Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave: The Sci-fi Thriller of 2013
THE 1TH WAVE took out half a million people.
THE 2ND WAVE put that number to shame.
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Introducing Michéle Rowe's What Hidden Lies
When Detective Persephone (Persy) Jonas is forced to work with retired criminal psychologist Dr Marge Labuschagne to solve the murder of a suspected sex offender, suspicion and distrust threaten to derail the investigation. Persy believes the killer is her childhood sweetheart, now turned vicious gangster; Marge is sure the answer lies in the victim’s shady past. As the women race against time and their own prejudice to hunt the killer, past and present collide, unearthing long buried secrets and lies.
Talk by Chris Bradford, author of the Young Samurai series
Date: Monday, 3 June 2013
Time: 5.00pm for 5.30pm
Venue: Novel Books, Hobart Grove Shopping Centre, Bryanston
RSVP: novelbooks@vodamail.co.za or 0114639320
Author photo by Rune Hallestad.
Talk by Chris Bradford, author of the Young Samurai series and Bodyguard: Hostage
Date: Friday, 7 June 2013
Time: 2.00pm until 3.00pm
Venue: Central Library, Old Drill Hall, Cnr Parade and Darling streets, Cape Town
RSVP: booklounge@gmail.com or 0214622425
Tamaryn Watkins Reviews Thirty Second World
I absolutely adored it. I ploughed through it in one weekend. Emma van der Vliet has a very South African Olivia Goldsmith-ish way of writing, which I thought was simply superb. I didn’t actually realise that it was a South African novel (I didn’t read the back cover before I started) until I came across the word “kak”. Thereafter it was all references to Cape Town and the South African TV advertising industry, so it was undeniably local – but definitely of an international quality.
Q&A with Elif Shafak, Author of Honour
What is your new book about?
Honour is about a family, mother-son relationship and how we, knowingly or unknowingly, hurt the people we love most. This is the story of a half-Turkish, half-Kurdish family in London in the late 1970s.
What or who inspired it?
Life.
What was the biggest challenge, writing it?
Tammy February Reviews From What I Remember
One would think that, based on From What I Remember's cover, that the book is all cotton candy and fluffy goodness.
Well, you'd be right in a sense.
Review: A Delicate Truth
The magnificent new John le Carré novel, A Delicate Truth, is truly a feast of vintage le Carré. Fifty years after a young Foreign Office official, David Cornwell, became John le Carré, he has returned to his old stamping ground – only to dissect it with a quiet fury.
Morning Tea with Gareth Crocker
Date: Friday, 31 May 2013
Time: 10.00am
Venue: The Crabtree & Evelyn Tea Room, Design Quarter, Fourways
Cost: R350 per person (includes a morning tea and a signed copy of Journey from Darkness)
Coffee Morning with Jackie Cameron at Novel Books
Penguin Books and Novel Books take great pleasure in inviting you to a coffee morning with Jackie Cameron, author of Jackie Cameron Cooks at Home.
Date: Friday, 24 May 2013
Time: 10.00am for 10.30am
Venue: Novel Books, Hobart Grove Shopping Centre, Bryanston
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