and unforgettable settings.\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+Annamaria+Alfieri\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eAnnamaria Alfieri\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Michael+Stanley\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eMichael Stanley\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Annamaria Alfieri,Michael Stanley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378773999779,"sku":"9780997968903","price":245.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/9780997968903_b6b5b781-a311-4eb4-b387-cdb7ea099e24.jpg?v=1779347135"},{"product_id":"9781415210673","title":"Mad Honey","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom South Africa to Iceland, rural Belgium and the Alps, the stories in Mad Honey radiate out to encompass the globe. In Cape Town, a couple raise their son in leafy suburbia, while their cleaner’s child must face the inequities of their country head on.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAmid Reykjavik’s frozen landscape, a woman takes mad honey with the man who has left her for another, and spends a chilling night with a violent Russian and his companion.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAnd in New England two lovers face the cruelty of a host who lacks all humanity, while a mother takes pity on a street child she finds on a platform at Park Station.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCrowning this collection is a story cycle featuring a young Namibian and his Japanese friend, who spend a claustrophobic night in a chateau with a dark pool of glowing eels – this after being pulled into a tragedy on the ski slopes of Italy.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFollowing on from his multi award-winning first collection, published in English as The Alphabet of Birds,  SJ Naudé’s second collection of short stories disturbs, surprises and enthrals.\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+SJ+Naude\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eSJ Naude\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"SJ Naude","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47378869616803,"sku":"9781415210673","price":300.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781415210673_6ccf890c-44d6-4b9d-b252-40d9ac2e723e.jpg?v=1776531847"},{"product_id":"9780795710148","title":"A Coat Of Many Colours","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn A Coat of Many Colours, award-winning author Fred Khumalo presents a patchwork of various vibrant stories befitting the collections title.\u003cbr\u003eA boy plays detective, investigating the case of a goat and a coat; a woman takes revenge; an inhlabi bites off more than he can chew; teenage enmity rears its head at a prestigious school for girls; a man is cursed with an ever-growing sexual appetite; and more thoughtful stories with an entertaining zing.\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+Fred+Khumalo\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eFred Khumalo\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fred Khumalo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379338920099,"sku":"9780795710148","price":320.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780795710148_17808baf-6c71-483e-b3f7-10b597e44b66.jpg?v=1776497362"},{"product_id":"9781770106062","title":"The Fatuous State of Severity","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Fatuous State of Severity is a fresh collection of short stories and illustrations that explores themes surrounding the experiences of a generation of young, urban South Africans coping with the tensions of social media, language insecurities and relationships of various kinds. Intense and provocative, this new edition of the book, which was first self-published in 2016, features six additional stories as well as an introductory essay on Phumlani Pikoli’s publishing journey. Phumlani Pikoli is a multi-media journalist and multi-skilled artist. He was born in Zimbabwe in 1988. This is his first time being published by an actual publishing house and he intends to write and publish many more books without restriction to form.\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+Phumlani+Pikoli\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003ePhumlani Pikoli\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Phumlani Pikoli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379470811299,"sku":"9781770106062","price":199.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781770106062_79c7fb50-a1c7-472d-b4ec-ac1f3e942949.jpg?v=1776571669"},{"product_id":"9781529038507","title":"A Registry Of My Passage Upon The Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the bestselling, award-winning author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner comes a collection of interlacing tales of men and women as they face the mysteries and magic of the world. On a fated flight, a balloonist makes a discovery that changes her life forever. A telegraph operator finds an unexpected companion in the middle of the Amazon. A doctor is beset by seizures, in which he is possessed by a second, perhaps better, version of himself. And in Regency London, a bare-knuckle fighter prepares to face his most fearsome opponent, while a young mother seeks a miraculous cure for her ailing son. At times funny and irreverent, always moving, these stories cap a fifteen-year project that has won both a National Magazine Award and Pushcart Prize. From the Nile’s depths to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, from volcano-wracked islands to an asylum on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, these are lives of ecstasy and epiphany.\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+Daniel+Mason\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eDaniel Mason\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Daniel Mason","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379496009891,"sku":"9781529038507","price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781529038507_127e0d6d-bb26-4b03-9e7d-9fc7b2b7b604.jpg?v=1776561223"},{"product_id":"9781509868711","title":"Manhattan in Reverse","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of short stories, Peter F. Hamilton draws you into an array of captivating tales. These exciting glimpses into his worlds are not to be missed – and as Ken Follett says, ‘each short story has enough ideas for a whole novel’. Manhattan in Reverse features the author’s popular detective Paula Myo, from his bestselling Commonwealth books. Other stories include Watching Trees Grow, a murder mystery set in an alternative 1800s Oxford and The Forever Kitten. This questions eternal youth and the sacrifices required to pursue it. With all his usual brilliantly conceived storytelling, Peter F. Hamilton’s talents are on full display.\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+Peter+F.+Hamilton\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003ePeter F. Hamilton\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Peter F. 