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Shortlist announced for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, including...
Alert! The shortlist for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize has been revealed. Six books are in contention for the prize, including Angolan author José Eduardo Agualusa. The shortlist was...
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Rwandan debut author Scholastique Mukasonga shortlisted for world’s richest...
Alert! The shortlist for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award has been announced. The 10-book shortlist includes Man Booker Prize winner Marlon James, Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne...
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Read an excerpt from Our Lady of the Nile by award-winning Rwandan debut...
For today’s Sunday Read, read an excerpt from Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga, which has just been shortlisted for the world’s most valuable literary prize. Mukasonga was born in...
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Ekow Eshun reviews Secure the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe by...
Verdict: carrot The West was founded on the slaughter of millions of people of colour, from the genocide of Native Americans in the US to Europe’s various acts of butchery and repression in Algeria,...
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Book Bites: 17 April 2016
Published in the Sunday Times Year of the Turnip John Dobson (Mercury) ***** If you feel you’re sliding into a dull murk of political correctness, this book is an inflatable life raft. Jason Brydon,...
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‘I do my best writing alone at a cafe in a foreign country’– Q and A with...
Published in the Sunday Times The Travelers Chris Pavone (Faber & Faber) What is the strangest thing you’ve done while researching a book? I recently drove a rental car from Mexico City to Puebla,...
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Dare I say I found it a long road leading nowhere? – Bruce Dennill reviews...
By Bruce Dennill for the Sunday Times Avenue Of Mysteries John Irving (Doubleday) ** It’s not a rare phenomenon, but it’s a difficult one to deal with: that point in an author’s career when he or she...
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2016 Kingsmead Book Fair Programme: Shape Your Mind (Saturday, 21 May)
The fifth annual Kingsmead Book Fair will take place on Saturday, 21 May at Kingsmead College in Johannesburg. Sessions run from 9 AM and the fair will be open until 8 PM. Tickets are available...
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Johns Hopkins University will award honorary degrees to Chimamanda Ngozi...
Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, United States has announced its list of eight “distinguished achievers” who will receive honorary degrees this year. The list includes award-winning novelist...
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Book Bites: 24 April 2016
The Secrets of Happiness Lucy Diamond (Macmillan) **** Becca and Rachel are step-sisters who cannot stand each other due to their respective perceptions of the marriage that made them stepsisters. When...
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The ocean at the centre of the world: Bron Sibree talks to Simon Winchester...
By Bron Sibree for the Sunday Times Pacific Simon Winchester (HarperCollins) ***** In his stellar five-decade career as a journalist and author, Simon Winchester hasn’t even toyed with the idea of...
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3 African writers shortlisted for Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize: Best...
The Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation has announced the complete shortlists for the inaugural Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prizes. Two South African authors, Kirsten Miller and Zirk van den Berg,...
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William Kentridge calls out Europe’s ‘incredible greed and selfishness’...
William Kentridge has spoken out against Europe’s hypocrisy in relation to its colonial legacy and the current immigration debate. Kentridge was speaking to German publication Art Das Kunstmagazin...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Spike Lee awarded Johns Hopkins University...
Internationally acclaimed Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was awarded an honorary degree by Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, United States, on Wednesday. Adichie was one of eight...
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More accolades for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Author awarded Barnard College’s...
It’s been a busy week for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The internationally acclaimed Nigerian novelist was awarded an honorary doctorate by Johns Hopkins University on Wednesday, but the day before, in...
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Ivan Vladislavic shortlisted for 2016 International Literature Award for...
Alert! Ivan Vladislavić has been shortlisted for the 2016 International Literature Award for the German translation of his book Double Negative. The German edition, also titled Double Negative, was...
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North American edition of The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga reviewed by...
Verdict: carrot Even as “The Reactive” hits some story beats that readers of a certain melancholy strain of crime fiction will find familiar, it also evades them. This is as much a book about...
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2016 Media24 Books Literary Awards shortlists announced
Alert! The shortlists for the 2016 Media24 Books Literary Awards have been announced. The awards recognise the best work published by Media24 Books – including NB Publishers and Jonathan Ball –...
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The best African books
To celebrate Africa Day, we asked our Books LIVE community what their favourite African books were. You can suggest contemporary books or classics, fiction or non-fiction. The list is a work in...
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Book Bites: 22 May 2016
Missing, Presumed Susie Steiner (HarperCollins) **** Book thrill An intriguing look into how most crimes are resolved by dogged determination rather than hunches and exciting leads. The case of the...
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