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Treats and tweets in Franschhoek

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Different takes on Thatcher's legacy

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Take a bite into vampire secrets

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John le Carré gets mercenary with the military

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Will Pulitzer turn up its nose at fiction again?

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New book reveals how Maggie 'helped free Mandela'

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Bullying has become this decade's fashionable topic

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Seeking superb sex? It's not in modern books

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Philip Roth: literary giant turns 80

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New Faulks book will be rated PG

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Globalisation can be a force for backward ways

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Weird, wonderful titles vie for award

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Want to get ahead in life? Try being a bigger jerk

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The wonders and mysteries of the human psyche

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Arty-farty take on love

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Friends who have secrets

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Crime queen's latest is 'utterly creepy' reading

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Thriller hits humour chord, Le Carré uncovered

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A week into the new year and the New York Times has boldly declared that Tenth of December, a short story collection by George Saunders published this month, is going to be the best book we'll read in 2013. Maybe so, but there's a feast of good stuff coming in the months ahead.

Karma, the shape of bad coitus and an ode to books

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Refreshing gift ideas from independent booksellers

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Jessie Duarte has a moan about not getting a freebie

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A comeback, denouement and WW1 remembrance

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Letters reveal dark side of Kingsley Amis's imagination

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Karoo offers oasis of edification

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Getting gritty in the big city

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The life of a woman who had the gall to enjoy sex

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Suspect science meets intricate art of good sex

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Have women finally triumphed over men? Ask Arnie

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Colvin in her own words and 'Moby Dick' for listeners

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Gritty 'Driven' tough as nails

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Biko biography a labour of love

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Emperor's new books

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Brink on our miscegenous leanings

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Welsh derides Man Booker Prize as 'colonialist'

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Perfect timing for a gutsy thriller with Olympics link

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Brilliant account of Africans waging war with wildlife

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Better late than never as sacrifice pays off for Elton John

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Rimington's spycraft comes from years of being 'M'

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Shades of white, grey, lavender ...

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Woman cop and victims in Saudi

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Trilogy proves trifle titillating

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Novel on Jewish identity reads like Roth on crack

Depressive Solomon Kugel wishes to be nowhere in a place with no history.

Charming account of schoolgirl's 'Madonna moment'

School girl Sweetness Moloi has a vision of Ma-Jesu, the Madonna, in a godforsaken, economically depressed township.

Brickbats, bouquets for Amis's newest offering

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Holding a dark mirror to our troubled times

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Men on top and at rock bottom

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Memoirs of Britain's first investigative hack 'a gem'

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From a savage mission to some lurid rock 'n roll

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No prize makes everyone winners

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Lovers' rampage in Washington

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Humour as dry as a desert wind

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Literary outsider's macabre, muscular magic

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The meek will inherit all from the motormouths

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Meltdown turns focus to warlords

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'Mommy porn' is a digital delight

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Diplomat fights father's revenge

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Elderly Elmore still tops at crime

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Double dose of Brodie mystery

Deadpan humour in killer of a story

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Perfect timing for anti-hero of 60s

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Pacy, gripping search for killer

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Mischief, dark comedy in jungle

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'Last Werewolf' has serious bite

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An epic love story and Titanic retold

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Very well-read man seeks ...

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Choice bits of bad sex in books

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Enjoyable romp by John Grisham

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James Lee Burke feast will delight

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Rave reviews for new Holmes novel

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Complex crime saga moves fast

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'Trackers' offers plenty of action

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Beyond camp's wilder shores

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Epic story good for the holidays

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Pelecanos ups the crime ante

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Original take on Homer's classic

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Wild memoir to rock your world

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Revenge story grabs by throat

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Cape Town set to be open book

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Different kind of murder mystery

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Delving into a decade of pain

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Fallen star is now a cash cow

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Feminist reads for both sexes

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Hitchens on Lelyveld, Zionism

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Ageing rock stars penning it

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Feminist writer with 'lady-balls'

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Crash course and issues on shelves

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Embracing a Dane's darker side of life

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Take a wrench to the misogynist

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