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Six Feet Deep: Diane Awerbuck Reviews SL Grey’s Under Ground
By Diane Awerbuck for the Sunday Times Under Ground SL Grey (Pan Macmillan) Under Ground will available from the first week of August A friend used to say that he wasn’t against nuclear families, per...
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Jon Gertner Reviews Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of Spacex and Tesla is...
Verdict: carrot - The actual details of Musk’s ascent are more complicated. As Ashlee Vance explains in this exhaustively reported biography, written with the cooperation (but not the final approval)...
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“I Don’t Bite My Tongue in this Book”– Hugh Masekela Signs with Jacana for...
Jazz legend Hugh Masekela was in the Jacana Media offices this afternoon to sign the contract for the local publication of his memoir, Still Grazing, which came out internationally in 2004 but was...
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2015 Man Booker Prize Longlist Revealed – Just One African Novel Makes the Cut
Alert! The longlist for the 2015 Man Booker Prize has been announced. There are 13 authors on the list this year, but disappointingly just one from Africa: Chigozie Obioma, for The Fishermen. Laila...
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Cynthia-Marie Marmo O’Brien Reviews The Rainy Season: Three Lives in the New...
Verdict: carrot Arriving two decades after Nelson Mandela’s presidency inaugurated the new South Africa, The Rainy Season is an essential history – not about those who redraw national maps, but those...
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“I am African”– Laila Lalami Responds to Being Identified as a US Author on...
The 2015 Man Booker Prize longlist was announced yesterday, with 13 authors representing the US (five), the UK (three), Ireland, Jamaica, Nigeria, India and New Zealand. This is only the second year...
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Fiction Friday: “The Turning Tide”, by 2015 Man Booker Prize Longlisted...
This Fiction Friday, read a short story by Laila Lalami, who was longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize this week. Lalami was nominated for her novel The Moor’s Account, and although she was...
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Sunday Read: China Mieville is Back with a New Book, and a Nod From Ursula K...
Remember all the way back in January when we promised you a new book by China Miéville to look forward to? Well now, at long last, the wait is over. Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories is a...
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Enoch Tanyi Reviews Losing My Religion by Jide Familoni
Verdict: carrot Even though a number of themes are covered in the novel, the title, Losing My Religion is apt in that it addresses one of the major themes which is the result of Fẹmi’s relocation to...
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Mia Couto’s Confession of the Lioness Now Available in English (Plus: Excerpt)
Mia Couto’s Confession of the Lioness, first published in Portuguese in 2012, has been released in English, translated by David Brookshaw. Couto is the winner of the 2014 Neustadt International...
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Finding Virtue in the Vice: William Saunderson-Meyer Reviews Dennis Lehane’s...
By William Saunderson-Meyer for the Sunday Times World Gone By Dennis Lehane (Little, Brown) ***** “Before the small war broke them apart,” writes Lehane, “they all gathered to support the big war.”...
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Book Bites: 2 August 2015
Shame Melanie Finn (Orion) *** Book buff Set in an “Africa” that Western readers will recognise: traditional healers, dry landscapes, bribes, and even Aids orphans. It’s frustrating when this slice of...
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Kate Macdonald Reviews The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami
Verdict: carrot It doesn’t matter one bit that Lalami is retelling a story that modern historians have already had a go at. What’s important is that she’s making retelling the centre of this story....
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The Sunday Times Bestseller List for July 2015
The Sunday Times has once again released their monthly bestseller list, revealing the top five fiction and top five non-fiction books in the country. The information is gleaned from SAPnet/Nielsen...
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Louise Redvers Reviews Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil...
Verdict: carrot Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola Since the Civil War is an expertly researched and simply told historical and political overview of one of sub-Saharan Africa’s least understood...
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2015 Open Book Festival Programme (9 – 13 September)
Alert! The programme for this year’s Open Book Festival has been revealed and we couldn’t be more excited! Activities start on Wednesday, 9 September, and will run until Sunday, 13 September. Venues...
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Gulf Digital News Reviews Under Ground by SL Grey
Verdict: carrot All the events throughout Under Ground culminate into a really good ending, but no spoilers here, you will have to pick up a copy if this is your type of read. If you are looking for a...
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Los Angeles Review of Books Heaps Praise on Short Story Day Africa’s Latest...
Terra Incognita – the latest Short Story Day Africa anthology – has been reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books, along with Dilman Dila’s A Killing in the Sun. Short Story Day Africa, run by...
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Three of Athol Fugard’s Plays to be Staged in China for the First Time
Athol Fugard is considered to be one of the greatest living playwrights in the world. Best known for his political plays, he has been writing and producing since the 1950s. He has written over 30...
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JM Coetzee Recommends Ivan Vladislavic in World Literature Today Interview
In a short interview in the May/August 2015 edition of World Literature Today, JM Coetzee recommends the works of Ivan Vladislavić, calling him “a writer of great sophistication”. The interview is...
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