Book Reviews

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 [...]

It is not often that an author is prepared to unveil the creative process of his writing as the playwright Athol Fugard has done

Scaachi Koul – pronounced with a silent first ‘c’ (or rather, not pronounced) – is a bit of a phenomenon

The book is ultimately a voyage around her father – he of the Hitler youth and also Verwoerd’s defence apparatus