Coming to grips with money, making wise decisions and setting ourselves on a path to wealth can be daunting. Smartwoman reveals who is competing for your money, how to create your designer life and how to start a side hustle, while navigating major life events including marriage, divorce and death. Making smart decisions at these times is just as important as knowing where to invest, and this book covers the full spectrum of investment options, including equities, property, offshore investment and alternative investments, such as art.

What drives a mother to murder her child?

In September 2007, Ellen Pakkies, a working mother from Lavender Hill on the Cape Flats, strangled her son to death. Her trial exposed the dark underbelly of a community crippled by drug and alcohol abuse. Dealing in Death looks at the global and local drugs culture, the predicament of Ellen Pakkies and other mothers like her, and an impoverished community and the apartheid laws that gave birth to it.

Bloody crimes of passion, political assassinations, sinister poisonings, investment fraud and mass mining disasters…Dr David Klatzow has seen it all. Steeped in Blood provides gripping accounts of dozens of these matters, including the infamous deaths of Brett Kebble and Inge Lotz, the Helderberg aeroplane crash and the frustrating investigations of the brutal apartheid years. Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction in 2011.

Out of print, available second hand