Book Reviews

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 middle of nowhere, her feet are a bloody mess (in all [...]

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 much Janet! Copies of the [...]

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

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 [...]

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.

Making us proud! “Just a quick note to tell you how much I enjoyed the launch of ‘This is how it is’ and how much I have enjoyed the stories I have read so far.  I was blown [...]