Jhb West - Nov 24

Book club
Eight books. One wine. And a brilliant lifestyle magazine.
Not content with making fine wines, the Bruce Jack team
also produce Jack Journal - along with a collection of
brilliant designers and gifted writers who, they say, practise a
long-form art of writing where context trumps sound-bites, a
magazine they describe as a gorgeous, beautifully crafted,
long-lasting, collectable magazine, at a time of rushed, massproduced
things designed to break, wear out and be ugly.
It’s a lifestyle mag ... the latest filled with everything from
indigenous medicinal plants to regenerative agriculture,
from the brilliance of beetles to how blisters felled a walker
on the Camino Santiago. Read it with a glass of
Bruce Jack Reserve Stream of Consciousness - a
hedonistic nose of chocolate-smothered purple plums,
framed by vanilla and Indian spices, with notes of black and
red forest fruit, brambles and white pepper.
The mag’s R140, the wine R150, from brucejack.com
Two wickedly thrilling reads. Steve Cavanagh’s Witness 8 opens with a murder.
One witnessed by nanny and housemaid Ruby Johnson who knows the killer…
and anonymously calls it in to the police. Open and shut case. But Ruby lied.
An innocent man has been set up. And it’s up to ex-conman-turned-lawyer
Eddie Flynn to find out the truth. Great characters, killer twists. Headline • A
hit-and-run turns out, after the chief medical examiner discovers some puzzling
inconsistencies, to be murder, with the victim severely tortured before death.
It’s the first, but not last, murder of a twisted, clever killer, now on the radar of
Detective Robert Hunter. The Death Watcher. It’s Chris Carter, so you know it’s
going to be twisted, with a gut-wrenching twist. Simon and Schuster
06 Get It Magazine November 2024