News & Reviews

23 August 2013

On a wet Friday evening, Professor Andrew Martin of Cambridge University solves the world’s greatest outstanding mathematical puzzle – and then he disappears. He is found the next morning, wandering naked at a motorway service station. What accounts for his startling behaviour, and the radical change in his personality? As we find out...

Nielsen SAPnet Gold Book Award – presented to John van de Ruit – South Africa’s Bestselling Author

16 August 2013

When John van de Ruit was informed about this recognition he said: “I am hugely honoured to receive the Gold Book Award for South Africa’s Bestselling Author. Spud: Exit Pursued By a Bear was the final book in the Spud series and I’m thrilled that the series has ended on this note. The last eight years since the release of Spud...

A bookseller reviews 8115: A Prisoner's Home by Alf Kumalo and Zukiswa Wanner

15 August 2013

Mandela describes 8115 Vilakazi Street as “identical to hundreds of others, it had the same standard tin roof, the same cement floor, a narrow kitchen, and a bucket toilet at the back”. When Mandela moved there in 1946, little did he know how vital that cramped two room house would be in forever changing the course of history in south...

Win a hamper of Women's Day books

09 August 2013

Each hamper includes a copy of: Conversations with My Sons and Daughters by Mamphela Ramphele, For the Mercy of Water by Karen Jayes, In Love's Place by Etienne van Heerden, Jackie Cameron Cooks at Home by Jackie Cameron, Making Finn by Susan Newham-Blake, NW by Zadie Smith, Thinking Up a Hurricane by...

A bookseller's review of The Man from Berlin

07 August 2013

The Captain embarks wholeheartedly on the path to discover the motive behind the murder - and the actual murderer - as a way to escape the unhappiness and despair he feels in his own life. He is haunted by his dreams - of his actions performed while doing his duty; torn between being proud to be German and a love of his country, with the utter...

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