Publishing house Random House Struik has produced some beauties in its time - but Cape Town Up Close & Personal by Mia Feinstein must rate amongst their best.
This well-made, square format book of about 180 pages lets the city speak for itself through Ms. Feinstein’s very discerning lens. Here you’ll find all the bergies […]

Boer Boy - Memoirs of an Anglo-Boer War Youth
By Chris Schoeman
YOU ALWAYS HEAR the general’s stories, and you occasionally hear from the men who actually put their bodies on the line - but it’s not often that you hear from the children who’ve lived through a war.
Charles du Preez was one of those: separated from […]

By Doreen Court

Man, I’ve been waiting for this book. I missed the first edition in 1981 because I was then an impecunious 2nd year horticulture student (and I tell you this only so that I can say I’ve used the word ‘impecunious’ at least once in my life). I missed it when it was re-published […]

Peter Harris
288 pages. Soft cover
You get important books, and you get irritating books, and, once in a while, you get a really important book that really irritates.
Peter Harris’ ‘Birth’ is one such.
See, I can’t read stories written in the present tense. I blame it on Hunter S. Thompson. His style was meant to be immediate […]

Seven Days in Cape Town
By Sean Fraser

When I think back on my first vacation in Cape Town (one week) I’m reminded of lots of time in the passenger seat of our car - usually stuck in traffic - hauling from one end of the city to the other to get some sightseeing done. Before you […]