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It’s a Black White Thing Donna Bryson Tafelberg ISBN: 9780624065180 REVIEW: Sue Townsend Donna Bryson has written a thought-provoking book. Given our obsession with race (and that’s what this book is all about), it should be mentioned that Bryson is an
Tales of the Metric System Imraan Coovadia Umuzi REVIEW: Ken Barris Imraan Coovadia’s Tales of the Metric System is divided into ten chapters, spanning the period 1973 to 2010. They can be read as individual pieces, although they play loosely
Nothing Left To Steal Mzilikazi Wa Afrika Penguin ISBN: 9780143538929 REVIEW: Karen Jeynes Wa Afrika, best known for his award winning investigative journalism, has written “Nothing Left To Steal”- part a collection of his writings, part memoir, part an ode
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari Harvill Secker ISBN 13: 9781846558238 Here is a profoundly fascinating tale of how our small species won out in the gene lottery and, perhaps more amazingly, how ancient and modern has
Top 10 For Men Nick Harper Hamlyn ISBN:9780600629160 Karin Schimke It’s hard to be kind about a book which is unapologetically biased. In this case, a thoroughly researched book has produced a phenomenally interesting set of lists apparently based on
Books That Changed The World Andrew Taylor Quercus ISBN-10: 1847246028 Karin Schimke Have you read The Iliad? The Kama Sutra? The Bible? Have you read the Qur’an? The Communist Manifesto? Catcher in the Rye? Origin of the Species? If This
Dancing To The Beat Of The Drum Pamela Nomvete Kwela ISBN: 9780795706875 Mvelase Peppetta The tale of a star’s rise and ultimate fall due to drugs, alcohol, and any other variety of maladies, may not be new, but it’s always
A Bit of Difference Sefi Atta Jacana Media ISBN-10: 1566568920 REVIEW: Jonathan Amid Protagonist Deola Bello, born into affluence in Ikoyi, Nigeria, finds herself living in a London “overrun with immigrants”. An expatriate working for an international charity, Bello is
The Yellow Birds Kevin Powers Sceptre ISBN 9781444756166 Tight and exceedingly well-planned and for all that lyrical, The Yellow Birds is akin to watching a car crash unfold before your eyes. Its effect is visceral in the absolute sense of
Can a literary recounting of war stop the wholesale murder? By Karin Schimke War, for anyone who hasn’t been in it I would argue, is an idea so foreign as to belong to the realm of fantasy. Its lived travesties,