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Fiction Friday: “Empty Spaces Where My Sister Should Be”– Read “Serein”, by...
Shimmer has shared a story new story by Cat Hellisen, author of When the Sea is Rising Red, House of Sand and Secrets and Beastkeeper. Hellisen is one of South Africa’s top fantasy exports. Her...
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Sunday Read: Mr Difficult Does it Again – A(nother) Controversial Interview...
American essayist and novelist Jonathan Franzen is notorious for his candour. Over the years he has made many unpopular statements to fuel the notion that he is a difficult man. In an essay for The...
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6 Sunday Reads, Including an Argument That David Foster Wallace “Was Just a...
1. David Foster Wallace was just a dude, thinking about shit From Literary Hub: “Wallace was brilliant but also just a dude, thinking about shit. This is an irresistible figure to aspire to,...
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Katy Kramp Reviews Beastkeeper by Cat Hellisen
Verdict: carrot This is a captivating tale, filled with the magic of birds and beasts and woods, the magic in a teddy bear necklace that Sarah’s parents gave her when she was too old to want such a...
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Joe Vaz Reviews Under Ground by SL Grey
Verdict: carrot So SL Grey have done it again. Under Ground is a tough read, as one has come to expect from SL Grey, but fantastically paced. It is gripping and intense and a hell of a page-turner. I...
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Isobel Dixon, Lyndall Gordon, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Denis Hirson, Kelwyn Sole...
Writing South Africa Now 2015: in Conjunction with the Southern African Poetry Project was a two-day colloquium held at the University of Cambridge on 26-27 June 2015. Started in 2013, Writing South...
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Pamela Kramer Reviews Beastkeeper by Cat Hellisen
Verdict: carrot “Beastkeeper” by Cat Hellisen is a rather dark knock-off of “Beauty and the Beast,” in which the curse is rather backwards. Instead of the vain and handsome prince being cursed to...
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2015 Jozi Book Fair Programme Revealed (11 – 13 September)
Alert! The programme for the seventh annual Jozi Book Fair has been revealed. The Jozi Book Fair takes place between 11 to 13 September at Wits University – and entrance to all events is free....
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William Kentridge Working on Largest Public Work to Date on the River Tiber...
William Kentridge’s planned frieze along the banks of the river Tiber in Rome, first conceived 14 years ago, will be inaugurated on 21 April, 2016. The piece, entitled “Triumphs and Laments”, will...
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Pan Macmillan and The Book Lounge Shine at the 2015 Sefika Booksellers Awards
The annual gathering of South Africa’s publishers and booksellers at the Sefika Booksellers Awards took place in Johannesburg last night, where the winner of the coveted Nielsen Booksellers’ Choice...
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In Response to Percy Zvomuya: Obinna Udenwe Reviews The Fishermen by Chigozie...
Verdict: carrot Obinna Udenwe has written a response to Percy Zvomuya’s recent review of The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma. Read Udenwe’s review: Unlike Mr. Zvomuya’s stand that The Fishermen may have...
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Fiction Friday: Excerpt from Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Forthcoming Novel,...
This Fiction Friday, read an excerpt from Tsitsi Dangarembga’s forthcoming novel, Chronicle of an Indomitable Daughter, the third in the “Tambudzai Trilogy” that began with Nervous Conditions and...
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Sunday Read: An Excerpt from David Lagercrantz’s The Girl in the Spider’s...
Entertainment Weekly has shared an exclusive extract from the new novel in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series – The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz. The sequel to Larsson’s trilogy –...
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7 Sunday Reads, Including an Extract from Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Saga...
1. The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante – extract From The Guardian: The conclusion to the wildly acclaimed Neapolitan novel sequence is arriving in English next month. Here is a taste of...
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Sue Grant-Marshall Reviews Under Ground by SL Grey
Verdict: carrot THERE can be few fates worse than being locked underground with a group of strangers you don’t particularly like, in an artificial world away from sunlight, friends and society. Slip a...
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Book Bites: 30 August 2015
The Death House Sarah Pinsborough (Orion) *** Book monster This gripping YA novel answers the question of what the world would be like if there was to be no more illness. In a dystopian future those...
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Perfect Crime: Michele Magwood Reviews Deon Meyer’s Icarus
By Michele Magwood for the Sunday Times Icarus Deon Meyer (Hodder & Stoughton) ***** (five stars) It’s not done, surely, to bark with laughter when reading a crime novel, but Deon Meyer’s latest...
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The Writer in Stieg Larsson’s Web: Bron Sibree Interviews David Lagercrantz,...
By Bron Sibree for the Sunday Times The Girl in the Spider’s Web David Lagercrantz (Quercus) David Lagercrantz has a long history of taking risks. “It makes me write better,” says the Swedish...
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The Sunday Times Bestseller List for August 2015
The Sunday Times has released the monthly bestseller list for August, revealing South Africa’s top selling fiction and non-fiction books. The three top selling fiction books remain unchanged, with...
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All the Poetica Events to Look Forward at the 2015 Open Book Festival (9 – 13...
The 2015 Open Book Festival is less than a week away and we cannot wait for all the exciting book events that will be hitting Cape Town from 9 to 13 September. Poetry lovers will have plenty to look...
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