{"id":36474,"date":"2024-01-26T09:53:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T07:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/?p=36474"},"modified":"2024-01-19T11:59:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T09:59:51","slug":"book-club-scandal-lovers-the-wedding-of-the-year-and-a-lovely-new-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/blog\/2024\/01\/26\/book-club-scandal-lovers-the-wedding-of-the-year-and-a-lovely-new-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Club: Scandal. Lovers. The wedding of the year. And a lovely new wine."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a teenager in wartime England to a veteran of modern-day London, via 1950&#8217;s New York, the Swinging Sixties, Cold War Berlin, Venice and Vietnam \u2013 Ruby Devereaux has lived one hell of a life. Parties, scandals and conflict zones, meeting men and adventure along the way. In a writing career, spanning seven decades and more than twenty books, she&#8217;s distilled everything into her work. Now beyond her 90th year, Ruby&#8217;s energy is ebbing and her beloved typewriter put away. Until a call from her publisher presents Ruby with an ultimatum, and the impetus to embark on one last book &#8211; warts and all. Even in her dotage, Ruby M Devereux has the power to surprise! One hell of a life. And one hell of a book &#8230; <strong>The Scandalous Life of Ruby Devereaux<\/strong> by M J Robotham Head of Zeus<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36491\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Scandalous-Life-of-Ruby-Devereaux-002-261x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Scandalous-Life-of-Ruby-Devereaux-002-261x400.jpg 261w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Scandalous-Life-of-Ruby-Devereaux-002-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Scandalous-Life-of-Ruby-Devereaux-002-696x1065.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Scandalous-Life-of-Ruby-Devereaux-002-275x420.jpg 275w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Scandalous-Life-of-Ruby-Devereaux-002.jpg 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36489\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Picassos-Lovers-002-267x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Picassos-Lovers-002-267x400.jpg 267w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Picassos-Lovers-002-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Picassos-Lovers-002-696x1043.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Picassos-Lovers-002-280x420.jpg 280w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Picassos-Lovers-002.jpg 721w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Paris, 1923. The city is a Bohemian paradise for beautiful and wealthy foreigners seduced by the promise of a different life. Pablo Picasso is already famous, and anything seems possible in the name of art. Switch, in Jeanne Mackin\u2019s <strong>Picasso\u2019s Lovers<\/strong>, to New York, 1953. For aspiring journalist Alana Olson, there&#8217;s always been something about Picasso. Her fascination leads to a series of intimate interviews with Sara Murphy and Irene Legut, two women from Picasso&#8217;s once-vibrant French social circle. But as Alana is pulled deeper into the glamorous and tragic stories of the past, she begins to uncover what really lies beneath the canvas and a disturbing convergence with her own life that bring her closer to Picasso, and those who loved and loathed him, than she ever could have imagined. Headline<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s set to be a perfect day, until the chauffeur is asked to keep driving the bride around the church. And that\u2019s not the only surprise in Jill Mansell\u2019s <strong>The Wedding of the Year.<\/strong> Headline<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36496\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Wedding-of-the-Year-002-260x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Wedding-of-the-Year-002-260x400.jpg 260w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Wedding-of-the-Year-002-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Wedding-of-the-Year-002-696x1071.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Wedding-of-the-Year-002-273x420.jpg 273w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Wedding-of-the-Year-002.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36493\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Sisterhood-260x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Sisterhood-260x400.jpg 260w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Sisterhood-665x1024.jpg 665w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Sisterhood-696x1072.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Sisterhood-273x420.jpg 273w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Sisterhood.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the lovely Cathy Kelly\u2019s <strong>Sisterhood<\/strong>, two sisters go on a life-changing journey, that takes them through Ireland\u2019s wildest coastline to Sicily\u2019s rocky shores. HarperCollins<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark<\/strong> by Jessa Hastings, a couple reeling from a devastating loss try to plan what\u2019s been dubbed the wedding of the century, Orion<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36486\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Magnolia-Parks-5-Into-the-Dark-BPB-003-265x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Magnolia-Parks-5-Into-the-Dark-BPB-003-265x400.jpg 265w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Magnolia-Parks-5-Into-the-Dark-BPB-003-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Magnolia-Parks-5-Into-the-Dark-BPB-003-696x1051.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Magnolia-Parks-5-Into-the-Dark-BPB-003-278x420.jpg 278w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Magnolia-Parks-5-Into-the-Dark-BPB-003.jpg 715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36488\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Mystery-Guest-267x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Mystery-Guest-267x400.jpg 267w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Mystery-Guest-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Mystery-Guest-696x1044.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Mystery-Guest-280x420.jpg 280w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Mystery-Guest.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Nita Prose\u2019s <strong>The Mystery Guest<\/strong>, a famous writer drops dead in the grand tearoom of a fancy hotel, leaving head maid Molly with an unusual clean-up on her hands. HarperCollins<\/p>\n<p>A fake dating pact for as long as it\u2019s mutually beneficial &#8211; the perfect solution for the air-traffic controller and pilot who don\u2019t want a relationship, but do need a date. <strong>Love at First Flight<\/strong> is Jo Watson\u2019s latest romcom. Headline<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36484\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Love-at-first-flight-002-261x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Love-at-first-flight-002-261x400.jpg 261w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Love-at-first-flight-002-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Love-at-first-flight-002-696x1065.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Love-at-first-flight-002-275x420.jpg 275w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Love-at-first-flight-002.jpg 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36483\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/First-Lie-Wins-265x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/First-Lie-Wins-265x400.jpg 265w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/First-Lie-Wins-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/First-Lie-Wins-696x1051.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/First-Lie-Wins-278x420.jpg 278w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/First-Lie-Wins.jpg 715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Evie Porter has everything a girl could want. A doting boyfriend. A house with a picket fence. A fun group of friends. The only catch &#8230; Evie Porter doesn\u2019t exist.\u00a0 <strong>First Lie Wins<\/strong> by Ashley Elston is a breath-taking thriller. Headline<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36495 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Spice-Route-Saffron-Ros\u00e9-2023-003-137x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"137\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Spice-Route-Saffron-Ros\u00e9-2023-003-137x400.jpg 137w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Spice-Route-Saffron-Ros\u00e9-2023-003-351x1024.jpg 351w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Spice-Route-Saffron-Ros\u00e9-2023-003-144x420.jpg 144w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/01\/Spice-Route-Saffron-Ros\u00e9-2023-003.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 137px) 100vw, 137px\" \/>Spice up your life &#8211; and your next Book Club &#8211; with Spice Route\u2019s Saffron Ros\u00e9 2023, one of the three spicy wines in the estate\u2019s new Spice range.<\/p>\n<p>The pale coloured wine, with delicate aromas of pomegranate and summer berries, sensual floral and honey like notes, and subtle oaking which gives a delectable creaminess to the palate, has flavours of crunchy melon and a tarty freshness with a saline finish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tarragon Old Vine Chenin Blanc 2023 and Chakalaka Rh\u00f4ne-Style Red Blend 2021<\/strong> complete the trio of wines. 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