Brain porn : The best of the Daily Maverick

Daily Maverick, the country's leading online news service, has been making sense of the madness that is South African reality for the past five years.

Brain Porn offers the best of their irreverent writing.

These superbly written essays offer insight into not only the wheeling and dealing that goes on in politics, but also into our societal dynamics and why we get up to the crazy things we sometimes do as a nation.

Whether you're a news junkie or just want to hold your own over lunchtime conversation, you can't afford not to read this book.