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 […]
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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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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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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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by Samuel Bjork (Doubleday) ISBN: 9780857522535 The Owl Always Hunts At Night – part crime thriller, part human drama, is the second book in the Munch and Kruger series. The carefully posed body of a teenage girl is found in the forest of Sandefjord, Oslo. She is naked except for some feathers and a white
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by Don Delillo (Picador) ISBN: 9780679722922 Delillo first released this book in 1976 after undertaking a period of study in mathematics for fun. Anyone who can find mathematics fun is admirable in my view. As an enjoyable read however, this book didn’t add up for me. Boy genius Billy is the first person to win
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by Erica Jong (Canongate) ISBN: 9781782117476 Who says life ends at sixty? Certainly not Vanessa Wonderman. At sixty-years-old, she is fighting the fight against ageing with as much grace and determination as she can muster. Having been a small-screen villain for many years, lived the New York high life and partied with the best, Vanessa
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