Within the many genres that go into making up modern literature, horror has a special place. The shelves are positively teeming with vampires, zombies, psychos, apocalypses… it’s a wonder they don’t drip when we aren’t looking. And yet, as a subset of fiction, it...
This Halloween week, or indeed any week, you can get your shivers and chills from a good monster story or a dark paranormal encounter… or you can gaze into the fascinatingly heinous minds of people harbouring true wickedness. Christopher Berry-Dee is one of the...
Do kids still do a Christmas list every year? I hope that’s still a thing. But mostly, I hope that said list consists of nothing but books! Sort out Christmas gifts for the young folks early this year, save yourselves the stress of the last minute rush, and save a...
We all know the Christmas Shopping madness. Every year you promise yourself that you’ll get it done early, that you’re gifts will be neatly and timeously prepared, safely stacked somewhere secure until the family and friends arrive. Then you glance at the calendar and...
The past couple of months, like many of those that preceded them, have seen the publication of some really good books exploring the recent goings-on of this country and exploring the many things that go into constructing the South African Identity. For humorous,...
Stories of Auschwitz, the Holocaust, Survival and Hope It might feel a little odd, celebrating this particular subset of literature – we can be happy that these books exist, but we must inevitably be sobered by the events that brought them into being. Tales of the...
