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Reading Matters (week 004) 20 January 2026 Sue Grant-Marshall
Sue Grant-Marshall’s 2025 book of the year is Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me (Penguin Random House) a title she borrowed from The Beatles’ song, Let it Be. Sue writes that Arundhati called her mother, Mrs Roy, all her life and described her as “my shelter and my storm.” If that doesn’t make you want to grab this book…well, what can I say!
The other nine books on my list are: The Shadow State by Jeff Wicks (Tafelberg); Watching over Her by Jean-Baptiste Andrea (Atlantic); The Fourth Boy by Andrew Robert Wilson (Karavan Press); The Immortalites by Claire Robertson (Umuzi); Blood’s Inner Rhyme by Antjie Krog (Penguin Random House); Kalahari Diaries by Allen Zimbler (Paul Halburton Publishing); Legacy by Chris Hammer (Wildfire); The Deal by Mandy Wiener (Macmillan) and finally, Unsolicited by Andrea Shaw (Jacana).