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Kirby experiments with found structures--a Yelp review, a WikiHow article--which her fierce, irreverent narrators push against, showing how creativity within an enclosed space undermines and deconstructs the constraints themselves. When these women tell the stories of their triumphs as well as their pain, they emerge as funny, angry, loud, horny, lonely, strong protagonists who refuse to be secondary characters a moment longer. From The Best and Only Whore of Cym Hyfryd, 1886 to the Midwestern Girl Is Tired of Appearing in Your Short Stories, Kirby is playing and laughing with the women who have come before her and they are telling her, we have always been this way. You just had to know where to look.\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+Gwen+E.+Kirby\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eGwen E. 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From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.\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+Angela+Carter\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eAngela Carter\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Angela Carter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379749306531,"sku":"9780099588115","price":275.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780099588115_179b33ca-6cdb-4dbd-850e-d0e711176279.jpg?v=1776453073"},{"product_id":"9781860460395","title":"Where I'm Calling From","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortly before he died, America's laureate of the dispossessed made his own selection from his short stories, revised the texts and published them in this authorative edition. The stories in Where I'm Calling From are selected from the full range of the author's work including Furious Seasons, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, What We Talk about When We Talk about Love, and Cathedral and include all seven stories from his last collection, Elephant.\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+Raymond+Carver\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eRaymond Carver\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Raymond Carver","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379852132515,"sku":"9781860460395","price":430.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781860460395_4baa8d52-3087-4365-821c-4b2655107c0a.jpg?v=1776603201"},{"product_id":"9781784876852","title":"Selected Stories Volume 02: 1995-2009","description":"\u003cp\u003eCovering the second half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written. Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this new selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight. Beautifully observed and remarkably crafted, written with emotion and empathy, these stories are nothing short of perfection. A masterclass in the genre, from an author who deservedly lays claim to being one of the major fiction writers of our time.\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+Alice+Munro\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eAlice Munro\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Alice Munro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379863568547,"sku":"9781784876852","price":295.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781784876852_8a7d1c87-09de-458b-a0cb-b209b93d77e8.jpg?v=1776589572"},{"product_id":"9781838027926","title":"The Hope, The Prayer, The Anthem","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Hope, The Prayer, The Anthem, is a collection of short stories on identity, love, hope, and self-discovery. Told by rising and award-winning writers from across the African continent and beyond, the stories are a rich blend of suspense, humour, drama, and romance.\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+Allwell+Uwazuruike\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eAllwell Uwazuruike\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Confidence+Uwazuruike\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eConfidence Uwazuruike\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Munachim+Amah\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eMunachim Amah\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allwell Uwazuruike,Confidence Uwazuruike ,Munachim Amah","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379903873187,"sku":"9781838027926","price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781838027926_38a622c4-460c-4624-9229-48a5c254b721.jpg?v=1776599336"},{"product_id":"9781838027902","title":"Yellow Means Stay - An Anthology Of Love Stories From Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003eYellow Means Stay is a collection of enthralling, sad, humorous, and heart-touching love stories from across Africa and the black diaspora. It features new and award-winning writers from across the African continent and beyond. The stories are a dynamic blend of the poetic and narrative, the spousal and familial, the suggestive and explicit, the dramatic and measured, the straight and queer, the sad and humorous, the past and future, life and afterlife. Through its pages, readers enter the world of African literature, love, and romance.\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+Allwell+Uwazuruike\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eAllwell Uwazuruike\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Confidence+Uwazuruike\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eConfidence Uwazuruike\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Munachim+Amah\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eMunachim Amah\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allwell Uwazuruike,Confidence Uwazuruike,Munachim Amah","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379903938723,"sku":"9781838027902","price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781838027902_4f6e7e30-8560-4b7c-a35f-bc3b9e6d5b74.jpg?v=1776599332"},{"product_id":"9781529113594","title":"First Person Singular","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER\n\nThe eight masterly stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From nostalgic memories of youth, meditations on music and an ardent love of baseball to dreamlike scenarios, an encounter with a talking monkey and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator who may or may not be Murakami himself is present. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides.\n\nPhilosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory. . . all with a signature Murakami twist.\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+Haruki+Murakami\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eHaruki Murakami\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haruki Murakami","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379960594595,"sku":"9781529113594","price":275.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781529113594_7e2dbd3e-4629-42f6-b1e6-8d38bfbcd3b7.jpg?v=1776564103"},{"product_id":"9781841596327","title":"Garden Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpectacular gardens are viewed from the perspective of a snail in Virginia Woolf's 'Kew Gardens' and from that of a sheltered teenage girl in Katherine Mansfield's 'The Garden Party'. The family of Doris Lessing's 'Flavours of Exile' haul succulent vegetables and fruits from the rich African soil, and Colette in 'Bygone Spring' luxuriates in extravagantly blooming flowers. Children discover their own peculiar paradises in Sandra Cisneros's 'The Monkey Garden' and Italo Calvino's 'The Enchanted Garden', while adult gardeners find things that move and haunt them in William Maxwell's 'The French Scarecrow' and Jamaica Kincaid's 'The Garden I Have in Mind'.