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Exclusive Books The Boeke Judges’ comments on The Help

Kate Turkington from 702, voiced an overriding sentiment with her comment: “The Help is not only a wonderful, unputdownable read, but its story of the relationships between the black maids who raise the white children, and who love them so much; and the closed, bigoted society of the white madams, most of whom don’t appreciate [...]

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Riddle Child

An astonishingly haunting novel from Penguin Books SA It’s hard to believe that this is a work of fiction, so real and raw is this account of the agony of ‘the task of steering a riddle child through life’ – Cape Argus Alexander is autistic. When he is nine years old he is found dead in a [...]

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