{"id":38262,"date":"2025-05-27T11:35:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T09:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/?p=38262"},"modified":"2025-05-27T11:35:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T09:35:28","slug":"book-club-beat-the-winter-blues-with-a-brilliant-read-and-a-glass-of-bordeaux-style-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/blog\/2025\/05\/27\/book-club-beat-the-winter-blues-with-a-brilliant-read-and-a-glass-of-bordeaux-style-white\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK CLUB: Beat the winter blues with a brilliant read and a glass of Bordeaux-style white."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/strong>How well do you know your son? It\u2019s a question the parents of three teenage high-school football stars don\u2019t want to face after a teen party sees the school outcast in hospital,
\nand the three boys suspended for the rest of the season. With their futures uncertain, the families get together to assess the damage to their boys\u2019 prospects, the reputations,
\ntheir futures … and to their own relationships. Set in Southern California, Our Beautiful Boys<\/strong> by Sameer Pandya centres around Vikram, an Indian American, Diego, of Latin American descent, and the white and wealthy MJ … and is a story of class, race, gender and parenthood. Bloomsbury Publishing<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Being in limbo, 30,000 feet in the air, offers time to reflect and take stock, and for Aaron, it\u2019s an opportunity to connect with his 14-year-old son as they travel halfway across the world. Unsettled by his past, and anxious for his future, Aaron is at a crossroads in life. The damage inflicted upon him during his youth threatens to widen the growing fissures between him and his only child. This trip could bind them closer together, or tear them further apart. Action and consequence, fault and attribution, acceptance and resolution, John Boyne\u2019s<\/em> Air<\/strong> is a redemptive story of a father and a son on a moving journey to mend their troubled lives. Penguin<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Wife. Writer. Murderer? Denise Morrowm, a famous true crime author, who knows how killers operate and how they get away with murder, is found standing over the body of her husband, a bloody knife between them. With all her knowledge, you\u2019d think she\u2019d have done better. But it\u2019s an open and shut case according to Detective Declan Shaw. And then he discovers the subject of the author\u2019s next book – the violent murder of a girl called Maggie Marshall … a case that Declan worked on and one that\u2019s haunted him for years. James Patterson and J.D Barker\u2019s The Imperfect Murder<\/strong> … the perfect wife, the perfect motive. Century<\/em><\/p>\n

The Martini Club – a group of retired spies living in a quiet seaside town – are back in Tess Gerritsen\u2019s The Summer Guests<\/strong>. This time Maggie Bird and her ex-spy pals get involved when a young teenager goes missing, the daughter of a woman who\u2019s just married into one of the town\u2019s most powerful families. It\u2019s down with the Martinis and books, and out with the binocs as they offer (unasked for and unwanted) help out to the local acting police chief. Loads of twists, red-herrings and mystery … a terrific read. As is the bonus Lee Child and Tess Gerritsen short story… Over Easy is a fabulous ten minute read with Maggie Bird meeting Jack Reacher. Penguin<\/em><\/p>\n