\u003cbr\u003eGardens of the mind round out the anthology: the beautiful but fatal garden of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Rappaccini's Daughter', the crystal buds of J. G. Ballard's 'The Garden of Time', ravenous orchids in John Collier's 'Green Thoughts', and Matsudo Aoko's 'Planting', in which a young woman plants each day whatever she has been given - roses and violets, buttons and broken cups, love and fear and sorrow.\u003cbr\u003eAn entrancing book for everyone who loves gardens and the beauty of nature.\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+Various\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eVarious\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Various","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47380008206499,"sku":"9781841596327","price":355.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781841596327_72c7efd6-eb67-4f7c-94fd-e710016b2c17.jpg?v=1776601271"},{"product_id":"9781447221883","title":"Twelve Red Herrings","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn imprisoned man is certain that his supposed murder victim is very much alive . . . 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Cleverly styled, with richly drawn characters and ingeniously plotted story lines, each of the twelve tales ends with a delightfully unexpected turn of events.\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+Jeffrey+Archer\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eJeffrey Archer\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Jeffrey Archer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47380244627619,"sku":"9781447221883","price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781447221883_fe99ad30-25f4-41c6-b63c-0f9a07dc2386.jpg?v=1776540457"},{"product_id":"9781529077223","title":"A Manual for Cleaning Women","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that it does matter, a whole lot.\n\nWith an introduction from Lydia Davis\n\nLucia Berlin's stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in twentieth-century American fiction.\n\nWith extraordinary honesty and magnetism, Lucia Berlin invites us into her rich, itinerant life: the drink and the mess and the pain and the beauty and the moments of surprise and of grace, with a voice is witty, anarchic, compassionate, and completely unique.\n\nPart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.\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+Lucia+Berlin\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eLucia Berlin\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Lucia Berlin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47380325433507,"sku":"9781529077223","price":285.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781529077223_24d53a81-41ea-46f5-965b-31f316cef018.jpg?v=1776562756"},{"product_id":"9781529115376","title":"The Jealousy Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eMurder. Assassination. Revenge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscover the first short story collection from the King of Scandi Crime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeet a detective on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin; a hired assassin facing his greatest adversary; and two passengers meeting by chance on a plane, spelling romance or something far more sinister.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his first ever collection of short stories, this master of crime delivers a gripping, edge-of-your seat read that you won't be able to put down.\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+Jo+Nesbo\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eJo Nesbo\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Jo Nesbo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47380357513379,"sku":"9781529115376","price":275.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781529115376_11bf64dd-5b7a-4807-8089-83b7083a0335.jpg?v=1776564163"},{"product_id":"9781399725132","title":"You like it darker","description":"\u003cp\u003e** With a bonus story for the paperback edition. **'You like it darker? Fine, so do I' writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of stories that delve into the darker part of life - both metaphorical and literal. Each of these stories holds its own thrills, joys and mysteries; each feels iconic. In 'Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream', a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny's most catastrophically. 'Rattlesnakes', a sequel to Cujo, sees a grieving widower travel to Florida for respite and instead receive an unexpected inheritance - with major strings attached. \u003cbr\u003e'The Answer Man' asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful.King writes to feel 'the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind' and his ability to surprise, amaze and bring us both terror and solace remains unsurpassed. You like it darker? You got it.'As classic as King's novels are, his shorter fiction has been just as gripping over the years' USA Today'One of the great storytellers of our time' Guardian\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+Stephen+King\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eStephen King\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Stephen King","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47380408139939,"sku":"9781399725132","price":295.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781399725132_bd8a943d-c70f-4450-9489-80d785e28434.jpg?v=1776804191"},{"product_id":"9781529158533","title":"3 Days to Live","description":"\u003cp\u003e3 DAYS TO LIVE\u003cbr\u003eA CIA-agent bride is on her European honeymoon when she and her husband are poisoned - leaving her seventy-two hours to take revenge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST\u003cbr\u003eWhen a deal goes bad on a tech executive in Washington, DC, he turns an order to kill his family into a chance to relive his military glory days.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE HOUSEKEEPERS\u003cbr\u003eA Los Angeles doctor trusts her two housekeepers, but when she's murdered in a botched attempt to steal drugs, the pair of grifters vie to control their former employer's estate - facing off against the Russian mob.\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+James+Patterson\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eJames Patterson\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"James Patterson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47380581646499,"sku":"9781529158533","price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781529158533_9ac4474e-422e-4860-bbce-e46673b8b925.jpg?v=1776565195"},{"product_id":"9781529155419","title":"The Land of Sweet Forever","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Land of Sweet Forever  combines Lee's never-before-seen short stories and published nonfiction in a volume offering an unprecedented look at the development of her inimitable voice. 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