{"id":43886,"date":"2026-07-29T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/?p=43886"},"modified":"2026-07-21T15:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:00:45","slug":"book-club-heres-what-the-book-club-girls-are-reading-and-drinking-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/blog\/2026\/07\/29\/book-club-heres-what-the-book-club-girls-are-reading-and-drinking-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Book club &#8211; Here\u2019s what the book club girls are reading (and drinking) this month."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-43886 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/blog\/2026\/07\/29\/book-club-heres-what-the-book-club-girls-are-reading-and-drinking-this-month\/freidamcfadden\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/FreidaMcfadden-256x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/FreidaMcfadden-256x400.jpg 256w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/FreidaMcfadden-269x420.jpg 269w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/FreidaMcfadden.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/blog\/2026\/07\/29\/book-club-heres-what-the-book-club-girls-are-reading-and-drinking-this-month\/thelotterywinner\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"255\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheLotteryWinner-255x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheLotteryWinner-255x400.jpg 255w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheLotteryWinner-268x420.jpg 268w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheLotteryWinner.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Freida McFadden\u2019s fans will be all over <strong>The Divorce<\/strong>. It starts off as the quintessential love story. Boy meets girl. They fall in love, get married, buy a dream house, have a son. Until &#8230; she\u2019s locked out of her home, he hires the best divorce lawyer in town, empties their bank accounts, and takes up with a 20-something. End of story. She goes off and lives in a tiny apartment and gets back into the workplace. Nope &#8230; not in this razor-sharp thriller, when ditched wife &#8211; determined to save her marriage &#8211; decides to investigate the new girlfriend and there\u2019s danger and a wicked twist at every turn. Poisoned Pen Press \u2022 Imagine. You lose your husband in a freak car accident. Two days later, you win the lottery with a ticket he bought. Then you\u2019re approached by a trio of glam women &#8211; also jackpot winners, also with dead husbands &#8211; and things get seriously twisted, mischievous and interesting. Elly Vine\u2019s <strong>The Lottery Winner Widows Club<\/strong> &#8230; dark, wicked and fabulously funny. <em>Wildfire<\/em><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-43886 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/blog\/2026\/07\/29\/book-club-heres-what-the-book-club-girls-are-reading-and-drinking-this-month\/thegirlinthelake\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheGirlInTheLake-259x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheGirlInTheLake-259x400.jpg 259w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheGirlInTheLake-272x420.jpg 272w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheGirlInTheLake.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/blog\/2026\/07\/29\/book-club-heres-what-the-book-club-girls-are-reading-and-drinking-this-month\/theballad\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"291\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheBallad-291x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheBallad-291x400.jpg 291w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheBallad-305x420.jpg 305w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheBallad.jpg 583w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>A psychiatrist and researcher for unexplained extraordinary human experiences is tasked with interviewing a young six-year-old girl who claims to remember a past life, in vivid detail. The girl lives in an area where the psychiatrist lived years before &#8230; one where two dozen years ago, her best friend disappeared without a trace. And in Lauren Oliver\u2019s <strong>The Girl In The Lake<\/strong>, the youngster\u2019s memories tie in directly to the missing girl &#8230; eerie details no one else would ever know. A haunting suspense novel &#8230; chills! <em>Hodder and Stoughton<\/em><br \/>\nBrendan\u2019s best friend, his only friend, is Ronan. He knows things about Brendan that no one else does &#8230; about the loneliness he sometimes feels even when surrounded by hundreds of others at school. But Brendan never told Ronan about the dark feeling that sits at the bottom of his stomach, the feeling that tells him something bad is coming. It never comes when Ronan\u2019s around. Standing at the school gates on the first day of term, the dark feeling begins to form in Brendan\u2019s stomach. And when Ronan doesn\u2019t turn up, Brendan learns that something terrible happened to his best friend over the summer. And he\u2019ll never be the same again. <strong>The Ballad of Ronan McCoy<\/strong> by Colin Morgan is a beautifully written, tender, heart-breaking coming-of-age story about friendship and first love, loss and letting go, and the hopes and fears of a young man standing on the cusp of the rest of his life. <em>HQ<\/em><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-43886 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/blog\/2026\/07\/29\/book-club-heres-what-the-book-club-girls-are-reading-and-drinking-this-month\/theholidayhome\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheHolidayHome-300x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheHolidayHome-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheHolidayHome-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheHolidayHome-696x928.