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2015 Folio Prize Longlist Revealed, Including Damon Galgut, Yvonne Adhiambo...
Three African writers are among the nominees for the 2015 Folio Prize: Damon Galgut, Kenyan Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and Ethiopian-American Dinaw Mengestu. The £40,000 prize was initiated last year,...
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Nelson Mandela Foundation Reveals First Pages of Sequel to Long Walk to Freedom
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has revealed that it plans to publish a sequel to Long Walk to Freedom in 2015. In his introduction to Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Nelson Mandela Memorial Lecture...
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The New Yorker Features New Fiction by Nuruddin Farah: “The Start of the...
The latest issue of The New Yorker features new fiction by Nuruddin Farah, and an interview with the author about his life and work. The story, entitled “The Start of the Affair”, is about a retired...
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Sunday Read: An Excerpt from The Globe by Terry Pratchett, Co-Written with...
What happens to magic in a world ruled by logic? The second novel in Terry Pratchett’s The Science of Discworld-series is set to appear in the US on 20 January 2015. Co-written with Ian Stewart and...
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Sunday Read: The 16 Best “Best Books of 2014” Lists
Need to spend those Christmas book vouchers you received from aunt Mabel? But it’s tough to keep track of all the “best of” lists this time of year. Books LIVE has rounded up the best of the “Best...
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Prescribed Holiday Reading for the Beautiful and the Barely Bearable
Published in the Sunday Times Take two chapters and don’t call me in the morning. The Sunday Times Books team prescribes holiday reading for the beautiful and the barely bearable. The Convict Oscar...
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This is Africa Contributors Choose Their List of Africa’s 100 Best Books
This is Africa recently announced their first list of the 100 best books in Africa, in the categories fiction, poetry and non-fiction. The books were published between 2010 and 2014 by African authors...
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Ben Okri on the “Mental Tyranny” of African Writers: Truth or Trolling?
Responses have started pouring in to Ben Okri’s controversial essay, “A mental tyranny is keeping black writers from greatness”. The Nigerian poet and novelist, who won the Man Booker Prize for The...
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The 10 Biggest Stories on Books LIVE in 2014
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, awards, literary controversy and free cake – topics that are sure web traffic drivers for Books LIVE. This year, however, all were trumped by Haruki Murakami. A Sunday Read...
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The Books LIVE Top 10 Fiction Books of 2014
Books LIVE brings you the 10 top fiction books of 2014, according to our BOOK Finder: The following are the 10 fiction books that sparked the most interest, gauged by the number of clicks on BOOK...
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In Memoriam: A Tribute to the Writers Who Passed Away in 2014
In 2014 we had to say goodbye to many great writerly voices, including Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, Chris van Wyk, Hennie Aucamp, Peter Clarke, Mafika Gwala, Verna Vels and Gerald Kraak. The...
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Sunday Read: An Excerpt from Goodreads Choice Award Winner, Fiction –...
The end of the year brought with it the usual overwhelming wave of lists announcing the best books of the 2014, chosen by a variety of critics using different methods to determine the past year’s...
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The Three by Sarah Lotz and Lauren Beukes’ Broken Monsters on The Guardian’s...
At the end of 2014 The Guardian‘s Alison Flood put together a list of the year’s best thrillers and included local authors Lauren Beukes and Sarah Lotz, along with international game players such as...
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Isobel Dixon Signs Dominique Botha to London Literary Agency Blake Friedmann
Dominique Botha has been signed to London literary agency Blake Friedmann by Isobel Dixon. Blake Friedmann gave Botha a warm welcome on their website, praising her “amazing run of prizes”: [N]new...
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Salman Rushdie Condemns Attack on Charlie Hebdo in PEN Statement: ‘We Must...
Salman Rushdie has condemned the apparent militant Islamist attack on the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people were killed. Four of the magazine’s cartoonists,...
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Mark Zuckerberg Resolves To Read More in 2015 and Sends His First Book Club...
“My challenge for 2015 is to read a new book every other week — with an emphasis on learning about different cultures, beliefs, histories and technologies.” With these words Facebook CEO Mark...
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TIME Magazine Reveals its List of the 100 Best Children’s Books of All Time
TIME Magazine has shared its list of the 100 best children’s books of all time, with the help of, among others, the US Children’s Poet Laureate Ken Nesbitt, the National Center for Children’s...
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Cover and Blurb Revealed for Day Four, the Sequel to Sarah Lotz’s The Three
Alert! British publishing house Hodder & Stoughton has released the blurb and UK cover for Sarah Lotz’s new book Day Four, the sequel to the smash hit The Three. Day Four was first named back in...
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TIME Magazine Presents its List of the 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time
TIME Magazine has compiled its pick of the 100 best Young Adult books of all time. The list was put together with the help of American Children’s Poet Laureate Ken Nesbitt, author, critic and...
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Fiction Friday: Read Etisalat Prize-Shortlisted-Author Chinelo Okparanta’s...
Along with South Africans Nadia Davids and Songeziwe Mahlangu, Nigerian-American Chinelo Okparanta was recently shortlisted for the 2014 Etisalat Prize for Literature; read her short story “Marta”,...
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