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Ten top local titles for some serious and not so serious Holiday Reading

1 A Sin of Omission (Historical Fiction)

rom humble Eastern Cape beginnings Stephen Mzamane is sent to England for training as an Anglican priest. Dogged by conflicted loyalties on his return, he has to journey to his mother’s rural home to inform her of his elder brother’s death. Award-winning author Marguerite Poland first heard this story as a child, and says it took nearly 50 years “to find Marguerite Poland Penguin Random House R290 978-1-48590-419-9

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