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Book Reviews: In Search Of Birds And Black Lilies, Or Feel Better And Beg To Differ

By ROB HOFMEYR, MARION HOFMEYR, NIGEL WILLIS, KATE DENNILL & BRUCE DENNILL Play The Man by Mark Batterson Featherings: True Stories In Search Of Birds edited by Vernon RL Head I Beg To Differ: Ministry Amid The Teargas by Peter...

Book Reviews: Orpheus And Crime, Or A Small Bourbon For The Struggle

By BRUCE DENNILL, DRIES BRUNT & ROB HOFMEYR Orpheus And Eurydice by Hugh Lupton, Daniel Morden & Carole Henaff Creating A Photography Portfolio by Johnathan Andrews Life Of Crime by Kimberley Chambers The Bourbon Bible by Eric Zandona The God...

Book Reviews: The Severity Of Murders, Or A Lone Man’s Death By Poison

By BRUCE DENNILL, DRIES BRUNT, NIGEL WILLIS 52 Weeks With Jesus by James Merritt The De Zalze Murders by Julian Jansen The Fatuous State Of Severity by Phumilani Pikoli Lone Man’s Climb: A Journey Of Trauma, Tragedy And Triumph On...

Book Reviews: Basket Guide, Or First Response To Kim Jong-Il

By BRUCE DENNILL, DRIES BRUNT & KATE DENNILL Sky Guide: Africa South by Auke Slotegraaf & Ian Glass Dudu’s Basket by Dianne Stewart and Elizabeth Pulles Be Bright by Anita Potgieter A Kim Jong-Il Production by Paul Fischer First Response...

Book Reviews: Elvis Trigger, Or My Mongrel Heart

By BRUCE DENNILL Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman Landy At The Factory / Fender And The Cliff Rescue / Landy And The Apple Harvest Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello Where My Heart Used To Beat by Sebastian Faulks...

Music Reviews: Who’s That Guy Ben, Or Fire 4 Ever

By BRUCE DENNILL Ben Haenow: Ben Haenow Prince: 4 Ever WorshipMob: Carry The Fire Guy Buttery: Guy Buttery X-Factor winner Ben Haenow’s debut album is a fine showcase for his blue-eyed soul voice, songwriting and performance nous. His...

Book Reviews: Historians And Horses, Or Ground Glass

By ROB HOFMEYR, DRIES BRUNT & BRUCE DENNILL Hermann Giliomee: Historian by Hermann Giliomee The Glass Universe by Dava Sorbel Bare Ground by Peter Harris A Little Horse Called Pancakes / A Little Horse Called Pancakes And The Big Mountain Fire...

Book Reviews: Go Set A Chick, Or Hell Bent On Virginity

By BRUCE DENNILL, ROB HOFMEYR & DRIES BRUNT Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee This is The Chick by Wendy Hartmann and Joan Rankin Finding My Virginity by Richard Branson Hell Bent by Gregg Hurwitz Harper Lee,...

Book Reviews: Grace Is Alive, Or Behave, Right Hand

By BRUCE DENNILL & DRIES BRUNT The Case For Grace by Lee Strobel Miss Behave by Malebo Sephodi Reasons To Stay Alive by Matt Haig Red Right Hand by Chris Holm Lee Strobel is an experienced journalist as...

Book Reviews: Holomisa’s Dreams, Or Marah In Essex

By ROB HOFMEYR, DRIES BRUNT & BRUCE DENNILL The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry It’s Me Marah by Marah Teboho Louw Bantu Holomisa, The Game Changer by Eric Naki The Dust That Falls From Dreams by Louis de Bernieres...

Book Reviews: Darwin’s Breakfast, Or Marketing The Borgias’ Red Kids

By ROB HOFMEYR, DRIES BRUNT, BRUCE DENNILL Darwin’s Hunch by Christa Kuljian 9 Red Earth by...

Book Reviews: African Keyboards, Or An Alibi For Jocasta

By BRUCE DENNILL, NIGEL WILLIS & ROB HOFMEYR A Slip Of The Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction by Terry Pratchett 8.5 South Africa In Africa: Super Power...

Book Reviews: Miniature Birds, Or Born To Run To Cape Town

BY BRUCE DENNILL & ROB HOFMEYR Roberts Bird Guide: Second Edition by Hugh Chittende, Greg Davies and Ingrid Weiersbye 8 The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton ...

Book Reviews: Extraordinary Conception, Or Mightier Than Secrets

BY BRUCE DENNILL & DRIES BRUNT Mightier Than The Sword by Jeffrey Archer 7 The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman …

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