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Book Bites: 11 March
Published in the Sunday Times The Twinkling of an Eye: A Mother’s Journey ***** Sue Brown, Human & Rousseau, R230 The Browns are an ordinary family. They have two lovely children (Meg and Craig),...
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A jealous ex-wife, a skittish bride-to-be, and many, many twists – Jennifer...
Published in the Sunday Times The Wife Between Us *** Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, Macmillan, R285 There’s something fun and soapy about the new wave of domestic thrillers – or, actually,...
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Hitchcock meets Harlem: Michele Magwood reviews AJ Finn’s twisty and slick...
Published in the Sunday Times By Michele Magwood The Woman in the Window ***** AJ Finn, Harper Collins, R285 In the book world, success stories...
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Doomsday in her own lifetime: a woman turns her back on her paranoid,...
Published in the Sunday Times Educated: A Memoir ***** Tara Westover, Hutchinson, R320 The cover looks like it’s set somewhere in South Africa. A derelict classroom table and chair are the only signs...
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Alexandra Fuller had the choice to speak out in her debut novel, or to remain...
Alexandra Fuller, author of Quiet Until the Thaw. © Wendell Locke Field Quiet Until the Thaw ***** Alexandra Fuller, Penguin, R280 ‘A wise woman said to me after my father died that grief is a...
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Bron Sibree reviews Amy Chua’s new book which traces tribalism in America
Published in the Sunday Times Nuestra Senora de la Santa Muerta (Our Lady of the Holy Death) is a female deity personifying death. Her prominent cult holds many poor Hispanic Americans in its grip...
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Sunday Times Literary Awards Longlist 2018 announced
Announcing the longlists for South Africa’s most prestigious annual literary awards, the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction and the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, in association with Porcupine Ridge. The...
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Yewande Omotoso shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2018!
The shortlist for the International Dublin Literary Award 2018 has been announced and it boasts a South African title! Congratulations to Yewande Omotoso, whose novel The Woman Next Door (Chatto &...
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Toll of madness, redemption of love – Michele Magwood reviews Zack...
Published in the Sunday Times Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother’s Love ***** Zack McDermott, Piatkus, R315 This book is one of the gems of the year, the true story of a young man...
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“An excellent novel about the issue of comfort women”– Margaret von Klemperer...
Published in the Witness: 12/04/2017 White Chrysanthemum Mary Lynn Bracht, Chatto & Windus THE issue of “comfort women”, kidnapped by Japanese forces from Korea and China and forced into...
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Book Bites: 22 April
Published in the Sunday Times The Last Romeo **** Justin Myers, Piatkus, R285 What would you get if you were to combine Adrian Mole and almost any Marian Keyes novel? Justin Myers’s brilliant debut...
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Bridget Jones Dries Out: Clare Pooley was amazed women were blogging about...
Published in the Sunday Times The wine witch is not someone that people want in their lives, writes Clare Pooley in her memoir, The Sober Diaries. Illustration: Keith Tamkei. The Sober Diaries Clare...
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Jim Crace’s brilliant The Melody explores loss, ageing, greed and...
Published in the Sunday Times The Melody ***** Jim Crace, Picador, R285 After his Booker-nominated Harvest (2013), Jim Crace was never going to write another novel – until three things happened. The...
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2018′s Women’s Prize for Fiction favours new voices, reports The Guardian
By Alison Flood Published in the Guardian From Arundhati Roy to Jennifer Egan, some of the biggest names in literature have fallen by the wayside in the race for this year’s Women’s prize for fiction....
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Book Bites: 29 April
Published in the Sunday Times A Book of American Martyrs **** Joyce Carol Oates, HarperCollins, R290 Who the martyrs in this book are is not entirely clear. Although it initially seems that the...
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“An enigmatic examination of shifting taste and permissiveness – social and...
Published in the Sunday Times The Sparsholt Affair *** Alan Hollinghurst, Picador, R330 Divided into five fairly distinct, yet linked sections, each with its own set of characters, time-frame and...
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And our sunshine noir author for May is … Paul Mendelson!
A new month calls for a new sunshine noir author sending shivers down the spines of local thriller fans… This month, the co-author of the popular Detective Kubu series, Michael Sears, had the...
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Savagely funny but serious, cynical and sanguine and whippingly plotted –...
Published in the Sunday Times London Rules ***** Mick Herron, John Murray, R295 One of the authors I’m most looking forward to meeting at the Franschhoek Literary Festival next week is Mick Herron. The...
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The Sunday Times Literary Awards shortlist announced
After months of extensive reading, careful evaluation and fierce deliberation it is finally time to reveal the shortlists for South Africa’s most prestigious book awards, the Alan Paton Award for...
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Book Bites: 13 May
Published in the Sunday Times The Force **** Don Winslow, Harper Collins, R205 What makes a good cop good at his job? Courage? Intelligence? Bravery, empathy, toughness? Detective Sergeant Denny Malone...
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