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Highlights catalogue JULY – December 2016 Fiction & non-fiction july – DEcember 2016 fiction & non-fiction july 2016 Magic JULY Danielle Steel Trade paperback | r305 9780593069110 It starts on a summer evening, with the kind of magic found only in Paris. Once a year in the City of Light, a lavish dinner takes place outside a spectacular landmark. Selected by secret invitation, the guests arrive dressed in white, and when the night is over, hundreds of white paper FICTION lanterns bearing everyone’s fervent wishes are released into the sky. Amid this wondrous White Dinner, a group of close friends stand at the cusp DeaD to Me of change. lesley Pearse A transformative year of successes and heartbreaks is Trade paperback | r305 | 9780718181215 to come, until the next White Dinner… When Ruby and Verity met as girls they came from different worlds. Verity was privately A tender and passionate story educated, living in a beautiful Hampstead home, while Ruby was being raised in exploring what it really means extreme poverty. Nevertheless, they became to have magic in our lives… the Kept WoMan firm friends. Karin Slaughter However, fortunes are not set in stone and Trade paperback | r305 | 9781780893587 soon the girls find their situations reversed. A body is discovered in an empty Atlanta As Ruby goes up in the world, Verity en- warehouse. It’s the body of an ex-cop, and from counters more and more tragedy, but still the moment Special Agent Will Trent walks in he the girls remain a large part of each other’s What ReMains of Me knows this could be the most devastating case lives. That is, until one day in 1938 when A l Gaylin of his career. The warehouse belongs to the city’s Ruby says the terrible words ‘You’re dead to Trade paperback | r305 biggest, most politically-connected, most high- me’ and it looks like their friendship might 9781780896533 profile athlete – a local hero protected by the be over for good... world’s most expensive lawyers. A local hero June, 1980: Kelly Lund shoots and Will has spent the last six months investigating kills Oscar-nominated director on a brutal rape charge. New from the international John McFadden at a party in his But then an unexpected discovery at the scene home. Convicted of the murder, No. 1 bestselling author reveals a personal link to Will’s troubled past. she loses her youth and her freedom – but keeps The consequences will wreak havoc on his life her secrets to herself. and the lives of those he loves, those he works Thirty years later – and five years after her release with, and those he pursues. from prison – the past has come back to haunt Kelly. Her father-in-law, movie legend Sterling Marshall, is shot dead just like his old friend John McFadden. Once again, Kelly is suspected of the high profile The latest novel in the Will Trent murder. But this time, she’s got some unexpected allies who believe she’s innocent – of both killings – series from No. 1 bestelling author, and want to help her clear her name. Karin Slaughter. 04 penguin random house HiGHliGHtS cAtALOGuE HiGHliGHtS cAtALOGuE penguin random house 05 july 2016 fiction & non-fiction fiction & non-fiction july 2016 FICTION CONTINUED… the Long cosMos DeaR aMy toM cLancy’s DUty terry Pratchett & Helen callaghan anD honoUR Stephen Baxter Trade paperback | r250 | 9780718182663 Grant Blackwood Trade paperback | r305 | 9780857521798 Trade paperback | r305 Margot Lewis is the agony aunt for The Cambridge 2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day 9780718181956 Examiner. Her advice column, Dear Amy, gets all kinds and in the Long Earth, the new Next post- of letters – but none like the one she’s just received: Someone wants Covert operative Jack human society continues to evolve. Ryan Jr dead, and he is going to find For Joshua Valienté, now in his late Dear Amy, out why. sixties, it is time to take one last solo journey into the High I don’t know where I am. I’ve been kidnapped and am Using clues left by his would-be Meggers: an adventure that turns into a disaster. Alone and being held prisoner by a strange man. I’m afraid he’ll assassin, Jack follows a trail that leads facing death, his only hope of salvation lies with a group of kill me. through France and Switzerland to trolls. But as Joshua confronts his mortality, the Long Earth Please help me soon, Rostock, a shadowy security firm receives a signal from the stars. A signal that is picked up by Bethan Avery based in Germany. Jack knows its radio astronomers but also in more abstract ways – by the head, Jurgen Rostock, from a previous trolls and by the Great Traversers. Its message is simple but Bethan Avery has been missing for nearly two decades. operation. its implications are enormous: JOIN