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Buite resenseer Kirstenbosch: The most beautiful garden in Africa deur Brian...
Uitspraak: wortel Die 100ste bestaansjaar van Kirstenbosch word nou gevier en dit is net meer genotvol met ’n pragboek soos die omgewingsbewaarder Brian J. Huntley se Kirstenbosch – the most beautiful...
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Sunday Read: In Praise of Dan Brown’s Inferno, by Dante Translator Clive James
The ageing, dying, estranged Clive James, literary titan, translator of Dante’s Divine Comedy, pens a takedown of Dan Brown’s Inferno that, for all its sarcasm toward Brown’s bad art, bears a grudging...
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Book Bites: 14 July 2013
Book Buff The Quarry Iain Banks (Little, Brown, R240) **** (4/5 stars) Given that it deals with the realities and emotions of a man dying of cancer, Banks’s final poignant novel has a keen sense of...
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Caine Prize Winner Tope Folarin’s “African-ness” Examined
Quite a bit of controversy has surrounded the Caine Prize for African Writing, which was awarded to Tope Folarin for his short story “Miracle” last week. Chimamanda Nogzi Adichie came under fire for...
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Jake Kerry Discusses The Quarry: Iain Bank’s Last Poignant Novel
By Jake Kerry for The Daily Telegraph: His masterstroke is the creation of the monstrously selfish Guy, who tells his son he regrets the time he wasted bringing him up As a youth Iain Banks spent most...
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Andrew Donaldson: The Best Local Writing Is Speculative Fiction
By Andrew Donaldson for The Times IF YOU READ ONE BOOK THIS WEEK Little Green, by Walter Mosley (W&N) MOSLEY had intended ending his superb Easy Rawlins series with 2007′s Blonde Faith, but now his...
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Pat Schwartz Reviews Eight Books for Children
On a hilltop in Spain, between Marbella and Gibraltar, lives a former South African with a husband, a daughter and two dogs. There, in a tiny, isolated village far from the place where she was born,...
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Video: JM Coetzee Discusses Fiction, Memoir and the Self at the Worlds...
The Writers’ Centre Norwich has this month released a video of JM Coetzee delivering the opening provocation at last year’s Worlds Literature Festival. Coetzee discussed the writing of memoirs,...
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Sunday Read: Henning Mankell on His Latest Novel, Set in Mozambique (Plus:...
Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell’s latest novel, A Treacherous Paradise, tells the story of a young Swedish woman who ends up running a brothel in Lourenço Marques (today’s Maputo, Mozambique)....
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Book Bites: 21 July 2013
Book fling Revenge Wears Prada Lauren Weisberger (Harper Collins, R215) ** Clunky, boring, frustrating and farfetched, this one-dimensional sequel to the hit novel The Devil Wears Prada contains no...
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Anchee Min on Her Latest Memoir, The Cooked Seed
The Cooked Seed Anchee Min, Bloomsbury, R244 **** Its almost two decades since Anchee Min’s raw, jolting memoir of growing up during China’s Cultural Revolution, Red Azalea, catapulted her into the...
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Bloody Book Week 2013 Programme Revealed
Alert! The complete programme for Jenny Crwys-Williams’ second Bloody Book Week has been released. The festival, celebrating crime fiction as well as non-fiction books on crime, will take place at...
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Margie Orford Signs UK Book Deal for Her Clare Hart Series with Head of Zeus
Alert! Laura Palmer from Head of Zeus in the UK has acquired the rights to Margie Orford‘s Clare Hart series, which is published locally by Jonathan Ball. The deal was brokered by Orford’s agent,...
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Jill Kelly Reviews Anatomy of a South African Genocide by Mohamed Adhikari
Verdict: carrot The number of people who identify as Khoisan has surged in postapartheid South Africa. Khoi and San communities have formed their own advocacy organizations to ensure land and resource...
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Andrew Donaldson: Serial Killers, Bad Marriages and Best-selling Cops
By Andrew Donaldson for The Times IF YOU READ ONE BOOK THIS WEEK Ostland by David Thomas (Quercus) An ambitious, provocative novel that examines the capacity for evil in even the most decent of men....
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How Forensic Linguistics Helped Solve JK Rowling Mystery
Harry Potter author JK Rowling – recently fingered as the pen behind detective novel The Cuckoo’s Calling, published in April under the pseudonym Roger Galbraith – is understandably furious about being...
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Stephen King defends Under The Dome TV show
By Jennifer Platt for The Times The TV adaption of Stephen King’s Under The Dome premiers in South Africa this Tuesday. Its ratings in the US broke records for a summer show, but upset many King fans,...
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Game of Thrones Author’s Real Iron Throne
By Jennifer Platt for The Times The hit television series Game of Thrones sticks largely to the script originally penned by author George RR Martin, on whose books it’s based. But there’s one detail...
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Leigh Newman Reviews Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
Verdict: carrot Family sagas generally start with a joyous birth—or, as in the case of Taiye Selasi’s debut novel, an unexpected death. When 53-year-old Kweku Sai keels over from a heart attack in his...
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BCCSA’s Kobus van Rooyen Dismisses Appeal Over Radio Programme Featuring...
Kobus van Rooyen, Chairperson of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa, and author of A South African Censor’s Tale, earlier this month dismissed a complaint about a SAfm programme...
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