EXCITING NEW READS FOR THE NEW YEAR
1. HIDDEN PRETORIA by Johan Swart & Alain Proust (Struik Lifestyle, R430)
From quiet domestic detail in the Smuts house at Irene and a compassionate tribute to Westfort Leprosy Hospital, to the splendour of Marabastad’s Mariamman Temple and the exotically historic Museum of Natural History, you’ll discover and rediscover gems of Pretoria’s often unsung architecture. Proust’s remarkable photographic eye refreshes even the best-known buildings, and Swart muses on the details of history and aesthetics that these pictures reveal.
2. GOTTA GET THEROUX THIS by Louis Theroux (Macmillan, R340)
In this memoir, Theroux tells of his early ambition to perform and the opposition to his geeky ideas and pitches. His
