No matter how short your end-of-year break seems to be, you can easily go through each of these reads in a day in a day or two.
And the best part? They are all local. Not only do these make for fantastic dinner party chatter, but they could also be stocking fillers for the bookies in your life.
- The Girl Who Survived Her Mother
Many of us have a great many stories to tell about 'daddy issues'. But what about 'mommy issues'? Talking about the childhood trauma your carry from your mother, or maternal figure's, parenting, is not one of the popular topics that get as much airtime as the effects of toxic masculinity from a guardian on our lives.
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Moshitadi Lehlomela, the author of The Girl Who Survived Her Mother, wishes to question with this with her book, a guide for anyone carrying a mother wound that won't allow them to vibrate at their highest self.
Read the extract here and share your thoughts on the book on our Facebook page.
- When the Filter Fades
Ever wondered about the secret lives of the rich famous and always online?
Well, in Janine Jellars' latest new novel, you don't have to as four South African women who each have a claim to fame, tell you about the highs and lows of holding onto the status quo. Read the extract BOOK EXTRACT | When the Filter Fades by Janine Jellars – a perfect holiday read.
How many times have you stood in front of a clueless or rudimentarily educated racist and wondered from what angle you enter the "but black people can be racist, too" debate. Calling it a debate is laughable as Thandiwe Nthinga points out in her new offering which explains the creations of use and it deployment as a scientific and biological fact a couple of centuries ago. "Up until the Western European intellectual and philosophical movement, race as a classification of human difference did not exist," she argues. Read the book extract here.
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- The Thabo Bester Story
Few trials have grabbed the collective attention of a country from search warrant to court proceedings as much as that of celebrity medical aesthetician Nandipa Magudumana and her shady partner, Thabo Bester.
For their hard week in ensuring that a dangerous man who ought not to be walking free, along with his doctor lover who was willing to give it all up for him, even her own children, authors of The Thabo Bester Story, Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn, have been honoured with the prestigious 2023 Nat Nakasa Award for Media Integrity.
Without the GroundUp journalists, Thabo's daring Mangaung escape attempts would not have been made public, nor would his swish life in the north of Johannesburg. This book is unputdownable and an easy way to get to grips with the trial which is still ongoing. Read the exclusive extract to Drum here.
