Writing The Deep South by Ariel Dorfman (Picador) ISBN: 9781770101517 Writing The Deep South is a collection of reflections on South Africa, how not to forget, how to reconcile. In 2010, the Chilean-American Dorfman presented The Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture. This speech forms the first part of the book. Since his first visit to South […]
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Your Own Freedom Charter by Tyrrel Fairhead (Jacana) ISBN 978-1-4324-0248-9 Start by sitting quietly…become aware of your breathing…calm down…think about people who have influenced your life…consider the Madiba Mindset. Can you remember certain occasions where you have felt successful after applying a certain principle? This is such a difficult book to describe. It is so enriching
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by Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton) ISBN: 978-1-444-72730-2 Stephen King is the master storyteller of horrors. His stories are so frightening that I have not read anything by this famous author for a long time. 11.22.63 is a horror story but not of the supernatural kind. The book deals with deals with the horror of
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by PD James (Faber & Faber) ISBN: 9780571283583 PD James has done a remarkable job of reconstructing Jane Austen’s greatest literary triumph. It was easy, at first, to be lulled back into the world of Elizabeth and Darcy. Everything was so familiar. Six years have passed. Happily settled at Pemberley, the happy couple are the
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by John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton) ISBN 978-340-99354-5 After Haight and Lonny have done their time, Haight moves far away to Pastor’s Bay in Maine where he hoped no-one would ever find out his secret past. Haight remembers how he had wanted to let her go but Lonny was the one who took it too
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by P.J. O’Rourke (Grove Press) ISBN 978 1 61185 596 8  Holidays in Heck is a collection of outspoken, and often humorous, accounts by a former war correspondent for the US.  P.J O’Rourke travels with his young family to far reaching places like China, Afghanistan and the Galapagos Islands. He realizes that trips
The Golden Hour by William Nicholson (Quercus) ISBN: 978 1 849 16 392 7
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by Jo Nesbo (Harvill Secker) ISBN 978-1-846-55593-0 R215, 00 A fast paced thriller. Nesbo seems to have researched all the ins and outs of fraud, gangsters, international art and guns. Roger Brown is in love with Diana, an art gallery owner. He decides to include Norwegian, Clas Greve in his schemes, only to find Greve
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by Sue Grafton (Macmillan) ISBN: 9780230711372 I feel obliged to read these because I grew up reading about Kinsey Millhone and her odd flat, her ancient landlord, and her strange eating habits. What frustrates me the most is that Kinsey is stuck in time. Grafton refuses to move her into a world with a computer,
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by Nora Roberts (Piatkus) ISBN: 9780749955366 Nora Roberts, international bestselling author, has turned her hometown into a tourist attraction. She has written a fictional trilogy—The Next Always is the first—of the historic bed-and-breakfast she and her family remodelled in BoonsBoro, Maryland two years ago. Keeping with her literary aspirations, Roberts has created rooms inspired by
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