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Join Jenny Crwys-Williams for a Discussion of The Raft, Divided Lives and...
Jenny & Co invites you to join them at the fabulous Delta Café in Craighall on Wednesday, 17 June, when Jenny Crwys-Williams will be talking about four of the books she most enjoyed recently....
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Africans – Including Two South Africans – Dominate the Longlist for the...
The longlists for the FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Awards have been announced, with the fiction category being dominated by African authors. The fiction section for the inaugural edition of...
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Fiction Friday: Two Short Stories by Sylt Foundation African Writers...
Ugandan writer and poet Mildred Barya has been selected as the 2015 winner of the Sylt Foundation African Writer’s Residency Award. Bayrya’s technical proficiency and extraordinary ability to infuse...
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Sunday Read: Meet John Spurling, Winner of the Walter Scott Prize 2015 (Plus...
Image courtesy of Walter Scott Prize This week’s Sunday Read is an excerpt from Ten Thousand Things by John Spurling, along with news about the newly-lauded Walter Scott Prize winner. Spurling...
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Read Mukoma wa Ngugi’s Short Story “Walking the Wok”, from Cooked Up: Food...
New Internationalist has shared an excerpt from its new collection of short stories, Cooked Up: Food Fiction from Around the World. The book, compiled by Elaine Chiew, contains a series of stories...
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19 Pieces of Writing Advice from South Africa’s Literary Greats
Chris van Wyk on how to listen: I always tell writers who want advice to listen. Listen if you are in a taxi; listen to the way people speak, not just to what they say. And reproduce that. Source: A...
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Book Bites: 14 June 2015
I’ll Give You the Sun Jandy Nelson (Walker Books) **** Book monster The author can take a story and smash it into a million shards, then drive you to obsess about putting it all back together. Noah and...
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Calling all Graphic Novel Enthusiasts to a Comic Book Market at the Erdman...
Blank Books and Bibliophilia invite you to a day of celebrating the art of comic books at Erdman Gallery. Graphic novel enthusiasts can look forwards to pop-up shops featuring Azania Mania Art...
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Sunday Read: An Excerpt from James Patterson’s New Thriller, Truth or Die
James Patterson has had more New York Times bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to Guinness World Records. Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977 James Patterson’s books...
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Teju Cole’s Next Book Announced: A Collection of Essays Titled Known and...
Alert! Fans of Teju Cole’s work will be delighted to hear that news of his latest book has been confirmed. Known and Strange Things – a collection of 40-plus essays spanning art, literature, and...
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Book Bites: 21 June 2015
Riding the Samoosa Express Zaheera Jina and Hasina Asvat (Modjaji Books) *** Book fling This compilation of life writing from South African Muslim women of various backgrounds describes their travails...
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EL James’ New Novel Grey: Fifty Shades Of Grey As Told By Christian Breaks...
.@E_L_James Confirms She’ll Write ‘Fifty Shades Darker’ From Christian’s Perspective http://t.co/u5cnJotlf0 pic.twitter.com/y2YO9klscY — Fifty Shades UK (@50Shades0fJamie) June 24, 2015 Since being...
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Lyndall Gordon’s Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and a Daughter Makes the...
Alert! Lyndall Gordon’s book Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and a Daughter has been included on the longlist for the 2015 Warwick Prize for Writing. The Warwick Prize for Writing is an...
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“God, There’s a Hell of a Lot of Sex Going on in Africa”– Neel Mukherjee...
This year’s Caine Prize received a the highest number of submissions ever – but according to judge Neel Mukherjee the 2015 entries boasts another, more “dubious”, record: the highest number of stories...
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Join Achille Mbembe and Thembinkosi Goniwe for the 2015 Johannesburg Workshop...
WiSER invites you to the 2015 session of the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC) which is centred around the theme “Bios, Techné and the Manufacture of Happiness”. The closed...
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Fiction Friday: Dip into Some African Cyber Punk with Nnedi Okorafor’s The...
This Fiction Friday, read an excerpt from The Book of Phoenix, the new novel from Nigerian-American cyber-punk author Nnedi Okorafor. The Book of Phoenix – which was released internationally in May –...
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Casualties of War: Michele Magwood Reviews Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins
By Michele Magwood for the Sunday Times A God in Ruins Kate Atkinson (Doubleday) ***** “A man”, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, “is a god in ruins.” And there can be no more ruination, more wreckage of man,...
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102 Writers and Illustrators Confirmed for 2015 Open Book Festival (So Far)
The Book Lounge and the Fugard Theatre have announced the fifth edition of the Open Book Festival, and have released the names of the 82 local and 20 international participants confirmed so far. The...
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Join Jason Larkin for the Launch of Waiting at Fourthwall Books as Part of...
Fourthwall Books (South Africa) and Photoworks (United Kingdom) would like to invite you to the launch of Waiting by Jason Larkin as part of the SA-UK Seasons 2014 & 2015. While living in...
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Heidi Frontani Reviews The Book of Forgiving by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu
Verdict: carrot The book is a manual of sorts on the art of forgiveness including why forgiveness is important not only for perpetrators of injustice but for those who have been wronged. The book...
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