Book Choice - December 2017

Andrew Marjoribanks, Wordsworth Books has pleasant present ideas in fiction and non-fiction. Even the politically well-connected Peter Soal is gobsmacked by the strong stuff we thought we knew – but didn’t - in The President’s Keepers by Jacques Pauw. Beverley Roos Muller is thunderstruck by The Third Reef by SJ Naude, while Jay Heale suggests that surely one of his book selections would make the ideal Christmas present, and Cindy Moritz was inflamed by Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ing. Philip Todres chats to Anne Emslie as she leads us on a guided tour through the rooms of the Owl House in Nieu Bethseda and along the paths of the sculpture garden in Anne’s exquisite book: A Journey Through the Owl House. A tour, too, from John Hanks as he travels through The Garden Route guide: The Definitive Guide to the Garden Route. Which was wonderfully proclaimed the Garden Route Biosphere Reserve in June this year by UNESCO. And Melvyn Minnaar takes a trip to ancient Greece for his holiday reading in two books: Mythos by Stephen Fry and Colm Toibin’s House of Names. Finally Phillippa Cheifitz stirs her wooden spoon into the culinary wonders of Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson.. Do stay tuned for all the music in this programme is composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber in celebration of Pieter Toerien’s new production of ‘Evita’ right here at Artscape for the festive season, and do stay with us, too, for our easy peasy competition question to win one of two R250 Wordsworth Books vouchers. Andrew Marjoribnks, Santa’s sack full of Wordsworth’s best in fiction and non-fiction.