Guest Review by Author Mark Stone. Ever since George Orwell penned 1984, since Aldous Huxley gave us Brave New World, dystopian future sci-fi has been a staple in the English-speaking world. But how do you follow up such literary classics without resulting in a hashed up mishmash of the two? Surely it would take a [...]

For part-time history buffs, like myself, who like to know what happened, when it happened with a brief recount of why it happened without trawling through mounds of historical artefacts and textbooks, John O’Farrell has come to the rescue once more. His first history book took on the admirable and gargantuan task of fitting 2,000 [...]

“Sex and the City meets Murder Mystery.” Synopsis: Presley Thurman, a sassy, thirty-something red head, was looking to reinvent herself. She didn’t allow the fact she was recently fired to bother her – she was ready to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a writer. Presley was a lover of shopping and Starbucks, and even [...]

With the British invaders only on the horizon, Corlie Roux’s childhood is about to be turned upside down. With the Boer War still in full swing, Corlie, her stern mother and her younger siblings are all driven from their homes on the Transvaal, to an internment camp along with other Boer families. All the young [...]

The King Whisperers by Kerwin Swint follows the political lives of some of the most influential (if not powerful) figures in history. The book’s focus is not on Kings, Sultans or Presidents, but rather on those people who were their advisors, counsellors and officials. Using forty seven case studies to outline ten different types of [...]