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Michelle McGrane's favourite reads of 2005
Book fanatic, Michelle McGrane gives us a peek at her local and international
reading highlights of 2005. Not all these books were published in 2005 but were
enjoyed during the year. Each book has a link through to kalahari.net or other
book suppliers where you are able to buy a copy for your reading pleasure in
2006.
South African publications
-
 The
Dream in the Next Body by Gabeba Baderoon
(Kwela) 2005,
ISBN 0795701977
Poetry
Click here to read our interview with
Gabeba Baderoon
Click here to read our LitNet
review of this poetry collection
-
 In
the name of Amandla by Vonani Bila
(Timbila Poetry Project) 2004,
ISBN 0958464022
Poetry
Click here to read the
LitNet review of this poetry collection
-
 The Closest
of Strangers: South African Women’s Life Writing, edited
by Judith Lutge Coullie
(Wits University Press) 2004,
ISBN 1868143880
Collection of autobiographical writings
-
 What
Poets Need by Finuala Dowling
(Penguin) 2005,
ISBN 114302468X
Fiction
Click here to read the LitNet review
of this book
-
 When
All Else Falls Away, Nigel Fairhead with
Marianne Thamm
(Penguin) 2005,
ISBN 0143024728
Autobiography
Click here for the LitNet review of
this autobiography
- A rough guide to small-scale
and self-publishing by Colleen Higgs
(Centre for the Book) 2005,
ISBN 0796100586
Non-fiction
Click here to read about the book launch
Click here for our LitNet interview
with Colleen Higgs
-
 Welcome
To Our Hillbrow by Phaswane Mpe
(University of Natal Press) 2001,
ISBN 0869809954
Fiction
Click here to read Michelle McGrane's
tribute to the late Phaswane Mpe
-
 Tell
Tale by Helge Janssen
(Pine Slopes Publications) 2005,
ISBN 0958487413
Fiction
Click here to read our LitNet review of this book
-
 Now
You’ve Gone ‘n Killed Me by Lin Sampson
(Oshun) 2005,
ISBN 1770070494
Collection of journalism (newspaper and magazine) articles
Click here to read our LitNet review
of this book
-
 Quotable
Africa by Julia Stewart
(Penguin) 2004,
ISBN 0143024574
Non-fiction
Click here to read our interview
with Julia Stewart
International publications
-
 Staying
Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times, edited by Neil
Astley
(Miramax Books) 2003,
ISBN 1401359264
Poetry
-
 Women
by Charles Bukowski
(Black Sparrow Books) 1981,
ISBN 0876853904
Fiction
-
 Lunar
Park by Bret Easton Ellis
(Picador) 2005,
ISBN 0330439596
Fiction
-
 Jimi
Hendrix: The Man, The Magic, The Truth by Sharon
Lawrence
(Sidgwick & Jackson) 2005,
ISBN 0283070196
Biography
-
 Casa
Rossa by Francesca Marciano
(Vintage) 2003,
ISBN 0099422026
Fiction
-
 West
with the Night by Beryl Markham
(North Point Press) 1982,
ISBN 0865471185
Autobiography
-
 The
Long Hard Road out of Hell, Marilyn Manson
with Neil Strauss
(Plexus) 1998,
ISBN 0859652777
Autobiography
-
 Birds
of America by Lorrie Moore
(Picador) 1998,
ISBN 0312241224
Collection of short stories
-
 Sleeping
with Cats by Marge Piercy
(Piatkus Books) 2003,
ISBN 0749923725
Autobiography
-
 Aquarius
Revisited: Seven Who Created the Sixties Counterculture That Changed America
by Peter O Whitmer with Bruce
VanWyngarden
(Macmillan) 1987,
ISBN 0026276704
Non-fiction
LitNet: 10 January 2006
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