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheHolidayHome.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/blog\/2026\/07\/29\/book-club-heres-what-the-book-club-girls-are-reading-and-drinking-this-month\/theoneday\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"247\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheOneDay-247x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheOneDay-247x400.jpg 247w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheOneDay-260x420.jpg 260w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheOneDay.jpg 584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Daniel Hurst\u2019s <strong>The Holiday Home<\/strong> is a psychological thriller about two families enjoying a weekend break at the luxurious, isolated holiday home belonging to one of the couples. The women are best friends, their husbands less so but tolerant of one another, bar the odd snide comment. It should be blissful. But whispers and secrets and tensions turn the perfect holiday into the perfect nightmare. A mystery full of twists. <em>Bookouture<\/em><br \/>\nA marriage on a beach in Thailand turns into a tragedy when four hours after the \u2018I do\u2019, the husband is snatched away in a violent abduction, never to be seen again. Until a dozen years later, when the wife, now happily remarried and raising twins, sees a photo of her missing husband online. He\u2019s alive. He has a new life. And he obviously never tried to find her. Desperate for answers, she risks her family to uncover the truth of what happened that day in Thailand. But is the truth worth the destruction of her new life and family? <strong>The One Day You Were My Husband<\/strong> by Rosie Walsh is thrilling, twisty, a brilliant read-it-in-one-sitting book. <em>Macmillan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheFinalTarget.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-43892 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheFinalTarget-265x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheFinalTarget-265x400.jpg 265w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheFinalTarget-279x420.jpg 279w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/TheFinalTarget.jpg 596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn Nora Roberts\u2019 latest thriller, a young author becomes the object of a fan&#8217;s obsession, showing up at her debut author appearance with a copy of her novel and an eager smile, showering her with compliments and asking for her autograph. Then he came to her next event. And the one after that. After incessant invitations and finally a harrowing assault, he gets a five-year sentence at a psychiatric facility. And while she learns to thrive, he remains his delusional, twisted self, as fixated as ever &#8230; but he\u2019s now seething with anger. <strong>The Final Target<\/strong> is massively enjoyable, suspenseful from start to finish. <em>Piatkus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/Celestina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43889 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/Celestina-119x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"119\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/Celestina-119x400.jpg 119w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/Celestina-611x2048.jpg 611w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/Celestina-125x420.jpg 125w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/Celestina.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 119px) 100vw, 119px\" \/><\/a>Caroline Rillema has been influential in South Africa\u2019s wine industry for more than four decades, shaping trends and nurturing her passion for wine. Celestina is her passion project, and she\u2019s just released the <strong>2024 Celestina Agulhas White<\/strong>. She says, about this heavenly white blend, \u201cThe sauvignon blanc shines in the blend, whilst the S\u00e9millon adds palate weight. Understated white peach, citrus, and toasted nut develop more vibrancy on the palate, with seamless mouth-filling richness and texture. It has a beguiling peacock\u2019s tail finish.\u201d The name Celestina, meaning little celestial one, was chosen late at night, when the sky was pitch-black with the splendid stars in the Milky Way hanging low like jewels above the earth on which the vines are grown. \u201cWhen you\u2019re here in this beautiful landscape with its vast open sky, you get a celestial feeling\u2026 like the sky is yours,\u201d Caroline explains. She suggests serving the wine with tempura prawns, salt and pepper squid, freshly caught kabeljou, roast chicken, or a zucchini, mushroom, and parmesan pasta. 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