Reading Matters (week 15) April 7 2026

Debut author, Kay Brown, tells me not only about writing, Treading Water  (Kopano Print) but also how she self-published it.  It’s a delightful tale of two sisters, one living in Jo’burg, the other in Dallas, USA.  The sisters living thousands of km apart, are not close anymore, but when a fall leaves the American in a wheelchair, and simultaneously trying to cope with a cheating husband, she calls on her SA sibling for help.

Will their battles to overcome their differences succeed? Brown writes with wit and insight into the human condition.  You’ll laugh out loud and maybe suppress a sob.

Kay Brown created Kopano Print – ‘United by Stories’ – to publish what will surely be the first of many books.

I’m raving about Lundy’s Best Walks in the Cape Peninsula (Struik/PRH) because this pocket sized, glossy book with stunning pictures and maps, is written in a conversational manner that answers most questions a potential hiker/walker might have before choosing where to go.  He grades the walks so you know what you are in for.

Tim Lundy has revised his father, Mike Lundy’s Best Walks, with information about weather, garb, animals, birds and snakes and that’s just the start. Lundy ranges from Constantia to Lion’s Head and takes us to the long beach between Kommetjie and Noordhoek where I see again the shipwreck I first clapped eyes on in 1967.   If I was 10 years younger, I’d slip this little book into a light backpack and start walking.

Reading Matters with Sue Grant-Marshall