US. This is surely some cruel hoax. But, as more letters Without the resources of The Campus arrive, they contain information that was never made – the elite agency from which he is public. How is this happening? Answering this question on a leave-of-absence – but with the UniteD as one will cost Margot everything… help of an investigative journalist, Jack Pittacus lore embarks on his own secret campaign Trade paperback | r305 | 9780718184902 to uncover the truth about Rostock. And what he finds is that they are up The Mogadorian invasion has come to to something both big and very, very Earth, and they have all but won the battle bad. for our planet. Their warships loom over BaBy DoLL i foUnD yoU But what can one man do against all our most populous cities and no army Hollie overton lisa jewell Rostock’s might? will risk making a move against them. Trade paperback | r250 Trade paperback | r305 The Garde are all that stand in their way... but they are no 9781780895079 9781780893624 longer alone in this fight. Human teens from across the globe, like John Smith’s best friend, Sam Goode, have begun to You’ve been held captive in one East Yorkshire: Single mum Alice develop Legacies of their own. room, mentally and physically Lake finds a man on the beach The Garde have always known there is power in numbers. abused every day, since you were outside her house. He has no If they can find these new allies and join forces with them, sixteen years old. name, no jacket, no idea what he they just might be able to win this war. The time has come Then, one night, you realise your captor has left the is doing there. Against her better judgement she for the Garde to make their final stand. door to your cell unlocked. invites him in to her home. For the first time in eight years, you’re free. Surrey: Twenty-one-year-old Lily Monrose has This is about what happens next… only been married for three weeks. When her new Lily knows that she must bring the man who nearly husband fails to come home from work one night WaRs of the Roses 4: ruined her life – her good-looking high-school she is left stranded in a new country where she RavenspUR teacher – to justice. But she never imagined that knows no one. Then the police tell her that her conn iggulden reconnecting with her family would be just as husband never existed. Trade paperback | r305 | 9780718181437 difficult. Reclaiming her relationship with her twin Two women, twenty years of secrets and a man This novel from bestselling author Conn sister, her mother, and her high school sweetheart who can’t remember lie at the heart of Lisa Jewell’s Iggulden is the fourth book in the critically who is in love with her sister may be Lily’s greatest brilliant new novel. acclaimed Wars of the Roses series. challenge. After all they’ve been through, can Lily Following Stormbird, Trinity and her family find their way back after this life- and Bloodline this novel will continue through the brutal Civil altering trauma? War that we now know as the Wars of the Roses. 06 penguin random house HiGHliGHtS cAtALOGuE HiGHliGHtS cAtALOGuE penguin random house 07 july 2016 fiction & non-fiction fiction & non-fiction july 2016 FICTION CONTINUED… go set a WatchMan MooRDvis Harper lee the DUst that faLLs fRoM irna van Zyl paperback | r180 DReaMs sagteband | r220 | 9781415207208 (druk) 9781784752460 louis de Bernières 9781485903567 (e-boek) | 9781485903574 (pdF) Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set paperback | r180 | 9780099597834 Also available in English: DeaD in the WateR a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer 9781415207215 In the brief golden years before the outbreak understanding and appreciation of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three ’n Grieselige gesig begroet speuradjudant Storm van der of Harper Lee. Here is an very different sisters are growing up in Merwe en haar hond op Grootbaai se strand: die lyk van ’n jong unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, an eccentric household in Kent, with their joernalis – sonder haar arm. humour and effortless precision – a profoundly neighbours the Pitt boys on one side and the Vir dié kusdorpie se inwoners is dit slegte nuus; lyke wat rondlê affecting work of art that is both wonderfully Pendennis boys on the other. But their days kan die haaiduikbedryf waarvoor Grootbaai beroemd is, erge evocative of another era and relevant to our own of childhood adventure are shadowed by the skade berokken. times. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of approach of the conflict that will engulf them Storm se hande jeuk om die saak te ondersoek, maar sy To Kill a Mockingbird, but also serves as its essential on the cusp of adulthood.

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