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Month: November 2016
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Book Review – Nomad
Nomad by James Swallow (Macmillan) ISBN: 978-1-78576-183-6
Book Review – The Comet Seekers
by Helen Sedgwick (Harvill Secker) ISBN 9781910701744 ‘Why draw a square house with a triangular roof when you can draw the patterns in the stars?’ This is definitely my best book of the year. It has everything I’m always looking for in a book: magic, science, and love stories. The tone and lyrical clear writing …
Book Review – Here I Am
by Jonathan Safran Foer (Hamish Hamilton) ISBN 9780241146187 The Blochs are an upper middle-class American family consisting of Jacob, the father: always questioning himself, ambivalent, neurotic; Julia, the mother: artistic, unfulfilled, controlling, argumentative, neurotic; Sam, the eldest son: intelligent, rebellious, aloof; Max, the middle son: hungry for facts which he is always collecting; and Benji, the youngest son: bright child, observant, impressionable. Sam, who is is …
Book Review – The Black Widow
by Daniel Silva (Harper Collins) ISBN: 978-0-00-755236-8 With the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, global terrorism, and ISIS, it is not surprising that there is a plethora of novels that orbit this phenomenon. So after finishing one book on terrorism it was with a sense of trepidation that I picked up The Black Widow. As the …
Book Review – Andy And His Magic Phone Visit The World Next Door
by Kim Ebner (Struik Children) ISBN: 978-1-43230-516-1 This is the first book from Johannesburg-based attorney Kim Ebner who has a penchant for fantasy novels. Andy receives a second hand phone from his parents for his twelfth birthday. He is over the moon. While at school with his new phone, he gets several urgent messages from …
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Book Review – Tannie Maria & The Satanic Mechanic
by Sally Andrew (Umuzi) ISBN: 978-1-4152-0767-3 Get out of the way, Jessica Fletcher and make way for the Klein Karoo’s Tannie Maria. This wonderfully-written South African read will have you laughing all the way to the kitchen to prepare of one of Tannie Maria’s Venus chocolate cakes. Her solution to all her agony aunt column questions in the local newspaper is one of …
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Book Review – Agents Of The State
by Mike Nicol (Umuzi) ISBN: 978-1-41520-718-5 Nicol’s latest thriller is filled with interesting characters, including the President and his son, who are involved in some dirty deeds. Initially, Agent Vicki Kahn’s first assignment for the State Security Agency is to bring a child trafficker back to South Africa. When the child trafficker disappears and Vicki …
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