How to live to get the most out of life
Dr Brenda Hattingh says this book has been written for old and young. For young people she hopes it will help them realise they must live a full life – now.
View ArticleBook review: Two Brothers
This is the first in the Exclusive Books Recommends/new Boeke campaign which selects one book a month as the big prize among a number of recommended books.
View ArticleBook review: Home Remedies
Just glancing at the synopsis of the author’s latest book, it seems an intriguing, if complicated, story.
View ArticleBook review: Sweet Tooth
Perhaps because of the movie, Atonement is Ian McEwan’s best-known novel and, like this one, deals with the decisions people make, and how, at some point, life turns...
View ArticleBook review: The Super-Afrikaners
The Afrikaner Broederbond was established in 1918 with the laudable aim of uplifting Afrikaners impoverished and demoralised in the wake of the Anglo-Boer War.
View ArticleBook review: The Song of Achilles
I’ll admit I’m a huge Mary Renault fan, so when Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles came up on my reading pile, I recalled The Persian Boy and devoured it.
View ArticleReview: Guide to Grasses of Southern Africa
Most people will not know how important grasses are to our existence. If it wasn’t for grasses, most of us would not be around at all...
View ArticleBook review: Bushveld, Desert and Dogs
This is Bakkes’ first English book which has been translated from Afrikaans. It is a compilation of his life experiences taken from various titles...
View ArticleReview: Taken Captive by Birds
If I had to label this book in two words I’d file it under “absolutely magical”.
View ArticleThatcher: a lesson in history
Charles Moore was appointed Lady Thatcher's official biographer in 1997, on condition that the book did not appear in her lifetime...
View ArticleVoicing anguish of bitter legacy
Poignant and powerful, Mother to Mother, a tour-de-force solo is an intimate portrayal of a mother struggling to come to terms with the actions of her son...
View ArticleBook review: The Shining Girls
Lauren Beukes is one of those local authors about whom there is a constant buzz.
View ArticleBook review: Incredible Tretchikoff
You either look down your nose on Vladimir Tretchikoff’s work, or you might shyly admit that you actually like it.
View ArticleReview: The stuff you can’t bottle
Advertising – a field that can capture your imagination, or make you want to gouge your eyes out.
View ArticleReview: Moving tale of exile, history
A white South African wants to change the hated system of apartheid. A member of the South African Communist Party, Henry Wegland joins uMkhonto we Sizwe...
View ArticleA family and a house
Alf Kumalo’s pictures of the Mandelas in their Orlando West home have many tales to tell, writes Vivien Horler
View ArticleGreat tales from Leon’s diplomatic bag
Tony Leon’s On the Contrary received the Recht Malan Prize for the best non-fiction work in South Africa in 2009. This one should also become a best-seller.
View ArticleGore’s book tells us where we’re going
You may remember Al Gore as the guy who scared us to death with his movie An Inconvenient Truth about the damage we are causing our environment.
View ArticleBook review: The Taker
If Interview with the Vampire and Wuthering Heights were your thing, it’s safe to say that The Taker will be right up your alley.
View ArticleREVIEW: Heaven knows I’m miserable now
I defy the heart of even the most devoted fan not to sink when they read the first few pages of Morrissey’s memoirs.
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