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Dancing in Other Words – extravaganza of poetry, music and dance at 2016...
The 2016 Spier Poetry Festival, Dancing in Other Words, was a remarkable event, buzzing with vital, vibrant conversations, wonderful fusions of music and poetry, and powerful live performances by...
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2016 Writivism Short Story Prize longlist announced after record entries
Alert! The 2016 Writivism Short Story Prize longlist has been announced, including local writers Megan Ross and Catherine Shepherd, and Tanzanian Noella Moshi, who lives in South Africa. The...
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Read an excerpt from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new short story, inspired by...
Have you ever tried to imagine a day in the life of the Trumps? How would Melania Trump deal with the day-to-day challenges of being married to the infamous businessperson, author and politician,...
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Book Bites: 3 July 2016
Published in the Sunday Times Switched at Birth Jessica Pitchford (Jonathan Ball) **** Book buff Imagine discovering your two-year-old isn’t yours; that he’d been swapped at birth. It happened to Megs...
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South African Lidudumalingani wins 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing
Alert! South African writer Lidudumalingani has won the seventeenth Caine Prize for African Writing. Lidudumalingani was announced as the winner of the 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing,...
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Pound of flesh: Annetjie van Wynegaard reviews The Vegetarian by Han Kang,...
This South Korean novel addresses the plight of women everywhere, writes Annetjie van Wynegaard for the Sunday Times The Vegetarian Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith (Hogarth) ***** South Korean...
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Book Bites: 26 June 2016
Published in the Sunday Times The Good Liar Nicholas Searle (Viking) *** Book thrill Searle’s reticence about his civil service career has led to knowing allusions to other spies-turned-novelists such...
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Big data, big brother, big issues: Carol-Ann Davids talks to Patrick Flanery...
Published in the Sunday Times I Am No One Patrick Flanery (Penguin Random House) **** When the constellation of personal information that we drop every day – e-mail addresses, phone numbers, locations...
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Book Bites: 10 July 2016
Published in the Sunday Times Shanghai Grand Taras Grescoe (Macmillan) **** Book fling Based on a real-life romance, Shanghai Grand developed into a most intoxicating book. Zau was a handsome,...
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Hard lessons: Michele Magwood interviews Joanne Harris about her latest novel...
Joanne Harris sets her new thriller in the sinister corridors of school ties and bullies, writes Michele Magwood in the Sunday Times Different Class Joanne Harris ***** When I last saw Joanne Harris we...
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Read Lidudumalingani’s 2016 Caine Prize-winning story “Memories We Lost”
This Fiction Friday, celebrate South African writer Lidudumalingani’s recent Caine Prize victory by reading his winning story, “Memories We Lost”. The piece was originally published in the 2015...
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Addictive claustrophobia: Andrew Salomon speaks to MR Carey about his latest...
By Andrew Salomon for the Sunday Times Fellside MR Carey (Little, Brown) **** A fair dollop of courage and a deft writerly touch are required to produce a poignant, character-driven novel that works as...
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Book Bites: 17 July 2016
It’s Okay To Laugh (Crying is Cool Too) Nora McInerny Purmont (Little Brown) Book real **** 20-something Nora’s husband Aaron is diagnosed with incurable brain cancer. So they decide to live their best...
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2016 Bloody Book Week crime fiction festival – programme revealed
Alert! The programme for the 2016 Bloody Book Week has been released, including international authors Stephen Leather, John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard as well as local luminaries Sally Andrew,...
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Secrets of identity: Michele Magwood interviews Susan Faludi about her book...
Published in the Sunday Times In the Darkroom Susan Faludi (HarperCollins R360) ***** (5 stars) Susan Faludi had not seen her father for a quarter of a century when, in 2004, she flew from America to...
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2016 Lowveld Book Festival programme revealed
Alert! The full programme for the 2016 Lowveld Book Festival has been revealed. The festival will take place from 5-7 August this year in Mpumalanga. Authors involved in the festival this year...
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Book Bites: 24 July 2016
Published in the Sunday Times Little Warrior Giuseppe Catozzella (Faber & Faber) **** Book buff This fictionalised version of the life of Samia Omar, who dreams of being a champion runner while...
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Interview with John Connolly on reading, writing and strange research
Published in the Sunday Times A Time of Torment John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton) Which book changed your life? The first book I ever read alone and unaided, which was a Secret Seven book by...
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2016 Man Booker Prize longlist revealed
Alert! The longlist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize has been announced, including JM Coetzee. There are 13 books on the list, six are by women and seven by men, with seven British authors and four...
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How the new Man Booker Prize rules are affecting Africa – and the UK
After the announcement of the 2016 Man Booker Prize longlist this afternoon, Books LIVE takes a closer look at how loosening the prize rules has affected authors from Africa and other non-Western...
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