JHB South East - May 2022

Their love story has gone viral. But it
hasn’t even begun! In Kate Spencer’s
In A New York Minute, Franny meets
Hayes in the opposite of a meet-cute.
Her dress gets caught in the subway
doors and rips, leaving her in the
fashion equivalent of a hospital gown.
Hayes is a stuffy suit, whose one
redeeming quality is giving Franny
his jacket, saving her from showing
her assets to half of New York.
Franny is eager to forget the whole
horribly embarrassing encounter
as soon as possible, but neither of
them anticipated a fellow commuter
live-blogging them as #subwaybaes
– turning their awkward run-in into
click-bait and a manufactured love
story for the ages. PanMacmillan
Annie Ward’s The Lying Club is set at
an elite private school in the Colorado
mountains, where a tangled web of lies
draws together three vastly different
women. Natalie, a young office assistant,
dreams of having a life like the school
moms she deals with every day.
Women like Brooke, a gorgeous heiress,
ferociously loving mother and serial
cheater. And Asha, an overachieving
and overprotective mom who suspects
her husband of
having an affair. Their fates are bound by
their relationships with the handsome,
charming assistant athletic director
Nicholas, who Natalie loves, Brooke
wants and Asha needs. But when two
bodies are carried out of the school
early one morning, it seems the jealousy
between mothers and daughters, rival
lovers and the haves and have-nots has
shattered the surface of this isolated,
affluent town. Quercus
In Peter Swanson’s Nine Lives, nine
strangers receive a list with their
names on it in the mail. Nothing
else, just a list of names on a single
sheet of paper. None of the nine
people know or have ever met the
others on the list. They dismiss it as
junk mail, a fluke. Until bad - very
bad - things begin happening to
people on the list. First, a well-liked
old man is drowned. Then, a father
is shot in the back while running. A
frightening pattern is emerging, but
these nine appear to have nothing
in common. Their professions range
from oncology nurse to aspiring
actor, and they’re located all over
the country. So why are they all on
the list, and who sent it? FBI agent
Jessica Winslow, who is on the list
herself, is determined to find out.
Faber and Faber, available at
Exclusive Books
Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, authors of The Wife Between Us
and An Anonymous Girl, have just released The Golden Couple which
will keep you thrilled and guessing until the very end. Avery Chambers
helps people overcome everything from domineering parents to
assault. And if she can’t fix you in ten sessions, she won’t take you on as
a client. Her successes help her, almost, absorb the emptiness she feels
since her husband’s death. Her latest clients are the Bishops, Marissa
and Mathew, who seem like the golden couple. Until Marissa cheats.
She wants to repair things, both because she loves her husband and
for the sake of their eight-year-old son. Hearing about Avery, Marissa
takes a chance on this maverick therapist, who lost her license due to
controversial methods. But when the Bishops glide through Avery’s
door and Marissa reveals her infidelity, all three are set on a collision
course. Because the biggest secrets in the room are still hidden, and it’s
no longer simply a marriage that’s in danger. PanMacmillan
Compiled by: KYM ARGO
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