News & Reviews

05 July 2013

Met die voltrekking van ‘n betekenisvolle boeketransaksie word vandag bekend gemaak dat Penguin Books (Suid-Afrika) in ’n veiling die publikasieregte in vier romans deur die opkomende ster-skrywer Karin Brynard bekom het. Die bekroonde Stellenbosse skrywer en joernalis het twee romans op haar kerfstok, Plaasmoord (Human...

Karin Brynard comes to Penguin

04 July 2013

Marking a significant book deal it is announced today that Penguin Books (South Africa) has won at auction the publishing rights in four novels by rising star Karin Brynard. The award-winning Stellenbosch author and journalist has two novels to her credit, Plaasmoord (Human & Rousseau, 2009) and Onse vaders (Human & Rousseau...

Do You Remember ... ?

25 June 2013

Trevor Romain’s book Random Kak I remember about growing up in South Africa made me smile, made me laugh and made me a little heartsore for the youth that so quickly passed me by. Zapiro’s quote on the front cover pretty much sums it up: “Vividly evocative of the sights and sounds of the old South Africa, with a hint of...

Joan Campbell Reviews Never Let Go

19 June 2013

For somebody who generally takes two or three weeks to read a book, my recent three-day book sprint is rather remarkable. The last time I read anything so quickly was probably as a student procrastinating from studying. Never Let Go wasn’t even a book I would normally have picked up at the library or bookstore. I tend to stay away...

The Biography of One of South Africa’s Most Infamous Characters - Glenn Agliotti

11 June 2013

A magistrate put Glenn Agliotti among the ‘snitches, pimps, rats who would sell their soul to evade a long prison term’. The press called him a drug trafficker and a drug dealer. He was. He’d admitted to these crimes and signed a plea bargain to grass on an associate. He was also known as the Landlord, which made him sound like a...

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