Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor – healing the past
I’ve yet to read a poor novel by a South African author. Some, like Cry The Beloved Country have joined
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Man Booker Prize
Six Degrees from Eats, Shoots and Leaves to Offshore
This month’s Six Degrees chain begins with a book that was hard to miss back in 2003. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero
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i felt bereft when I reached the final book in The Raj Quartet series by Paul Scott. Division Of The
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By the time I’d struggled to the last page of Something to Answer For by P H Newby, there was little
Read moreDisgrace by J M Coetzee : Darkness in new South Africa
If ever proof was needed that it’s possible to have a thoroughly distasteful and objectionable protagonist and yet be totally
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