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Tsar power: Bron Sibree discusses epic tome The Romanovs: 1613 – 1918 with...
Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, and now Putin the wannabe great. By Bron Sibree for the Sunday Times The Romanovs: 1613 – 1918 Simon Sebag Montefiore (Orion) **** Few people understand the nature...
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Danger in the digital jungle: Ayesha Kajee talks to Fiona Snyckers about her...
By Ayesha Kajee for the Sunday Times Now Following You Fiona Snyckers (Modjaji Books) ***** A certain age demographic on social media “really has no boundaries and is completely open about even the...
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Caine Prize celebrates record number of entries from a wider range of...
The Caine Prize for African Writing has announced a record number of entries for the second year in a row, from a wider range of countries. The 17th edition of the prize received 166 eligible short...
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‘There is power in pop culture’: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie applauds Beyonce...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie chatted to Le Monde journalist Sylvie Kauffmann in Paris, France yesterday, as part of the Le Monde Afrique Conference on the topic Women: The Future of Africa. Kauffmann...
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Scott F Parker reviews Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila
Verdict: carrot While other African writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Teju Cole and Okey Ndibe have enjoyed recent popularity, their work tends to be more conventionally narrative-driven and,...
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SL Grey signs major United States publishing deal for The Apartment
SL Grey has announced a major United States publishing deal with Blumhouse Books! American fans will be able to get their hands on the US edition of the next SL Grey novel, The Apartment, in...
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Listen to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reading her short story ‘Olikoye’
For this week’s Fiction Friday, treat your ears to the enchanting voice of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reading her short story “Olikoye”. The story was written as part of The Art of Saving a Life...
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New books from Zadie Smith and Ali Smith announced for 2016
Alert! Penguin Random House has announced that it will be publishing novels from both Ali Smith and Zadie Smith this year, The Bookseller reports. The publishing house made the announcement at its...
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How to be a freelance writer
This week’s Sunday Read is a Longreads roundtable conversation between freelancers about how to succeed in the cutthroat industry of journalism for hire. In the piece, four freelance writers – Eva...
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Petina Gappah longlisted for the 2016 Sunday Times (UK) Short Story Award –...
Alert! Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah has been longlisted for the United Kingdom’s 2016 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. Read an excerpt from the story below With £30 000 prize money (about R670...
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Book Bites: 28 February 2016
Dictator Robert Harris (Penguin Random House) **** In his author’s notes Robert Harris says “Dictator tells a story of the last 15 years in the life of the Roman statesman Cicero, imagined in the form...
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Decolonising the Book – 2016 Time of the Writer programme revealed
Alert! The programme for the 2016 Time of the Writer Festival has been released. The 19th Time of the Writer will take place from 14 – 19 March in Durban. This year’s theme is Decolonising the Book....
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Revealed: The Quentin Blake-designed cover for rediscovered Beatrix Potter tale
The cover has been revealed for Beatrix Potter’s story The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots, which was recently rediscovered over 100 years after it was originally written. The cover is designed by Quentin...
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Killer Aphrodite reviews Under Ground by SL Grey
Verdict: carrot SL Grey does not disappoint with Under Ground. Horror aficionados will get a kick out of this book, thriller lovers are in for a treat, and fans of dystopian novels will enjoy it, too....
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What contemporary African book has stayed with you lately?
Today is World Book Day in the UK, and in the spirit of reading, Writivism has asked its Twitter followers: On this #WorldBookDay – we're wondering: what contemporary African book has stayed with...
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Claire Heuchan reviews Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
Verdict: carrot Black lesbian fiction exists. It can be wonderful. That being said, it’s difficult to think of many recently published novels or collections specifically about Black lesbians. No...
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Writing advice from 2016 PEN/Saul Bellow Award-winner and literary icon Toni...
Toni Morrison has been announced as the winner of the 2016 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. In honour of this, for today’s Sunday Read we’ve collected some insightful and...
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Book Bites: 6 March 2016
Blackass A Igoni Barrett (Chatto & Windus) Book Buff *** This is Barrett’s debut novel, following a short story collection that earned high praise from Teju Cole and Nadine Gordimer. Its premise is...
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Grace anatomy: Michele Magwood reviews Grace Jones’s I’ll Never Write my Memoirs
You and Ms Jones don’t have a thing going on. But you can read her book. By Michele Magwood for the Sunday Times I’ll Never Write My Memoirs Grace Jones (Simon & Schuster) **** Grace Jones was two...
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Petina Gappah becomes the first Zimbabwean author to be longlisted for the...
Alert! Petina Gappah has made the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist for her novel The Book of Memory, becoming the first Zimbabwean author to be longlisted for the prize. Just over a...
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