Book Choice - July 2018

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This happy hour Andrew Marjoribanks. Wordsworth Books, brings us a cosy collection of fine fireside reading, Lesley Beake, an author deeply involved with children’s literature, suggests a comic series by the Kwezi team that will hit the spot with young South African readers, and is stunned by Jess Bosworth Smith’s brave and marvellous The Straw Giant and the Crow. Ardent conservationist John Hanks dives deep into Living Shores by George and Margo Branch, a masterpiece on our marine ecosystem, he declares. Vanessa Levenstein chatted to British historical novelist Kate Furnival about her latest, her ninth, steamy romance The Betrayal: twin sisters in Paris 1938 on the cusp of war. Peter Soal suggests that Who Will Rule in 2019 by Jan-Jan Joubert is required reading for all who want to understand coalition politics. Mike Fitzjames, so cruelly in this cold weather, puts ice in our veins with three chilling thrillers, while I wiled away winter with a quartet of non-fiction crime books, not all of them new – Jonny Steinberg’s The Number, Andrew Brown’s Good cop Bad cop, Exposing South Africa’s Underworld by Mark Shaw, and Killing Goldfinger by Wesley Clarke. Finally fine cook and cookery writer Phillippa Cheifitz reminds us that Prince Harry and Meghan dished up whole bowls of wholesome and healthy poke food at their wedding, tuck into Melissa Delport’s Whole – bowl food for balance. Yum
2 Jul 2018 English South Africa TV & Film

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