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BOOK LIST

A curated collection

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Introducing The Book List, your ultimate literary destination. Here, we spotlight content from News24's books section that you might have missed, from comprehensive reviews to captivating extracts and insightful author interviews.

Whether you're an avid reader looking for your next captivating book or a curious mind exploring different genres, our curated list will enhance your reading journey.

Audiobooks

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Reviews

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Frank Thabani Sayi’s memoir shows that human resilience is a powerful force that often emerges in the face of adversity.

Across Pillow Talk and It’s Complicated, Sukdhev builds a romance universe that is unmistakably South African.

What emerges from Moral Ambition is not a conventional self-help book. Instead, it offers something rarer: a compelling case for why a life measured by its usefulness is one worth living.

In Countdown to Riches: 21 Days of Wealth-Attracting Habits, Rhonda Byrne invites you to make changes in your life that will bring your dreams of wealth closer to fruition.

Complex and difficult relationships are a feature of the novels highlighted in this month’s Charlotte Bauer Book Club.

The Dead Husband Cookbook has sinister goings-on, long tunnels leading to a basement prep area with a huge cold storage room, a child drinking what looks like blood....

Interviews

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‘That became a fascinating aspect to me, that there is a very, very close bond between them and yet there is a very strong antipathy between them'.

Charlotte Bauer speaks to author Nadia Davids about her latest Gothic novel that took her 17 years to complete.

Compion travelled right across Africa, documenting Africa’s Great Rift Valley from Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression to Tanzania’s Ol Doinyo Lengai and the Serengeti plains. Bridget Hilton-Barber found out all about it.

‘Haram is for readers interested in stories that engage honestly with difficult and often silenced subjects,’ says the Cape Town author.

In his own words, author Joe Hill calls his latest novel, King Sorrow, “A beast of a book, in more ways than one.”

Izzy Kingston is a recent matriculant and newly minted varsity dropout with many hilarious and harrowing school memories to share.

Extracts

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Anthony Butler’s Presidential Power pushes back against the simplifications that have dominated recent analysis of leadership.

The Bok Way by PJ Claasen explores how the Rugby World Cup–winning Springboks became a model of smart and healthy teamwork. With insights from key figures, it equips leaders to replicate their success.

"The world at large may be indifferent to our pain and suffering, but not because it is cruel. Each of us is simply wrapped up in our own lives.”

Africa’s population, currently the fastest growing in the world, is expected to almost double to 2.5 billion people by 2050. It will be home to one in four people on the planet.

Dogtag Memories is a raw, darkly humorous memoir that follows Jon Goetzsche’s chaotic journey through South Africa’s military machine.

After they take his body, Death moves in and makes himself comfortable. He’s not a polite house guest.

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