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Book Reviews

Big Pharma, Dirty Lies, Busy Bees
and Eco Activists: 20 Environmental
Stories from South Africa

This exciting third book from David
Bristow covers everything environmental
in South Africa that you always wanted
to know about. The subjects include
pesticides, poaching, petrol, plastics,
population, pollination, pollution, pods,
politics, pharmaceuticals, people,
prophets, power and poop.

Find out what industrially
manufactured foods and large-scale
farming are doing to us; how state
capture has derailed our civil service
and triggered sewerage spills, oil slicks
and air pollution; who benefits most
from health supplements; what are
the real costs of generating power
and what works best – coal, nuclear,
fracking, solar or wind?
You will also read about the good Eco Activists is David Bristow’s third
deeds of our eco heroes: those who book in the popular Stories from the Veld
bring water and hope to stricken series, following The Game Ranger, the
towns; who farm regeneratively and Knife, the Lion and the Sheep: 20 tales White Chalk
sell us wholesome foods; who clean about curious characters from Southern
up other people’s messes; as well as Africa and Of Hominins, Hunter-Gatherers
individual superheroes who nurture and Heroes: Searching for 20 Amazing By Terry-Ann Adams
their own back gardens. Places in South Africa.

Big Pharma, Dirty Lies, Busy Bees and Price: R280.00 “White Chalk will blow you away by its
honesty, depth and insightfulness. Terry
Ann goes to places where others fear to
tread. A memorable collection”
Boy on the Run – Lorraine Sithole

This fearless collection of stories takes the
reader on an odyssey of love and grief.

By Welcome Mandla Lishivha Terry-Ann Adams' peerless writing
brims with fire and wonder. You will be
Welcome Mandla Lishivha’s exquisitely provoked and you will exult. Above all,
crafted memoir is unlike anything you’ll remember where you were when
you’ve ever read. Boy on the Run is a you read White Chalk.
staggeringly beautiful and honest
exploration of identity through grief, love Terry-Ann Adams hails from Eldorado
and friendship, giving us, the readers, a Park. The 20-something writer spent her
glorious song of self-expression. childhood playing with imaginary friends
and writing poems, and started her writer’s
This book will change your life. journey at the tender age of 12 when
she wrote a mini memoir detailing her
Welcome Mandla Lishivha was born in struggle to be accepted into mainstream
1991. He is a freelance journalist and schooling as a person with albinism.
PhD candidate in Jurisprudence at the
University of Pretoria. He has a Master A cultural commentator, she hasn’t
of Arts in Journalism and Media Studies, stopped writing since then. Terry-Ann’s
a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in work, written in English and Afrikaans, is
Anthropology and a Bachelor of Arts in inspired by and predominantly features
Media Studies & Anthropology. Welcome Coloured people of South Africa. Her
worked as a travel writer for Getaway debut novel, Those Who Live In Cages, was
magazine for three years. He has written inspired by her grandmother, Frances
for the Journal of Contemporary African ‘Poppie’ Adams. “My grandmother always
Studies, Daily Maverick, Mail & Guardian, wanted me to tell her story, and the
Reuters, GQ and City Press, where he stories of Coloured women stuck in the
served as the Arts and Lifestyle Co-Editor. townships of Johannesburg, who are
often forgotten by society.”
Price: R240.00
Price: R220.00
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