Book Choice - January 2018

Welcome to BOOK CHOICE on the first Monday of the month and to a bright, bookish New Year! I’m Andrew Marjoribanks, Wordsworth Books with a big bundle of good books on which to spend your book vouchers. Beverley Roos Muller finds Chris Barnard as beautiful and brilliant as she remembers him in Heartbreaker: Christiaan Barnard and the first heart transplant by James Brent Styan. Philip Todres is gobsmacked by Ballenesque, the long-awaited restrospective from one of the world’s most important photographers – Roger Ballon, who, for the first time, reveals his compelling and particular vision. Vanessa Levenstein loved Dear World – A Syrian Girl’s story of War and plea for peace by Bana Alabed. John Hanks holds Sir David Attenboroough in high esteem and thus was pleased to read David Attenborough – Adventures of a young Naturalist. The Zoo Quest Expeditions. Mike Fitzjames, mean as always, shreds our nerves with truly good new crime novels. We chat to Lyndall Gordon about Outsiders – Five Women Writers Who Changed the World, wonderfully written with Lyndall’s usual passionate intelligence. Good laughs from Melvyn Minnaar who chuckled his way through 50 People Who Stuffed Up The World by Alexancer Parker and Tim Richman. Finally Cindy Moritz is deeply moved by Hunger — A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay, an American writer, professor, editor, and commentator who addresses the experience of living in what she calls an ‘undisciplined’ body.