The hare with the amber eyes – Edmund de Waal
I should have enjoyed this book. So many people recommended it and it contained a combination of factors I enjoy in a book: fact, linking the past with the present, World War 1, biography,...
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Shared cultural experiences in “London Cape Town Joburg” by Zukiswa Wanner
London Cape Town Joburg begins where it ends. You have a suspicion of what happens but confirmation and the detail only appear in the last chapter. All through the book, the question lurks –...
The Huza Press Anthology 2015 Versus and other stories
How refreshing, stories from Rwanda not mentioning, or set in the time of, the genocide of 1994. Twenty-one years later, the country has come of age; at least its authors have. The genocide had...
Dunn and Dusted – Keith Howard
Dunn and Dusted by Keith Howard is a wonderful step back in time to the era of the gentlemen’s outfitters written by a gentleman who worked for Dunn and Company for its last fifty...
The Summer before the Dark – Doris Lessing
This was not quite what I expected from the title, but it’s what I’ve come to expect from Doris Lessing. Expect the unexpected. I don’t read the blurbs of books before I read them,...
Powerless – John Samson
Powerless was the first novel John wrote but not his first published. For those who have read his Shaka are Dead, this is quite different, although stays with the theme of post-Apartheid South Africa....
Fate of the Prisoners – trans Timothy Hoffelder
The Fate of the Prisoners during the East Africa Campaign: The treatment of the Allied Prisoners by the Germans; The Treatment of the German Prisoners by the Belgians, was initially published in French in...
The adventures of Rhys – Beatrice Holloway
Rhys is a young lad living in Wales. He gets up to all sorts of mischief, as all little people do. In this collection Beatrice Holloway captures the joys and frustrations of growing up....
Broken Ties of Time – Josie Arden
Broken Ties of Time – Josie Arden Broken Ties of Time was published in paperback and hardcover by the author. Unfortunately, at first glance this has made for a long, cumbersome book which is...
Who’s your favourite Winston Churchill?
Mention Winston Churchill and most people will immediately think of the British Prime Minister. In addition to being the man who saw Britain through World War 2, he was also a prolific author. But...