Alert! According to a recent report, in the battle of the brawny rugby books, John Smit’s biography Captain in the Cauldron is edging Joost van der Westhuizen’s memoir-with-extras, Man in the Mirror.
For the record, in the scrum that is BOOK SA’s BOOK Finder search engine, Joost’s tome is outpacing Smit’s. But in the stores, a different story may be unfolding:
If it were a rugby match, then the current Springbok captain would be winning this battle hands down. Both former Springbok captain Joost van der Westhuizen and current Springbok captain John Smit launched biographies in recent weeks, but it’s Smit’s Captain in the Cauldron that has been the best-seller so far.
Smit’s book was launched on October 24. Van der Westhuizen’s Man in the Mirror was launched eight days later, on November 1.
Man in the Mirror was punted as the tell-all tale in which the disgraced rugby player, who was once the blue-eyed boy of the game, came clean on his involvement in the now infamous sex and drug video with stripper Marilize van Emmenis that was exposed eight months ago.
Book details
Please register or log in to comment
