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Don’t miss the London Book Fair Virtual Conference on Twitter today, with...
At 5 PM this afternoon, Books LIVE will be moderating a session for the London Book Fair’s Virtual Conference: Around the World in 8 Hours. The session, titled “What sells in South Africa? Genre...
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Alexander Matthews reviews The Looting Machine by Tom Burgis
Verdict: carrot The Looting Machine provides indispensable insights into why Africa’s astonishing oil and mineral wealth fails to translate into the enrichment of its people — and only benefits a small...
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Michael Oppenheimer reviews Golden Lion by Wilbur Smith
Verdict: carrot Wilbur Smith resumes his very popular Courtney family series set in East Africa in the 17th century with this latest swashbuckling, action packed adventure. Set in the three decades...
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Jeff Popple reviews Icarus by Deon Meyer
Verdict: carrot Some of the world’s best crime writing is currently emanating from Africa, particularly South Africa. Meyer has been at the forefront at African crime writing for some time and Icarus...
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Sunday Read: ‘The Bastard’ by Patrick deWitt (Plus: a Single Sentence...
This week, Electric Literature has as its recommended read a short story by Patrick DeWitt: “The Bastard”, which is uncollected and previously unavailable online! DeWitt, who visited South Africa...
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Not political, but ‘psychological’– Roger Ballen launches his latest book and...
By Lungile Sojini Photographer Roger Ballen launched his new photobook and exhibition The House Project at Gallery MOMO in Parktown, Johannesburg recently. The book draws on the psychological works...
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Through the eyes of an IVF baby: Bron Sibree chats to Rupert Thomson about...
By Bron Sibree for the Sunday Times Katherine Carlyle Rupert Thomson (Little Brown) **** (4 stars) English novelist Rupert Thomson was once described by literary critic James Wood as “one of the most...
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Book Bites: 31 January 2016
ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan (Simon & Schuster) **** Book buff A US journalist and a Middle East analyst join forces to produce this rigorous account of how the...
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Dzekashu MacViban reviews Natives by Inongo-vi-Makome
Verdict: carrot The last few years have been exciting for Cameroonian writers. At the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2014, Random House signed a seven-figure deal for the North American rights to The Longings...
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25 new books by African writers to look forward to in 2016, according to...
Literary Hub has featured 25 new books by African writers that will be published internationally in the first half of 2016, writing that “there has never been a better time than right now to be a...
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South African non-fiction dominates the Sunday Times Bestseller List for...
The Sunday Times monthly bestseller list for January has been released, revealing South Africa’s top selling fiction and non-fiction books. View more bestsellers lists The information on the...
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Ishtiyaq Shukri calls for UK, US and South Africa to reassess Saudi ties...
Ashraf Fayadh Yesterday it was announced that a Saudi Arabian court had altered the death sentence for Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh to an eight-year prison term and 800 lashes on charges of...
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Su’eddie Vershima Agema reviews Born on a Tuesday by Elnathan John
Verdict: carrot Born on a Tuesday is a book worth reading, and will give useful insights into a people, their cultures and an idea of why certain things are the way they are in a part of Nigeria today....
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Sudanese-American poet Safia Elhillo wins 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for...
Alert! Sudanese-American poet Safia Elhillo has been named the winner of the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets for her manuscript, Asmarani. The Sillerman First Book Prize is...
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Sunday Read: Read an excerpt from Alan Dean Foster’s novelisation of Star...
For this week’s edition of Sunday Read, we give you an excerpt from Alan Dean Foster’s epic space opera The Force Awakens (Star Wars), the official novelisation of Star Wars: The Force Awakens – the...
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Start working on your bucket list now: Andrew Unsworth reviews Graham...
By Andrew Unsworth for the Sunday Times Magicians of the Gods Graham Hancock (Coronet) *** Are we silly to worry about climate change when we all will be wiped out by a comet within the next 25 years?...
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Author Q and A: Samuel Bjork, author of I’m Travelling Alone
Published in the Sunday Times I’m Travelling Alone Samuel Bjørk (Penguin Random House) Where do you write best? At home, at night, in the dark, when the world around me is quiet. What books are on your...
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2016 Time of the Writer Festival heading to Clermont, Cato Manor, Umlazi,...
The Centre for Creative Arts has announced a change in venues and a special programme for the Time of the Writer festival this year, under the theme Decolonising the Book. The 19th edition of the...
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Jumoke Verissimo reviews Season of Crimson Blossoms by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
Verdict: carrot Season is a narrative that brings together several accounts of cultural deviancy in Northern Nigeria. The work is significant as a resource for understanding the psychological landscape...
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Read an excerpt from Nick Wood’s debut Azanian Bridges, an alternate reality...
Azanian Bridges, Nick Wood’s debut novel, is published and due to be launched at the British Science Fiction Association Convention this Easter, and the author has kindly given Books LIVE an excerpt...
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