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Sunday Read: Excerpt from Another Great Day at Sea by Geoff Dyer in...
Geoff Dyer is one of the exciting international authors coming to the 2014 Open Book Festival happening in Cape Town next month. His latest book, Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George...
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Fact is, She’s Ours: Michele Magwood Interviews Belinda Bauer on The Facts of...
By Michele Magwood for the Sunday Times The Facts of Life and Death Belinda Bauer (Bantam Press) ***** We’re a parochial lot, South Africans, quick to claim our own when they make a mark overseas. This...
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Calling South African Literature Enthusiasts for Open Book Festival’s...
At the Open Book Festival this year, in a combined effort with the University of Cape Town, volunteers will gather to update the Wikipedia pages focused on South African literature and authors. The...
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Taiye Selasi Pulls Out of 2014 Open Book Festival
In an unfortunate turn of events, author Taiye Selasi will no longer be appearing at Open Book Festival in Cape Town this year. The news was confirmed to Books LIVE by festival co-ordinator Frankie...
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2014 Nobel Prize in Literature: Ngugi wa Thiong’o Goes Head to Head with...
Last year Books LIVE reported the new height of speculation surrounding the possibility of Ngugi wa Thiong’o being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, only for Canadian writer Alice Munro to...
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The Sunday Times Bestseller List for August 2014
The Sunday Times has started a monthly bestseller list, identifying the most popular books in South Africa. After a dearth of local titles in the top five fiction list last month, it’s good to see two...
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Ivan Vladislavić and Felicitas Hoppe to Discuss the Art of Writing at the...
The Goethe-Institut in Johannesburg will be hosting a discussion entitled “New South African Voices: The Art of Writing”, presented by Morakabe Raks Seakhoa and Indra Wussow, and featuring Ivan...
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Sunday Read: In Anticipation of Open Book, an Excerpt from Philip Hensher’s...
English novelist, critic and journalist Philip Hensher will be at this year’s Open Book Festival in Cape Town. Read an excerpt from his latest novel, The Emperor Waltz. Hensher was listed as one of...
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Lauren Beukes and Joey Hi-Fi Win 2014 British Fantasy Awards
Alert! Lauren Beukes‘ The Shining Girls has won its fifth award: The 2014 British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award), while illustrator and graphic designer...
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South African Writers Take a Stand Against Surveillance in Support of Edward...
Monday, 8 September, was International Literacy Day. It was also the day that writers, journalists, readers and public intellectuals around the world responded to the call issued by internationales...
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Sunday Read: An Excerpt from Raymond E Feist’s Magician’s End in Anticipation...
American fantasy author Raymond E Feist will be at this year’s Open Book Festival in Cape Town where he will speak to Sarah Lotz on Wednesday, 17 September 2014 about Magician’s End and all that...
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No Easy Judgments: Michele Magwood Chats to Ian McEwan About His New Novel...
By Michele Magwood for the Sunday Times The Children Act Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape) ***** Afterwards, the impression that remained was one of metal. Dull lead sky, platinum temples, silver rims around...
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Author Q&A: 10 Questions for MR (Mike) Carey Ahead of the Open Book Festival
Published in the Sunday Times What music helps you write? I mostly listen to folk or to the more thoughtful and lyrical kind of rock. Shearwater, Okkervil River, The National, Anais Mitchell, Joanna...
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Book Bites: 7 September 2014
The Pink Suit Nicole Mary Kelby (Little Brown) ***** Book buff The images from 22 November 1963 are burned into history: especially Jackie Kennedy scrambling as if to get out of the car, wearing a pink...
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Spirits of the Irish: Bron Sibree Chats to Sebastian Barry About His Latest...
By Bron Sibree for the Sunday Times The Temporary Gentleman Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber) **** Sebastian Barry is famed for chronicling the story of 20th century Ireland in his novels – powerful,...
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Author Q&A: 10 Questions With Amanda Prowse
Published in the Sunday Times What music helps you write? It depends on the type of book I’m writing and the tone of the novel. A good example would be my novel Clover’s Child, set in the 1960s. I...
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10 Unmissable Events at the 2014 Open Book Festival (17 – 21 September)
The number of exciting events at the Open Book Festival can be overwhelming – but here are 10 you won’t want to miss. Full 2014 Open Book Festival Programme (17 – 21 September) Final author list for...
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Without Books, Life Would Just be Rubbish – Mervyn Sloman Declares the 2014...
The Book Lounge owner and Open Book Festival founder Mervyn Sloman has declared the festival open! Authors, including Geoff Dyer, Mike Carey, Raymond E Feist, Zakes Mda, and many more gathered at The...
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Geoff Dyer Chats About Damon Galgut, Nadine Gordimer and “That” Infamous JM...
Geoff Dyer is in Cape Town for the 2014 Open Book Festival, after which he will be based in Joburg for six weeks, as a Mellon Distinguished Visiting Scholar. He sat down with Books LIVE during the...
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Open Book 2014 – Raymond E Feist on Killing Off Characters: George RR Martin...
Legendary fantasy writer Raymond E Feist spoke to Sarah Lotz about Magician’s End, George RR Martin, killing off his characters and what he’s working on next. “Raymond E Feist. The legend,” Lotz said....
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