Book Choice

Book Choice - 05 July 2021

So, what have you been reading lately? A novel that made you laugh? A biography that made you cry? maybe you read something that comforted you? Or that changed the way you feel about the world, or reasserted something you’ve always felt. Or perhaps you’ve read something that made you…

5 Jul 2021 58 min

Book Choice - 07 June 2021

Here are a couple of questions for you: Are you unable to walk past a book shop without stepping inside for a quick browse? Do you sometimes smell your books? Do you buy books, even though you already have a pile of unread books? Do you chat about books with…

7 Jun 2021 1 hr 01 min

Book Choice Teen - Episode 1

The first Book Choice Teen podcast recording took place at Herzlia High School on 1 June. Grade 10 and 11 learners from Gardens Commercial High and Herzlia High met to discuss the novel An Imperfect Blessing by Nadia Davids. The discussion was facilitated by headmaster Marc Falconer Thank you to…

1 Jun 2021 28 min

Book Choice - 03 May 2021

Today is the first Monday in May, and it’s 12 o clock, which means it’s time for Book Choice. The one hour a month where we get to talk about books. What we’re reading, what we want to read, and sometimes even what we wish we’d never read. My name…

3 May 2021 58 min

Book Choice - 05 Apr 2021

April always makes me happy. It’s my birthday month, and if I’m lucky and my friends and family know what’s good for them, then it’s a month filled with books as gifts. If there is a better gift than a book, I haven’t discovered it yet. I’m Paige Nick and…

5 Apr 2021 59 min

Book Choice - 01 Mar 2021

Wait. What? It’s March. Already! Shew, that happened quickly. Well, I hope your reading year has gotten off to a great start. The world may be in a rather precarious spot right now, but fortunately we can still travel and escape into stories and worlds and lives when we sink…

1 Mar 2021 58 min

Book Choice - 01 Feb 2021

Thanks Cindy, and hello to you, our dedicated Bookchoice listeners. We’ve reached the end of this memorable year, it’s the festive season, and we are adamant to find ways to be joyful after the challenges 2020 has brought. As mentioned.

1 Feb 2021 53 min

Book Choice - 07 Dec 2020

We’ve reached the end of this memorable year, it’s the festive season, and we are adamant to find ways to be joyful after the challenges 2020 has brought. As mentioned, I’m Paige Nick, and I look forward to spending the next hour with you.

7 Dec 2020 1 hr 01 min

Book Choice - 02 Nov 2020

It’s midday on the first Monday of November, and we’ve apparently entered into the season of summer in 2020. I’m Cindy Moritz. This month the FMR Bookchoice team has gone all out to bring you their best suggestions, so we’re going to get straight into it. I’m joined in the…

2 Nov 2020 57 min

Book Choice - Oct 2020

Book Choice is broadcast every alternating Tuesday of each month presented by Paige Nick. While you’re munching your lunch or driving the myriad motorways, you’ll hear all that’s best in books. Cape Town’s top book reviewers will entertain and inform you as they cheerfully chat about the newest and nicest…

5 Oct 2020 56 min

Book Choice - Sept 2020

It’s the first Monday of the month, and we are somewhat gobsmacked to admit that it’s already the Spring edition of Bookchoice. The months have certainly merged into each other this strange year, but if you’re listening I think we can all agree that our constant has been that we’ve…

7 Sep 2020 58 min

Book Choice - Aug 2020

We begin with a memoir, reviewed by Vanessa Levenstein, titled Undeniable – Memoirs of a covert war, written by Phillippa Garson. It’s her riveting account of working as a journalist during the early 1990s in South Africa. Melvyn Minnaar found the world of art worth a detailed visit in William…

3 Aug 2020 1 hour

Book Choice - May 2020

Vanessa Levenstein could not contain her excitement at getting her hands on Hamnet, by one of her favourite authors, Maggie O’ Farrell. Melvyn Minnaar calls The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts, “a glorious travelogue with a difference”, and Beryl Eichenberger reviewed A Daughter’s Tale by Arnando Lucas Correa,…

4 May 2020 57 min

Book Choice - April 2020

Beverley Roos-Muller gave considerable thought to her choice of books this month, and has even themed her contribution. No prizes for guessing the topical theme, but there may well be a prize for listening closely to her reviews of The Body: a guide for occupants, by Bill Bryson and Plague,…

6 Apr 2020 1 hour

Book Choice - March 2020

Book Choice - March 2020

17 Mar 2020 52 min

Book Choice - February 2020

It’s time for another edition of Bookchoice on Fine Music Radio, it being the first Monday of the month of love, and we’re broadcasting from the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town. I’m Cindy Moritz, and as usual we have a diverse and interesting selection of reading for booklovers around Cape…

7 Feb 2020 54 min

Book Choice - January 2020

It’s time for Bookchoice on Fine Music Radio, coming to you from the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town. I’m Cindy Moritz, and we’re ringing in the new year with a stack of exciting and interesting reads handpicked by our team of reviewers.

6 Jan 2020 57 min

Book Choice - December 2019

Beverley Roos-Muller delved into the world of spies in John le Carre’s latest Agent Running in the Field as well as Jonathan Ancer’s Betrayal: The secret lives of Apartheid spies. Melvyn Minnaar rocked into December with Elton John’s autobiography, Me; and Vanessa Levenstein spoke to Heidi Brauer of Hollard Insurance…

2 Dec 2019 55 min

Book Choice - November 2019

Beverley Roos-Muller waded into Booker controversy territory and read both The Testaments by Margaret Atwood and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo, joint winners for 2019. Melvyn Minnaar devoured Furious Hours, Casey Cep’s literary true crime thriller about Harper Lee’s non-fiction novel that never saw the light of day. John…

4 Nov 2019 55 min

Book Choice - October 2019

Penny Lorimer shares the drama of Louise Candlish’s Those People and revisits private detective Jackson Brodie in Kate Atkinson’s latest, Big Sky. John Hanks describes the Field Guide to the Frogs and other Amphibians of Africa by Alan Channing and Mark-Oliver Rödel as an ambitious undertaking that he highly recommends,…

10 Oct 2019 55 min