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Sunday Read: Meet the Real Lady in the Van and Listen to an Excerpt from...
In 1974 an elderly and eccentric Miss Mary Shepherd parked her van in writer Alan Bennett’s driveway in Camden Town, where she remained until her death 15 years later. Bennett and Miss Shepherd had...
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5 Sunday Reads: An Interview with Orhan Pamuk, an Essay from Diana...
1. “I Walk in the City All the Time”: An Interview with Orhan Pamuk From Hazlitt: Orhan Pamuk knows many things about cities. He’s written a book about the city he calls home, 2005’s Istanbul: Memories...
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Update: Binyavanga Wainaina Travels to India for Further Medical Care
The Kwani Trust has sent an update regarding the health of Binyavanga Wainaina. The Kenyan author suffered a stroke on 31 October, and owing to complications needed to travel to India for tests. The...
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William Kentridge Wins Artist of the Year at the Apollo Awards 2015
Alert! William Kentridge was named Artist of the Year at the Apollo Awards 2015 at a ceremony at RSA House in London, England recently. The Apollo Awards, which have existed in some form since...
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Jade Colbert Reviews Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
Verdict: carrot How are we to engage with the countries of the world where LGBT people face the worst forms of state-condoned violence? This is the question underlining two novels released this fall,...
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A New Wave of Protest is Sweeping across Africa Today – Read an Excerpt from...
Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change by Adam Branch and Zachariah Mampilly is the first book to put contemporary popular protest in a pan-African context. Published by Best Red, an...
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Don’t Miss the Oxford Paddle to Read for Madiba Dragon Boat Race at the V and...
The annual Paddle for Madiba Dragon Boat race is taking place on Saturday, 5 December, which is the second anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s death. The event will take place at the V&A...
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Jonathan Gibbs Reviews The Folly by Ivan Vladislavic
Verdict: carrot If Ivan Vladislavić isn’t the most important writer to have come out of South Africa since JM Coetzee, then he’s certainly the one to have made the greatest impact over here. His cool,...
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Translation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists to be...
A Swedish translation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists – titled Alla Borde Vara Feminister and published by Albert Bonniers Förlag – was unveiled yesterday. The text...
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Jenny Crwys-Williams Reveals Her 2015 Book of the Year Shortlists
Jenny Crwys-Williams has announced the shortlists for her Book of the Year, in the categories Cookbooks, Fiction, Non-fiction and Coffee Table Books. The overall winners will be announced on...
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Book Bites: 29 November 2015
Good Hope Road Sarita Mandanna (Orion) **** Book Buff 1914: American French Foreign Legion volunteers James Stonebridge and Obadaiah Nelson are in the trenches of the Great War. In between their tale...
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“A Hallucinogenic Post-apocalyptic Carnival Ride”– Nikhil Singh’s Debut Novel...
Alert! Cape-Town based Nikhil Singh’s debut novel Taty Went West is being launched as part of the 2015 Kwani? Litfest, taking place in Nairobi, Kenya from 1 to 6 December. Taty Went West, which was...
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The Sleepers’ New EP Porcelain Jaw Includes Ebook of New Fiction by Sarah...
Cape Town-based Alt-Prog-Rock band The Sleepers have released a new EP, with a literary twist. The album, Porcelain Jaw, comes with an ebook of short fiction called Stories from the War, inspired by...
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World Fantasy Administration Calls for Designs to Replace Trophy Depicting...
The World Fantasy Award is calling on all artists and designers to submit their ideas for a new trophy. This follows on the World Fantasy Award’s decision last month to discontinue the use of the HP...
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Wilbur Smith Stays Top of the Sunday Times Bestseller List for November 2015
The Sunday Times monthly bestseller list for November has been revealed, documenting South Africa’s top selling fiction and non-fiction books. Golden Lion, the new novel from Wilbur Smith, holds on...
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5 Sunday Reads: Including Morrissey’s Bad Sex Award-winning Writing and a...
1. List of the Lost by Morrissey Wins the Bad Sex Award 2015 The Sydney Morning Herald: Former lead singer of The Smiths, Morrissey, has beaten off stiff competition to win this year’s Bad Sex in...
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Sunday Read: Read and Listen to Excerpts from Stephen King’s New Short Story...
Stephen King’s latest book, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, has just been released. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams is a collection of short stories, some brand new and some previously published in magazines and...
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The Best Books of 2015: Sunday Times Book Reviewers Choose Their Top Reads of...
Published in the Sunday Times Sunday Times book reviewers look back at 2015 and name their books of the year. Ben Williams, Sunday Times books editor My find of the year is Parker Bilal, which is...
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The New Wave of Speculative Fiction: African Monsters – Featuring Nnedi...
African Monsters, a new anthology of speculative fiction, graphic stories, and illustrations from Fox Spirit Books, edited by Margrét Helgadóttir and Jo Thomas, will be out this month. The book...
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Ainehi Edoro Reviews Born on a Tuesday by Elnathan John
Verdict: carrot With Born on a Tuesday, John breaks away from his signature satirical mode. The novel takes a searing look at a cultural phenomenon, the misuse of which has been linked to the political...
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