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People Like Us – Louise Fine
As a child who grew up during the apartheid regime in South Africa in the ’60s and ’70s, I was thoroughly brainwashed by what I was...
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Three books you will want to add to your reading list
In the last month I have read three books published in 2020 by South African writers that have all made deep impressions on me and which...
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Rain Runner by Carl Richardson
I recently listened to Rain Runner written by Carl Richardson and narrated by Malcolm Gooding via the exciting new audio platform...
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Confessions of a Voice Artist by Malcolm Gooding, with Angus Douglas & Tim Sandham
If you grew up in South Africa in the ’60s or ’70s and listened to Squad Cars on Springbok Radio, or if you were a fan of the popular...
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CHARAIVETI (Keep Moving) by Quinne Brown Huffman
There has been a remarkable upswing in the popularity of poetry recently and, although I won’t profess to be knowledgeable of the genre...
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The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
If you, like me, are a logophile, which is to say a lover of words, and also find great joy in the endless possibilities that words...
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Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrrell
He was the greatest playwright of all time and a substantial contributor of words to the English vocabulary we use today. Yet Shakespeare...
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A Year of Marvellous Ways by Sarah Winman
A Year of Marvellous Ways is such a unique and different read that I still find myself thinking about it and contemplating the power of...
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Garden of the Plagues ‒ Russel Brownlee
A fascinating tale set at the Cape in 1685 in the time of Simon van der Stel and the Dutch settlement, Garden of the Plagues boasts an...
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The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy
I’m in a book club (I know, who would’ve guessed, right?), and we tend to keep many of the club’s books at my house. I grabbed an armful...
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Miss Benson’s Beetle – Rachel Joyce
I give this one a rare 10 out of 10. In Miss Benson’s Beetle, Rachel Joyce gives her readers the full bouquet – a unique story, a small...
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The Olive Readers – Christine Aziz
My husband and I are olive farmers, and our passion for olives inevitably means that any book title that refers to olives, in any shape...
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Circe by Madeline Miller
I must admit to ignorance when it comes to mythology. Except for the obvious and oft-quoted fables, I’m very much in the dark. I suppose,...
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The Queen of Paris by Pamela Binnings Ewen
Like many of my peers, I grew up with my mother smelling of Chanel No.5 perfume. It was her favourite fragrance, and she had something of...
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This Tender Land – William Kent Krueger
I loved this book so much that I want to convince as many people as possible to read it immediately. Not only because I believe it to be...
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The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There are occasions when I finish a book with my mind and soul saturated, often so overwhelmed that I am simply unable to talk about it....
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Have you seen Luis Velez? by Catherine Ryan Hyde
I am often astounded at how synchronicity plays out when we are meant to hear or learn something or find solace. You know what I am...
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The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd
It is astounding to learn that it was a sixteen-year-old teenage girl – Eliza Lucas – who was the first farmer in South Carolina in the...
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A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Let me start with a disclaimer: I’m a massive fan of Allende’s. Along with at least 75 million other readers in many different languages,...
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek – Kim Michele Richardson
I think what I like best about this novel is the confirmation of my long-held belief about the power of reading and how the written word...
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