A SIN OF OMISSION
I wrote a short book review of this interesting book for the Bulletin of National Library of South Africa. The reactions to it amuse me if nothing else. I find it limiting how
Mphuthumi Ntabeni
Mphuthumi Ntabeni is trained in built environment, reads literature, history and philosophy. He lives in Cape Town. He has written two historical novels, The Broken River Tent & The Wanderers.
My Top Ten Series of 2020
10) Homecoming is a US wannabe British Black Mirror that fails, about US soldiers who comes back from from war only to be made guinea pigs by a pharmaceutical companies with jaw clenching
My Bright Abyss: My Top Ten Plus One Reads Of 2020
I am sure most of us spent this year pretending it was not happening. So things, like books and movies, that help us escape to the republic of the mind were popular. But
THIS MOURNABLE BODY_Book Review
I often have a problem with 'big issues' novels who derive their themes from the cacophony of the crowd. Not that I'm against novels that tackle pressing issues of the times. But often
The Flooding: Readings of Toni Morrison and Historical Fiction
If you're looking for something to read this heritage month you probably should pick up The Broken River Tent. It reminds us how we got here from the Cape Colony Frontier history of
ASHES OF MEMORY
Bronwyn Davids, who used to write for the Cape Times and Cape Argus during what she calls an era of "apartheid's death watch" (from 1988 to 1992) has written a book that is