Writers Write Book Review

by Natasha Solomons (Sceptre) ISBN 978-0-340-99568-6 Elsa Landau flees from Vienna to become a parlour maid at Tyneford, a great house in England. She comes

by Sean Slater (Simon & Schuster) ISBN: 978 0 85720 038 9 With the recent Oslo massacre still a fresh scar in our minds, this

by Rebecca Dean (Harper) ISBN 978-0-00-731572-7 As an avid reader of historical fiction, I prefer novels that tell a true story about real people. The

by Johanna Adorján (author), Anthea Bell (translator) (WW Norton & Company) ISBN 978-0-393-0-80018 The book opens ominously: “On 13 October 1991 my grandparents killed themselves.”

by Nora Roberts (Piatkus) ISBN: 978-0-7499-2926-8 Nora Robert fans will love this bulky whodunit story of Lil Chance. A young Lil falls in love with

edited by Peter Anders and M. Krouse (Jacana) ISBN: 9781770098893 This book is a collection of essays about contemporary artists in South Africa, first published

by Stephen and Lucy Hawking (Doubleday) ISBN: 9780385615532 Look, it’s a science book for kids with a story. So no big expectations. Oh, it’s written

Nelson Mandela By Himself edited by Sello Hatang and Sahm Venter (Macmillan) ISBN: 978-1-770101418

by Henrietta Rose-Innes (Umuzi) ISBN 978-1-4152-0136-7 The central character, Katya Grubb, controls the overpopulation of insects in urban areas in Cape Town by removing them

by Peter James (Pan) ISBN 978-0-330-43419a-5 Michael’s friends giggled as they screwed down the lid of his coffin and threw dirt over the grave. This