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De Vries se nuwe bundel sluit aan by sy ernstiger werk (bv Nag van die Clown, Tot verhaal kom). Hier is sy hooftemas weer die onbegrypbaarheid van dinge en die weemoed van menswees – en dis daardie gevoel van weemoed wat die leser bybly na die lees van hierdie verhale. Die verhale gaan oor gewone mense en is eg menslik, soos die sensitiewe beeld van die ou straatskoonmaker wat sy werk verloor in “Ode aan ’n ou man wie se strate oor hom treur”. In ’n verhaal soos «Winternag»is dit die subtiele uitbeelding van emosionele geweld in ’n verhouding; in “Storm” gaan dit oor tot eksterne geweld. Geweld word in die bundel ’n metafoor vir morele verval, ’n spieelbeeld van die aftakeling van die mens vanwee die geestelike aanslag in watter vorm ookal. Verhale wat onthutsend en liries is.

First published in 1984, under a pseudonym, as ‘The Diary of a Good Neighbour’ and ‘If the Old Could …’, and now published as ‘The Diaries of Jane Somers’, this is in many ways classic Lessing.The diaries introduce us to Jane, an intelligent and beautiful magazine editor concerned with success, clothes and comfort. But her real inadequacy is highlighted when first her husband, then her mother, die from cancer and Jane feels strangely removed. In an attempt to fill this void, she befriends ninety-something Maudie, whose poverty and squalor contrast so radically with the glamour and luxury of the magazine world. The two gradually come to depend on each other – Maudie delighting Jane with tales of London in the 1920s and Jane trying to care for the rapidly deteriorating old woman.‘The Diary of Jane Somers’ contrasts the helplessness of the elderly with that of the young as Jane is forced to care for her nineteen-year-old drop-out niece Kate who is struggling with an emotional breakdown. Jane realises that she understands young people as little as she so recently did the old.

The first short story in the fun & flirty #LoveLondon series from exciting new chick lit author Nikki Moore!There’s nothing Holly Winterlake loves more than Christmas and skating, so working as an Ice Marshall at London's Somerset House is a dream come true.Noel Summerford hates the festive season and is a disaster on the ice, so taking his godson to Somerset House is his idea of the nightmare before Christmas!Things are bound to get interesting when these two collide…With a forty foot Christmas tree, an assortment of well meaning friends and relatives, and a mad chocolate Labrador, will this festive season be one to remember … or forget?

Collating the knowledge from over 20,000 publications in chemistry, biology and nanotechnology, this handbook is the first to comprehensively present the state of the art in one ready reference. A team of international authors connects the various disciplines involved, covering cis-trans isomerization of double bonds and pseudo-double bonds, as well as other cis-trans isomerizations. For biochemists, organic chemists, physicochemists, photochemists, polymer and medicinal chemists.