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The Reader On The 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent, translated by Ros Swartz (Mantle) ISBN 978-1-4472-7646-3 What a delightful, funny and strange little tale this is! The Reader On The 6.27  is the story of a lonely man, Guylain Vignolles, who hates his job as the operator of a book-pulping machine (a monster of note) from where

The End Of Whiteness by Nicky Falkof (Jacana) ISBN 9781431423279 This is a fascinating account of the ‘panics’ experienced by some white people in South Africa in the 1980s, such as the Afrikaner family killings and Satanism scares. Falkof has opened up areas of thought that are not often or never thought of by the post-Apartheid generation. This book might be

The Scattering by Lauri Kubuitsile (Penguin) ISBN: 9781485903079 Author, Lauri Kubuitsile is well known for her children’s fiction and has won awards for these. She has also produced audit fiction and short stories such as In the Spirit of McPhineas Lata and other short stories. The Scattering is a historic novel which tells a tale of two strong women from

Demigods and Magicians by Rick Riordan (Puffin Books) ISBN: 978-0-141-36728-6 Riordan tosses the four main characters from his Kane Chronicles trilogy and the Percy Jackson series into an explosive melting pot of Egyptian and Greek magic. The book is a collection of three cohesive short stories. The stories themselves are not new and have been

Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner (The Borough Press) ISBN: 9780008123291 This mystery is Susie Steiner’s second novel. Homecoming was published in 2013. After yet another unsuccessful date from the internet, Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw falls asleep listening to the police radio. She hears the control room’s call for a Senior Investigating Office. The location is near her apartment. She decides to