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In researching the first volume of the authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher, Charles Moore conducted extensive...
This excerpt contains adult material. It is intended for readers 18 years of age or older. I shed my clothes across...
Ek word in intensiewe sorg geplaas, maar my toestand versleg steeds. Die glukosevlak in die serebrospinale vog (SSV)...
Jackie Cameron is one of the most exciting chefs working in South Africa today. Under her leadership the Hartford House...
Dr Wei started also, his deep, bossed gong laugh. "I say this to say that I admire the culture, your culture, its...
The hearse pulled onto a scrubby track, traveled several hundred feet, and stopped. The passenger door opened,...
Chapter One    I may have found a solution to the Wife Problem. As with so many scientific c...
The first decade of the 20th century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St Louis,...
Chapter One   After a killer day at the office, nothing smoothed those raw edges like happy hour. On the...
Chapter One   Among the Unreal People   In the hot flat bush in far northeast Namibia I crossed a...
Chapter One   Through the chilly curtain of sleet, in the intermittent wash of the great light on the...
The intrusion had been coated with a dreamlike, almost hallucinogenic veneer. Now that the sun was up it seemed as...
They came at dusk, three of them knocking at the front door. She first saw them through the glass panel in the wooden...
Whitehall Palace, London, March 1543 There has been a late snowfall and the covered turrets of  ...
If there is no dignity in death, then there is even less dignity in deciding who should be apportioned the most amount...
An afternoon meeting with Colin Beswick. Afterwards Henry walked with Nellie in the garden. At the back of the...
  After beth left, Al got up, closed the door, and leaned her back against it, rolling her bottom lip between her...
I was born in Africa with a wind in my head . . . a wind which held in its breath the knowledge of all life since the...
A killer wind hurled bitter November air, toothy little knives to gnaw at the bones.She’d forgotten her gloves,...
  Chapter One   The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend....

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