Book Choice - March 2017
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"This sunny summer hour: Andrew Marjoribanks, Wordsworth Books, comes up with the very best in fiction and non-fiction on that bookshop’s shelves. We chat to world renowned wino Hugh Johnson about his engaging and elegant new book: On Wine - Good Bits from 55 Years of Scribbling, and he verbally shares a bottle of Chateau Lafitte 1985 with us! A Thousand Tales of Johannesburg by Harry Kalmer reminds Melvyn Minnaar of the juicy sweep of Armistead Maupin’s chirpy books. Cindy Moritz found Maria Semple’s Today will be Different seriously funny yet surprisingly serious. Philip Todres chats artfully to Brenda Schmamhann about her book The Keiskamma Art Project – Restoring Hope and Livelihoods. March is the month that commemorates the opening 117 years ago of the Yeomanry Hospital at Deelfontien, and Mynra Robins finds fine future Africana in Yeomen of the Karoo: The Story of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Deelfontein by Rose Willis, Arnold van Wyk and JC ‘Kay” de Villiers. Mike Fitzjames cruelly sends us stir-crazy with three thrillers, one – Red Notice by Bill Browder – is non-fiction and non-put-downable. Finally, Melvyn Minnaar finds pastoral elegance and delicate writing in Midwinter by Fiona Melrose."
