Top-class reads ready for Nielsen Bookseller Choice Award

Trevor Noah book, Born a Crime © Bret Fish website

• Previous winner, Deon Meyer, makes it on the shortlist again with his book Koors, a son’s story of his father’s murder. 

• The comedian Trevor Noah joins him with Born a crime and other stories, telling his journey from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show in New York and how it all began with a criminal act: his birth. 

• Elsabe Brits traces the fascinating life of Emily Hobhouse, from her tireless campaigning for women's rights to her outspoken opposition to injustice, in Emily Hobhouse: Geliefde verraaier. This memoir allows you to discover the unknown side of a surprisingly modern woman in a full-colour pragbook full of pictures, interesting diary entries and letters.

• My own liberator, by former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke, plays homage to the many people and places that have helped define and shape him. 

• Meanwhile JAN A breath of French Air by Jan Hendrick van der Westhuizen is a memoir and celebration of the renowned eatery JAN, a South African restaurant in the South of France. 

• Kook saam Kaaps by Koelsoem Kamalie and Flori Schrikker continues the culinary theme with an easy-going home cookbook with ‘food from the heart’ recipes. 

Read more about this year's shortlist here.