Writers Write Book Review

Michael K: A Novel by Nthikeng Mohlele (Picador Africa) ISBN  9781770104792 I appreciated the literary value in this book but was drawn to the philosophical

The Cull by Tony Park (MacMillan) ISBN: 9781770105836 Set across the blistering African landscape, The Cull is a fast-paced read, set in the unsavoury world

The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse (Mantle) ISBN: 9781509806843 Kate Mosse has an extensive oeuvre. She wrote the trilogy set in the South of France,

Knucklebone by N.R. Brodie (Macmillan) ISBN 9781770105850 N.R. Brodie’s Knucklebone was inspired by a song she was listening to while she was driving past Johannesburg

The Last Hours by Minette Walters (Allen & Unwin) ISBN: 9781760632151 It is 1348 and the plague is sweeping through England. People are dying in

Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss (Bloomsbury) ISBN: 9781408871799 Seven years after her last novel, Great House, Krauss has written a complex and intellectual new book. Nicole

A Rhino In My Garden by Conita Walker with Sally Smith (Jacana) ISBN 978-1-4314-2595-2 This is a courageous, true story that took me on an amazing

The Stolen Marriage by Diane Chamberlain (MacMillan) ISBN 978-1509808540 Tess De Mello marries a mysterious stranger, Henry Kraft and moves to his family home in Hickory,

This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada (Penguin) ISBN 978-0-141-37927-2 This is a brilliant debut in the Young Adult Sci-Fi arena. While the premise is not unexpected