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Book Choice

Fine Music Radio

Book Choice is broadcast every alternating Tuesday of each month presented by Paige Nick. While you’re munching your lunch or driving the myriad motorways, you’ll hear all that’s best in books. Cape Town’s top book reviewers will entertain and inform you as they cheerfully chat about the newest and nicest fiction and non-fiction on current book shelves. You love author interviews? Well, we line up those for your pleasure and leisure too. You want an easy-peasy competition each month with good

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Book Choice - August 2017

Book Choice ·

2017/08/07

This happy hour Andrew Marjoribanks, Wordsworth Books, gives us awesome fiction and non-fiction reads for the still chilly days of August. Beverley Roos Muller re-reads with glee Gerald Durrell’s The Corfu Trilogy, which includes the delightful My Family and Other Animals. More animals, though not so happily in John Hanks’ richly rewarding review of Philip Limbery’s Dead Zone – Where the Wild Things Were. Vanessa Levenstein is happily engrossed in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arandhati Roy’s

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Book Choice - July 2017

Book Choice ·

2017/07/03

Andrew Marjoribanks, Wordsworth Books, brings you a bagful of the best, while Peter Soal gets your political pulse racing with The Republic of Gupta – a story of State Capture by Pieter-Louis Myburgh, and No longer whispering to power – the story of Thuli Madonsela by Thandeka Gqubule. We chat to million-dollar romantic writer Lesley Pearce about, well, her and her nuanced romantic novel: Dead to Me. Cindy Moritz finds Elizaeth Strout’s Anything is Possible a masterful book by a master chronicler

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Book Choice - June 2017

Book Choice ·

2017/06/05

Andrew Marjoribanks of Wordsworth Books gives us the very best in fiction and non-fiction. Philip Todres talks to Paul Weinberg about Traces and Tracks, a beautiful book tracing Paul’s thirty year journey with the San. Beverley Roos Muller found Irish author John Boyne’s book: The Heart’s Invisible Furies profoundly moving, disturbing and compellingly readable. Jay Heale thinks his way into two new picture books – one by Jude Daly and one by Niki Daly. Phillippa Cheifitz tucks happily into A bite of

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Book Choice - April 2017

Book Choice ·

2017/04/03

It’s the first Monday of the month, so it’s BOOK CHOICE on Fine Music Radio 101.3, various other frequencies and on our web: www.fmr.co.za. I’m Gorry Bowes Taylor. This happy hour: Andrew Marjoribanks, Wordsworth Books gives us choice reading in fiction and non-fiction for these early autumn days. Philip Todres chats to internationally acclaimed photographer Roger Ballen about his new, intriguingly named monograph: The Theatre of Apparitions, a copy of which publisher Thames & Hudson is giving away

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Book Choice - March 2017

Book Choice ·

2017/03/06

"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

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40:58

Book Choice - February 2017

Book Choice ·

2017/02/07

"This happy hour: Andrew Marjoribanks, Wordsworth Books, gives us a bagful of the best in fiction and non-fiction. Beverley Roos Muller and Mike Fitzjames have Ireland in mind, Beverley with Emma Donaghue’s novel The Wonder, and Mike with John Banville’s Time Piece – A Dublin Memoir and Pete McCarthy’s hilarious McCarthy’s Bar. As always, Mike Fitzjames sets our nerves ajangle with thrillers, two this month by Karen Rose and Ian Rankin. Melvyn Minnaar reviews Historian Hermann Giliomee – An

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47:34

Book Choice - January 2017

Book Choice ·

2017/01/16

"This finest hour: Andrew Marjoribanks, Wordsworth Books, brings us his usual inspiring collection of the best of the new books, and you’ll listen with amazement and amusement to Jonathan Shapiro aka Zapiro chatting to Philip Todres. Terribly there were the fires, perhaps be reassured by Myrna Robins leafing through "FIRE TO FLOWER: A Chronology after a Wildfire in Fynbos", by Ruth Garland and Greg Nicolson. Cindy Moritz was delighted with "Here I am", Jonathan Saffran Foer’s first novel in 11

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Book Choice - December 2016

Book Choice ·

2016/12/05

"It’s the first Monday of the last month of the year, and it’s a warm welcome to Book Choice on Fine Music Radio 101.3. This happy hour: good book choices for Christmas giving – and getting! Andrew Marjoribanks, Wordsworth Books gives us that chain’s best in festive fiction and non-fiction, Beverley Roos Muller relishes John le Carre’s autobiography 'The Pigeon Tunnel' and wonders how much of it may be fiction! Jay Heale happily suggests sort of classical Christmas reading for children, while Cindy

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Book Choice - November 2016

Book Choice ·

2016/11/07

"I’m Andrew Marjoribanks. This sunny hour: I’ll give you Wordsworth Books brightest and best in fiction and non-fiction. Philip Todres talks to Marianne Thamm about her memoir of sorts – 'Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and Me', while Beverley Roos Muller muses on the niceties of the Nobel Prize for Literature with Bob Dylan as this year’s winner. Melvyn Minnaar finds fine literature in Colson Whitehead’s 'The Underground Railroad.' "Who is the Dad?", Vanessa Levenstein wonders as she reads Bridget Jones

