{"id":47608,"date":"2026-02-23T12:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/?p=47608"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:26:00","slug":"book-club-dropping-kilos-underwater-adventures-and-half-a-dozen-thrillers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/blog\/2026\/02\/23\/book-club-dropping-kilos-underwater-adventures-and-half-a-dozen-thrillers\/","title":{"rendered":"Book club &#8230; Dropping kilos, underwater adventures and half a dozen thrillers &#8230;\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Napier Hattingh says ever since she can remember, she\u2019s been blessed with a spirit of adventure. Born with a form of hip dysplasia, and growing up on a farm in the Western Cape, she was, she says, extremely curious and quite wild. She remembers being taught to swim at four, first in a pool, then the farm dam, and fishing with her dad in a fibreglass dinghy, and later in her uncle\u2019s larger boat on the Cuanza River in Angola. And then her first time snorkelling in the Red Sea. <strong>Against the Tide<\/strong> is her story &#8230; an adventurous one, of the challenges of breaking barriers in the male-dominated world of spearfishing, of thrilling underwater hunts, and of resilience against physical danger and societal biases. Holder of many South African and Australian records, it\u2019s a brilliant read for anyone who\u2019s interested in adventure, diving and the sea. Ulwandle Publishers<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47619\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/front-cover-263x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/front-cover-263x400.jpg 263w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/front-cover-672x1024.jpg 672w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/front-cover-276x420.jpg 276w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/front-cover-696x1060.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/front-cover.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47628\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/s-zoom-261x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/s-zoom-261x400.jpg 261w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/s-zoom-667x1024.jpg 667w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/s-zoom-274x420.jpg 274w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/s-zoom-696x1068.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/s-zoom.jpg 704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>40kgs Lighter<\/strong> isn\u2019t about what you need to stop doing to lose fat. It\u2019s about what you need to start doing. This wonderfully down-to-earth, humorous, no-nonsense book has Mandy Meyer &#8211; who after years of yo-yo dieting, pub crawls, 3am cheesy fries, starting fresh every Monday &#8211; finally lost 40kg. And kept it off. She shares the mindset shifts, powerful lessons, and everyday strategies that helped her stop starting over each new week &#8230; building a healthy lifestyle that finally stuck. Tips, advice, truth bombs &#8230; it\u2019s all about the real science of fat loss, and how to create a way of eating and exercising that works for you. Tracey McDonald Publishers<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-47622 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/RTD-Raspberry-Product-46-e1770977886247-181x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/RTD-Raspberry-Product-46-e1770977886247-181x400.jpg 181w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/RTD-Raspberry-Product-46-e1770977886247-190x420.jpg 190w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/RTD-Raspberry-Product-46-e1770977886247.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-47620 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/RTD-Citrus-Product-04-e1770977937424-168x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/RTD-Citrus-Product-04-e1770977937424-168x400.jpg 168w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/RTD-Citrus-Product-04-e1770977937424-176x420.jpg 176w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/RTD-Citrus-Product-04-e1770977937424.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-47621 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/RTD-Peach-Product-07-e1770977966826-176x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/RTD-Peach-Product-07-e1770977966826-176x400.jpg 176w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/RTD-Peach-Product-07-e1770977966826.jpg 412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re going all healthy this March, so we have ditched the wine and instead are serving this new <strong>Two In A Bush Sparkling Rooibos Fuel<\/strong> at book club. It claims to be a clean, functional hydration partner for active living, is brewed with organic rooibos and lightly brightened with fruit juice concentrate. In three yum flavours &#8211; Raspberry, Citrus, and Peach &#8211; they are low calorie, caffeine-free, have no added sugar, artificial flavours, preservatives, or colourants. Buy online from twoinabush.co.za<\/p>\n<p>Imagine. You have a loving husband and two adored children. But you\u2019re having an affair, with a man you definitely don\u2019t love. And after an afternoon of passion, you turn on the TV and see the hotel you\u2019re in under siege. Drama and reflection in Ellie Levenson\u2019s <strong>Room 706<\/strong>. Headline<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47614\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/8161jEFJ36L._SY466_-260x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/8161jEFJ36L._SY466_-260x400.jpg 260w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/8161jEFJ36L._SY466_-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/8161jEFJ36L._SY466_-273x420.jpg 273w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/8161jEFJ36L._SY466_-696x1071.