BOOK CLUB: Curl up with one of these new, must-read books this winter

TOP PICK! EMBRACE YOUR ELEGANT POWER 

Nicky Rowbotham’s Embrace Your Elegant Power teaches the reader to carve a path to success through ease and to redefine success on one’s own terms by owning what makes us unique. The book calls us to shift perspective to a more thoughtful simplicity and allow for a more aligned, authentic energy to be revealed. It’s packed with personal and transformative stories and insights to inspire and motivate.

Cover price: R220 | Published by Tracey McDonald Publishers

EMBRACE YOUR ELEGANT POWER 

ABUNDANCE 

Written by The New York Times bestselling author and master of modern meditation, Deepak Chopra, Abundance is an enlightening guide to success and fulfilment. The book talks about the importance of resetting our focus and striving for new possibilities in a time of fear and insecurity. Chopra is one of the world’s pioneers in integrative medicine and personal transformation and is the founder of The Chopra Foundation and co-founder of Chopra Global.

Cover price: R350 | Published by Penguin Random House

ABUNDANCE 

THE MILK TART MURDERS 

The Milk Tart Murders by Sally Andrew is the next instalment from the Tannie Maria Mystery series. In this novel, Tannie Maria and her policeman boyfriend Henk find themselves at the scene of a murder at a movie screening in Ladismith. Then, a second body is discovered, and there’s a clue — a letter addressed to Tannie Maria asking for advice, as well as a milk tart recipe. Maria and feisty young journalist Jess begin their own murder investigation with their own set of unique skills.

Cover price: R290 | Published by Penguin Random House

THE MILK TART MURDERS 

RUN, ROSE, RUN

Run, Rose, Run, a collaboration between Dolly Parton and James Patterson, is a thriller that tells the tale of a young singer-songwriter on the rise. AnnieLee Keyes is a promising songwriter who moves to Nashville to get her chance to sing about the hard life she has left behind. But AnnieLee is also on the run — expect plenty of danger and desire in this story by America’s most beloved superstar and one of its greatest storytellers.

Cover price: R320 | Published by Penguin Random House

RUN, ROSE, RUN

WHEN WE WERE BIRDS 

Written by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds is a love — and ghost — story set in modern-day Trinidad. It tells the tale of Darwin, a gravedigger who has recently arrived in the city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, and Yejide, a woman with the power to talk to the departed. Darwin and Yejide’s destinies are intertwined, and they find each other at the ancient cemetery at the heart of the city, where trouble is brewing.

Cover price: R290 | Published by Penguin Random House

THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams tells how in 1901, the word ‘bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary — and the story of the girl who stole it. Esme, a curious young girl, spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Beneath the sorting table, Esme sees a slip containing the word ‘bondmaid’ flutter unclaimed to the floor, and so begins her collection of words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words.

Cover price: R215 | Published by Penguin Random House

THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS