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BOOK REVIEWS

Raising Good Humans emotions arise. You’ll also discover strategies for

By Hunter Clarke-Fields cultivating respectful communication, effective
conflict resolution, and reflective listening. In
A kinder, more compassionate world starts the process, you’ll learn to examine your own
with kind and compassionate kids. In Raising unhelpful patterns and ingrained reactions that
Good Humans, you’ll find powerful and reflect the generational habits shaped by your
practical strategies to break free from “reactive parents, so you can break the cycle and respond
parenting” habits and raise kind, cooperative, to your children in more skillful ways.
and confident kids.
When children experience a parent reacting

Whether you’re running late for school, trying with kindness and patience, they learn to
to get your child to eat their vegetables, or act with kindness as well, thereby altering
dealing with an epic meltdown in the checkout generational patterns for a kinder, more
line at a grocery store, being a parent is hard compassionate future. With this essential
work! And, as parents, many of us react in guide, you’ll see how changing your own
times of stress without thinking and often by “autopilot reactions” can create a lasting
yelling. But what if, instead of always reacting positive impact, not just for your kids, but for
on autopilot, you could respond thoughtfully in With this book, you’ll find powerful generations to come.
those moments, keep your cool, and get from mindfulness skills for calming your
A to B on time and in one piece? own stress response when difficult Price: R419.00

Mr Einstein’s Secretary Place
By Matthew Reilly By Justin Fox

A secretary like no other In this gripping
in an epic spanning travelogue, Justin Fox
forty years. All Hanna goes on a one-of-a-
Fischer ever wanted to kind journey. Marrying
do was to study physics his love for travel and
under the great Albert writing, he sets off to
Einstein. But when, as explore the places of his
a teenager in 1919, her favourite books. From
life is suddenly turned the mountainous eastern
upside down, she is Karoo of Olive Schreiner
catapulted into a new to the big-game Lowveld
and extraordinary life – of Sir Percy Fitzpatrick,
as a student, a secretary, from Deneys Reitz’s
a sister and a spy. wide-open Cape interior to the Bushveld of Eugène Marais’s
Waterberg, Fox reveals the majestic power of place.
From racist gangs in
Berlin to gangsters in New York City, Nazis in the 1930s and Through the savannah of Herman Charles Bosman’s Marico, the
Hitler’s inner circle during the Second World War, Hanna will dusty plains of JM Coetzee’s Moordenaars Karoo, the forests
encounter some of history’s greatest minds and most terrible of Dalene Matthee’s Garden Route, the subtropical hamlets
moments, all while desperately trying to stay alive. She is a of Zakes Mda’s Wild Coast, and finally the sandstone crags of
most unique secretary, and she will work for many bosses – Stephen Watson’s Cederberg, he brings to life the settings we’ve
from shrewd businessmen to vile Nazis, to the greatest boss of only seen through characters’ eyes.
them all, Mr Albert Einstein.
Place is a moving love letter to South Africa, merging literature
This is the thrilling tale of a young woman propelled through and landscape, and taking the reader on a breath-taking journey
history’s most dangerous times. But read it carefully, because – into the heart of South Africa’s spectacular landscape and the
all may not be as it seems... inner-worlds of its most celebrated authors.

Price: R465.00 Price: R320.00

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