{"id":44570,"date":"2025-06-27T14:09:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T12:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/?p=44570"},"modified":"2025-06-23T14:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T12:20:49","slug":"book-club-magic-fantasy-love-and-why-you-should-never-win-an-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/blog\/2025\/06\/27\/book-club-magic-fantasy-love-and-why-you-should-never-win-an-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"Book club: Magic. Fantasy. Love. And why you should never win an argument!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quiet bookseller. An old book, filled with strange writing and mysterious drawings. And a handwritten message at the front &#8230; This is the Book of Doors. Hold it in your hand, and any door is every door. So a special, magic book. But where there is magic there is power and there are those who will stop at nothing to possess it. Gareth Brown\u2019s <strong>The Book of Doors<\/strong> &#8230; spell-bounding. Penguin<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44586\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/9781804992395-Book-of-doors-257x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/9781804992395-Book-of-doors-257x400.jpg 257w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/9781804992395-Book-of-doors-657x1024.jpg 657w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/9781804992395-Book-of-doors-270x420.jpg 270w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/9781804992395-Book-of-doors.jpg 693w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44590\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/The-maids-secret-258x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/The-maids-secret-258x400.jpg 258w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/The-maids-secret-660x1024.jpg 660w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/The-maids-secret-271x420.jpg 271w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/The-maids-secret.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A luxury hotel. A precious antique. A theft. And a head maid who dusts for clues, determined to crack the case. Drama and intrigue in Nita Prose\u2019s <strong>The Maid\u2019s Secret<\/strong>. Harper Collins Publishers<\/p>\n<p>An emperor must bring his reign to an end. Eight contenders &#8211; exceptional warriors, thinkers, strategists &#8211; will compete to replace him. Magic, murder and dark forces in <strong>The Raven Scholar<\/strong> by Antonia Hodgson &#8211; an epic fantasy novel. Hodderscape<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44582\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/212174157-260x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/212174157-260x400.jpg 260w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/212174157-665x1024.jpg 665w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/212174157-273x420.jpg 273w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/212174157-696x1072.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/212174157.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44587\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/Dont-Believe-A-Word-PB-260x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/Dont-Believe-A-Word-PB-260x400.jpg 260w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/Dont-Believe-A-Word-PB-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/Dont-Believe-A-Word-PB-273x420.jpg 273w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/Dont-Believe-A-Word-PB-696x1071.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/Dont-Believe-A-Word-PB.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t Believe A Word<\/strong> by Susan Lewis centres around a podcast host who is fascinated by a young woman\u2019s mysterious childhood. Raised by her aunts. Never knew her parents. And stolen. Perfect for a true-crime investigation podcast. Except the aunt claims it\u2019s all a fantasy. Lies, family secrets, danger. All you want in a riveting book club read. Harper Collins Publishers \u2022 Madly excited about Atmosphere. Love a Taylor Jenkins Reid novel &#8230; she\u2019s brilliant at transporting readers to iconic times and places, creating complex protagonists, and telling passionate love stories &#8230; this time it\u2019s love among the stars. Penguin<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44588 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/IMG_1568-e1750681112526-359x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/IMG_1568-e1750681112526-359x400.jpg 359w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/IMG_1568-e1750681112526-377x420.jpg 377w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/IMG_1568-e1750681112526-696x776.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/IMG_1568-e1750681112526.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cavalli Estate\u2019s Shiraz 2023<\/strong> is a bold new vintage &#8211; with spicy layers of black pepper, cinnamon, and cloves, harmoniously balanced by dark cherry and fine dark chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>Aged in a combination of stainless steel and seasoned oak, it has a refined, medium-bodied profile &#8230; all elegance, purity, and drinkability. Love the new sleek, moody packaging too.<\/p>\n<p>R160 a bottle from cavalliestate.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A reclusive billionaire with no interest in relationships outside his small circle. With one exception. The woman who is engaged to his oldest friend.\u00a0 A beautiful, successful, glamorous supermodel. Engaged, but it\u2019s no love story. Instead it\u2019s a business arrangement that suits both parties. Until it doesn\u2019t. Ana Huang\u2019s <strong>King of Envy<\/strong> &#8211; book five in the Kings of Sin series, comes with a playlist, and a warning &#8211; explicit sexual content and harassment, and graphic violence &#8211; so is not for sensitive readers. Piatkus<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44581\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/210825471-267x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/210825471-267x400.jpg 267w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/210825471-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/210825471-280x420.jpg 280w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/210825471-696x1044.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/210825471.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44585\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/9781804949504-Table-for-two-260x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/9781804949504-Table-for-two-260x400.jpg 260w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/9781804949504-Table-for-two-665x1024.jpg 665w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/9781804949504-Table-for-two-273x420.jpg 273w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/9781804949504-Table-for-two-696x1072.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/9781804949504-Table-for-two.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Table for Two<\/strong> is a collection of six short stories &#8211; all set in New York, and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The short stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, mostly involve \u2018a pair of family members or strangers facing each other across a table to confront some new reality in their lives,\u2019 explains author Amor Towle, adding that he feels they may have sprung from a conviction in his subconscious that our lives can often change materially due to a single conversation at a table for two. Penguin<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44583 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/9780241719886-The-Next-conversation-261x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/9780241719886-The-Next-conversation-261x400.jpg 261w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/9780241719886-The-Next-conversation-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/9780241719886-The-Next-conversation-275x420.jpg 275w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/9780241719886-The-Next-conversation-696x1065.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/9780241719886-The-Next-conversation.jpg 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/>You may follow Jefferson Fisher on Instagram, where you\u2019ll find him sharing hints on communications from the front seat of his truck. This\u00a0 trial lawyer and speaker\u2019s down-to-earth strategies will help you, whether it\u2019s handling a heated conversation, dealing with a difficult personality, or standing your ground with confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Without ever having to win an argument! Written simply, with anecdotes and lessons learned, he says, from his daily grind in the real-world trenches of arguments, disagreements, heated debates and difficult conversations. His IG posts are brilliant, so is his podcast, and so is <strong>The Next Conversation<\/strong>. Penguin Life<\/p>\n<p>For these and more brilliant book club reads, visit exclusivebooks.co.za<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quiet bookseller. An old book, filled with strange writing and mysterious drawings. And a handwritten message at the front &#8230; This is the Book of Doors. Hold it in your hand, and any door is every door. So a special, magic book. 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