Book Choice - September 2017

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This happy hour: Andrew Marjoribanks, Wordsworth Books, bags the best in fiction and non-fiction for us, Beverley Roos Muller is shocked by the damage that the self-absorbed inflict in relationships in Dawn Garisch’s unputdownable Accident. Peter Soal reviews Peaceful Revolution Where Niel Barnard with Tobie Wiese sets out how he, Niel, as then head of National Intelligence, was central to the secret negotiations between Nelson Mandela and the National Party govenrment. Phillipa Cheiftz liked Andy Fenner’s Meat Manifesto – Proper and Delicious for its proper take on ethically raised animals and Fenner’s delicious recipes for making the best of the cheaper cuts. Mike Fitzjames finds that economic signals are everywhere in Signals – The Breakdown of the Social Contract and Rise of Geopolitics by Dr Pippa Malgrem, which sounds an indegestible book but isn’t. Cindy Moritz finds a good easy read in Gail Honeyman’s amusingly titled Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. Philip Todres finds hilarity and heartbreak in The Dog’s Last Walk (and Other Pieces) by Howard Jacobson, Man Booker Prize-winner author of The Finkler Question. Finally, with Spring in our stepit’s time to plan a waterwise garden we chat to Glennice Ebedes about her inspiringly beuaitfil little book: Gardener’s Guide to Indigenous Garden Plants of Southern Africa.
4 Sep 2017 English South Africa TV & Film

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