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/ 10 October 2009
In an earlier life the Mapungubwe Hotel was the French Bank; the Ashanti Hotel, diagonally across the road, housed lawyers’ offices.
There is a good reason to read the following books: Dante’s Number, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher and Blue Religion.
Stephen L Carter writes novels about the black American bourgeoisie and shoves in the odd murder to disguise his work as crime fiction
Barbara Ludman ponders ways of dying from Britain to Swaziland via Botswana.
Why is slasher fiction the local publishing world’s favoured dish? Barbara Ludman investigates.
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/ 26 November 2008
Barbara Ludman reviews <i>The 19th Wife </i>, <li>Wounded</li>, <i>Master of the Delta </i> and <i>The Chatham School Affair</i>.
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/ 25 November 2008
Barbara Ludman reviews <i >The Slaughter Pavilion</i>, <i>Thirty-three Teeth</i> and <i>Fear of Animals</i>.
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/ 20 November 2008
Alan Lipman and Barbara Ludman review three books that offer different perspective to South African life.
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/ 10 September 2008
Barbara Ludman reviews <i>Six Suspects</i> by Vikas Swarup.
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/ 9 September 2008
A feast of new South African crime novels criss-crosses various genres, writes Barbara Ludman.