Unravelling the Betty Ketani Murder by Alex Eliseev (Pan Macmillan South Africa) ISBN: 9781770103108 Tandiwe ‘Betty’ Kitane was head cook at Cranks, one of the city’s most popular restaurants at the time, when she vanished without a trace. Despite her family’s best efforts, she is never found and the case goes cold. Fast forward 13 years […]
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The Muse by Jessie Burton (Picador) ISBN 978-1-4472-5094-4
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compiled by Jeff Gordon (Leadwood Publishing) ISBN: 9780620611329 I loved this book. As an animal and nature aficionado, I enjoy game drives and stories about the bush. This comprehensive book covers 101 stories about the three sections of Kruger Park as told by members of the public over the years. Jeff Gordon has taken the best of the stories
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by Elleke Boehmer (Jacana) ISBN 9781431422333 This book had me enthralled. It is haunting, honest, and beguiling. It resonated with echoes of The Poisonwood Bible, and I couldn’t put it down. The story stayed with me long after I finished reading. Now I want to read all her books. It’s an intimate, disturbing portrait of a girl
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City Rooster by Claudia Eicker-Harris (Struik Children) ISBN: 9781432305901 The City Rooster is a children’s tale about Mr Doodle the rooster who wakes up to the noise of the city one morning. When he peers out of his barn he sees that the city has encroached upon their farm. Not content to live like this,
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This Present Darkness: A History Of Nigerian Organised Crime by Stephen Ellis (Jacana) ISBN 9781849046305 419 is the Nigerian criminal code which was first documented in a letter written in 1920. By 1980 this international fraud activity is known as a 419 crime. Nigeria started as a British protectorate in 1914 and was amalgamated as a
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A Transgender Life in South Africa by Anastacia Tomson (Jonathan Ball Publishers) ISBN 9781868427130 Anastacia Tomson takes us on a journey of her inner struggle with gender dysphoria, and the challenges she has had to face when she decided to take the plunge and live her life authentically. Growing up in a Jewish family and raised as
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Granite by Jenny Robson (Tafelberg) ISBN: 978-0-624-07309-3 Mokomba is a young boy of fifteen winters from Zimba Remabwe, a fictional city inspired by the Zimbabwe Ruins. He tells the story of his great city, his king’s command, and his adventure to a faraway land and how it all ended. The story is told by Mokomba, but written down by Shafiq,
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by Dianne Stewart (Jacana) ISBN 9781431423286 This beautifully illustrated children’s book follows the journey of a basket which has been woven by a young Zulu girl named Dudu. Her grandfather tells her that according to the Zulu Proverb, the first basket one weaves should be given away, or else the weaver might never get around to
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The Bridge Ladies – A Memoir by Betsy Lerner (MacMillan) ISBN: 9781447272519 Award-winning author and long-time editor. Betsy Lerner is a partner in a literary agency when her husband’s job relocation brings her back to her childhood hometown of New Haven, Connecticut. The prospect of living a stone’s throw from her 83-year-old, widowed mother makes
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