ELOQUENT BODY: Top seller

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Tuesday, 11 December 2012

Top Seller Kalk Bay Books

Another shot in the arm: Eloquent Body is the top selling book at Kalk Bay Books for the past year. Thank you to a great book shop.

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Eloquent Body by Dawn Garisch
Price: TBA
Non-fiction / Autobiography

“A richly eclectic, deeply insightful text that draws art and science, poetry and medicine, writing and healing into fertile conversation.”
- Ivan Vladislavic

Trespass by Dawn Garisch
Price: R179.95
Novel

When a woman arrives to enrol her young son, Phyllis believes her to be the baby she gave up for adoption as an adolescent. In comforting Michael, who is being bullied, Phyllis finds an escape from her untenable circumstances, even though she knows what she’s doing is wrong.

"Garisch is good, very good."
- praise for 'Trespass' in The Weekender

Short-listed for the Commonwealth prize in Africa (2010)

Once, Two Islands by Dawn Garisch
Price: R193.95
Novel

On an island in the southern Atlantic seas, a baby girl is born one dark winter’s day while the spin-drift wind sings strange songs around the gullies and cliffs. But Gulai’s mother dies soon after giving birth and her father, Dr. Orion Prosper, the only medical doctor on the island, blames himself and refuses to talk to anyone. But Gulai never stops crying until...

Difficult Gifts by Dawn Garisch
Price: R126.95
Poetry

Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award for Miracle .

"A seamless welding of raw experience and self-observation, of music and thought. She writes the most personal spaces, always lit by her wry, focused understanding."
- Ken Bariss on Difficult Gifts

Babyshoes by Dawn Garisch
Price: R92.95
Young Adult Novel

When Mum abandons the family for another man, David decides to walk out himself, and to take the new-born Kevin. Armed with only his best friend, a dummy and an old guitar, heading for the coast with no plans and no cash, David soon finds that changing your world while you're changing dirty nappies isn't so easy.