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Sunday Read: John Green on Realistic Fiction, Being the King of YA and The...
John Green is the “undisputed king of YA”, with an earnest following known as Nerdfighters. Doree Shafrir caught up with him on the set of The Fault in Our Stars, the film based on his best-selling...
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Book Bites: 11 May 2014
When the Hills Ask for Your Blood: A Personal story of Rwanda and Genocide David Belton (Doubleday) ***** Book buff David Belton covered the genocide twenty years ago. His book follows the fate of a...
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Alison Flood Reviews The Three by Sarah Lotz
Verdict: carrot Pamela May Donald, churchgoer, dog-lover, overweight and sweetly naive, is flying from Tokyo to Osaka, “squashed in like a canned ham”, when a huge boom echoes through her plane. It...
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David Barnett Reviews The Three by Sarah Lotz
Verdict: carrot Every year or two, there comes along a book which utilises the gears and guts of genre fiction but which has “mainstream bestseller” written through it like a stick of seaside rock....
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Adichie, Soyinka, Gordimer Honoured in National Geographic’s Innovator’s Project
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Wole Soyinka and Nadine Gordimer have been named on the National Geographic’s list of Africa’s Greatest Innovators in Arts and Sciences, as part of the Innovator’s Project....
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Sunday Read: Geoff Dyer on Norman Mailer and the Moon Landing
With the exciting news that Geoff Dyer will be attending this year’s Open Book Cape Town – he’s quick with a joke – let’s catch up with the author, who writes about the frenzy of words produced by...
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Book Bites: 25 May 2014
The Visitors Sally Beauman (Little, Brown) **** Book fling Get front row seats to the greatest archaeological find in history – the tomb of King Tutankhamen, uncovered in Egypt in 1922. You can smell...
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Kate Turkington Reviews Lion Heart by Justin Cartwright
Verdict: carrot He is known as one of England’s most revered and famous kings. But who exactly was Richard the Lionheart? The elderly, almost Pickwickian Lord Huntingdon, pillar of the House of Lords...
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RIP Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014)
American author, poet, historian and civil rights activist Maya Angelou has died at her home in North Carolina, USA, aged 86. Angelou’s failing health had led to her cancelling an appearance at the...
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Are Those Books Even About Trees? – Joey Hi-Fi on the African Book Cover...
Award-winning book cover designer and illustrator Joey Hi-Fi spoke to Books LIVE about the recent “acacia tree scandal” that blew up around South African and African book cover design. Twitter and the...
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Sunday Read: Toni Morrison on the Notion of Paradise, Both in Reality and Her...
Toni Morrison’s body of work depicts the hardships and struggles of Black America in poetically-charged ways. Her novels reveal the humanity of pain and relief of freedom felt by African Americans...
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Michelle Shannon Reviews The Three by Sarah Lotz
Verdict: carrot At times utterly terrifying, The Three is completely haunting and will have many a person thinking twice about getting on an airplane. It also raises the question as to the true scope...
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Battle of the Covers: UK edition of Lauren Beukes’ Broken Monsters vs the US...
Following the reveal of the US cover for Lauren Beukes’ next novel, Broken Monsters, in April, the UK cover has now been released. The two covers are strikingly different, with the US cover by...
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Matt Imrie Reviews The Three by Sarah Lotz
Verdict: carrot Sarah conveys the rising paranoia and fear through words in articles and interviews perfectly. Telling the story through multiple viewpoints and formats is brilliant, the words of each...
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I Am Never Disturbed By My Images: Roger Ballen Ruminates on Asylum of the Birds
Roger Ballen spoke to Books LIVE about his new book, Asylum of the Birds, Instagram, the old Rolleiflex camera he still uses, and Die Antwoord. Ballen directed the music video for Die Antwoord’s 2012...
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Niall Alexander Reviews The Three by Sarah Lotz
Verdict: carrot Before the Frankfurt Book Fair a few years ago, a partial manuscript of The Three was sent to a selection of editors. A perfect storm of offers followed, and less than a day later, a...
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RIP Anthony Fleischer (1928 – 2014)
Anthony Fleischer, the President of South African Pen for many years, died on 5 June at home in Cape Town. He was 85. Fleischer, who lived in Cape Town, was the author of eight novels. His first...
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Sunday Read: Eimear McBride on Challenging Readers and Herself with A Girl Is...
This week, Eimear McBride was awarded the 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her debut novel, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing. In an interview with Kira Cochrane of The Guardian, Eimear...
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Jeff Ayers Reviews The Three by Sarah Lotz
Verdict: slightly critical carrot Four planes crash in various parts of the world on the same day. On three of these planes, a child is the sole survivor. These children are given the nickname “The...
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Simon McDonald Reviews Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
Verdict: carrot Broken Monsters is one of the best paranormal and genuinely horrifying thrillers I’ve read in years. Lauren Beukes’s fourth novel, about a possessed serial killer with a penchant for...
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