{"id":21267,"date":"2024-08-14T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/pretoria\/?p=21267"},"modified":"2024-08-12T16:44:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T14:44:15","slug":"a-handful-of-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/pretoria\/blog\/2024\/08\/14\/a-handful-of-reads\/","title":{"rendered":"A handful of reads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18422\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Book-Club-2-SM1-1-400x335.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 1951, unhappiness is hardly grounds for divorce. Except at the divorce ranches of Reno, Nevada. Here women live together for six weeks &#8211; the state\u2019s only divorce requirement &#8211; before they earn their freedom. Six weeks of living it up at the casino and flirting with cowboys. The Divorc\u00e9es by Rowan Beaird &#8230; all female friendship, desire, and freedom. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonnierbooks.co.uk\/imprints\/manilla-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manilla Press<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18424\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Book-Club-2-SM2-1-400x335.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"335\" \/>The Blue Sisters. A strait-laced lawyer. A boxer-turned-bouncer. A Paris model. And then the fourth sister &#8230; who\u2019s unexpected death leaves the three reeling. Grief, addiction, heartbreak all need to be addressed when they reunite in New York to stop the sale of their family home. Coco Mellors\u2019 novel is a beautifully written story of true sisterhood &#8211; the misunderstandings, the squabbles, the resentment and the love. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HarperCollins UK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18425\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Book-Club-2-SM3-1-400x335.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Manor. It\u2019s meant to be a retreat for the very wealthy &#8230; the kind of place where guests are given crystals to wear in a velvet pouch, and who attend solstice suppers in the forest. Where the owner rubs clary sage onto her pulse points and halos herself with sacred mist. That would be just before she has five shots of vodka (it\u2019s a clean spirit!) to wash down the pills kept inside her old Ayurvedic tea tin. It\u2019s also a place that is, on opening night, on fire. Secrets from more decade before have come back to haunt &#8230; and it\u2019s going to end in murder. Lucy Foley\u2019s The Midnight Feast is just fabulous! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HarperCollins<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18426\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Book-Club-2-SM4-1-400x335.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A book tour along the Amalfi Coast, rabid fans, literary rivals, ex-flames, a crazed stalker &#8230; suspicions are flying faster than paperbacks off a bestseller shelf &#8230; and someone is trying to get away with murder. Every Time I Go On Vacation Someone Dies is Catherine Mack\u2019s fabulously darkly funny read. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panmacmillan.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Macmillan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18427\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Book-Club-2-SM5-1-400x335.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Kwan\u2019s Lies and Weddings is the marvellously wicked story of Rufus, a future earl and former supermodel, who\u2019s drowning in debt and who\u2019s only hope, according to his mum, is to attend his sister\u2019s wedding and seduce a woman with money. But the exposure of a secret tryst sees the family plans &#8211; and their reputation &#8211; go up in flames, leaving Rufus in a bit of a quandary. Glitz, glamour, money, sex and murder. 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