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Jana-Marie Koen resenseer verskeie Afrikaanse kinderboeke
As ’n mens se baba op nege maande al sy hande begin klap wanneer sy ma ’n boek optel, is dit ’n plesier om ’n paar op ’n slag vir resensering te ontvang. LAPA Uitgewers het die gewilde Engelse...
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Bron Sibree on The Son: An Epic Blood-drenched Family Saga
By Bron Sibree for The Sunday Times The Son Philipp Meyer (Simon & Schuster) **** (4/5 stars) There aren’t many novelists who’ll admit to drinking buffalo blood in the interests of researching...
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Women Writers Rise to the Top of the Forbes Rich List
By Jennifer Platt for The Sunday Times Fifty Shades of Grey has proven once again that sex sells – and has broken another record in the process. Its author, EL James, has topped the Forbes list of...
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Yves Vanderhaeghen Reviews The Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul Theroux
Verdict: carrot This is Paul Theroux’s goodbye. He’s old, he’s seen the world, and although much of it wasn’t pretty, he viewed it kindly. In The Last Train to Zona Verde, there is hardly a vestige of...
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Sunday Read: Rob Goodman on Modern Society’s “Dystopian Narcissism” and...
In a piece for The Chronicle of Higher Education, author and political science PhD student Rob Goodman discusses apocalyptic literature and society’s fascination with the end of the world. Goodman...
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#STBooks: The Life of Pi for the Life of a Reading, Writing Mom by Casey B Dolan
By Casey B Dolan for The Sunday Times There is no doubt that I am a bookaholic, but since I have become a mom, I have found myself floundering for a spare moment between toilet training and snot-wiping...
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Lauren de Beer Reviews Deadly Harvest: A Detective Kubu Mystery by Michael...
Verdict: carrot WITCH doctors, magic spells and the age-old African belief in the power of traditional medicine are the themes covered in Deadly Harvest, the fourth instalment in the Detective Kubu...
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Dwight Garner Reviews The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee
Verdict: a subtle stick Plenty has been written about the essential qualities of J. M. Coetzee’s novels, their severity, restraint and erudition. Martin Amis put it most memorably, if not most...
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Sunday Read: Margaret Atwood Talks Maddaddam, Bees, Zombies and the End of...
 > Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam came out this week, ending off the dystopian trilogy of Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood. Atwood spoke to Emma Brockes, author of She Left Me the Gun...
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Book Bites: 1 September 2013
Bad Monkey Carl Hiaasen (Little Brown) **** Book thrill With Hiaasen, you get exactly what it says on the box: manic screwball crime caper. Lately, there’d been a zany-by-rote predictability to his...
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Book Bites: 8 September 2013
The Wall William Sutcliffe (Bloomsbury) *** Book monster A thought-provoking coming-of-age adventure story about Joshua, a 13-year-old boy who lives in a town called Amarias that is protected by a...
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Paris for Dummies, According to Wikipedia: Tim Martin on Edward Rutherford’s...
Paris Edward Rutherfurd (Hodder & Stoughton) ** An encyclopedic novel that attempts to pack in eight centuries of the French capital’s history resembles a tourist souvenir shop, says Tim Martin Did...
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Patrick Flanery Reviews The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee
Verdict: carrot If J.M. Coetzee’s new novel is, as its title suggests, about the Biblical Jesus, it is so only at several removes, and frequently parodic ones at that.“The Childhood of Jesus” seems in...
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#ElevatorPitch: Vine Videos of Authors Reading from Their Books, Including...
During the Open Book Festival we tracked down some of the many authors in attendance and asked them to read the first, or their favourite, line from their recent books – from Scottish crime writer Ian...
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Fiction Friday: “Incident on the Way to Bakoy Market” by Ayesha Harruna Attah
A new short story by Ghanaian writer Ayesha Harruna Attah has been published in the literary journal Asymptote. Attah is the author of the Commonwealth Prize shortlisted novel Harmattan Rain. For...
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Sunday Read: Three Reviews of Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge (Plus: The Best...
Absolutely the best novel trailer so far in the history of the world http://t.co/6lOoyM26qX — William Gibson (@GreatDismal) September 4, 2013 Thomas Pynchon, the reclusive author who “hides in plain...
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No Friend of Harry: Donnay Torr Reviews The Bone Season
By Donnay Torr for The Sunday Times The Bone Season Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury) *** Samantha Shannon has just had the weight of the publishing world lowered on to her young shoulders, having secured...
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Teju Cole Hits the Troyeville Hotel, Twitter Quivers
Twitter was abuzz last night in Johannesburg, where Teju Cole, fresh from Open Book Cape Town, was holding forth at the Troyeville Hotel book club, in conversation with Antony Altbeker. If, like many...
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Sophy Kohler Discusses Small Fates and Narrow Escapes with Teju Cole
By Sophy Kohler for The Times Open City (Faber & Faber) Days before I am scheduled to interview Teju Cole, I hear mixed reviews, both of his writing and his personality. True to form, he makes an...
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Wanjiru Koinange Reviews Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Verdict: carrot Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s writing often fills me with passionate rage and desperate envy. I have said this to anyone who will listen. My time spent reading her work is punctuated with...
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