Writers Write Book Review

by Alexander McCall Smith (Edmont) ISBN 9781405265348 This is a delightful combination of three books: Akimbo and the Elephants, Akimbo and the Lions and Akimbo

Two Years Eight Months And Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Cape) ISBN: 9781910702048 How do I write a 200-word review for a book that I’m reading

by Dan Boothby (Picador) ISBN: 9781509800759 As a young boy growing up in a hippy commune in the Seventies, the author was gripped by one book

Letters to influential South Africans about the state of our nation by Onkgopotse JJ Tabane (Pan Macmillan) ISBN: 9781770104327 JJ Tabane is a journalistically trained activist, academic

by Jesse Andrews (Allen & Unwin) ISBN: 9781760290443 This novel is anything other than expected. When I first saw it, I thought it would be a sappy

by Jane Smiley (PanMacmillan) ISBN: 9781447275701 Golden Age is the final instalment in a trilogy about the Langdon family. It follows Some Luck, set a

by Jeff Kinney (Penguin) ISBN: 978-0-141-36472-8 This is the 10th in the series about the Wimpy Kid, Greg Heffley. They are “novels in cartoons” that have

by Elanie Kruger with Jaco Hough-Coetzee (Delta) ISBN: 9781928248026 It takes a special kind of courage to bare one’s soul, especially in the way abuse survivor

Liar Liar – A DI Helen Grace Thriller by M.J. Arlidge (Penguin) ISBN 9781405919210 Luke is terrified as he scrambles through the open window. Should he jump?

by De Wet Potgieter (Zebra Press) ISBN 9781770229082 Without seeming to sound like a serial killer or maniac, I found this book to be dull and