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Sunday Read: Excerpts from All the 2013 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted Novels
The shortlist for the 2013 Man Booker Prize was revealed earlier this month, much to the delight of guests attending Open Book in Cape Town, as they had the opportunity to congratulate shortlistee...
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Almost Nine Lives: Michele Magwood Chats to Simon Pearson About The Great...
By Michele Magwood for The Sunday Times The Great Escaper Simon Pearson (Hodder & Stoughton) ***** Book buff In the Old Harbour in Hermanus stands a memorial. Raked by wind and spray, flanked by...
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Holden Caulfield, Peacenik: Steven Sidley Reviews Salinger
By Steven Sidley for The Sunday Times Salinger David Shields and Shane Salerno (Simon & Schuster) **** Book buff David Shield’s and Shane Salerno’s voluminous Salinger is at once deeply arresting,...
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Chika Unigwe, Tariku Abas Etenesh, Tan Twan Eng and Marie NDiaye Among 2014...
Alert! Nigerian Author and Books LIVE member Chika Unigwe has been longlisted for the 2014 IMPAC Dublin Award for her novel Night Dancer. Unigwe is nominated along with fellow African writer Tariku...
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Yemisi Ogbe Reviews Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Verdict: stick Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the author of 477 pages of narrative on love and other things: on Nigeria and being Nigerian, on being both Nigerian and American, on being a Nigerian living...
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Jessica Johannesson Gaitan Reviews Double Negative by Ivan Vladislavic
Verdict: carrot Ivan Vladislavić lives in Johannesburg. After reading David Bello’s Is that a Fish in your Ear, which digs deep into the knots of what translation is and is not, I am now warier than...
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Doris Lessing, 1919-2013, RIP
Doris Lessing, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose first novel, The Grass is Singing, ensured a life-long association with southern Africa, has died in London aged ninety-four, according to her...
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Patrick Flanery Reviews Double Negative by Ivan Vladislavic
Verdict: carrot Much garlanded at home, South African writer Ivan Vladislavić has yet to reach a wide audience abroad, where he is known chiefly among a coterie of expats and scholars, fans of his...
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Link Love: Introducing Firebolt, the First in a Series of Fantasy YA Novels...
Introducing Firebolt, the first in a series of fantasy young adult novels by South African Adrienne Woods, published in the United States by GMTA Publishing: The author has shared an extract from the...
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Binyavanga Wainaina Lists Books That He Has Enjoyed Since He Was a Teenager
Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina has written about how his love of books started from a young age. He writes that he enjoyed books written for girls: “I chose romance over gung ho action, and even...
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Sunday Read: “Zombie” by Chuck Palahniuk
Today’s Sunday Read is courtesy of Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club and, most recently, Doomed, whose short story “Zombie” was published in Playboy. The story starts at a school where an “evil...
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Link Love: Latest Edition of Cityscapes Features Interview with Edem Awumey...
Issue #4 of Cityscapes, the biannual magazine-style publication on contemporary urbanism in Africa and the global South, has been released this month. The cover image is a photograph by Jodi Bieber...
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The Autobiography of an African Princess by Fatima Massaquoi Has Been...
 > Fatima Massaquoi, daughter of the King of Gallinas of Southern Sierra Leone, was born in 1904. She grew up in Liberia, travelled to Hamburg, Germany where she lived through the rise of...
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MA Orthofer Reviews The African Shore by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Verdict: carrot The African Shore is a short novel, divided into three parts — and a total of five chapters, each of which is further divided into shorter sub-chapters. Set in Tangier, on Morocco’s...
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Company Pictures Acquires TV Rights for The Three and the Sequel Day Four by...
Alert! Company Pictures in London has acquired the TV rights to Sarah Lotz’s upcoming novel The Three and the sequel, Day Four. Kate Sinclair will be executive producer and Lotz will be a consultant...
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Sunday Read: Joyce Carol Oates on Mike Tyson and His Autobiography,...
One of my favourite quotes from philosophy – right up there with Nietzsche’s “that which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger” (recently revived by Kelly Clarkson) – is from the lips of a certain Michael...
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A Lion in Jerusalem: Justin Cartwright Talks to Michele Magwood About His...
By Michele Magwood for The Sunday Times Lion Heart Justin Cartwright (Bloomsbury) **** There should be a new term in literary description: the “Cartwrightian” phrase. Justin Cartwright is a master at...
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Keina Swart resenseer Nege oop arms en Die hemel van Heivisj deur Benny...
Uitspraak: wortels Hulle stap in die stofpad af. Hulle trek sowaar as wragtig al weer. Te voet. Paps moet skree om bo die wind hoorbaar te wees. Hy hou ’n sakdoek voor sy neus teen die stof. Hy word...
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Nadine Gordimer and JM Coetzee Honour Nelson Mandela
Nobel Literature laureates Nadine Gordimer and JM Coetzee have both written articles in honour of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nelson Mandela, who passed away last night. Writing in The New Yorker,...
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Sunday Read: Charlayne Hunter-Gault Reflects on the Father of a Nation, Tata...
“Fellow South Africans, our beloved Nelson Rohlihla Mandela, the founding president of our democratic nation, has departed. Our people have lost a father.” These were the words President Jacob Zuma...
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