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South African author Gareth Crocker goes from strength to strength and he certainly does not believe in being predictable.
His first book, Finding Jack, dealt with the relationship between a traumatised American GI and his service dog in Vietnam.
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Uitspraak: wortel
Ben Viljoen se boek is ’n roman wat uit ’n reeks kortverhale opstaan. ’n Nuwe wildernis behoort heelwat aandag te trek.
Dit sal tot baie spreek: oudsoldate (van die SAW sowel as die struggle), jong mans, heldhaftiges sowel as meer skroomvallige lede van die manlike spesie, en almal wat in oorlog, mans en geweld belangstel.
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Uitspraak: wortel
Net 5% van die ekonomies aktiewe bevolking is entrepreneurs.
Daarom is Bertie du Plessis se nuwe e-boek, Your Small Business Nightmare and How to Wake Up, ideale leesstof vir voornemende (en huidige) entrepreneurs.
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Verdict: carrot
LIESL Jobson is an internationally acclaimed South African writer, winner of the Ernst van Heerden Award for her writing of “flash fiction”, which is apparently extremely short 400 word stories. She is also a musician and poet, having won the 2005 People Opposing Women Abuse Poetry Competition. Her fiction and poetry is published internationally.
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LIVING in a city and dealing with rush-hour traffic and urban crime can cause a hankering for the simpler life.
The urge to move to a small town, to experience a close-knit community and to get back to “real” values, whatever they may be, is a strong one.
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“Don’t just make good food. Make good food and enjoy doing it. Live a little.” So exhorts young media personality Scholtz, and believe you me, if you like to eat, and don’t mind the odd appreciative comment along the way, then this one is really going to hit the spot.
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Uitspraak: wortel
’n Bloemlesing waarvan die keuse gegrond is op die afsonderlike gedigte is nogal seldsaam, hoe teenstrydig dit ook kan klink.
Per slot van sake is so ’n boek nie in die eerste plek ’n verteenwoordiging deur verse van iets anders nie. In Afrikaans het ons naas hierdie bundeling van “gewildste” gedigte op die vers af bv. Fanie Olivier se versameling Die mooiste Afrikaanse liefdesgedigte (toevallig ook ’n Human en Rousseau-publikasie).
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Uitspraak: wortel
Hierdie mooi, ryklik geïllustreerde naslaanwerk waarin lesers veral agtergrond-inligting oor die belangrikste Bybelse verhale kan vind, is, soos die voorwoord self uitwys, een van vele wat gereeld op die mark kom.
Dit bly opvallend hoeveel publikasies oor die Bybel in hierdie genre nog steeds geskryf en gedruk word. Die Christendom is sekerlik, wat dit betref, nog springlewendig en die mark vir sulke boeke skynbaar onversadigbaar.
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Verdict: a critical carrot
Niq Mhlongo fans have waited for a while for his third novel and here it finally is – Way Back Home.
Mhlongo received acclaim for his previous novels, Dog Eat Dog and After Tears, in South Africa and abroad and was hailed as a great new voice of South African writing – the literary version of the kwaito generation, if you will. This is because the protagonists in those novels were young black men who represented a social paradox. On one hand there was early post-apartheid euphoria imbued with the perfume of liberation and the promise of wealth and improved social standing, while on the other these young men were members of a group that carried the stigma of being responsible for crime, violence, absent-fatherhood, laziness and lack of employability. With acerbic humour, Niq writes about how these men navigate their way through their young lives in the midst of these bewildering circumstances. He doesn’t create romantic heroes; he gives the reader human beings in all their messy colourfulness.
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There’s no substitute, really, for reading these short stories yourself, since any attempt to summarise, categorise and otherwise describe them will fall far short of the actual dinkum works themselves.
But let me say that Liesl Jobson has been published in many short story collections and that this, her first solo collection, is a book worth reading — and owning, so that you may have the pleasure of rereading it.
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