Shark's Egg - A Novel, by Henrietta Rose-Innes sale

Shark's Egg - A Novel, by Henrietta Rose-Innes saleA dark coming of age story set in Cape Town, Shark's Egg tells the story of Anna's schoolgirl friendship with the magnetic, destructive Leah, and their ambiguous adult relationship. Alan, Anna's first lover, becomes the focus of a moral and sexual struggle between them as adults played out against the menacing backdrop of the sea.

and the capacity for a portrait to create an illusion

This is the story of four of the women – Sikhakhane­Rankin

but only so much--what's most important is who we are on the inside

They describe being tortured in detention

At the edges of the tamed space a dense wall of jungle rises

With the increasing number of dead bodies

The Abu Simbel temples are two massive rock temples at Abu Simbel (Arabic: أبو سمبل‎)

And he's not just cast a critical eye over England's finest either

400 tightly woven

Zaire (now DRC)

' Evening Standard

Trekking behind them up the icy slopes