Reviews

18 August 2024: “Searing, thoughtful novel that takes you into the heart of the Gaza/Israel heartbreak” – Vivien Horler reviews The Bitterness of Olives by Andrew Brown

16 August 2024: CapeTalk’s Book Review: John Maytham reviews Who Looks Inside by Anna Stroud

14 August 2024: ‘Jonty Driver’s early life remembered’ by Riaan de Villiers

15 August 2024: Chris Thurman reviews Good Hope by Nick Clelland for Business Day

8 August 2024: Kris van der Bijl reviews Good Hope by Nick Clelland for News24

2 August 2024: CapeTalk’s Book Review: John Maytham reviews Dayspring by CJ Driver

2 August 2024: Arja Salafranca reviews Who Looks Inside by Anna Stroud for News24

26 July 2024: Nerine Dorman reviews Inside your body there are flowers by Diane Awerbuck

25 July 2024: Sally Cranswick reviews Bad Luck Penny by Amy Heydenrych for News24

21 July 2024: Jennifer Platt reviews Inside your body there are flowers by Diane Awerbuck

3 July 2024: Amy Heydenrych reviews Who Looks Inside by Anna Stroud

3 July 2024: Gail Gilbride reviews Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings

30 June 2024: Annelise Erasmus reviews Good Hope by Nick Clelland for Rapport

26 June 2024: Nancy Richards reviews Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings for Woman Zone CT

21 June 2024: Rahul Singh reviews Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings

20 June 2024: Steven Boykey Sidley reviews Inside your body there are flowers by Diane Awerbuck

9 June 2024: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar reviews Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings for Scroll

7 June 2024: Lucie Shelly reviews Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings for The Irish Times

2 June 2024: Cathy Park Kelly reviews Love Stories for Ghosts by Alex Latimer

31 May 2024: ABC The Bookshelf: Michael Brissenden reviews Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings

26 May 2024: Manjula Padmanabhan reviews Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings for Frontline

21 May 2024: Izak de Vries reviews The Bitterness of Olives by Andrew Brown

7 May 2024: “‘Pithy and clean’: Why readers (and writers) keep going back to the short story” by Sally Cranswick

29 April 2024: Moira Lovell reviews afterwards by Kerry Hammerton and So, by Beatrice Willougby for Stanzas

9 April 2024: SARIE: Liani Jansen van Rensburg reviews The Weight of Shade and interviews Michael Boyd

27 March 2024: Nancy Richards reviews Everyone Dies by Frankie Murrey for Woman Zone

15 March 2024: CapeTalk’s John Maytham reviews The Algebra of Insignificance by Stephen Symons

17 February 2024: Kirsten Deane reviews The Frightened by Lethokuhle Msimang for Hypercritic

4 February 2024: Diane Awerbuck reviews Everyone Dies by Frankie Murrey for the Sunday Times

31 January 2024: Jonathan Amid reviews The Bitterness of Olives by Andrew Brown for News24

22 December 2023: News24 reviews Glass Tower by Sarah Isaacs and The Bitterness of Olives by Andrew Brown

19 December 2023: Nancy Richards reviews Tiger for Woman Zone

10 December 2023: “The good, the true and the ugly in Lethokuhle Msimang’s The Frightened” – Sanet Oberholzer, Sunday Times

