JHB North - Oct 2021

Let’s raise a glass (of G&T) to a great
read. At book club this month, we’re
having the latest Italian Ginato
gin ... the Melograno. With juniper
berries, grapes and citrus, along
with pomegranates which give it
its gorgeous hue, it makes a lovely
Melograno Fizz - combine 35ml
Ginato Melograno gin, a dash of
orange liqueur in a champagne flute,
top with chilled Prosecco and salute.
Around R360 from takealot.com
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak is a rich, magical tale of belonging
and identity, memory and trauma, nature and renewal. Penguin • A daring and
timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy
who endured it. Pat Barker’s The Women of Troy is an extraordinary follow up
to The Silence of the Girls. Penguin • Between life and death there is a library. And
within, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another
life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other
choices. Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to
undo your regrets? Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library is all regret, hope, and
second chances. Penguin • Billy Summers. Killer for hire. But he wants out.
There’s just one last hit he needs to do. Part war story, part love letter to a
small American town, and features one of the most surprising duos in Stephen
King’s fiction. Hodder and Stoughton • In Liane Moriarty’s Apples Never Fall,
former tennis coaches Joy and Stan are still winning tournaments, their four
adult children are busy living their own lives, all appears good. But now Joy’s
disappeared and the children question ... were things never as rosy as they
seemed in the Delaney household? Penguin
Compiled by KYM ARGO
October 21 Get It Magazine 09