The double timeline in The Fortune Teller of Kathmandu gives this historical, yet fictitious, novel a different look into wartime secrets, mysteries and love. When a woman is handed her grandmother’s journal, she is transported into the past, leading her to uncover family secrets her grandmother took to the grave. Andaman Press
An Afrikaans novel by beloved South African writer, Leo by Deon Meyer is sure to keep readers in suspense. Suspicious circumstances surround the death of a student in Stellenbosch, and a former recce silenced by murder, all while the most outlandish dollar heist in the country’s history takes place, Leo is a true South African crime thriller. Human & Rousseau
For fifteen years the Black Widow Society, a secret organisation aimed at liberating women in abusive relationships by ’eliminating’ the accused, operated undetected, impeccably run by The Triumvirate with the help of their suave and mysterious hired gun. When the secret organisation recruited more members, they started to lose control over its activities. Macmillan
From the creator of Netflix’s Stay Close, I Will Find You is a thriller that will have readers guessing until the very end. A father is imprisoned for the murder of his three-year-old son, when five years into his sentence, a family member shows him photo evidence of his still living son. He plans a daring escape in hopes of saving his son, and clear his name. Penguin
This story tells a tale of two female neighbours living in post-apartheid South Africa. Hortensia and Marion are both very successful career-focused women living in a Cape Town suburb.
Both women are in the eighties and are avid enemies of the other and both have recently been widowed. One event occurs forcing the women to stand together. Will these enemies become the best of friends?
The Woman Next Door is described as a witty, sharp and delicate story as it deals with unspoken trauma in a comical sense.
Living a dream-come-true life and married to a Hollywood legend, in this autobiography Jada Pinkett Smith writes about how looks can be so deceiving. Chatto and Windus
Worthy touches on topics that Jada’s fans have been eagerly waiting for – from her intimate moments with Tupac Shakur to being a devoted wife and mother to Will Smith and their children.
Worthy takes us on a journey of how Jada found herself again. HarperCollins Publishers
Isabel and the Fischer boys, Conrad and Jeremy, spent their whole lives growing up together and that’s why Isabel cannot imagine her life without them in We’ll always have summer.
Even though one broke her heart and one is making her the world’s happiest girl, Isabel is at a crossroad and doesn’t know who to choose.
Critics describe this as “a funny and romantic book … and the perfect story to lose yourself in.” Penguin
Young and already caught in a heroin addiction, Nikki Munitz soon finds her in a remote rehab, falling in love with a wealthy addict.
The two marry and the happily-ever-after marriage seems to hit rock bottom. Nikki now has a job at a law firm and encrypted passwords are entrusted to her.
Nikki manages to sober up, however, the law soon catches up with her and she’s found guilty of 37 counts of fraud.
Fraud tells a tale of a woman fighting for her will to live behind prison bars. Melinda Ferguson Books
