Amabookabooka

Amabookabooka's Jonathan Ancer talks about his book Spy: Uncovering Craig Williamson.

Today's episode of Amabookabooka was recorded in 2015 and features Imraan Coovadia, author of The Wedding, Green-Eyed Thieves, High Low In-between, and The Institute for Taxi Poetry and Tales of the Metric. Imraan, a UCT professor, has won all the South African literary awards that matter.

Today's Amabookabooka guest is Prof Jonathan Jansen - a husband, father, academic, leader, joke-teller, peace maker, columnist and compelling story-teller. He is also a teacher – and his books – and his written a lot of books - are all about lessons.

Today's author is Sue Brown whose memoir, The Twinkling of An Eye, ​is one of the most difficult books you will ever read, but you should read it because you get to meet Chris Brown, a remarkable young man - and hear about a mother's heroic fight against her son's rare brain tumour.

Today we deviate from Amabookabooka to bring you amabike-a-bike-a - well, actually it's a book about bikes so it's an Amabooka-bike-a episode. On Your Bike is a guide to mountain biking written by the Whitfield Brothers ... Chris and Tim.