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Jumpnauts is a mind-bending piece of speculative fiction which blends philosophy, politics, science and history. Although the novel’s pace does stagger when the ...
I’ve noticed a recurring theme in Coco Mellors’ books and while I don’t think her books would make their way onto a CAL list (if you know, you know) I would recommend ...
This book is moving and thought-provoking and should have come with the warning, “Likely to make you cry. Don’t read in public”, which is what happened to me.
TikTok phenomenon and spicy STEMinist author Ali Hazelwood’s latest offering is about a food scientist, who is torn between her sizzling attraction to one of the ...
I read this novel by Johannesburg author Fiona Snyckers with increasing levels of “what the f***?”.
“I always wanted to write a kind of love story but I realised, you can’t tell a love story without telling a life story. I was going to have a young person talking ...
I am totally fangirling on Johannesburg author Jo Watson and trying to track down all her other books after devouring this one in a day.
’m not usually a fan of celebrity biographies but I was intrigued by this book because I had to wonder, what was so special about this boy band that I heard so much ...
A quick perusal of social media confirmed that I am not the only reader to have a huge crush on the title character of this sixth book set in the fantasy world of ...
When the IAAF tried to stop Caster Semenya from racing because they suspected she had balls, she turned around and showed them just how ballsy she could be.
For me, the old adage of don’t judge a book by its cover rings true for this wonderful novel because I mistook it for non-fiction and didn’t give it another look ...
A friend and I once joked that we would start a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Fictional Characters after I was getting particularly worked up about the ...
In this sweet book of high jinks, mystery and adventure, Cosima and her gaggle of eccentric friends embark on an ambitious adventure to steal back their futures ...
This is not a light-hearted book but teens and pre-teens may relate to Lily’s desperation to fit in. The book’s stark depictions of racism is good food for thought. ...
I found this book a little intense. Perhaps that’s because my modus operandi for making friends is “rather read a book”.
A colleague beat me to Ryan Blumenthal’s first book, Autopsy: Life in the trenches with a forensic pathologist, published in 2020, so I was eager to get my hands ...
Everything about this bedtime book is soothing; the colours, the images, the font, the poetry; which makes it very effective as a bedtime story that incorporates ...
This book made me guffaw, in a very unladylike fashion, in a public place.
Don’t be fooled by this book’s cover. I mistook it for a teen romance but I was quickly disabused of this notion by the warning on the title page: “Content warning: ...
In this follow-up to Secretly Yours we meet Natalie and August again and put on your seatbelts for more very explicit sexual content.