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Book Choice - 19 Aug 25

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What caused the rise of serial killers in the 70s and 80s? Beverly Roos Muller reviews Murderland by Caroline Fraser. John Hanks reviews Tidal Pools of the western Cape by Serai Dowling, Twanji Kalula interviews Nadia Cassim about her novel Not another samosa run, and so so so much more fiction and non-fiction.

19 Aug English South Africa TV & Film

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