Fiction

Upon receiving my copy of Jen Thorpe’s latest offering, The Fall. One question which truly raced through my mind was, is it the fall of patriarchy and…

After reading the first two books of the BARE series (BARE- The Blesser Game and The Cradle of the Hockey Club), I think everyone become more curious to know how…

Mirror Cracked is set mainly in Rondebosch, Cape Town. A picture-perfect, prayerful, Muslim family gets rocked to its core by double tragedy, resultant in its wheels…

In Being Kari, Qarnita Loxton writes of serious topics, patriarchy, religion, divorce, infidelity, abortion, marriage, family, friendship and pregnancy, in a light and funny way without…

It has been a while since I have read a book accompanied by a bold instruction that says: “Adults Only”. Eva Mazza’s second and “middle baby” titled Sex,…

WILL, the Passenger Delaying Flight is the third novel of attorney, researcher and author Barbara Adair. Her other two books, In Tangier We Killed the Blue…

Water is traditionally and spiritually associated with purification, cleanliness, and good life irrespective of one’s beliefs or traditional values. However, before I could peruse through the…

My friend, let’s just call her X, is a staunch fan of Craig Higginson’s writing. For years she has been begging me to review one of…

The generation in which I am born into is referred to as the ‘born frees’. We are called this because prior to 1994 South Africa was…

The great author Frederick Buechner once said, “… the only books worth reading are books written in blood.” One such book is Sue Nyathi’s much acclaimed…

Alex Van Tonder’s ‘A walk at Midnight’ is Immersive and Captivating

After reading this book, I found myself with so many superlatives to describe what I had just read. Scandalous, saucy and page-turner were the best three…

The moment I started reading this book I was instantly transported back to my high school and primary school days, simply because Ofilwe and Tshepo story…

Stellenbosch is known to be one of the richest Afrikaner towns in South Africa and home to the finest wines in the world. Politically, the town…

In an era where young girls are forever being lured by powerful men in our society to be ‘slay queens’ and where young boys are turned…

This Mournable Body: Picture Credit: Jacana Media In this long awaited third offering, Tsitsi Dangarembga picks up where she left off in her last novel Nervous Conditions,…

At a time when the ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC) is divided into two groups, those who are preaching and pushing for Radical Economic…

When one hears the words ‘Zulu wedding’ immediately your mind is filled with colour, music, feasting and an array of cultural ceremonies that join two families.       …

In his debut novel titled The Last Sentence, Tumelo Buthelezi tells a story of a scriptwriter Bandile Ndala who is looking to make a comeback in…

Bare, follows a story of Treasure a small town girl from Westonaria, her journey of growing up in an abusive household, witnessing her mother being a punching bag by the man she loves- Treasure’s father, learning that love is abusive.