Riley Herbert-Henry
Riley Herbert-Henry is a fiction writer and book reviewer based in Cape Town. He reviews books on Book Choice for Fine Music Radio and shares his literary musings on Instagram and TikTok.
Falls the shadow by Mike Nicol: a book review
2026-04-07"From that shocking opening, he builds a propulsive crime novel that asks, 'Who polices the police?'"
Swartbooij and Titus by Karen Jennings: a review
2026-02-03"History likes its villains tidy and its violence abstract. Karen Jennings refuses both. Swaartbooij and Titus opens a wound in the Cape’s colonial past and rubs salt into it, asking not who was right, but who was wronged, who was left to carry the memory when the smoke cleared."