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Published Aug 26, 2015

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These are the books our Books Editor received recently. They may be reviewed later

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Cyber Infidelity: The New Seduction

by Dr Eve (Human Rousseau)

The Ashley Madison hacking drama that hit news headlines recently is still simmering, with millions concerned about how they will be affected by it.

Infidelity is possibly as old as the first marriage – and it has always posed the largest threat to a happy marriage or relationship.

Today, however, with the digital world and social media playing such a large part in people’s lives, a little understood new form of infidelity has arisen: cyber infidelity. Communication in secret through texts, chat sites, e-mails and dating sites – this is broadly what is defined as cyber infidelity.

In this book, well-known sexologist, Dr Eve, explores in depth this latest form of deception. Based on her research using the database of the AshleyMadison.com dating site, she exposes the seduction and interrogates its impact on relationships today.

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Agent 407

by Olivia Forsyth (Jonathan Ball, R230)

Olivia Forsyth was known by many names in the days of apartheid – Agent RS407, codename Lara, she was a lieutenant in the Security branch of the SAP; to the ANC she was comrade Helen Bronson, prisoner Thandeka.

In 1986, Forsyth had allegedly infiltrated the ANC in Angola and was heading off to a training camp. Instead, she becomes prisoner Thandeka at Quatro, an ANC prison in Angola.

Forsyth got out of that prison – but the sensational newspaper headlines in the dying days of apartheid painted an extraordinary picture.

Agent Olivia Forsyth had escaped from ANC captivity in Angola and when she returned to South Africa she was lauded by the government as a hero. In many media appearances, she claimed to have infiltrated the ANC and passed on vital information to the apartheid government.

But is that what really happened? On the jacket cover Forsyth says: “I owe it to many people and to myself, to set the record straight. There have been many versions of parts of the story in the press, many lies overlaid with truths and truths overlaid with lies…”

In the world of espionage it is clear nothing is as it appears. In this book, for the first time, Forsyth lays bare the story of her life in her own words.

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Up Against the Night

by Justin Cartwright (Bloomsbury, R290)

Frank McAllister is a direct descendant of Piet Retief, who was killed by the Zulu king, Dingane, in 1938.

He has lived in England for 30 years and has a good life. But, feeling increasingly alienated in England, Frank and his lover, Nellie, prepare to head to South Africa.

He is also anxious about his daughter who has been in rehab in the US and is on her way home.

Jaco is Frank’s Afrikaner cousin who has gained moderate fame on YouTube after his encounter with a shark. Jaco heads off to America where he joins the scientologists.

But his violent life spills over into Frank’s and soon Frank is drawn into a world of violence and delusion that will threaten his own family.

Justin Cartwright will be in South Africa to promote his latest novel next month. Watch out for my interview with him.

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