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Book Bites: 1 March 2015
Vanessa and her Sister Priya Parmar (Bloomsbury) ***** Book fling In 1905 the Stephen sisters, Vanessa and Virginia, moved into a fashionable London suburb and opened their doors to a throng of...
View ArticleTips for Celebrating World Read Aloud Day
Today, 4 March, children and adults across the globe are participating in World Read Aloud Day. Books LIVE has gathered together some reading aloud hints and tips, and some great resources, to help you...
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The Reddit Book Exchange: Send a Book Across the Globe – and Receive One in...
Reddit can be a scary place. Known as the front page of the internet, many things you find on this social networking service can never be unseen. With subreddits for any imaginable (and...
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Onyeka Nwelue Reviews The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
Verdict: carrot Obioma’s The Fishermen is storytelling at its most captivating. The novel is delivered with the enchanting tenor of an ancient storyteller. Reading Obioma’s debut work is as close as...
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Five More International Authors Confirmed for 2015 Open Book Festival
Alert! The Open Book Festival has announced five more international authors for this year’s event. Early in February, Open Book announced that Patrick Gale, Neel Mukherjee, Karen Joy Fowler, Saskia...
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Sunday Read: An Excerpt from Kazuo Ishiguro’s New Novel, The Buried Giant...
Kazuo Ishiguro recently read an excerpt from his much anticipated first novel in 10 years, The Buried Giant, in an exclusive interview with The Wall Street Journal. The author of the...
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Book Bites: 8 March 2015
Miss Carter’s War Sheila Hancock (Bloomsbury) ***** Book fling Downton Abbey fans will love Miss Carter’s War. Set in Britain in 1948, Marguerite Carter is a half-French, half-English school mistress...
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The Real Bridget Jones: Jennifer Platt Reviews The Wrong Knickers, Bryony...
By Jennifer Platt for the Sunday Times The Wrong Knickers: A Decade of Chaos Bryony Gordon (Headline) **** The publishing world is always breathlessly awaiting the next Bridget Jones and this book’s...
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2015 Man Booker International Finalists Announcement – to be Held at UCT –...
The 2015 Man Booker International Prize finalists will be announced in Cape Town, in partnership with the University of Cape Town, on 24 March, and there is a full calendar of Man Booker-related events...
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Lauren Beukes on Writing a New South Africa and Science Fiction in Africa:...
After being featured on BBC Radio Four’s “Writing a New South Africa” podcast series, Lauren Beukes took part in a Twitter Q&A with Catherine Labiran about what it means to be writing in a new...
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Annie Gagiano Reviews The Naked Gods by Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike
Verdict: carrot The Naked Gods was first published in 1970, one of a series of novels by Chukwuemeka Ike. It can be described as a sophisticated African campus comedy, and is set on the brand-new...
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Attract a Literary Agent During #PitMad: A Twitter Pitch Party Happening Now
Right now on Twitter, aspiring authors are tweeting 140-character pitches for their completed novels in the hope of attracting literary agents. #PitMad, or Pitch Madness as it was originally known,...
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Caroline Smart Reviews A Gandhi Centenary by Azra Daniel Francis
Verdict: carrot Francis adds: “Some of my family marched and were jailed with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in South Africa, long before I was born in Durban, Natal, South Africa. This collection is in...
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RIP Terry Pratchett (1948 – 2015)
The English press has reported that English fantasy author Terry Pratchett has died, aged 66. Pratchett had been battling Alzheimer’s disease. Larry Finlay, MD of Transworld Publishers, told The...
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I Felt Violated: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reveals Her Anger at The Guardian...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has spoken out about her article on depression, which was prematurely published by The Guardian in early February. In an extensive and revealing interview with Olisa,...
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Catch the Multilingual Tribute to Andre Brink and Ousmane Diarra’s Malian...
As part of Francophonie 2015, a month-long celebration of French language and Francophone cultural diversity, Alliance Française Johannesburg will be hosting a tribute to André Brink and a children’s...
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Catch the Multilingual Tribute to Andre Brink and Ousmane Diarra’s Malian...
As part of Francophonie 2015, a month-long celebration of French language and Francophone cultural diversity, Alliance Française Johannesburg will be hosting a tribute to André Brink and a children’s...
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Sunday Read: An Excerpt from #1 New York Times Bestseller, The Girl on the...
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins has maintained the top spot on the New York Times Bestsellers List since its publication in the first week of February. The novel is about a troubled divorcée,...
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Songeziwe Mahlangu Wins 2014 Etisalat Prize for Penumbra
Congratulations to Songeziwe Mahlangu on winning the 2014 Etisalat Grand prize for literature #EtisalatPrize2014 pic.twitter.com/egvELq79PK — Big Timi (@MrBigtimi) March 15, 2015 Alert! Songeziwe...
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Book Bites: 15 March 2015
Out of Line: A Memoir Dov Fedler (Tracey McDonald Publishers) **** Book buff From his his Jewish upbringing in Mayfair to his close encounters with Moloch Hamovess, this memoir is a colourful offering...
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