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We all have a story to tell from our own lives about how we became who we are. Stories about the way we were born, or about how someone helped us. About how we got ill, or overcame a terrible [...]

Another lovely review for This is how it is. Thank you to Margaret von Klemperer and The Witness, who published this review on Monday 14 October 2019. ‘Accomplished and entertaining [...]

Open by Andre Agassi (Knopf, 2009) and The Tender Bar by JR Moehringer (Hodder & Stoughton, 2005) At the end of Andre Agassi’s superbly written memoir Open, there are two pages of [...]

At a recent Life Righting Collective Follow-up Group (aka FUG), I got to thinking about the sort of healing that writing can initiate. One of us wrote about writing off a car at the age of 21 – [...]

Logical Family: A Memoir by Armistead Maupin, published on 10 March 2017 by Harper Collins: R291.00 This is the long-awaited ‘real story’ of the much-loved Tales of the City author, Armistead [...]

It’s 1995 and we’re on the 2 633 mile Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) with a young woman who’s using 1 100 miles of it as life repair. She’s in the middle of nowhere, her feet are a bloody mess (in all [...]

Published August 2018 by Jacana/MF Books Desirée-Anne Martin is a force. For recovery. For self-love. For hope. Witness the last three sentences of her book – in the Acknowledgements: “And to all [...]

Ellen: The Ellen Pakkies Story directed by Daryne Joshua and scripted by Amy Jephta, released September 2018 If you’re daunted by the prospect of two hours of despair and partial redemption, [...]

Thank you to Helen Grange, the Argus and Independent Newspapers for this very positive review. Now tell everyone you know – if you haven’t already! And thanks to all the LRC writers [...]

A memoir with a series of grim and bizarre twists that, true to life writing, is way stranger than fiction.