9 December 2023: Dale Halvorsen reviews Everyone Dies by Frankie Murrey

1 December 2023: Beryl Eichenberger reviews The Bitterness of Olives by Andrew Brown

23 November 2023: Relebone Rirhandzu eAfrika reviews The Frightened by Lethokuhle Msimang

10 November 2023: Gail Gilbride reviews The Bitterness of Olives by Andrew Brown on Goodreads

8 November 2023: Jen Thorpe reviews Fluid: The Freedom to Be edited by Joanne Hichens and Karina M. Szczurek

23 October 2023: Nancy Richards reviews Glass Tower by Sarah Isaacs for Woman Zone CT

6 October 2023: Arja Salafranca reviews What Remains by Dawn Garisch for News24

11 September 2023: Basil du Toit reviews Slaughterhouse by Melissa Sussens

5 September 2023: Nancy Richards reviews What Remains by Dawn Garisch for Woman Zone

30 August 2023: Steve Kretzmann reviews Everyone Dies by Frankie Murrey for The Critter

2 August 2023: Littlegig Library reviews The Frightened by Lethokuhle Msimang

21 July 2023: Gary Cummiskey reviews afterwards by Kerry Hammerton for News24

2 July 2023: Book Bites – Sunday Times: Tiah Beautement reviews The Weight of Shade by Michael Boyd

25 June 2023: Diane Awerbuck reviews Tunnel by Nick Mulgrew for the Sunday Times

20 April 2023: Ambre Nicolson Hsu reviews Cat Therapy by Gail Gilbride for Woman Zone CT

9 April 2023: Diane Awerbuck reviews Elton Baatjies by Lester Walbrugh for the Sunday Times

6 March 2023: Penny Haw reviews Cat Therapy by Gail Gilbride

30 January 2023: Joy Watson reviews Elton Baatjies by Lester Walbrugh for Daily Maverick

12 January 2023: Karen Watkins reviews Shadow Flicker by Melissa A. Volker

3 September 2022: ‘Neem kennis van dié Lester’: Jonathan Amid reviews Elton Baatjies by Lester Walbrugh

30 September 2022: Bookstagram love for Lester Walbrugh’s debut novel – Thérèse Fenshman reviews Elton Baatjie

17 September 2022: CapeTalk’s John Maytham reviews Elton Baatjies by Lester Walbrugh

19 August 2022: Karen Watkins reviews An Island by Karen Jennings

21 July 2022: Karen Watkins reviews The Other Me by Joy Watson

22 June 2022: Ilona Tip reviews Dov Fedler’s Gagman: “The jester in the concentration camp”

12 June 2022: Joy Watson reviews Boiling a Frog Slowly by Cathy Park Kelly for the Daily Maverick

27 May 2022: Koos Kombuis reviews A Hibiscus Coast by Nick Mulgrew

23 May 2022: Azille Coetzee reviews A Hibiscus Coast by Nick Mulgrew for Tydskrif vir letterkunde

16 May 2022: Lydia Millet reviews An Island by Karen Jennings for the NY Times

13 May 2022: Cory Oldweiler reviews An Island by Karen Jennings for the Star Tribune

1 May 2022: Sarah Hoek reviews The Other Me by Joy Watson for the Daily Maverick

18 March 2022: Steven Boykey Sidley reviews Gagman by Dov Fedler and Joanne Fedler

13 March 2022: Gail Gilbride reviews Boiling a Frog Slowly by Cathy Park Kelly for Woman Zone CT

3 March 2022: Karabo K Kgoleng reviews Boiling a Frog Slowly by Cathy Park Kelly for Arts24

13 February 2022: Joanne Hichens reviews Boiling a Frog Slowly by Cathy Park Kelly for the Sunday Times

4 January 2022: Ambre Nicolson Hsu reviews Boiling a Frog Slowly by Cathy Park Kelly for Woman Zone Book Club

24 December 2021: Nancy Richards reviews Conjectures by James Leatt

17 December 2021: David Rush and Danielle Naidoo review A Hibiscus Coast by Nick Mulgrew for the South Coast Herald

17 December 2021: Nancy Richards reviews Boiling a Frog Slowly by Cathy Park Kelly for Woman Zone Cape Town

15 December 2021: Debi Hawkins reviews Boiling a Frog Slowly by Cathy Park Kelly

7 December 2021: The Pool Guy by Melissa A. Volker: A lovely reader’s reaction from Natasha Kaleb Alexander

5 December 2021: Penny Haw reviews The Pool Guy by Melissa A. Volker

2 December 2021: Archie Swanson reviews Conjectures by James Leatt

30 November 2021: Penny Haw reviews Boiling a Frog Slowly by Cathy Park Kelly

24 October 2021: Vivien Horler reviews The Skipper’s Daughter by Nancy Richards

24 October 2021: Mike Nicol reviews Conjectures by James Leatt for the Sunday Times

17 October 2021: Eckard Smuts reviews An Island by Karen Jennings for the Daily Maverick

17 October 2021: Mary Corrigall reviews An Island by Karen Jennings for the Sunday Times

2 October 2021: Somak Ghoshal reviews An Island by Karen Jennings for the Mint Lounge

29 September 2021: David Attwell reviews An Island by Karen Jennings for LitNet

28 September 2021: Jonathan Jansen’s review of Conjectures by James Leatt appears in the Daily Maverick

23 September 2021: Monique Verduyn reviews A Hibiscus Coast by Nick Mulgrew for Business Day

15 September 2021: Mia Uys (@sabookworm) reviews An Island by Karen Jennings

14 September 2021: Belllie the Bookstagrammer reviews A Hibiscus Coast by Nick Mulgrew

12 September 2021: Hephzibah Anderson reviews An Island by Karen Jennings for the Observer

