Struik Lifestyle imprint: 130 books

Lynn Bedford Hall, one of South Africa’s top food authors, presents Fabulous food... A collection of practical, relatively easy recipes in a visually captivating format. Each of the 180 recipes is featured in an exquisite full-colour photograph, covering every occasion, from quick mid-week suppers...

In the author’s own words: “When you live in Israel, it’s plain to see that food holds a special place in Jewish life. From early morning until dawn the next day, Israelis are always noshing on something and enjoying one another’s company. On any given holiday, the festive table groans under...

Sarah Graham says she has aimed this book at twenty- and thirty-somethings (or anyone who is young at heart), who ‘love life, love food, love their friends and love to squeeze the last drop from their time and money’. She believes that anyone can cook delicious, wholesome food, and to that end...

Whether you want to start a new hobby or ‘go green’, there are plenty of reasons to make your own natural essential oil products: you can create your own blend of aromatic fragrances, make unique home-made gifts for friends and relatives and, more importantly, you can create natural alternatives...

Fly-fishing is a multifaceted sport that will absorb you in its reality, taking you to places of exceptional beauty, to explore and to revel in the solitude. It is so often spoken of as an art form, while fly-tying, inextricably linked to fly-fishing, is in its own right a form of artistry. South...

This book on flower arranging contains easy step-by-step instructions on how to achieve beautiful flower arrangements for a variety of vases and containers. Birkenhead Blooms contains information on what equipment is required, what preparation in necessary, the use of colour, and how to make arrangements...

Anyone who longs for a beloved grandmother’s famous milk tart or melkkos, or a great aunt’s delicious bobotie or vetkoek, should have this book in his or her kitchen! Traditional South African Cooking is a collection of well-known South African recipes that will enable the modern cook to continue...

Johannesburg: Egoli to some, Jozi to others. Once a mining town, now the most important commercial city in Africa. It’s been home to renegades and rogues, colonialists and capitalists, the dispossessed and the newly enriched. Today it’s populated by those who call themselves Africans or Afrikaners,...

Confessions of a Hungry Woman began as a monthly column for Woolworths’ Taste magazine, and gradually grew into what Sam Woulidge describes as a ‘love letter’, to food and foreign places, but ultimately to South Africa. After four years of travelling the world, sampling every delicacy the globe...

Many of the most important events of our lives are made even more memorable when we gather with those we love to share a meal, conversation and laughter. Whether the occasion is a special celebration or a simple family meal, a stylish table complements both the food and the company. If you love to...

Most botanical gardens include succulents in their collections; few are devoted solely to them. In Succulent Paradise, the reader is taken on a verbal and visual tour of twelve exceptional succulent gardens. See how a handful of landscaping and horticultural visionaries have juxtaposed indigenous...

An artist’s canvas reflects the face he chooses to show to the world, but the place in which that art is made is seldom revealed. Paul Duncan was given unparalleled access into the homes and lives of fourteen of South Africa’s most revered artists. Over countless mugs of coffee or glasses of wine,...

From beer’s porridge-like beginnings through to the cutting edge craft beers being poured across the country today, African Brew tells the story of South African beer. Join a pint-studded journey through seven provinces to meet the brewers, taste their beers and learn exactly what goes into that...

Folktales are timeless and, although they are a product of a particular culture, they have universal relevance because they give insight into the human condition. In Folktales from Africa, award-winning South African author Dianne Stewart has retold stories from the length and breadth of the African...