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The Silent Violinist – Anna Stroud reviews Min Kym’s memoir Gone: A Girl, a...
Min Kym’s memoir tells a story of sacrifice, pain and separation, writes Anna Stroud for the Sunday Times Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung Min Kym (Penguin Random House) **** There are two...
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The Hate U Give speaks up loudly for an ignored, ill-treated and maligned...
Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give is a powerful and brave YA novel about what prejudice looks like in the 21st century. Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was...
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A teeming, enthralling and storied city: Michele Magwood reviews Istanbul – A...
Published in the Times Istanbul – A Tale of Three Cities Bettany Hughes (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) As any visitor to Istanbul will tell you, the past lies very close to the surface of this storied...
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Atul & Ajay Borgia? Sarah Dunant’s In the Name of the Family redresses the...
Published in the Sunday Times Bron Sibree on Sarah Dunant’s latest historical novel which asks ‘who was this family, the Borgias, that everybody loved to hate?’ In the Name of the Family **** Sarah...
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Mischling reignites the debate about whether the Holocaust is a suitable...
This review was published in the Witness AFFINITY Konar’s debut novel is an extraordinary piece of writing, powerfully imaginative, cleverly constructed and lyrical…but it is not an easy read. In...
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Shortlist for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 announced
The Man Booker International Prize revealed the shortlist of six books in contention for the 2017 prize, which celebrates the finest works of translated fiction from around the world. Each shortlisted...
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Literary Crossroads with Imraan Coovadia (SA) & Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (Nigeria)
Literary Crossroads is a series of talks where South African writers meet colleagues from all over the continent and from the African diaspora to discuss trends, topics and themes prevalent in their...
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Lives the numbers game: Michele Magwood talks to Paul Auster about his latest...
Published in the Sunday Times 4 3 2 1 Paul Auster (Faber & Faber) **** In the first cycle of Paul Auster’s colossal new book, a young boy is recovering in bed, having broken his leg falling out of...
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Book Bites: 23 April 2017
Published in the Sunday Times Heartbreak Hotel Jonathan Kellerman (Headline) Book thrill *** A refreshing departure for Kellerman’s Alex Delaware novels. Instead of being thrown into LA’s sick...
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Presidential karma: Rosa Lyster reviews George Saunders’s debut novel Lincoln...
Things get strange when we die, but George Saunders is a very good guide, writes Rosa Lyster for the Sunday Times Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders (Bloomsbury) **** Everyone who loves George...
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9 books to read in May
Compiled by Michele Magwood for the Sunday Times Free Association, Steven Boykey Sidley (Picador Africa) Sidley goes from strength to strength and here he applies his biting humour to the world of...
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Six West African books with unconventional approaches to gender and power, as...
Nigerian-American author Chinelo Okparanta recently compiled a list for Electric Literature of six West African books with an unconventional, defiant approach to gender relations and relationships....
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Book Bites: 7 May 2017
Published in the Sunday Times Traveling With Ghosts Shannon Leone Fowler (Orion) Book real *** In 2002, Shannon and Sean are backpacking through Thailand when Sean is stung by a box jellyfish. In a...
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Balancing the book shelves: Anneke Rautenbach interviews women who are...
Anneke Rautenbach writes for the Sunday Times Good Night Stories for Rebels Various (Penguin Random House) “Daughters can also be heroic.” If there is a maxim that Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo –...
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Steven Boykey Sidley on his latest novel, Free Association
“The structure, which involves intermittent podcast transcripts and third-person perspectives, was a joy to write. I could burrow into Max’s imagination and build up a cornucopia of small stories that...
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The Sunday Times Literary Award – The Barry Ronge Fiction Prize Shortlist
After months of evaluation and deliberation it is finally time to reveal the shortlist for the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, in association with Porcupine Ridge. The winner, who will receive R100 000,...
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The Sunday Times Awards – The Alan Paton shortlist
It is finally time to reveal the shortlist for South Africa’s most prestigious book award, the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction, in association with Porcupine Ridge. The winner, who will receive...
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2017 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize Shortlist
After months of evaluation and deliberation it is finally time to reveal the shortlist for the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, in association with Porcupine Ridge. The winner, who will receive R100 000,...
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2017 Alan Paton shortlist
It is finally time to reveal the shortlist for South Africa’s most prestigious book award, the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction, in association with Porcupine Ridge. The winner, who will receive...
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WiSER discussion: Christa Kuljian on the case of human origins
Christa Kuljian, the author of the acclaimed Darwin’s Hunch: Science, Race and the Search for Human Origins will be in discussion with Hlonipha Mokoena on Wednesday 17 May, at Wits University’s WiSER...
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