One of us loved it, one of us hated it. So who got the right take on ‘The Take’? Paige Nick and Charlotte Bauer square up for a read-off.

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Welcome to Backchat, where authors Paige Nick and Charlotte Bauer dive into book lovers’ relationship with reading.

If the current crop of fiendish novels about badass women getting their own back on a screwed-up society is anything to go by, the #MeToo generation of authors is having its day in court.

All the members of the Flynn family are nutty, Eriko is stalking a blogger, and someone’s husband’s wife is not who she seems...

Complex and difficult relationships are a feature of the novels highlighted in this month’s Charlotte Bauer Book Club

I kept wondering: when is the shit going to hit the fan? What are the stakes? Where’s the plot twist?

Cape Fever is set in colonial Cape Town, soon after World War I. It is the story of a young Muslim maid and her very needy madam, confined together in a sagging old mansion, thick with dust and ghosts and secrets with the power to destroy them both. Charlotte Bauer speaks to author Nadia Davids about her latest Gothic novel that took her 17 years to complete.

Who knows what made me pick up and put down so many books? Perhaps I was distracted by all the jollity that goes along with such a magical time of year.

Fat-fighting wonder drug or worrying addiction? Charlotte Bauer never thought she’d ask how she could stop losing weight.