Box’s ninth novel to feature Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett begins with a bombshell: could Pickett's foster daughter, April, who died six years earlier in Winterkill, still be alive?A simple phone message shakes Joe Pickett's oldest daughter Sheridan and the rest of the family to the core. To Joe, it doesn't seem possible that April could have survived the massacre. He was there, and he was unable to save her. But Sheridan starts to believe that April is still alive, and her suspicions are confirmed when the person sending texts to her cellphone is able to recall family incidents only April could know. When the messages start to come from locations where vicious murders have taken place, alarm bells go off.

 

It’s South Africa, 2004 and Jerusalem (half Muslim, half Jew) is a young student with poetic leanings. Zero, his buccaneering father, will no longer fund his ephemeral lifestyle, so he is sent away from the city to Hermanus to learn to stand on his own two feet by selling ethnic curios to tourists. He takes on a Tanzanian refugee as his fellow trader and falls for the beautiful yet elusive Lotte. At the same time Jabulani, a Zimbabwean teacher, loses his job and heads south where his life intersects with Jeru’s. The characters work out their intertwining destinies against a landscape of breathtaking natural beauty and a backdrop of violence and xenophobia. It’s a world one will not easily forget.

 

This fascinating biography of Freddie Mercury, which received outstanding acclaim from Queen and rock fans worldwide, has been updated for reissue to coincide with the release of the film about his life. Jackson addresses topics including the reality behind Queen's flamboyant front man and lead singer and his frequent use of cocaine and how it heightened his tendency to excess – both on and off stage. The book looks at the women in his life – his enduring relationships with his first love, Mary Austin, and his long-time confidante, Barbara Valentin, who speaks here for the first time. The book includes new and intimate stories by those who knew him well, such as Tim Rice, Richard Branson and Cliff Richard.

 

Nataniël’s latest collection includes 46 stories, some in English, some in Afrikaans, selected and adapted from his shows staged since 2007, amongst others Predicting Snow, Men who Fly, Egg Whites and Angel Food, Coronation, Cathedral, Knowing your Microwave and other Magical Moments and Combat. These are magical stories about a world both strange and familiar. Nataniël first became popular as a cabaret and stage artist, but since the 1990s has also built a reputation as a writer, columnist and celebrity chef. His publications include Dancing with John (1992), Rubber (1996), Tuesday (2001), Food from the White House (2002), Kaalkop (2004) and When I Was (2008).

 

There is an indelible connection between food and language, and therefore between food and people. We are social beings, made to interconnect, interact, share and converse. We achieve this through language and food or, more specifically, through eating. According to the authors the words used to describe food contain and evoke meaning. They encapsulate emotion and instil feeling. Featuring over 200 recipes catering for any occasion, this is a cookbook with a difference. One word captures the essence of each chapter with the recipes contained within that chapter demonstrating the inherent meaning and evocation of that word.The recipes are simple to make and irresistibly edible. And each dish is supported by mouth-watering, full-colour photography.

 

This is a new business book from Richard Branson, certain to be another business bestseller.Can we bring more meaning to our lives and help change the world at the same time? Entrepreneur and adventurer, Branson, at his brilliant and motivating best, reveals how with his exciting new vision for the future. It is time to turn capitalism upside down; to shift our values, to switch from a profit focus to caring for people, communities and the planet. With inspiration for everyone, Screw Business As Usual shows how easy it is for both businesses and individuals to embark on a whole new way of doing things, solving major problems and turning our work into something we both love and are proud of.

 

Alma Nel leaves her home on the edge of the Kalahari to retrieve the body of her gay son in Amsterdam. Driven by guilt and grief, she resolves to reconstruct Staal’s death, undertaking a bizarre quest in a strange and surreal world. Guided by a coke-dealing Rastafarian, Alma opens a psychedelic can of worms, meeting many of Staal’s friends and acquaintances – scissor queens, leather men, rent boys. But some of Staal’s friends would prefer to keep their secrets hidden in the darkrooms of the night. This book is poignant, comical, suspenseful and (strangely) sexy. Two telling compliments from Dutch reviewers: ‘Characters I’d love to meet in the flesh’ and ‘How can a straight author write so accurately about the gay scene?’

 

The Arms Deal was never a single event. Rather, it was and still is, a series of scandals and outrages, all contributing towards a dubious momentum that takes South Africa further away from democratic practice. This book, destined to explode onto the political landscape, seeks to break open the guarded chest of state secrets, telling tales of outrageous personal enrichment for some. It also explores how the Arms Deal emerged out of the criminal networks of both the old SADF and the ANC’s security apparatus, raising questions as to whether South Africa’s remarkable transition was not oiled, at key points, by criminal intent and collusion. It also follows the trail of the various defence deals done after the Arms Deal.

 

This is a celebration of eighty years of the life of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a South African icon whose humanity and compassion have touched millions of people around the world. This inspiring book features an authorised biography by South African journalist Allister Sparks, and includes over forty interviews conducted by Tutu’s daughter, Mpho Tutu with close family, friends, colleagues, comrades and critics. It is complemented by an unprecedented collection of images and unpublished artefacts drawn from Tutu’s private collection. This is a story of one man’s extraordinary life and work. It celebrates one of the great moral leaders of our time as we see the pivotal roles he played in the liberation of South Africa, both at home and abroad.