Two Years Eight Months And Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Cape) ISBN: 9781910702048 How do I write a 200-word review for a book that I’m reading for the third time? A book that has so many wonderful lines leaping of its pages that I had to stop writing them down. A book that had me laughing, gasping and […]
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by Dan Boothby (Picador) ISBN: 9781509800759 As a young boy growing up in a hippy commune in the Seventies, the author was gripped by one book that opened his life to adventure and made him long to live on a British island in a lighthouse with a pet otter. The book was Gavin Maxwell’s Raven Seek Thy
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Letters to influential South Africans about the state of our nation by Onkgopotse JJ Tabane (Pan Macmillan) ISBN: 9781770104327 JJ Tabane is a journalistically trained activist, academic and intellectual with his work boots on. The book contains a foreword from Mathatha Tsedu, Executive Director of the South African National Editors’ Forum, providing support for a brave, considered
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by Jesse Andrews (Allen & Unwin) ISBN: 9781760290443 This novel is anything other than expected. When I first saw it, I thought it would be a sappy and heartfelt romance, where two lovers are torn apart by a fatal illness and are eventually so happy that they had each other in their lives, that it doesn’t even matter anymore. However,
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by Jane Smiley (PanMacmillan) ISBN: 9781447275701 Golden Age is the final instalment in a trilogy about the Langdon family. It follows Some Luck, set a century ago, and Early Morning. Golden Age traverses 1987-2017. It is both a family drama and a political portrait of a changing America. Novels that open with a two-page family
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by Jeff Kinney (Penguin) ISBN: 978-0-141-36472-8 This is the 10th in the series about the Wimpy Kid, Greg Heffley. They are “novels in cartoons” that have become a worldwide phenomenon since publication of the first diary in 2008. I’d heard of the Wimpy Kid, but Old School is the first I’ve read. I was surprised (and
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