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Book Choice - October 2016

Book Choice ·

2016/10/03

"This warm-hearted hour: Andrew Marjoribanks, Wordsworth Books chooses the best of October’s fiction and non-fiction for you. We chat to five-star, multi-award winning writer and film-maker Sylvia Vollenhoven about her revealing and richly rewarding memoir 'The Keeper of the Kumm – Ancestral Longing and Belonging of a Boesmankind'. Phillippa Cheifitz with great gusto tucks into Jamie Oliver’s 'Super Food Family Classics', while rather more quietly Philip Todres discusses the quirky 'Hidden

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Book Choice - September 2016

Book Choice ·

2016/09/05

"This happy hour: Andrew Marjoribanks has a bagful of good books to welcome the warmth of Spring, Beverley Roos Muller turns her landlubbers eye to the world’s greatest ocean in 'Pacific by Simon Winchester. Vanessa Levenstein with her daughter Safra Bella Musikanth, and others play deliciously with 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child', a two-part West End stage play written by Jack Thorne based on an original new story by Thorne, JK Rowling and John Tiffany. Wednesday sees the start of the Open Book

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Book Choice - August 2016

Book Choice ·

2016/08/01

"Thank you for joining us, it’s good to be with you. This joyful hour: Andrew Marjoribanks, Wordsworth Books, gives us a grand bag of good books, Peter Soal declares his support for the DA and Mmusi Maimane as he reviews 'Mmusi Maimane – Prophet or Puppet by S’Thembiso Msomi', and Beverley Roos Muller was riveted by Raoul Wallenberg’s incredible rescue expedition which saved the lives of tens of thousands of Jews in Hungary during the last months of World War Two in 'Raoul Wallenberg: The Biography

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Book Choice - July 2016

Book Choice ·

2016/07/04

"To cheer you this chilly hour Andrew Marjoribanks, Wordsworth Books, brings a bagful of good reads. With Downing Street much in the news right now, we chat to the brilliant social historian and biographer Anne de Courcy about her latest: 'Margot at War - Love and Betrayal in Downing Street 1912 – 1916'. Equally topical with Oscar Pistorius’s sentencing in two days’ time, Vanessa Levenstein looks at the unanswered questions in 'Oscar vs the Truth by Thomas Mollett and Calvin Mollett'. Sheila

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Book Choice - June 2016

Book Choice ·

2016/06/06

"This cheerful hour: Andrew Marjoribanks, Wordsworth Books, has a bagful of good books to cheer us through the chill. We talk to John Hanks, conservation expert and head of WWF in Africa about his passionate and deeply persuasive book 'Operation Lock and the war on rhino poaching'. Vanessa Levenstein reviews two books, very different in style and genre, both exploring the quest for love and belonging: 'The Course of Love – A novel', written by philosopher, writer and television presenter Alain De

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Book Choice - May 2016

Book Choice ·

2016/05/09

"This happy hour: Andrew Marjoribanks, Wordsworth Books, has a bumper bag of books, Beverley Roos Muller finds Yann Martel’s 'The High Mountains of Portugal' a marvellous but challenging read, and Philip Todres was disappointed in many ways by the telling of an important story in 'Letters of Stone' by Steven Robins. Cindy Moritz goes 'Inside the O'Briens', the new novel by 'Still Alice' author Lisa Genova, which promises to do for Huntington's disease, what 'Still Alice' did for Alzheimers. Peter

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Book Choice - April 2016

Book Choice ·

2016/04/03

"This happy hour: Andrew Marjoribanks, Wordsworth Books has a high pile of uber super reads for you. Et voila we chat to Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen, the farmer’s lad from Limpopo, the first South African chef to receive a Michelin star for his eponymous restaurant in Nice! Felicitation, Jan! Pair Jan’s famed food with wine as the splendid John Platter tastes and tells of Caro Feely’s new book 'Wine'. Beverley Roos Muller was much moved by 'The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown', the USA rowing

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Book Choice - March 2016

Book Choice ·

2016/03/07

This happy hour: Andrew Marjoribanks, Wordsworth Books, finds fine reads for fine minds, while we raise our glasses to two connoisseusr du vin – the great and glorious John Platter on his new book 'My Kind of Wine', and Caro Feely who tells of the Feely family’s ultimately successful venture into a French vineyard in 'Grape Expectations' and 'Saving Our Skins'. Peter Soal finds provocation and stimulation in Ferrial Haffajee’s 'What if There Were no Whites in South Africa?' while Philip Todres finds

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Book Choice - February 2016

Book Choice ·

2016/02/01

"This happy hour Andrew Marjoribanks, Wordsworth Books picks perfect summer reading, fiction and non-fiction. Lynda Gilfillan, down-the-line from down under reviews 'Flame in the Snow – The Love Letters of Andre Brink & Ingrid Jonker', of which she, Lynda, was the copy-editor for the English translation. Cindy Moritz gives us good reason to read Anne Tyler’s gentle unwinding of 'A Spool of Blue Thread' with its deceptively small details of ordinary family life. Peter Soal wonders, with Ferial

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