{"id":20369,"date":"2024-05-25T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/pretoria\/?p=20369"},"modified":"2024-05-23T12:35:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T10:35:43","slug":"brilliant-reads-to-enjoy-over-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/pretoria\/blog\/2024\/05\/25\/brilliant-reads-to-enjoy-over-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant reads to enjoy over the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1286078\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1286078\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1286078\" src=\"https:\/\/caxtondigital.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/2024\/05\/Weekend-Reads-SM1-420x352.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1286078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image supplied by Exclusive Books<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In <strong>Love in a Lost Land<\/strong> by James MacManus, a foreign correspondent arrives in Africa to report on a nationalist insurgency \u2026 an innocent newcomer, he struggles to stay neutral in what is a bitter way waged with terror on both sides. Meanwhile, he begins an affair with a young township teacher \u2013 one that is tested when he discovers she is recruiting her students to join the guerrillas and helping to smuggle them across the border. A love story set against terror and atrocities from an author who once was a foreign correspondent in France, Africa and Middle East. <a href=\"https:\/\/wearewhitefox.com\/\"><em>Whitefox Publishing<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1286079\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1286079\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1286079\" src=\"https:\/\/caxtondigital.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/2024\/05\/Weekend-Reads-SM2-420x352.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1286079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image supplied by Exclusive Books<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alistair MacKay\u2019s <strong>The Child<\/strong>. After suffering a mental breakdown and losing his job at a New York advertising agency, a young man returns to Cape Town with his husband. The plan? To adopt a child \u2026 someone to love as the world around them falls apart. But as the adoption gets underway, his marriage and sense of self begin to unravel, and his life becomes increasingly enmeshed with his domestic worker and her young daughter. Lies, violence, and trauma all endanger the new beginning he hoped for.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nb.co.za\/en\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-mce-target=\"_blank\"> <em>Kwela Books<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1286080\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1286080\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1286080\" src=\"https:\/\/caxtondigital.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/2024\/05\/Weekend-Reads-SM3-420x352.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1286080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image supplied by Exclusive Books<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The Dream About Sinking<\/strong> by Aleksandar Baji\u0107. Being young, female and white in South Africa \u2026 if life was a poker game, Nadine has all the aces. She\u2019s a candidate attorney with a loving boyfriend and a brilliant career ahead. 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