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This monumentally powerful epic weaves together the astonishing lives of a daredevil female aviator, and the Hollywood rebel who will play her on screen.

Los Angeles, December 2014

“LIZ THINKS. ‘I’M SORRY I HURT THEM. It would probably have been

better for everyone if I’d never had kids.’

I’ve never heard such a candid expression of remorse, the kind

whispered at confession, if at all. Procreation is exclusively a liturgical

Everybody’s favourite agony aunt and crime fighter Tannie Maria needs some counselling advice of her own. Lingering troubles from a previous marriage still sit heavy on her, while fresh worries about Slimkat, a local man whose fight for his people’s land threatens his life, keep her up at night. Tannie Maria seeks out counsellor, jokily known to all as “the satanic mechanic”.

Laughter guaranteed with this poetic and poignant coming-of age story of Ronald Guramatunhu, the rural Zimbabwean boy who devours words.

There is nothing unusual or remarkable about the Swart family, oh no, they resemble the family from the next farm and the one beyond that, just an ordinary bunch of white South Africans, and if you don’t believe it then listen to us speak...

Over large jumps in time, people get older, faces and laws and lives all change, while a brother and sister circle around a promise made long ago, and never kept...