Book reviews
Review: Opulent Living Volume 1 – a coffee-table treasure
26 March 2013 | Justin Fox
Opulent Living magazine has recently launched a sumptuous coffee-table book that showcases some of the finest accommodation in southern Africa. Opulent Living Volume 1 is a lavish, 296-page publication, richly illustrated with beautiful photography and a write-up on each of the properties as well as
Braai up a storm with ‘Fuss-free braais’
7 February 2013 | Adel Groenewald
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You’ll never run out of ideas for what to put on the braai again. Hilary Biller makes sure of that in Fuss-free braais, a beautiful and easy-to-use cookbook that’ll have your friends and family back for more, time and time again.
Book Review: The Ard Bia Cookbook
30 January 2013 | Jenna Van Schoor
The layout of the Ard Bia Cookbook makes it more of an absorbing, visual story than a cookbook too, and the fact that a travel writer wrote it makes this book even closer to my heart, with a sense of place enhanced by the additions of local flowers and herbs in the recipes, which have bizarrely insp
Lessons with Liam: the one cookbook that’s sure to turn you pro
17 January 2013 | Adel Groenewald
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When it comes to cooking, there’s a big leap between being able and turning pro and a lot of it is not only based on the type of food you make, but the techniques and methods applied well before the cooking of the actual dish. If you’ve always dreamt of creating those masterful looking meals you
Interviewing Justin Bonello: the Ultimate Braai Master
3 December 2012 | Claudia Hodkinson
It started off as an idea, developed into a TV series and now it’s a book! Justin Bonello’s Ultimate Braai Master is a braai education that takes you on an 8000 kilometre culinary journey across South Africa.
Confessions of a Kalahari addict
31 October 2012 | Roxanne Reid
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The Kalahari. It’s vast and ageless, a semi-desert of photogenic red dunes and star-crammed skies where African animals run wild. Visit it once and it may capture your heart forever. That's certainly what happened to me. Now you can read about it in a new book called 'Travels in the Kalahari'.
Essential reading for a trip to Mozambique
26 October 2012 | Justin Fox
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My book, With Both Hands Waving, about my travels through Mozambique has just been released as an e-book.
‘My Life with Leopards’ – a must-read for any wildlife enthusiast
16 October 2012 | Adel Groenewald
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A closer look at Fransje van Riel's book about how Graham Cooke hand reared two leopard cubs in an unfenced camp in Lodolozi Private Game Reserve and how human and leopard became inseparable.
Book Review: Tim Butcher’s Blood River
17 April 2012 | Daniel Lucian
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In Blood River, Tim Butcher's fascination with a country's history is outweighed only by his courage, and the result is an extraordinary adventure, brilliantly told.
Getaway’s pick of holiday reads
5 April 2012 | Claire Shortt
As the long weekends that punctuate every April and May roll around again, a quick survey of the Getaway offices reveal our staffers have quite eclectic tastes in holiday reading.
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