Justine Stafford, Content Director of Jeannieous, recommends:
The Map Of Bones by Kate Mosse
In this epic novel, award-winning British author, Kate Mosse, describes in colourful clarity what life was like in the newly established Cape Colony. Yup. An actual novel set in our Mother City, when lion still roamed free on Lions Head and the Castle Of Good Hope sat on the sea shore. The story starts in 1688 when Suzanne Joubert, a Huguenot refugee from war-torn France, arrives in Table Bay determined to find her cousin, Louise – a maverick she-captain and pirate commander. Almost two hundred years later, Isabelle Lepard – a distant Joubert relation – retraces her ancestors’ steps to unearth her family’s map of bones and finally lay old ghosts to rest. This fourth and final instalment of The Joubert Family Chronicles is full of juicy plot twists, memorable characters, and geographical nuggets of information that make it a must read for history lovers. And worry not; you don’t have to read the other three books in the series to know what’s going on or be instantly captivated by the action.
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Gotlhokwang Angoma, Editor of Women’s Health Magazine, recommends:
Seven Days In June By Tia Williams
I re-read this recently and loved it just as much as the first time. This novel follows two successful authors: Eva, a single mom and erotica writer, and Shane, an award-winning but reclusive literary author with whom she shares a complicated past. Set over seven emotionally charged days in Brooklyn, the pair reconnect and confront painful memories, creative ambition and their undeniable chemistry. The story goes back and forth between past and present, and I found it to be a sexy, dark (at times), funny, real and romantic read. A lesson on the magic of take-two’s.
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Lameez Hendricks, Jeannieous Content Writer, recommends:
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
Who needs a little gladness right now? My hand is desperately (I mean, definitely!) up. Fortunately the charming poet, professor and enthusiastic gardener, Ross Gay, set himself an assignment from one birthday to the next, to “spend time thinking and writing about delight every day.” No, this book isn’t code for a gratitude practice, because honestly, who needs another task right now? Instead Gay embraces life’s complexities and sorrows as well as the good and pretty. “Racism is often on my mind. Kindness if often on my mind. Politics. Pop music. Books. Dreams… My garden is often on my mind,” he writes. Though the essays are short, my suggestion is to remain deliberately unhurried when making your way through it; one page each morning will suffice to enter Gay’s moving monitoring of his world. What you’ll be left with is a recognition of our interconnectedness, and an impulse to start noticing all the delights that make up your world.
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Dan Weakley, of DoesMyBookLookSmart, recommends:
From Here To The Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough
You don’t need to be an Elvis Presley super-fan to find this intimate peek behind the curtain of love, fame, addiction, death and healing, utterly compelling. Lisa-Marie, Elvis’s only child, always promised that she would write a memoir, and, as the story goes, she enlisted the help of her daughter just a month before she died. Riley took her mother’s tapes and turned them into what has been hailed as a “raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir” about growing up at Graceland with Elvis Presley, written from the points of view of both daughter and grand-daughter of the King Of Pop. Just fascinating.
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