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THE TRANSKEI RUN

It'll have you smiling while it hammers you with gut punches.

Charlie Human
author of Apocalypse Now Now

THE TRANSKEI RUN

Erudite and coarse, guttural and smooth, dialectical and high brow; the story see saws to an explosive conclusion with increasing recklessness. The hope in the midst of hopelessness, the violence in a peaceful countryside, the misunderstandings of race, the destructiveness of drugs; all are encapsulated within the decaying body of post apartheid Africa. This is powerful writing: honest, forceful, unapologetic. It strips the scenery of my youth: cove rock, Nahoon, Coffee Bay of its innocence, and replaces it with the cold, anarchic, inevitable reality of modern day South Africa. Armageddon pales in comparison to the bleak landscape he project; psychological and physical. His message only the tough, the truly broken survive, is the ultimate expression of bleakness. A great read. Highly recommended in its awful vision of a today without future.

Velile
on Amazon

THE TRANSKEI RUN

Loved this book! Cutting humour and gripping plot. So hard these days to find a book that offers pleasure on every page and this is definitely one of those!

Carla Lauder
on Goodreads

THE TRANSKEI RUN

If you like Brookmyre, you'll love this book. A bit graphic at times, so not for the faint of heart. Very entertaining and engaging with superb descriptions and a good bit of SA local colour.

Katherine
on Goodreads

THE TRANSKEI RUN

It's all shits and giggles until you piss off a couple guys with guns.

But in all honesty, it really was a hilarious read for the most part. For the rest, it was an interesting exploration of morality. How much of it is really black and white and how much is a hundred different shades of grey. Felt like PHIL1001: Ethics all over again.

Claudia
on Goodreads

ABOUT MICHAEL

Oh geez. I hate these things. No matter what I say, it’s going to sound poncey, and let’s face it: this is the literary equivalent of farting in your hand and smelling it. Nobody reads them and bios never sold a book. So I tell you what—why not buy one of my books and come up with your own paragraph about what you think of me. You don’t even have to write it down if you don’t want to. You don’t even have to come up with it in the first place. Just buy a book and everybody wins.

Michael Taljaard Author
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