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DIY disaster
DIY publishing has a great deal to answer for. The latest to slip through quality control and into the review mailbag is Peter Feros' Come Smile With Me, a well meant but utterly unimpressive 60 page booklet, offering "a pot-pourri of analogies of...

Finance and intrigue
WHAT a pleasure it is to read a well-written novel of South African life where politics provides a mere backdrop and is not the main theme. This is Jenny Hobbs' third novel and readers who enjoyed Thoughts in a Makeshift Mortuary and The Sweet-Sme...

The real Muhammad
QUITE A NUMBER of books have been written about the life of Muhammad Ali, the greatest boxer who ever lived, but none is as detailed as this latest book, Muhammad Ali, written by Thomas Hauser. It is unlike other books about Ali, where the author...