Thandeka Mtsweni delves into the complex intersections of childhood abuse, mental health struggles, and the pervasive shame-based identities shaped by cultural dynamics in African societies. In her candid narrative, she highlights how abuse is often overlooked or normalized within communities lacking awareness of healthy childhood development. She examines the societal taboos surrounding mental health, where silence and stigma perpetuate generational cycles of pain. Thandeka calls for grea...

To Catch a Rainbow is a story about travel and diversity. It connects people across the globe through childrens play, food and places. A little girl, Rose, is a multi-cultural child and comes from two countries. Rose travels through Asia, Americas, Africa and Europe because her parents have jobs that require them to travel a lot. There is a thrill in travelling and living in different countries, but there are also tough times. Making new friends seems easy and hard at the same time. Adapti...

Deep always calls unto deep. The results? Reckless hate & catastrophe.Westbrook had four boys that ruled my life once. They were hell raisers:Cunning Athletes.Skilled Manipulators.Hateful Assholes.Gorgeous gods.Heartbreakers.Only I never counted on them breaking my heart as savagely as they did, sending me away when I needed them the most. Making me spiral into a vicious abyss of darkness where I’m haunted ...

Rivalry. Deceit. Secret Kisses.Here’s the 411 you should know:It’s a warzone.It’s the breeding ground for losers, jealous broken-hearted girls and acne covered fools with zero game.The disgustingly rich kids are vile, vindictive, popular will always be at the top.High school is simply, survival of the fittest. And I was the fittest of them all. Once.Once, before I was set up to take the fall for an attempted murder...

Devastation tastes a lot like ash in your mouth.It feels like looming death hanging over your bones.It sounds like the violent shattering of your soul.It has a rotting smell much like that of rotting hearts…
But most of all, devastation looks like the beautiful, fiery girl with her fake sincerity and sweet lies that fall from her lips.She thinks we’re somehow an option that she can discard at any fucking time.Does it...

Tired of tragic stories, Chris Harvie sets out to see the positive side of the ‘Dark Continent’ and to enjoy its life and laughter. Do Not Take This Road to El-Karama is the entertaining account of an epic road trip that takes him from his home outside the Kruger National Park to the banks of the Nile in Uganda – and back again. In his haphazard and somewhat eccentric travels, Harvie encounters missionaries and mechanics, locals and ex-pats, rascals and rogues. Delving into his own mixed B...

Humorous essays from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author on travel, late-life parenting, and other perils.P. J. O'Rourke, hailed as "one of America's most hilarious writers" by Time, is the author of the classic travelogue Holidays in Hell, in which he traversed the globe on a fun-finding mission to what were then some of the most desperate places on the planet, including Warsaw, Managua, and Belfast.In Holidays in Heck

*A New York Times Notable Book**A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice**A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year*Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colorful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother's beauty parlor, black mamba bicycle bells, mechanics in Nairobi, t...

Cherry Denman has spent her life trailing husband Charlie round some of the world's most remote outposts and can ask for the lavatory in eleven languages. While some aspects of living abroad will always puzzle her - saunas, tofu and circumcision, to name just three - she wouldn't have missed it for anything. Lessons learnt range from the practical (possessions belong either in the suitcase or the skip: storage is for wimps), to the truly useful (how to avoid the drinks party bore) and the ...

It's Christmas week in Hong Kong and Business World bureau chief Claire Raymond should be covering the British colony's impending handover to Beijing's rule. Sidelined on maternity leave she can't help investigating why neighbor Vicky Sandford's son Petey died at the end of May Road. When a second toddler disappears, Claire's apprehension for her newborn turns to terror. Not even the inconvenient visit of the seductive photographer Fabienne—an old flame of Xavier's who thinks she's still n...

Joe has asked for a pet for his eighth birthday off his mum and dad.They go to the pet store and Joe sees the one he wants,its a hamster and he names him Harry.Harry settles in well in his new home and loves his new owner, but longs to discover new things and see new places.After learning to escape, Harry starts his exciting adventures but always makes sure hes back in his cage for when Joe and his family get home.Follow Harry and his adventures and see where he ends...

A young man reluctantly on his way to an online date, tries to strike up a conversation with a girl on the tube. Despite her initial reluctance, she opens up slightly when she finds out his destination. As the train carries them onwards, both find their conversation moving them towards an unexpected conclusion.