The Less Dead | Denise Mina
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by Sonja van der Westhuizen
3y ago
It has only been a few months since Denise Mina fans were treated with Conviction, a stand-alone novel set in the world of celebrity and real-crime podcast. In The Less Dead Mina returns to her… More ..read more
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Dirt | Bill Buford
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by Sonja van der Westhuizen
3y ago
Writer and editor, Bill Buford’s latest adventures in cooking and travel will appeal to anyone who loves these two passions and relishes reading about the inner workings of restaurant kitchens. Buford is no stranger to… More ..read more
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Sleepless | Anders Bortne
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by Sonja van der Westhuizen
3y ago
It’s been sixteen years since Anders Bortne had a decent night’s sleep. He’s tried sleeping pills, sacrificed caffeine, took up yoga and attempted a multitude of alternative therapies – without any success. Sleepless is his account of the search for an elusive night’s sleep. Currently half a million Norwegians are taking sleeping pills and the ..read more
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead | Olga Tokarczuk
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by Sonja van der Westhuizen
3y ago
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity. He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.”– From “The Marriage of Heaven ..read more
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The Gilded Cage | Camilla Läckberg
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by Sonja van der Westhuizen
3y ago
Camilla Läckberg is known for her best-selling crime novels in her home country, Sweden, as well as in the sixty countries and forty languages they have been translated to. With her latest stand-alone, she steers away from her previous, more noir inclined novels. Scandi-noir darkness and grit make way for flashiness and glamour. There’s murder ..read more
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The Fox | Sólveig Pálsdóttir
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by Sonja van der Westhuizen
3y ago
The Fox has the perfect mix of the elements readers have grown to love, expect and even demand from Nordic noir novels. In this crime-in-translation debut by Sólveig Pálsdóttir the landscape and characters are grey, gloomy and unpredictable. The plot is dark and twisted. And the subject matter current and relevant as an immigrant to ..read more
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Breasts and Eggs | Mieko Kawakami
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by Sonja van der Westhuizen
3y ago
Breasts and Eggs is a novel which triggers your curiosity to such an extent that you will find yourself down the rabbit-hole of Mieko Kawakami’s world, reading interviews, watching podcasts and engrossing yourself in her interviews with Haruki Murakami where she questions him on his sexualised depiction of the women in his novels. I read ..read more
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The Strawberry Thief | Joanne Harris
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by Sonja van der Westhuizen
3y ago
It has been more than five years since we’ve had the pleasure of spending time with chocolatier Vianne Rocher. Much like Vianne’s special recipe for hot chocolate, with The Strawberry Thief Harris again perfects the blend of enchantment, suspense and passion for the fourth chapter in Vianne, Rosette and Anouk’s lives. If you loved Harris ..read more
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The Mercies | Kiran Millwood Hargrave
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by Sonja van der Westhuizen
3y ago
On Christmas Eve, 1617, a storm materialises off the coast of the small island of Vardø in Norway drowning most of the island’s men while out fishing. Eye-witnesses said the storm appeared out of nowhere, almost as if conjured by someone. Two women – Mari Jøgensdatter and Kirsti Sørensdatter were accused, interrogated and tortured for ..read more
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The library of legends | Janie Chang
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by Sonja van der Westhuizen
3y ago
This is the poignant and inspirational story of a group of university students who travelled across China protecting and preserving the Library of Legends, a collection of Chinese myths and folklore. In 1937 Japan bombs the Chinese city Nanking (Nanjing), also home to Minghua University. Although this isn’t mentioned in the novel, the Nanking Massacre would take ..read more
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