Our bi-monthly zoom book club continues this month and – as is usual for us – we have the theme (however loosely applied) and choices ahead of time.

Our 2023 Choices Theme – Delicious Reads

This year we will mostly be reading books – fictional and non – that feature or are about food.

• 21 Jan – Heartburn – Nora Ephron
• 18 March – Recipes for Love & Murder – Sally Andrews
• 20th May – Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto
• 15th July – One Hundred Foot Journey – Richard Morais
• 16th Sept – Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Stout
• 18th Nov – Taste – Stanley Tucci

Recipes for Love and Murder

Meet Tannie Maria: A woman who likes to cook a lot and write a little. Tannie Maria writes recipes for a column in her local paper, the Klein Karoo Gazette. 

One Sunday morning, as Maria savours the breeze through the kitchen window whilst making apricot jam, she hears the screech and bump that announces the arrival of her good friend and editor Harriet. What Maria doesn’t realise is that Harriet is about to deliver the first ingredient in two new recipes (recipes for love and murder) and a whole basketful of challenges. 

A delicious blend of intrigue, milk tart and friendship, join Tannie Maria in her first investigation. Consider your appetite whetted for a whole new series of mysteries . . .

About the Author

Sally Andrew lives in a mud-brick house on a nature reserve in the Klein Karoo, with her man and other wildlife (including a giant eland and a secretive leopard). Recipes for Love and Murder is her first novel.

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