Book Choice

Book Choice is broadcast every alternating Tuesday of each month presented by Paige Nick. While you’re munching your lunch or driving the myriad motorways, you’ll hear all that’s best in books. Cape Town’s top book reviewers will entertain and inform you as they cheerfully chat about the newest and nicest fiction and non-fiction on current book shelves. You love author interviews? Well, we line up those for your pleasure and leisure too. You want an easy-peasy competition each month with good prizes? All there, prettily planned for your lovely listening. Do join us for your delectation… for your entertainment… for your information.

Book Choice Publishers' Choice - 09 Dec 25

Join us for our festive season book suggestions from Penguin Random House, Jonathan Ball and Pan MacMillan, a drop in from author Jaco Jacobs, as well as an epic inter-review with Mandy Weiner, courtesy of our friends at Exclusive Books.

12-09
57:51

Book Choice: Book Short _Mandy Weiner, The Deal

In this ten minute Book Choice Publishers’ Choice Short, Vanessa Levenstein brings us the perfect inter-review with award-winning journalist, Mandy Weiner, about her new book The Deal.

12-09
10:47

Book Choice: Book Short _ Helene Coetzee, Pan Macmillan

In this Book Choice Publishers’ Choice short, Helene Coetzee from Pan Macmillan chats to Jaco Jacobs for seven minutes about his latest release, The Lightning Bird.

12-09
08:09

Book Choice: Book Short _ Aisling Rawle, The Compound

For the next five minutes, listen to Paige Nick chatting about the book she’s just read, The Compound by Aisling Rawle, in our Book Choice Publishers’ Choice Short. It’s reality TV in a book.

12-09
02:53

Book Choice - 25 Nov 25

In this week’s show we really take our time bringing you the best of books, Riley Herbert-Henry reviews The Diplomat by Mpho Boshego, he also read the entire Booker Prize Shortlist and weighs in on it and the winner. Beryl reviews the latest Wally Lamb, Beverly Roos-Muller interviews Lord Peter Hain, and Twanji chats to Bruce Whitfield about his latest.

11-25
55:39

Book Choice: Book Short _Wally Lamb - The River is Waiting

A 5-minute Book Choice Short in which Beryl reviews the latest Wally Lamb, The River is Waiting.

11-25
04:08

Book Choice: Book Short _ Riley Herbert-Henry, Booker Prize shortlist

In this 10-minute podcast, Riley Herbert-Henry talks about his mission to read the entire Booker Prize shortlist and what he thought of them, and what he thought of the winner, and his thoughts on the future of the Booker Prize.

11-25
07:37

Book Choice: Book Short _ Bruce Whitfield, It’s About Tyme.

In this 10-minute interview, Twanji chats to Bruce Whitfield about his latest book on banking, it’s about Time.

11-25
11:40

Book Choice: Book Short _ Lord Peter Hain, South African politics and corruption

In this 10-minute interview Beverley Roos-Muller got to chat to Lord Peter Hain about his latest book on South African politics and corruption.

11-25
08:06

Book Choice Publishers' Choice - 11 Nov 25

We’re joined by three of South Africa’s top publishers, Penguin Random House, Pan Macmillan and Jonathan Ball Publishers and SA’s favourite bookseller, Exclusive Books, to find out what to put on your bookie gifting list this year. For yourself or for someone else.

11-11
57:31

Book Choice - 28 Oct 25

In this month’s October Book Choice we celebrate 250 years of Jane Austen with Austen Mania, two true crime book reviews, a big-hitting new Richard Osmond titles and a pair of enticing author interviews, on that takes us all the way to space and back.

10-28
59:43

Book Choice: Book Short _ Richard Osmond - We Solve Murders

In this five minute book short, Beverley Roos-Muller reviews the latest by cosy crime king, the immensely tall Richard Osmond.

10-28
07:58

Book Choice: Book Short _ Dr Adriana Marais - Out Of This World And Into The Next

An out of this world ten-minute interview, legend, Twanji Kalula chats to Dr Adriana Marais, on her work in space exploration.

10-28
13:24

Book Choice: Book Short _ Jane Austen - Six Weeks By The Sea

In this 5 minute podcast Vanessa talks all things Austen to celebrate her 250th birthday.

10-28
05:46

Book Choice Publishers' Choice - 14 Oct 25

Book Choice is broadcast every alternating Tuesday of each month presented by Paige Nick. While you’re munching your lunch or driving the myriad motorways, you’ll hear all that’s best in books. Cape Town’s top book reviewers will entertain and inform you as they cheerfully chat about the newest and nicest fiction and non-fiction on current book shelves. You love author interviews? Well, we line up those for your pleasure and leisure too. You want an easy-peasy competition each month with good prizes? All there, prettily planned for your lovely listening. Do join us for your delectation… for your entertainment… for your information.

10-14
54:43

Book Choice - 30 Sept 25

Are you a fan of fiction or non-fiction? No worries we cover all of it in today’s show, with everything from Big banger reads like Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal to Eben Etzebeth’s memoir, Unlocked,

09-30
59:09

Book Choice: Book Short _ Jeff Weeks - The Shadow State

in this 10-minute listen, Twanji Kalula chats to Jeff Wicks about the astonishing investigative journalism that blew this case wide open.

09-30
08:39

Book Choice Publishers' Choice - 16 Sept 25

Our Publishers’ Choice edition, where we cover the latest big hits from Penguin Random House, Jonathan Ball and Pan Macmillan and where our sponsors, Exclusive Books join us with news and some questions from the National Kid’s Lit Quiz. How many of them can you get right?

09-16
59:00

Book Choice - The Open Book Fest - 02 Sept 25

Something very special is happening right here in Cape Town from the 5- 7th September. The Open Book Festival is an absolute must-see highlight on the literary calendar every year, in this show we hand over to festival founder, Mervyn Sloman and festival coordinator Frankie Murray to get some insider info on what we can expect to enjoy at this years’ festival.

09-02
58:01

Book Choice: Book Short _ Caroline Fraser - Murderland - 19 Aug 25

Find out what caused the rise of serial killers in the 70s and 80s in this 6-minute podcast with Beverley Roos-Muller, who also has an interesting link to this subject.

08-19
06:50

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