by Aimee Bender (Windmill) ISBN: 978-0-099-53827-1 Rose Edelstein’s life changes when she eats the cake her mother bakes on her 9th birthday. She inexplicably tastes every emotion her mother has. And it’s not a good thing. Her beautiful mother tastes empty and small, and full of despair. Food becomes a battleground for the terrified child. […]
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by Anthony Horowitz (Walker books) ISBN: 978-1-4063-1700-8 It’s weird, but I think I like this book. A collection of short stories so bloody and bizarre I had to sleep with a night light. Not really, but I did check under the bed.It boasts titles such as SheBay: She was Daddy’s favourite…until she had to be
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by Robin Oliveira (Penguin Books) R200 ISBN: 9781905490684 Mary Sutter is a midwife from Albany in 1861 who will leave no stone unturned to reach her goal: to become the first female surgeon in the United States. She faces prejudices against women in medicine and gets numerous rejections from professors not believing in her capacities.
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Genius, Risk and the Secret about Capitalism by Harry Bingham (Fourth Estate) ISBN: 978-0-00-726017-1 Stuff Matters is not a book about how to make money. It is about how capitalism catapulted the human race from extreme poverty to a world of ever-expanding riches. According to Bingham, the people who are best at making money often
Recipes from the Hearth by Francois Ferreira & Gwynne Conlyn (Jacana)
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by Jeffrey Archer (Macmillan) ISBN: 978-0-230-74822-4 Â This latest offering by Jeffrey Archer will not disappoint fans. It has his trademark build up and then a twist (or two) at the end of the story. This master storyteller continues to weave his magic with Only Time Will Tell, the first book of the Clifton Chronicles.The
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 by Edward St Aubyn (Picador) ISBN: 9780330435901 This is the final instalment in the Melrose family saga. St Aubyn’s semi-autobiographical journey began with the trilogy Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope. The story continued with Mother’s Milk and ends At Last. Patrick Melrose watches his mother’s coffin in this caustically funny book. He has just returned from the Priory after his
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by Douglas Kennedy (Hutchinson) ISBN: 9780091795849 Thomas, an American writers, fall desperately in love with Petra when they are in Berlin. So deep is their involvement that the author tells of their affair with graphic descriptions of the need they have for each other. When Petra falls pregnant at the end of their affair, the
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by Simon Winchester (Harper Press) ISBN: 9780007341375 The Atlantic Ocean is at the centre of the human world. It has played an important role in our lives from the first explorers to the recent discovery of the tiniest creature that produces one-fifth of world’s oxygen. In his 20th book, Winchester sets out on an adventurous
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by Patricia Cornwall (Sphere) R 135.00 ISBN 978-0-7515-4392-6 If you read this brilliant book you might not understand all the jargon but it comes down to this. We wouldn’t need wars anymore. Not the sort of wars we know about. We’re on the threshold of a new kind of war – where our old wars
