Maqueen Motuba

The Black Angel by John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton) Connolly takes his Charlie Parker series from the serial-killer realm towards supernatural horror. Killer Louis is searching for his junkie-whore cousin and her abductors; Parker comes to realise that this disappearance is part of an older mystery — one linked to a church of bones in […]

How liberated is the 21st century woman as the abundance of freedom has left her more exhausted now with unlimited responsibilities asks MaQueen Motuba.

<i>Stitched-up</i>
by <b>Stephanie Vermeulen</b>
(Jacana)

Kate, in her mid-50s and married several times begins to feel a change, begins to care less about the material world and, in an attempt to prove this to herself, burns "several hundred-dollar bills just to demonstrate to herself that these items were not the God/Goddess of her life"

<i>The Closest of Strangers</i> takes one on a historic journey of South Africa with women as the key navigators, writes MaQueen Motuba.

Nominated for both the Orange Prize and the Booker longlist, <em>Purple Hibiscus</em> is a thought-provoking novel that looks at what religion means to people in a changing society, and familial power-relations. MaQueen Motuba reviews.