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Peter James, Deon Meyer, Amanda Coetzee and More: Sneak Peek at The Bloody...
 > This year The Bloody Book Week is being held from 6 to 9 August at venues throughout Johannesburg. Jenny & Co have shared a sneak peek of some of the authors that will be attending...
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JM Coetzee, Ivan Vladislavic and NoViolet Bulawayo Read at the Worlds...
JM Coetzee, Ivan Vladislavić, NoViolet Bulawayo, CJ Driver and Isobel Dixon recently took part in the in the 10th annual Worlds Literature Festival, organised by Writers’ Centre Norwich. Bulawayo read...
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Sunday Read: An Excerpt from The Miniaturist and An Interview With Its...
 > Jessie Burton’s debut novel, The Miniaturist, caused a buzz at last year’s London Book Fair and secured the debut novelist a hefty advance (reports vary on whether it is six or seven...
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Book Bites: 13 July 2014
Good Morning Mr Mandela Zelda la Grange (Penguin Books) **** Book buff From her beginnings as a self-confessed Afrikaner racist to her professional apogee as the right-hand woman of the greatest...
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Real Pathos and Horror: Diane Awerbuck Reviews Sarah Lotz’s The Three
By Diane Awerbuck for The Sunday Times The Three Sarah Lotz (Hodder & Stoughton) **** The philosopher Aristotle thought that the imitation of life – the sort that writers do when they write – was...
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RIP Nadine Gordimer (1923 – 2014)
One of South Africa’s most distinguished literary personalities, Nobel literature laureate Nadine Gordimer, has passed away at her home in Johannesburg, aged 90. Among her many literary achievements...
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Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Paulo Coelho and More Pay Tribute to Nadine...
Twitter has been flooded with tributes to the late Nadine Gordimer, who passed away at the age of 90 on Sunday. Canadian writer Margaret Atwood paid her respects, sharing an obituary she has written...
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American Author and Activist Eve Ensler to Discuss In the Body of the World...
UJ Arts and V-Day invite you to join Dr Pregs Govender, Deputy Chairperson of South African Human Rights Commission, in conversation with American playwright, author and activist Eve Ensler. Ensler is...
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Joan Hambidge resenseer The Three deur Sarah Lotz
Uitspraak: wortel Dit gebeur nie sommer aldag dat Stephen King ’n mens se boek aanprys nie. Van The Three skryf hy dat hy die boek “entertaining” gevind het en dat ’n mens sal sukkel om dit neer te...
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Sunday Read: An Excerpt from Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year,...
Belinda Bauer’s Rubbernecker has won the 2014 Theakstons Old Peculier crime novel of the year award, with one of the judges describing it as “original and compelling” and “utterly absorbing”. Val...
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Book Bites: 20 July 2014
Dear Leader: North Korea’s senior propagandist exposes shocking truths behind the regime Jang Jin-Sung (Ebury) ***** Book buff Jang Jin-sung lifts opens the black box that is North Korean politics...
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Paul Mendelson: Kaapstad verskaf “’n uitsonderlike fisiese en topologiese...
Paul Mendelson, ‘n Britse skrywer van hoofsaaklik nie-fiksie, het onlangs gedebuteer met sy eerste roman: ‘n Misdaadverhaal getiteld The First Rule Of Survival. Hierdie verhaal speel in Kaapstad af, ‘n...
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Sunday Read: Love Stories from The New Yorker’s New Open Archive
The New Yorker recently opened up its archive online, making back issues from 2007 to 2014 available for free until sometime in “the fall”, and will be curating those articles into collections. The...
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Exclusive Interview: Bron Sibree Chats to Tim Winton About South Africa and...
By Bron Sibree for The Sunday Times Eyrie Tim Winton (Picador) **** (Four stars) It’s a fact not lost on Tim Winton, one of Australia’s most esteemed authors, that interest in his fiction has been...
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Koos Kombuis Plays Small but Critical Role in Tess Gerritsen Suing Warner...
A blog post Koos Kombuis wrote back in January for Channel24 about the similarities between the film Gravity and Tess Gerritsen’s novel of the same name has proved prescient, as the Chinese-American...
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David Attwell Reveals the Four “Surprises” he Discovered in Reading JM...
The UCT Summer School Extension programme welcomed South African academic David Attwell, visiting Head of English at the University of York, to the Kramer Building earlier this month for a series of...
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David Attwell: Manuscripts Indicate JM Coetzee is Not Who We Thought He Was
The second of two seminars presented by David Attwell at the UCT Summer School Extension programme, “Autobiography Into Fiction: JM Coetzee’s Disgrace”, took place at the Kramer Building on 14 July, a...
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The Sunday Times Bestseller List for July 2014
The Sunday Times has started a monthly bestseller list, identifying the most popular books in South Africa. There are a gratifying number of South African books on the non-fiction list, which is topped...
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Sunday Read: Haida’s Story, an Excerpt from Haruki Murakami’s New Novel
Murakami’s novel, to be published later this month, is called Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Here’s an excerpt. ‘Nuff said: One Saturday night, Tsukuru and Haida were up talking...
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Book Bites: 3 August 2014
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin who Brought the World to War Tim Butcher (Chatto & Windus) ***** (five stars) Book buff It’s convenient but lazy to place Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Archduke...
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