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THESEBOOKSGood reads
A sassy slice-of-life novel and a crime
thriller are this week’s picks
QUEENIE
BY CANDICE CARTY-
WILLIAMS
(SIMON & SCHUSTER) R389*
Hilarious, mildly erotic and fiercely
feminist – Queenie is just the book
for all the black women out there
trying to navigate their way
through a world that, in most
cases, wasn’t designed for them
and rarely truly celebrates them.KNIFE
BY JO NESBO
(HARVILL SECKER) R335*
Harry Hole has gone through a lot
over the years but in this 12th
instalment in the series, Jo Nesbo
takes things to new levels.
The story kicks off with theNorwegian detective waking up in
his apartment in Oslo with blood
on his hands.
After being booted out by
his wife, he’s boozing again. But
although he’s used to waking up
hungover, this time is different –
he has absolutely no recollection
of what happened to him the night
before.
Then he gets some terrible
news: someone he loves is dead.
Unable to say with any certainty
where he was when the murder
took place, he becomes a suspect.
Harry is convinced Svein Finne,
a recently released serial rapist
whom he put away for 20 years,
is responsible. But is he right?
This novel is full of twists and
turns with a truly unpredictable
end. I have read almost all of the
previous Harry Hole thrillers and
this one is as good as it gets.- ANDRÉ J BRINK
Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old
Jamaican-British woman living in
London, straddling two cultures and
feeling like she doesn’t truly belong
to either. She works at a national
newspaper where she’s constantly
forced to compare herself to her
white middle-class peers.
After a messy break-up from her
long-term white boyfriend, Queenie
seeks comfort in all the wrong
places and through flashbacks we
get to see how truly messed
up her relationship was.
It examines interracial
dating and the compli-
cations that arise.
South Africans will find it
all completely relatable. It tac-
kles issues such as mental health,
relationships, equality in the
workplace, belonging, friendship
and awkward sex – lots of it.
It won’t necessarily make it onto
your list of greatest reads of all
time, but it’s a feel-good read that
will make you laugh, cry and look
inward. – PAM MAGWAZA*AT TAKEALOT.COM. PRICE CORRECT AT TIME OF GOING TO PRINT BUT IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.