The South African writer Dalene Matthee has written several books that are situated in the Knysna forest on the south-eastern edges of the country. This time she has picked up a story that is set in the 19th century. Elias and Barta van Rooyen live in the forest, in an open space calle...
Since 2014, I’ve been blogging about books written by Black authors I either have para-social relationships with online, or who are acquaintances. This year, three of my Ghanaian friends published their debuts, and I couldn’t be more proud of them! #ReadGhanaian The Kelewele Connection by...
Roberta Eaton Cheadle, is a South African writer and poet specialising in historical, paranormal, and horror novels and short stories. She is an avid reader in these genres and her writing has been influenced by famous authors including Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Amor Towles, Stephen Crane,...
Wild Scenes Of The Hunter's Life: Or The Hunting & Hunters Of All Nationsby John Frost (1851). African and North American big game hunting, based in part on the works ofR Gordon CummingandGerard. A collection of numerous accounts of hunting ranging from badger and hare, to elephant and ...
Those books were written by authors you most likely have heard of (and if you’ve read BookNotes before, I’m quite sure you have!) Some of the books are eagerly awaited; they’ve got that buzz going on. Sometimes, though, I want to give a quick shout-out to some authors you most...
Tony V by Violette L. Meier Playing The Odds by Milton J. Davis Hatched: A Cybil Lewis Story by Nicole Givens Kurtz Available now! Time to head back to Atlanta for more science fiction/fantasy shenanigans! It’s Terminus II: an anthology written by all black and African American authors....
With an iIntroduction by Carl Van Doren. From the title page: "A brief estimate of the more important American authors and a description of their representative works." TB32381 $20.00 Gaer, Joseph: Bibliography of California Literature Fiction, Drama and Poetry of the Gold-Rush Period. New...
diseases may not be so easy to diagnose once a person is back home. The emphasis of this book is simply raising awareness of what's out there. Compiled from two decades of published material from the African Hunter magazine, written by hunters and bushmen who have been there and done that...
How It Can Change Your Life:Let us quote here a brief appreciation by an unknown Byzantine poet,which, even though probably written a whole millennium ago, still rings true today:“If you desire to master pain/ Unroll this book and read with care,/ And in it find abundantly/ A knowledge...
In the rhyming comical influence of authors like Shel Silverstein, Mo Willems and Dr. Seuss, Anson Berberich brings you his first children's picture book.Eggshells In My Omeletteis written and illustrated by Anson Berberich. It's a catchy comedy story that rhymes about a boy whose name is ne...