Mammals of Southern Africa and Their Tracks and Signs
Lee Gutteridge & Louis Liebenberg (Jacana)
*****
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Track and sign is part art, part science. It is all about observation and practice. Combining the efforts of two of the leading experts, this exciting book has led to the first key to mammal tracks in our region. An invaluable effort! The authors’ vast experience is distilled concisely on every page, aided by behavioural notes, highly illustrative photos (including those of scat and the undersides of hooves and paws) and Liebenberg’s incredibly accurate sketches. It deserves to become the dog-eared, constant companion of nature guides and casual enthusiasts alike.
– Shaun Phillips @ShaunPhillipsZA
The Grand Scam
Rob Rose (Zebra Press)
*****
With The Wolf of Wall Street playing to packed cinemas, the timing of this book couldn’t be better. He may be less vulpine than Leonardo de Caprio’s character but Barry Tannenbaum masterminded the biggest corporate fraud in South Africa’s history. Rob Rose is an investigative journalist with the Sunday Times, and his book reads like a slick thriller. From the founding of the Adcock-Ingram pharmaceutical empire on the strength of a humble camphor cream, to the disgraced Tannenbaum’s lair on Australia’s Gold Coast, Rose lays down gripping read, dripping with schadenfreude.
- Michele Magwood @michelemagwood
The Flavours of Love
Dorothy Koomson (Quercus)
****
Book fling
Ignore the cover – this is not some airy-fairy chick lit fodder. It’s a cleverly woven psychodrama about a woman named Saffron Mackleroy whose husband Joel was brutally killed 18 months ago. His murderer was never found – and Saffron is keeping a secret about her 14-year-old daughter’s involvement in it. The same daughter who has just revealed that she is pregnant. What is the secret? Who took advantage of the girl? Who is the killer? Koomson keeps the reader guessing and frustrated, until all is satisfactory revealed in the end.
- Jennifer Platt @Jenniferdplatt
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- Mammals of Southern Africa and Their Tracks and Signs by Louis Liebenberg, Lee Gutteridge
EAN: 9781431408061
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