Winner of the Sala Novel AwardWinner of the Humanities and Social Sciences Award for the Novel A cry for reparations for Lucy Lurie. She is the victim of an act of terrible sexual violence that devastes her life. Afterwards, she becomes obsessed with the author John Coetzee, the man who wrote the scene of violence in which she was attacked. Withdrawn and fearful of crowds, Lucy nonetheless makes occasional forays into the world of men in her search for Coetzee himself. She means to confront him. The Lucy in his novel, Disgrace, is passive and almost entirely lacking agency. Lucy means to right the record, for she is the lacuna that Coetzee left in his novel—the missing piece of the puzzle. Lucy plans to put herself back in the story, to assert her agency and identity. For Lucy Lurie will be no man's lacuna. This riveting, feminist reply to the book considered to be Coetzee's masterwork is also a moving story of one...

When Fay Penrose takes over her grandmother's B&B on Bluebell Island, she knows there will be some clean-up involved, but she doesn't expect that to include a dead body in one of the guest rooms. As a former police officer, Fay knows the man has been poisoned. What she doesn't know if who he is, what he was doing on the island, and what all this has to do with a four-hundred-year-old shipwreck. Forced to team up with the delicious but disapproving Dr. David Dyer, Fay is soon on the trail of a very old mystery. Fay has the skills, and David has the medical knowledge, but it's the cat that has the clue. Nominated four times for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize (South Africa), Fiona Snyckers is a gripping storyteller. "Fiona Snyckers has got it just right." The Witness "Get yourself a blanket, some hot chocolate, and a sunny spot to curl up in, and immerse yourself in Snyckers' world." Mail & Guardian **