Happy New Year everybody! There are a lot of things that can be said about this year just passed, as there always are… but the best of them is this: it was filled with so many good books! We hope you’ve had a chance to reflect on your year’s worth of...
Another new month means another pair of books that warrant special attention. And in this case, they could hardly be more different. One is the moving new novel from an acclaimed voice in historical fiction while the other is a debut that’s distinctly contemporary;...
Speak of the Devil by Rose Wilding Here we are once again shining the spotlight on a brand-new author and this time around we have for you a brilliantly tangled-up thriller, with a decapitated narcissist and seven women who rightfully hated him at its centre. Rose...
The thrill of finding a brand new voice in fiction is, for many of us, the real pinnacle of reading pleasure. It certainly is for us. We are captivated by that singular excitement that comes from meeting a new writer through their work, and there’s just nothing like...
Faf du Plessis is one of cricket’s greatest ever fieldsmen as well as an accomplished all-format batsman. He is among SA’s most memorable and characterful former national captains. But his new autobiography is not merely a book about a career in cricket....
Our Debut of the Month is an inventive, heartbreaking and difficult to categorise tale of survival and yearning. Written by the kind of insightful, literary voice that comes along only seldom The Rabbit Hutch is set to become one of the year’s most talked about first...