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Book club<br />
From young love to growing old disgracefully ...<br />
we’ve rounded up some fabulous reads for the <strong>East</strong>er weekend<br />
Heather Winterbottom has worked<br />
alongside her husband in their rural<br />
GP practise for 40 years. They’ve<br />
just hung up their stethoscopes ...<br />
but their retirement isn’t all they<br />
thought it would be. She wants to<br />
travel to a Greek island. He wants<br />
to grow a veggie garden. Neither<br />
will compromise ... so he stays with<br />
his spinach, parsnips and pumpkin,<br />
and she heads off for a gap year... all<br />
sun, sea, sand and squid on Ithaca.<br />
Madly funny, hugely enjoyable ... Mrs<br />
Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year<br />
is Joanna Nell’s latest book centred<br />
around growing old disgracefully.<br />
Hodder and Stoughton<br />
6 Get It Joburg <strong>South</strong> • Alberton • Bedfordview • Greenstone • Modderfontein <strong>Mar</strong>ch 20<strong>24</strong><br />
The Williamson sisters, Josephine and<br />
Penny, are Britain's most treasured World<br />
War II veterans. Now in their nineties, they’re<br />
still in great form, and are in hot demand,<br />
appearing at commemorative events all<br />
over the country. The latest excitement is a<br />
trip to Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur,<br />
accompanied by their devoted greatnephew,<br />
who believes the pair had minor<br />
roles in the Women's Royal Navy and the<br />
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. But that's only<br />
half the story. There's a reason sweet Auntie<br />
Penny can dispatch a would-be mugger<br />
with a brolly. This trip to Paris is not what it<br />
seems either. Scandal and crime have trailed<br />
the sisters since the war. Now armed with<br />
new information about an old adversary,<br />
these much decorated (but admittedly<br />
ancient) veterans intend to settle scores,<br />
avenge lost friends, and pull off one last<br />
heist. All hidden official secrets and double<br />
lives, CJ Wray’s The Excitements is a funny,<br />
charming, thrilling adventure read. Orion<br />
There are 18 plants and<br />
animals named after him.<br />
When asked by a reporter<br />
how many degrees he<br />
had*, he said it would be<br />
‘rude to count’. The single<br />
thing that would improve<br />
his quality of life would<br />
be ‘good, workable knees’.<br />
In The Wit and Wisdom<br />
of David Attenborough,<br />
which he has not endorsed<br />
and is not affiliated with,<br />
Chas Newkey-Burden has<br />
put together a fascinating<br />
collection of facts, tributes,<br />
quotes and anecdotes.<br />
Running chronologically,<br />
this book begins with his<br />
early days, to his first job<br />
at the BBC, to eventually<br />
becoming the most<br />
esteemed naturalist on<br />
the planet, as he is today.<br />
*More than 30! Gaia<br />
All books available at<br />
Exclusive Books and<br />
exclusivebooks.co.za<br />
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