Kin Bentley reviews the recently published book on successful businessman Mkhuseli Khusta Jack.

A perfect summer read.

The Tin Heart Gold Mine reeks with life in Africa.

The Fatuous State of Severity by Phumlani Pikoli [book review]

Professor says he sees scant chance of the survival of the Afrikaans culture in the long-term or even the survival of the Afrikaners as “a people” in new book

Bitter Eden is the vivd, frank and starkly intimate account of author Tatamkulu Afrika’s life as a WW2 prisoner of war

Jan Braai is back with his new book “Red Hot”. This is the second installment in the braai encyclopaedia that every person who loves South Africa can not live without.

Scribbling the Cat by Alexandra Fuller is an uncomfortable read. Telling the most haunting of tales, the book tries to find humanity in a man who might not have any.

‘Deception Days’ is an exciting book in the vein of conspiracy books such as ‘The Da Vinci Code’, and is set against the backdrop of the birth of a new South African democracy under Nelson Mandela.

In essence this book is the story of a family. It’s a family tree, of sorts, of stories for future great and grandchildren

This week we review John Buchan’s ‘Greenmantle’, in which the daring Hannay is given a wartime mission by the British government.

An utterly heart wrenching, brutally honest account of the June and Barry Steenkamp’s version of events surrounding the death of their daughter Reeva Steenkamp. The book defies any reader to be dry eyed thoughout, and you are left knowing Reeva a little more intimately. Arguably the most honest book to come out of South Africa in years

Lauren Beukes is a novelist of unflinchingly keen eye and ambitious ideas. If she is capable of writing novels of this kind of depth once a year, I feel that we are in for a treat as readers

‘Battle on the Lomba’ is the tale of a largely unknown Cold War battle deep in Angola in 1987. The book poignantly reflects the bravery of the young men of Charlie Squadron who were just doing their bit for their country.

Evan Bartlett reviews the biography of Neil Aggett, a 28-year-old doctor and trade unionist who was the first white person to die in the custody of the apartheid regime’s security police.

Nobel-winning South African writer JM Coetzee has produced a puzzling novel in ‘The Childhood of Jesus’.