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ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

A story of secrets, warped friendships, and addiction, and how families guard their secrets to keep up appearances – with disastrous consequences. Set in Kalk Bay, the Overberg and Plumstead, the story explores the life of a young girl called Lily, and the influence various strong characters have on her – most notably her domineering grandmother and her classmate Vera. Fascinating and harrowing, this story examines a world that is all too familiar and shows how those most dear to us can help to create a waking nightmare.

TAKEN

No parent believes it can happen to them -- their child taken from a suburban schoolyard in the gentle hours of dusk. But as widowed mother Kate Bickford discovers, everything can change in the blink of an eye. One minute her lanky, amazing, maddening Tommy is begging for ice cream. Then in a terrible instant, he`s gone. Opening the door to her Connecticut home, hoping to find her son, Kate comes face-to-face with her son`s abductor. He wants money. All she has. And if she doesn`t follow something he calls The Method, the consequences will be gruesome. Her comfortable life collapses as precious seconds tick by, and Kate is horrified to uncover the terrible, world-shattering secret she and her son share with a killer who will stop at nothing.…

A SLIM GREEN SILENCE

"A beautiful book: tear-jerking, laughter-evoking, lyrical. Beverly Rycroft has achieved that most difficult of things - a novel that is both deeply imaginative and entirely convincing." - Finuala Dowling

In this beautifully crafted novel, a small town in 1995 forms the backdrop to Connie's tale. With honesty, humour and tenderness, Connie unravels the stories of her loved ones, and allows a secret in her own past to emerge.

TIME OUT

A South African family, fractured by the sudden and violent death of a child, spends a year in France, restoring an old house in a small village. What was meant to have been a dream year becomes a year of grief, but also, eventually of healing. Moving and life-affirming, Time Out shows Van der Vyver writing at her empathetic best.

THE ART LOVER

A thrilling tale of art, beauty and love on the eve of war. In 1938 the Sonderprojekte is established under the watchful eye of Adolf Hitler, aka The Collector, and Germany begins to 'acquire' the great artworks of Europe. Twenty-four-year-old Ernst Vogler is sent to Rome to collect a famous marble statue and return with it to Berlin in three days. Those few days will change his life forever.

BROKEN MONSTERS

Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit's standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams?

If you're Detective Versado's geeky teenage daughter, Layla, you commence a dangerous flirtation with a potential predator online. If you're desperate freelance journalist Jonno, you do whatever it takes to get the exclusive on a horrific story. If you're Thomas Keen, known on the street as TK, you'll do what you can to keep your homeless family safe--and find the monster who is possessed by the dream of violently remaking the world.