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A Time to Die – 11th Hour
by James Patterson (Random House) Price R215, 00 ISBN 978-1-84-605792-2  Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer is working harder than she ever has, in spite of being pregnant.  When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, she discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco’s most untouchable criminals. And it
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Book Review – Divergent
by Veronica Roth (HarperCollins)  ISBN: 9780007420421 Beatrice is 16. Born into a world with five factions, it is time for her to decide where she belongs. She turns her back on her world. She feels as if she is not the same as her parents and her brother, Caleb. Or is she? She does not feel
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Book Review – Phantom
by Jo Nesbo (Harvill Secker) ISBN: 9781846555220 Harry Hole returns from Hong Kong to investigate a murder which is already considered solved. This leads him to investigate the underground world of drugs. Although Phantom is well plotted and the story is deftly weaved together, I don’t think the author managed to pull off the dual
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Book Review – Guide To Night Skies Of Southern Africa
by Peter Mack (Struik Nature) ISBN: 9781770078598 At first I thought this book was only about the night skies of Southern Africa. I was wrong. Don’t let the size of the book fool you. It is packed with information that every novice astronomer would need and is also a useful reference to the more seasoned
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The Crown
by Nancy Bilyeau (Orion) ISBN 9 781409 133070  Congratulations to Nancy Bilyeau on her first book. It is a fabulous read, full of surprises. So well researched that I could follow the royal families quite easily.  Joanna Stafford, the heroine, is a nun who describes her life in the abbey with amazing clarity. I could picture the
The 42 Best Lines From The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
By Douglas Adams 1. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. 2. Many were increasingly of the opinion
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Writing Humour – How to write a Dan Brown novel
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The Writer – A Comic
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