‘Murder in the Zambezi’ retells horror of airline passengers shot dead

Vivien Horler|Published

It was a shocking news story at the time: in September 1978 an Air Rhodesia Viscount on a flight from Kariba to Salisbury was shot down by rebels.

A heart mender and a heart breaker

Vivien Horler|Published

Driven Barnard came from behind to perform world first heart transplant

Good read about bad people with ugly souls

Vivien Horler|Published

Latest Charlie Parker thriller cuts to the bone… and them some, writes Vivien Horler

Book review: Relativity

Vivien Horler|Published

Desperate, compassionate and often funny, this is a great read

King compendium is a short story master class

Vivien Horler|Published

Introductory paragraphs throw a light on the creative process of a literary master, writes Vivien Horler

Book review: A Year of Marvellous Ways

Vivien Horler|Published

This is the kind of book you want to start again when you’ve reached the end

Book review: The Fish Ladder

Vivien Horler|Published

A healing journey to the source of life itself

Watchman: not quite Mockingbird

Vivien Horler|Published

First half is highly readable, with some funny parts, writes Vivien Horler

Watchman is not the book Mockingbird is

Vivien Horler|Published

But the first half is highly readable with some funny parts, writes Vivien Horler

Namwali Serpell scoops Caine prize

Vivien Horler|Published

Zambian writer Namwali Serpell has won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing, and has pledged to share her prize with the runners-up, two of whom are South African ...

Review: The Mirror World of Melody Black

Vivien Horler|Published

This is a moving novel, sometimes funny and wacky, sometimes tragic, and usually interesting

Another rehash to make tills ring

Vivien Horler|Published

So you’ve read the Fifty Shades series. And if you loved them, the good news is that there’s more. If you didn’t, you might as well stop reading right now

Afrikaans writer is Booker finalist

Vivien Horler|Published

Marlene van Niekerk’s ‘Triomf’ and ‘Agaat’ ‘the reason people read novels’

Pleeze, call me Cleese, not Cleez or Chee-eese!

Vivien Horler|Published

If you’ve ever been puzzled whether to pronounce John Cleese’s surname as “clees” or “cleez”, this first volume of his autobiography makes it clear.

Review: Black Dog Summer

Vivien Horler|Published

This book is about the consequences of a farm murder, and a slain mother unable to leave this world while her daughter’s life is unresolved

The man who made the environment ‘sexy’

Vivien Horler|Published

After a career in journalism spanning 37 years, Cape Argus Environment and Science Writer John Yeld retires today.

For Deon Meyer, it’s all about the story

Vivien Horler|Published

The successful crime writer continues his ‘incredible journey’ with hero Benny Griessel, writes Vivien Horler

No shrinking Violet

Vivien Horler|Published

A first for the author and a first for Zimbabwe, We Need New Names explores the identity of dislocation, writes Vivien Horler

SA tables global oil spill pacts

Vivien Horler|Published

Two bills aimed at incorporating the conventions into South African law are due to be tabled in Parliament.

The Life and Love of Cats

Vivien Horler|Published

On the mysteries of being owned by a cat

Skeleton may bring past to life

Vivien Horler|Published

The centuries-old remains of a teen could provide us with valuable insight into those who once lived in the Western Cape, writes Vivien Horler.

To the rescue of SA’s rhinos

Vivien Horler|Published

A private game reserve in KwaZulu-Natal is taking no chances with the risk posed by poachers, and has assigned guards to their special charges, writes Vivien Horler. ...

The people behind the wine

Vivien Horler|Published

A new book recounts the tales of the workers on Cape wine farms

Burgled jeweller offers cash for information

Vivien Horler|Published

The burglar who escaped from a V&A Waterfront store with loot worth more than R5-million was badly cut as he wriggled out of the display window - and Charles Greig ...

Art patron had 'vision and energy'

Vivien Horler|Published

The future of the Brett Kebble Art Awards is in the balance after his murder in Johannesburg.