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/8161jEFJ36L._SY466_.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47616\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/9781035421428-261x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/9781035421428-261x400.jpg 261w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/9781035421428-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/9781035421428-275x420.jpg 275w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/9781035421428-696x1065.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/9781035421428.jpg 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>December 1995. Two young girls are found abandoned on a train station platform. Thirty years later, an investigative journalist is determined to find out what happened to <strong>The Nowhere Girls<\/strong>. Carmel Harrington\u2019s emotional thriller is twisty and unsettling. Headline<\/p>\n<p>Love a Kathy Reichs. In <strong>Evil Bones<\/strong>, Temperance Brennan investigates a disturbing escalating pattern of killing &#8230; first a rat, a rabbit, a squirrel, mutilated and displayed in a bizarre manner. Then a dog, finally a woman. Same mutilation, same macabre display of the body. Brilliant. Simon and Schuster<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47624\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/s-l960-260x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/s-l960-260x400.jpg 260w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/s-l960-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/s-l960-273x420.jpg 273w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/s-l960-696x1071.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/s-l960.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47618\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/9781529953800-The-Invisible-Woman-260x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/9781529953800-The-Invisible-Woman-260x400.jpg 260w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/9781529953800-The-Invisible-Woman-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/9781529953800-The-Invisible-Woman-273x420.jpg 273w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/9781529953800-The-Invisible-Woman-696x1071.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/9781529953800-The-Invisible-Woman.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elinor Gilbert &#8211; ex FBI &#8211; is an <strong>Invisible Woman<\/strong>. A certain age, not ugly, not beautiful &#8230; personally and professionally forgettable. Just what her former FBI boss needs. She\u2019s disguised as a nanny and placed in the home of an art dealer suspected of ties to organised crime. But not all is as it appears. Humour slightly forced, but a pleasant read by James Patterson and Susan DiLallo. Century<\/p>\n<p>A text from an unknown number. A husband and father who hasn\u2019t been seen in five years. An escape from Los Angeles and a flight to Paris, and hopefully safety. And maybe a second chance. But enemies there are plotting revenge. Laura Dave\u2019s <strong>The First Time I Saw Him<\/strong> is a moving novel about the power of forgiveness, and brilliant sequel to The Last Thing He Told Me. Penguin<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47617\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/9781529912074-The-First-Time-I-Saw-Him_1-260x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/9781529912074-The-First-Time-I-Saw-Him_1-260x400.jpg 260w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/9781529912074-The-First-Time-I-Saw-Him_1-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/9781529912074-The-First-Time-I-Saw-Him_1-273x420.jpg 273w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/9781529912074-The-First-Time-I-Saw-Him_1-696x1071.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/9781529912074-The-First-Time-I-Saw-Him_1.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47615\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/245418929-262x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/245418929-262x400.jpg 262w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/245418929-671x1024.jpg 671w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/245418929-275x420.jpg 275w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/245418929-696x1062.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/02\/245418929.jpg 708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest reality TV show &#8230; <strong>Tag, You\u2019re It<\/strong>. A sprawling, isolated mansion in the countryside. Twenty contestants. The rules seem simple &#8230; each day one contestant is \u2018it\u2019 &#8230; and must complete a secret task to tag someone else. Whoever ends the day as \u2018it\u2019, is out, and loses the chance to win millions. The tagline &#8230; Don\u2019t trust anybody. It\u2019s just a game. Until one of the players is found dead. Kerry Wilkinson\u2019s thriller is suspenseful, with loads of unexpected twists.<\/p>\n<p>All available at Exclusive Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Napier Hattingh says ever since she can remember, she\u2019s been blessed with a spirit of adventure. Born with a form of hip dysplasia, and growing up on a farm in the Western Cape, she was, she says, extremely curious and quite wild. 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