11 September 2021: Jane Rosenthal reviews A Hibiscus Coast by Nick Mulgrew for Arts24

7 September 2021: Ann-Maree Tippoo reviews An Island by Karen Jennings

31 August 2021: Beryl Eichenberger reviews The Skipper’s Daughter by Nancy Richards for the Cape Argus

31 August 2021: Jonathan D Jansen reviews Conjectures: Living With Questions by James Leatt

30 August 2021: Jackie Law reviews An Island by Karen Jennings

29 August 2021: Moira Lovell reviews For Everything That Is Pointless and Perfect by Stephen Symons for Stanzas

21 August 2021: Samantha Malunga reviews Let It Fall Where It Will by Lester Walbrugh

19 August 2021: Monique Verduyn reviews An Island by Karen Jennings for Business Day

18 August 2021: Catherine Taylor reviews An Island by Karen Jennings for the Guardian

15 August 2021: Victoria Catherine Shaw reviews An Island by Karen Jennings

13 August 2021: Julian Richfield reviews The Skipper’s Daughter by Nancy Richards for the Cape Times

9 August 2021: Christine Coates reviews An Island by Karen Jennings

9 August 2021: Nancy Richards reviews An Island by Karen Jennings for Woman Zone CT

5 August 2021: John Self reviews An Island by Karen Jennings for the Times

1 August 2021: Melissa A. Volker reviews A Hibiscus Coast by Nick Mulgrew

29 July 2021: Hazel Makuzeni reviews Theatre Road by Sindiwe Magona for Woman Zone Cape Town

28 July 2021: Gumble’s Yard reviews An Island by Karen Jennings for Goodreads

6 June 2021: Jonathan Amid reviews An Island by Karen Jennings for Rapport

24 May 2021: Jonathan Amid reviews Death and the After Parties by Joanne Hichens for Die Burger

23 May 2021: Diane Awerbuck reviews A Hibiscus Coast by Nick Mulgrew for the Sunday Times

12 May 2021: Death and the After Parties by Joanne Hichens: LitNet inter-review by Janet van Eeden

25 January 2021: Jonathan Amid reviews Let It Fall Where It Will by Lester Walbrugh for Die Burger

19 January 2021: The West Wind Magazine reviews Shadow Flicker by Melissa A. Volker

5 January 2021: Joy Watson reviews Death and the After Parties by Joanne Hichens for the Daily Maverick

18 December 2020: Ambre Nicolson Hsu reviews Death and the After Parties by Joanne Hichens for Woman Zone Cape Town

10 December 2020: Nina Geraghty reads Disturbance by Dawn Garisch

1 December 2020: Jennifer Crocker reviews Death and the After Parties by Joanne Hichens for Noseweek

29 November 2020: Diane Awerbuck reviews Death and the After Parties by Joanne Hichens for the Sunday Times

27 November 2020: Paige Nick reviews Death and the After Parties by Joanne Hichens on Goodreads

23 November 2020: Niki Malherbe reviews Death and the After Parties by Joanne Hichens

22 November 2020: Vivian Horler reviews Death and the After Parties by Joanne Hichens

18 November 2020: Barbara Erasmus reviews Death and the After Parties by Joanne Hichens on LitNet

10 November 2020: Skyler Hendricks reviews Let It Fall Where It Will by Lester Walbrugh

10 August 2020: Mignonne Breier’s comments on Breaking Milk and the ‘physicality’ of Dawn Garisch’s writing

31 January 2020: Andy Martin reviews Shadow Flicker by Melissa A. Volker

20 January 2020: Earl Nicholas Petersen reviews Breaking Milk by Dawn Garisch

6 January 2020: Beryl Eichenberger reviews Breaking Milk by Dawn Garisch for Fine Music Radio (the review begins at 36:06)

3 January 2020: Julian Richfield reviews Theatre Road in the Cape Times

3 January 2020: Tracey Farren reviews Breaking Milk by Dawn Garsich

30 December 2019: Natasha Alexander reviews Shadow Flicker by Melissa A. Volker

19 December 2019: Robyn Y. Cohen reviews Theatre Road

16 December 2019: Breakaway Reviewers’ review of Theatre Road

24 November 2019: Kate Sidley reviews Breaking Milk by Dawn Garisch for the Sunday Times

14 November 2019: Yolanda Wessels reviews Shadow Flicker by Melissa A. Volker at LitNet

11 November 2019: Beryl Eichenberger reviews Breaking Milk by Dawn Garisch for the Woman Zone Book Club

8 November 2019: Sue Townsend reviews Breaking Milk by Dawn Garisch in the Cape Times

20 October 2019: Nancy Richards reviews Shadow Flicker by Melissa A. Volker

29 September 2019: Barbara Erasmus reviews Shadow Flicker by Melissa A. Volker in the Sunday Times

27 September 2019: John Maytham reviews Breaking Milk by Dawn Garisch on CapeTalk

Review competition: Caroline Gill reviews Shadow Flicker by Melissa A. Volker

30 August 2019: Penny Haw reviews Shadow Flicker by Melissa A. Volker on Goodreads

Review competition: Gail Gilbride reviews Shadow Flicker by Melissa A. Volker

Review competition: Caroline Gill reviews A Fractured Land by Melissa A. Volker

Review competition: Natasha Alexander reviews A Fractured Land by Melissa A. Volker

12 July 2019: Sue Townsend reviews Melissa A. Volkers Shadow Flicker in the Cape Times

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