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Alex Clark Reviews Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
Verdict: carrot Helen Oyeyemi’s novels boost the playful incorporation of myth, folklore and fairy tale, ranging widely over the territories and cultures in which those endlessly recirculating, subtly...
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Heinz Mödler gesels oor James Bond, Ontbloot: Die naakte waarheid agter...
Heinz Mödler se nuwe boek, James Bond, Ontbloot: Die naakte waarheid agter Brittanje se beroemdste geheime agent, bied ‘n vermaaklike en toeganklike blik op die verbeeldingryke tegnologie wat in die...
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Charl Blignaut Reviews Asylum of the Birds by Roger Ballen
Verdict: stick Poverty is given the arty treatment in photographer Roger Ballen’s new book, but that doesn’t stop it from smacking of exploitation. To promote Asylum of the Birds, the critically...
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Sunday Read: Vera or Mrs Nabokov, a Family Chronicle
“Writers all need Vera,” says Lorrie Moore, acclaimed author of Birds of America – meaning, a wife, like Vladimir Nabokov’s, who does everything for them. And how, says The Atlantic: Twenty-three years...
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Book Bites: 13 April 2014
The Fall of the ANC: What Next? Prince Mashele & Mzukisi Qobo (Picador Africa) ** Book buff The authors mount one of the most ferocious critiques of the African National Congress. For them, the ANC...
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Well-washed Brains: Bron Sibree Chats to Thomas Keneally on his Book Shame...
By Bron Sibree for The Sunday Times Shame and the Captives Thomas Keneally (Hodder & Stoughton) **** Give him half a chance and Tom Keneally will attribute his latest and thirty-third novel, Shame...
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Sarie se jonger lesers, Nina Swart en Cailin Spickett, resenseer Amper...
Uitspraak: wortels Dis vir my soms moeilik om ʼn jeugboek te oordeel, omdat ek nie self kinders het nie en dit regtig baie jare gelede was dat ek self vanuit ‘n jonger perspektief jeugverhale gelees...
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JM Coetzee, Ivan Vladislavić and NoViolet Bulawayo to Attend the Worlds...
Writers’ Centre Norwich will host an evening with JM Coetzee, Ivan Vladislavić, NoViolet Bulawayo, Chinese-British novelist Xiaolu Guo, and German author Julia Franck as part of the Worlds Literature...
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Michael Stanley’s Deadly Harvest Shortlisted for 2014 International Thriller...
Alert! Deadly Harvest, the latest novel by Michael Stanley (writing duo Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip), has been shortlisted for this year’s International Thriller Writers (ITW) Thriller Awards....
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RIP Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, has died in Mexico, it has been widely reported. He was 87 years old. 2013, 2014 big years for losing great...
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Infographic: Read Your Way Through South Africa’s Democracy
~ ~ ~ The Sunday Times books team brings you a unique view of the past 20 years, represented through the colourful covers of notable South African books. To download a hi-res PDF of the...
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Paul Simpson Reviews The Three by Sarah Lotz
Verdict: carrot With the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 still topping the headlines, Sarah Lotz’s epic saga is very timely. Having been working on a non-fiction book on the same...
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Win a Hamper of Books on Books LIVE’s Seventh Birthday!
Alert! It’s World Book Day – and Books LIVE’s birthday! Happy birthday to us! And to William Shakespeare, who would have turned 450 today, if only playwrights lived that long! (Incidentally,...
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Prairie Schooner Literary Journal Calls for ‘Women and the Global...
The Prairie Schooner literary journal has sent out a call for submissions for their Winter 2014 issue, which will feature a poetry section focused on the theme of ‘Women and the Global Imagination’....
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André Brink bring hulde aan Gabriel García Márquez en sy verwoording van...
“Uiteindelik het die nuus gekom wat ons al lank te wagte was, maar wat nietemin soos die einde van ’n wêreld gevoel het: Gabriel García Márquez is nie meer daar nie,” skryf André Brink in ‘n huldeblyk...
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Binyavanga Wainaina Named One of Time’s 100 Most Influential People
Alert! Binyavanga Wainaina has been named on the Time 100 Most Influential People list, along with fellow authors Donna Tartt, Arundhati Roy, as well as Pope Francis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert...
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Sunday Read: Comic and Graphic Artists Adapt Works by AM Holmes, Gillian...
In May the British Library is showing an exhibition titled Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK and The Guardian has paired several contemporary authors up with artists for collaborations to mark...
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Join Penny Busetto, Masande Ntshanga and Wanjiru Koinange in Conversation...
 > Join the Department of English and Creative Writing Program at UCT for an evening of readings and discussion as it acknowledges the award winning works of Penny Busetto, Masande Ntshanga...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Describes the President Nigeria Needs and Reacts to...
 > In moving pieces for the The New Yorker and The Scoop, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie addresses the Boko Haram kidnapping crisis in Nigeria, the country’s loss of faith in its leadership, and...
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Dancing in Other Words Festival Launched with an Evening of Poetry Readings...
The 2014 Dancing in Other Words Spier Poetry Festival was launched during an intimate evening of poetry, food and wine at Wrensch House in Observatory, Cape Town, on Monday evening. Host Breyten...
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