BLOEM - JULY 2024
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Book club<br />
Kill lists and romance gone wrong and vampire colonies and one fabulous<br />
romp in the English upper-crust countryside ... new releases for your July book club.<br />
The Finish Line<br />
by local author<br />
Gail Schimmel<br />
Friends from<br />
schooldays, through<br />
being the fastest girls<br />
in the athletics team<br />
and then marriage and<br />
parenthood ... until<br />
one becomes a threat<br />
to the other’s family.<br />
Resentment, darkness<br />
and envy take centre<br />
stage in this domestic<br />
drama, set in the rich<br />
suburbs of Joburg.<br />
Macmillan<br />
Wives Like Us by Plum Sykes<br />
Blend a grand English country house, one<br />
heartbroken American divorcée, three rich<br />
wives, two tycoons and a bereaved butler. Add a<br />
pig farmer moonlighting as a personal assistant,<br />
a male model moonlighting as a stablehand,<br />
a missing suite of diamonds and a collection<br />
of vintage Gucci loafers and you’ve got a<br />
marvellous and hilarious read. Bloomsbury<br />
The Honeymoon Affair by Sheila O’Flanagan<br />
A Caribbean honeymoon-that-isn’t (her fiancé<br />
broke her heart). A successful and hunky<br />
writer holidaying alone. Sparks fly. Add in an<br />
ex-girlfriend who thinks she may want to pick up<br />
off where she left off and you’ve a roller coaster<br />
of a love triangle. Warm, witty, so enjoyable.<br />
Deep ruby with exuberant mulberry, plum, pepper and modest oak spice, Franschhoek Cellar Baker<br />
Station Shiraz 2021 is a full bodied, generous wine .. a great match to spicy sausages, smoked meats,<br />
roast venison, duck confit, and mature cheddar or blue veined cheese. Around R110.<br />
4 Get It Bloemfontein July <strong>2024</strong> getitmagazine.co.za/bloemfontein
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