“If you give a girl a taste of fresh air and then take it away, she will grow fierce and wild to get that fresh air...
Biltong en Dior is ’n geurige, lewenslusvolle memoire waarin Louis Jansen van Vuuren terugkyk op sewe dekades se dwaal tussen twee wêrelde: die songebakte Oos‑Transvaal van...
Every now and then I come across a crime novel that feels familiar in premise but completely fresh in execution, and The Secret Lives of Murderers’...
I picked up The Weekend expecting a tense little mystery, but it quickly became one of those books that had me muttering “just one more chapter”...
“A row of pot plants led from the gate to the office door. The pots held geraniums, as well as vygies and other succulents. I like...
I picked up The Ending Writes Itself expecting a clever mystery with a fun premise, and what I got was a surprisingly layered and thoroughly entertaining...
Reading Kin felt like being invited into the most intimate corners of two lives that are forever intertwined. Tayari Jones has a gift for writing characters...
I went into John of John expecting a powerful family drama, but what I found was something far more immersive. This is a novel that feels...
I finished Lost Lambs with that strange mix of delight and bewilderment that only a truly odd book can deliver. Madeline Cash’s debut is punchy, fast...
The Night We Met was my first Abby Jimenez novel and I went into it knowing very little beyond the premise. What I found was a...
