Oulap se blou deur Chris Barnard het reeds vele positiewe resensies ontvang. Dit is ook die boek wat gekies is as die boek van die maand vir die Boeke Insig Boektafel.
Dit is ‘n bundel kortverhale, deursprinkel met nostalgiese stories en ‘n móét-lees vir almal, maar veral vir Afrikaners en dié wat hou van goeie Afrikaans:
Hieronder is een storie uit De Kat om te lees en nog ‘n resensie op die webblad, jouWêreld jou e-tydskrif. Lekker lees:
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With the Windies touring South Africa – and treating spectators to a tense and intruiging test series – some of the pain of last year’s disastrous Cricket World Cup will undoubtedly start to melt away.
Then again, the events of last March and April, which saw the horrific death of Pakistan’s coach Bob Woolmer cap two months of poor crowds and organisational disarray, can never be far from cricket lovers’ thoughts.
There is the tension and intrigue of a cricket match – and then there is the tension and intrigue of the shadowy world of cricket match fixing, which Laurie Claase’s new book Caught Out shows is pernicious and rife, and which many have associated with Woolmer’s death. Indeed, Claase’s meticulously-researched work will leave you wondering, to paraphrase reviewer Hilary Venables, whether there is any cricket that isn’t tampered with.
Venables’ substantial and considered article on Caught Out can be found in the first Noseweek of 2008, out now. Here’s a sample:
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