The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde by Eve Chase (Michael Joseph) ISBN 978-0-718-18009-6 The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde is an enchanting and often haunting mystery of a missing girl written skillfully in dual time-lines. The first narrative is written in the 1950s from the perspective of Margot Wilde, the missing girl’s cousin and the second is …
Crazy House by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet (Young Arrow) ISBN 9781784758516 Careful Cassandra and Ridiculous Rebecca are teenaged twins who live alone. One day Becca disappears. At first Cassie is angry with her for stealing her truck and being rebellious as usual, but when Becca does not return days later, Cassie knows she really …
Don’t Close Your Eyes by Holly Seddon (Corvus) ISBN: 978-1-7823967-1-0 Holly Seddon is the author of Try Not To Breathe. In her second novel, Robin and Sarah are unlikely twins. They don’t even look similar, but they love each other. When they are separated by the divorce of their parents, they find themselves living different lives. …
Churchill and Smuts: The Friendship by Richard Steyn (Jonathan Ball) ISBN: 978-1-86842-799 4 When two brilliant minds had the opportunity to work together, it was not surprising that Churchill and Smuts became obsessed with each other. I cannot laud the author of this incredible story enough, for his research on the friendship of these two …
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The Lost Girl by Carol Drinkwater (Penguin) ISBN: 9780718183103 Since her daughter, Lizzie went missing four years earlier, celebrated photographer Kurtiz Ross has been alone. She has blamed and isolated herself, until an unexpected sighting of Lizzie is made in Paris. Within hours of arriving in Paris, the City of Light is plunged into hell …
The Walls by Hollie Overton (Century) ISBN 9781780895093 Kristy was not living up to her potential – from being a bright girl at school with so many opportunities open to her, to falling pregnant by mistake at a young age and having to drop out of her academics and get a job to survive. The …
Killing Karoline – What happens when the baby they buried comes back? by Sara-Jayne King (MF BOOKS JOBURG) ISBN: 978-1-920601-95-9 Johannesburg 1980. Karoline’s birth is not celebrated but feared. The manifestation of an illegal affair between a white woman and her black lover is banally erased to save both parents’ futures. A deeply disturbing web …
One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus (Penguin) ISBN 978-0-141-37563-2 Social Media and high school shouldn’t go together. When the creator of a damaging high school gossip app dies in detention very few people are grief stricken. They’ve all been hurt by his stories at some point or another. There were four other …
The Incest Diary by Anonymous (Bloomsbury Circus) ISBN 978-1-4088-9043-1 It’s reported that women who are molested do everything in their power to escape from their violators. But not this author. Not from her father who molested her from the age of three until into her twenties, even when she realises her mother and brother knew what …
Make Your Bed: Small things that can change your life… and maybe the world by William H. McRaven (Penguin) ISBN 978-0-718-18886-3 “If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.” This book caught my interest as I had just recently seen a post about it on Facebook. Who would’ve thought that …
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