Michael Robotham Book Hamper

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Read a bit more on Michael below:

Born in Australia in November 1960, Michael Robotham grew up in small country towns that had more dogs than people and more flies than dogs. He escaped in 1979 and became a cadet journalist on an afternoon newspaper in Sydney.

For the next fourteen years he worked for newspapers in Australia, Europe, Africa and America. As a senior feature writer for the UK’s Mail on Sunday he was among the first people to view the letters and diaries of Czar Nicholas II and his wife Empress Alexandra, unearthed in the Moscow State Archives in 1991. He also gained access to Stalin’s Hitler files, which had been missing for nearly fifty years until a cleaner stumbled upon a cardboard box that had been misplaced and misfiled.

In 1993 he quit journalism to become a ghostwriter, collaborating with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, adventurers and showbusiness personalities to write their autobiographies. Twelve of these non-fiction titles have been bestsellers with combined sales of more than 2 million copies.
His first novel ‘THE SUSPECT‘, a psychological thriller, was chosen by the world’s largest consortium of book clubs as only the fifth “International Book of the Month”, making it the top recommendation to 28 million book club members in fifteen countries. It has been translated into twenty-two, including some he’s barely heard of.

His second novel ‘THE DROWNING MAN‘ (first published as ‘LOST’) won the Ned Kelly Award for the Crime Novel of the Year in 2005, given by the Australian Crime Writers Association. It was also shortlisted for the 2006 Barry Award for the BEST BRITISH NOVEL published in the US in 2005.
Michael’s subsequent novels ‘THE NIGHT FERRY‘ and ‘SHATTER‘ were both shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger in the UK in 2007 and 2008. ‘SHATTER’ went on to win the 2008 Ned Kelly Award for Australia’s best crime novel and was also shortlisted in the inaugural ITV3 Thriller Awards and for South Africa’s Boeke Prize.

Michael can most often be found working in his ‘pit of despair’ (basement office) on Sydney’s northern beaches where he funds the extravagent lifestyles of a wife and three daughters.

Spartan Gold by Clive Cussler

Thousands of years ago, the mighty Persian king Xerxes the Great was said to have raided the Treasury at Delphi, carrying away two solid gold pillars as a tribute to his glory.

In 1800, while crossing the Pennine Alps, Napoleon Bonaparte and his army stumble across the pillars. Unable to transport them, Napoleon created an inscrutable map on the labels of twelve bottles of rare wine. When Napoleon dies, the bottles disappear—and the gold pillars are lost once again.

Treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are exploring the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Delaware when they are shocked to discover a WWII German u-boat. Inside, they find a bottle taken from Napoleon’s ‘lost cellar.’ Fascinated, the Fargos set out to find the rest of the collection. But another connoisseur of sorts has been looking for the bottle they’ve just found. Not for the wine. He wants what the bottle may lead to.

For he is Hadeon Bondaruk—a half-Russian, half-Persian millionaire—and he claims descent from King Xerxes himself.

And the treasure will be his, no matter what . . .

Clive Cussler‘s Spartan Gold is published and distributed by Penguin Books in South Africa.

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Driven to Distraction by Jeremy Clarkson

Brace yourself, Jeremy Clarkson‘s back. And he’d like to tell you what he thinks about some of the most awe-inspiring, earth-shatteringly fast and jaw-droppingly gorgeous cars in the world (alongside a few irredeemable disasters …). Or he would, if there weren’t so many things competing for his attention first. So much to get off his chest. The world according to Clarkson is a perplexing place, filled with thorny subjects like:

• The prospect of having Terry Wogan as president
• Why you’ll never see a woman driving a Lexus
• The unforeseen consequences of inadequate birth control
• Why everyone should spend a weekend with a digger

Fearless, independent, surprising and laugh-out-loud funny, Driven to Distraction is full-throttle Clarkson at his best; a unique look at the joys, absurdities and frustrations of modern life. With wheels. Buckle up, get comfortable, and hold on tight. There’s no one who writes about cars like Jeremy . . .

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Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan

‘Nothing interests Maman today, not even Jean, her favorite child …She acts dumb, bewitched, like a goat that the neighborhood children have fed sorghum beer.’ These extraordinary stories centre on African conflicts as seen through the eyes of children and describes their resilience and endurance in heartbreaking detail. From child trafficking to inter-religious conflicts, Uwem Akpan reveals in beautiful prose the resilience and endurance of children faced with the harsh consequences of deprivation and terror.

Uwem Akpan‘s Say You’re One of Them is published and distributed by Penguin Books in South Africa.

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Cooked in Africa Cook Book by Justin Bonello

This book will be your inspiration to be adventurous, to extend your cooking repertoire and to be more ecologically aware. Based on the popular TV series on BBC Food, Cooked, this unique compilation of places, spaces and flavors combines chef Justin Bonello’s three favorite things – Southern Africa, food and friends. Bonello is passionate about ensuring that Africa’s diverse food cultures are recorded and celebrated so that future generations will be able to savour the culinary pleasures we enjoy today. For Cooked in Africa and other Cook Books go to Penguin Books for more info.

His love affair with cooking and wide-open spaces began with weekends and school holidays spent in the great outdoors either on the Breede River or on the Wild Coast. He learnt to embrace the land and all that it has to offer without taking from it anything that nature can’t replenish. Bonello believes that the beauty of travel and cooking can be found in searching for fresh produce, making new friends and discovering foods you didn’t even know existed. Once you’ve learned the basics and started growing your own produce, there’s no reason not to produce awesome meals – all it takes is a little courage and a pinch of creativity.

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