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Book Reviews

Boy on the Run
BY WELCOME MANDLA LISHIVHA

Welcome Mandla Lishivha’s exquisitely crafted memoir is unlike anything you’ve ever
read. Boy on the Run is a staggeringly beautiful and honest exploration of identity through
grief, love and friendship, giving us, the readers, a glorious song of self-expression.
This book will change your life.
Welcome Mandla Lishivha was born 1991. He is a freelance journalist and PhD
candidate in Jurisprudence at the University of Pretoria. He has a Master of Arts in
Journalism and Media Studies, a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Anthropology and a
Bachelor of Arts in Media Studies & Anthropology. Welcome worked as a travel writer for
Getaway magazine for three years. He has written for the Journal of Contemporary African
Studies, Daily Maverick, Mail & Guardian, Reuters, GQ and City Press, where he served as
the Arts and Lifestyle Co-Editor
Price: R240.00

A Memory this Size and Other Stories:
The Caine Prize for African Writing 2013

These shortlisted stories for the 2013 Caine Prize, Africa’s leading literary prize, offer
five arresting, diverse, provocative snapshots of a continent and its descendants
captured at a time of accelerating change. The authors are: Tope Folarin (Nigeria) for
Miracle; Pede Hollist (Sierra Leone) for Foreign Aid; Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (Nigeria)
for The Whispering Trees; Elnathan John (Nigeria) for Bayan; Layi Chinelo Okparanta
(Nigeria) for America.
In addition, 12 writers from six different African countries took part in the Caine
Prize Writers’ Workshop, held this year in Uganda, where they each produced a
special story for this volume. These 17 stories show yet again the richness and range
of current writing on the continent. They underline the primacy of the short story,
with its oral antecedents, at the very heart of African literature.
Price: R220.00

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; and 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 deeds of our eco heroes: those who bring water and
hope to stricken towns; who farm regeneratively and sell us wholesome foods; who clean up
other people’s messes; as well as individual superheroes who nurture their own back gardens.
Big Pharma, Dirty Lies, Busy Bees and Eco Activists is David Bristow’s third book in the popular
Stories from the Veld series, following The Game Ranger, the Knife, the Lion and the Sheep: 20
tales about curious characters from Southern Africa and Of Hominins, and Hunter-Gatherers and
Heroes: Searching for 20 Amazing Places in South Africa.
Price: R280.00

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