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Book Bites: 31 July 2016
Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Kak? The Zuma Years Tim Richman (Two Dogs) Book bru *** It’s been seven years since the third of the Kak books, which was intended to be the last, but Tim Richman now...
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If you need me, I’ll be under a pile of books – Jennifer Platt dissects her...
Published in the Sunday Times If you need to find me, it will be under a pile of books. I have TBR (to be read) piles for days, weeks, years. TBR piles everywhere – on my desk at work and especially in...
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A short, intense life whose message defies death: Jennifer Crocker reviews...
Published in the Sunday Times When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi (The Bodley Head) ***** We come into the world and the first thing that happens is that we take a breath and, if all is well, we...
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Book bites: 7 August 2016
The Cry of the Hangkaka Anne Woodborne (Modjaji Books) *** Book buff The adult world seen through the eyes of a child is a popular device. Here the child is Karin whose mother, Irene, is shamed in...
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Hagen Engler shares the books that built him
Published in the Sunday Times In The Maid’s Room Hagen Engler (Jacana) I’m most satisfied with my writing when I’m nervous about it. When I’m not sure how it will be received. It might be an...
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Making us laugh while it makes us think – The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s...
This Fiction Friday, read an excerpt from The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers, the long-awaited English-language debut from Morocco’s most prominent contemporary writer, Fouad Laroui. In its...
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Guilty of captivation: Bron Sibree talks to bestselling author Liane Moriarty...
Reading Liane Moriarty’s novels is an innocent pleasure, writes Bron Sibree for the Sunday Times Truly Madly Guilty Liane Moriarty (Penguin Random House) **** Imagine lunching in Los Angeles with one...
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Book bites: 14 August 2016
Published in the Sunday Times Somewhere Out There Amy Hatvany (Simon & Schuster) *** Book fling This is an absorbing story because of the concept: how the lives of two sisters diverge after their...
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Harry the difficult dad: Jennifer Platt reviews Harry Potter and the Cursed...
Our favourite wizard has grown up, but he still knows how to cast a spell, writes Jennifer Platt for the Sunday Times Harry Potter and the Cursed Child JK Rowling, John Tiffany & Jack Thorne...
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Young South African wins the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition
17-year-old Durbanite Inessa Rajah has won the 2016 Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition – the world’s oldest international schools writing competition – for her short story “Dr Congo-man”. The...
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Win a book and double tickets to the TOPS at SPAR Wine Show
We’ve got five books and five double tickets to the TOPS at SPAR Wine Show to give away! Five lucky winners will receive a set of double tickets to the TOPS at SPAR Wine Show (25-27 Aug at Menlyn...
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2016 Open Book Festival programme
There have been a few changes to the 2016 Open Book programme. The festival takes place from the 7-11 September in Cape Town. Scroll down to see the full programme. From Open Book: We’re delighted...
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Read ‘Space II’– a new story by Masande Ntshanga
For today’s Fiction Friday, Masande Ntshanga has generously shared a new short story with Books LIVE. Ntshanga wrote the story during the Caine Prize workshop in Zambia in March, and a version of it...
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Stephen Leather chats about writing, music and why he stopped reading Stephen...
Published in the Sunday Times Which book changed your life? I’m not sure it changed my life, but Trust Me I’m Lying certainly changed the way I look at the world. It’s by a guy called Ryan Holiday, a...
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La Not So Dolce Vita: Michele Magwood on the ‘unforgettable epic’ of the...
This story set in Italy has captivated readers around the world, writes Michele Magwood for the Sunday Times It started quietly last year, with people pressing a book into friends’ hands. It wasn’t...
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Win tickets to The Light Between Oceans at Ster Kinekor Rosebank!
Books LIVE has 10 double tickets to give away for a pre-screening of the new film The Light Between Oceans, starring Michael Fassbender and Rachel Weisz. The film is based on the bestselling novel of...
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Chinelo Okparanta shares her 6 favourite books
Chinelo Okparanta, the award-winning author of Happiness, Like Water and Under the Udala Trees, shares her favourite reads. There are so many books I love. But I will say that I particularly...
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Book Bites: 28 August 2016
Published in the Sunday Times The Private Lives of the Tudors Tracy Borman (Hodder & Stoughton) Book buff ***** Whether it was the scandals in court or the constant beheadings, people can’t devour...
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The problem with death: Oliver Roberts reviews Don DeLillo’s Zero K
In his latest novel Don DeLillo returns to imponderable themes, writes Oliver Roberts for the Sunday Times Zero K Don DeLillo (Picador) **** In Don DeLillo’s ninth novel, White Noise, narrator Jack...
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How to fill the Harry Potter hole
By Jennifer Platt for the Sunday Times Having read the eighth story – Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – for the third time, I seem to have an insatiable need for more Potter. It’s my comfort reading:...
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