BOOK PEOPLE, a novel

370pp., paperback, Pan MacMillan, Johannesburg, 2025

ISBN: 9781770109063

Accountant Norma Jacobs runs a book club on Facebook. When crime writer Harry Shields' latest book receives a negative review on Norma’s page his very public reaction on social media causes her online membership to grow exponentially, with the comments section a literal riot. 

"Funny, entertaining, delightful. I didn't want it to end." Rebecca Davis, journalist and author of Best White, and other anxious delusions

South African novelist, columnist and advertising copywriter Paige Nick is the founder of The Good Book Appreciation Society, a book club of Facebook with over 23 000 members, and the host of Book Choice, a book show on Fine Music Radio. She has published seven books and co-authored (with Sarah Lotz and Helen Moffett) A Girl Walks into a Bar series of choose-your-own-adventure erotic novels.