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Trevor Romain's Random Kak I Remember about Growing up in South Africa
06 June 2013
Remember? When you wore bell bottoms and wound up cassette tapes with a Bic pen. When ‘The World at War’ was on TV and LM Radio played on the radiogram, and when there were call-up papers in the mailbox and 2 c stamps on letters. VW Beetles were everywhere, the Bay City Rollers were it, and the smell of Wintergreen filled the change...
Introducing Michéle Rowe's What Hidden Lies
04 June 2013
When Detective Persephone (Persy) Jonas is forced to work with retired criminal psychologist Dr Marge Labuschagne to solve the murder of a suspected sex offender, suspicion and distrust threaten to derail the investigation. Persy believes the killer is her childhood sweetheart, now turned vicious gangster; Marge is sure the answer lies in the...
Tamaryn Watkins Reviews Thirty Second World
03 June 2013
I absolutely adored it. I ploughed through it in one weekend. Emma van der Vliet has a very South African Olivia Goldsmith-ish way of writing, which I thought was simply superb. I didn’t actually realise that it was a South African novel (I didn’t read the back cover before I started) until I came across the word “kak”....
Review: A Delicate Truth
27 May 2013
The magnificent new John le Carré novel, A Delicate Truth, is truly a feast of vintage le Carré. Fifty years after a young Foreign Office official, David Cornwell, became John le Carré, he has returned to his old stamping ground – only to dissect it with a quiet fury.
A counter terrorism operation is mounted in...
Introducing Jackie Cameron Cooks at Home
03 May 2013
Jackie Cameron is one of the most exciting chefs working in South Africa today. Under her leadership the Hartford House restaurant in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands has been in the top 10 in all of the South African culinary awards, achieving the first when she was just 25 years old.
Jackie Cameron Cooks at Home shows the professional...
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