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Published Jun 11, 2014

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These are some of the books our books editor, Meneesha Govender, received recently. They may be reviewed later

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Memoirs of a Born Free

by Malaika wa Azania (Jacana)

Since her early childhood, growing up in Meadowlands in Johannesburg, Malaika wa Azania has always wanted to write a letter to the ANC.

She has finally done it. This book is the letter.

Read it to understand what being “born free” means to some.

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By Any Means

by Kurt Ellis (Human & Rousseau)

Kyle lives in a matchbox house in Sydenham with his aunt and cousins, Captain and Jimmy.

Kyle dreams of having a football career. But Captain is the gang leader of the notorious Godfathers – he dreams of saving his family from the poverty into which they were born – by any means necessary. If this means selling drugs to the community, then so be it.

Soon Captain finds himself at odds with men far more ruthless than he is, and the consequences can only be tragic.

This is a story of love, betrayal and revenge in the ganglands of Durban.

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Paradise

by Greg Lazarus (Kwela)

Maja is in Cape Town to do what she does best – steal.

She is tasked by her new employer with stealing an item from a building in Long Street.

But what is meant to be her easiest job, will soon turn out more complicated than she anticipated.

There is the bumbling building manager – Hershel Bloch – who stands in her way even though he is about to be fired from his job for being the worst estate agent ever. He needs to turn his life around… quickly.

There are other characters that will enter Maja’s world – Surita who has to make peace with her father, and the waitresses at the greatest socialist coffee shop in town.

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