Reviews

We all share the very human need to belong: to our families, our clan, our culture, our tribe. Feeling that we belong is no small thing: it can feel like […]

In the Garden of the Beloved: the theme of this year’s poetry festival in McGregor. It was only afterwards, when I got home, fat with poetry, that I realised I’d […]

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 […]

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 […]

We are delighted to see Janet Giddy’s review of This Is How It Is in the South African Medical Journal.  You can read it online here  or below.  Thank you so […]

Mandatory reading for anyone whose life has been affected by their own or others’ mental illness...

The book opens with the immediacy of a dramatic thriller. Shuhood is at the helm of a boat with a huge haul of abalone