SA NON-FICTION
The engine of South African publishing never disappoints.
Place Possibly the top gift book of the season, in which Fox sets off to explore the landscapes of his favourite authors, from the Cape interior (Deneys Reitz) to the bushveld (Eugène Marais) and the Wild Coast (Zakes Mda) to the Cederberg (Stephen Watson) – and more.
Catch Me
Killer
by Micki Pistorius.
Soon to be a major TV series, the book dives into the sphere of criminal profiling with trailblazing psychologist Micki Pistorius. Not for the faint of heart.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
by Ray Soko.
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Hartley,
Mills,
Mills
The bad news: South Africa is facing an extraordinary “polycrisis”. The good news: leaders in business and politics have workshopped the scenarios that could save us. All we need is the will to make difficult choices.
I Write the Yawning Void
by Sindiwe Magona, edited by Renée
Schatteman.
Magona, an author of pre-eminence across genres, turned 80 this year. These essays span the transition from apartheid to the post-apartheid period, and address themes such as HIV/AIDS, culture, home and belonging. Finding Endurance
Darrel
by Justin Fox.
Greg
Bristow-bovey.
by
The author has a deeply personal relationship with the story of
and in this lyrical journey into past and present, above and below the Antarctic ice, he revisits the famous ship’s story.
The books that took the Big Ones. Don’t skip Prophet Song
the winner of the Booker Prize, aka “the best novel written in English” this year.
Scoop up the Sunday Times Literary Awards winners: My Land Obsession: A Memoir
(Non-fiction) and How to Be a Revolutionary
(Fiction). Take on Aliss at the Fire, by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Jon Fosse.
Don’t miss the winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize – oh, you haven’t heard of it? Well, it was just our excuse to include this debut detective novel from the world’s best absurdist comedian: The Satsuma Complex
Finally, The Book Lounge’s Book of the Year, though not a formal prize, makes for a read all literary tastemakers should heed. They chose a “powerful South African coming-of-age story”, Soft Landing