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Runaway train: Michele Magwood chats to Paula Hawkins about her latest novel...
Published in the Sunday Times For Paula Hawkins, moving from Harare to the UK was a watershed, writes Michele Magwood I first met Paula Hawkins in Cape Town, after the publication of The Girl on the...
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Alan Paton Awards shortlist: Christa Kuljian talks about her book Darwin’s...
Published in the Sunday Times Christa Kuljian discusses her Alan Paton Award shortlisted book Darwin’s Hunch: Science, Race and the Search for Human Origins, the impact colonialism had on studying...
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Barry Ronge Fiction Prize shortlist: Yewande Omotoso on the origins of her...
Published in the Sunday Times Yewande Omotoso discusses her book The Woman Next Door shortlisted for the 2017 Sunday Times Literary Awards. Plus an extract. The Woman Next Door Yewande Omotoso (Chatto...
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Book Bites: four reads to look out for this week
Book Bites: 28 May 2017 – Published in the Sunday Times American War Omar El Akkad (Picador) Book buff ***** It is 2075, climate change has gripped the planet and the United States has declared war on...
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First round of international authors for Open Book Festival 2017 announced
The authors have been announced for the seventh Open Book Festival and you can have the chance to play a part in it. Brought to you by the Book Lounge and The Fugard Theatre, Open Book Festival will...
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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 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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Complete shortlists revealed for the 2017 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize
L-R: Matthew di Paoli, Sarah Penny, Nalini Ramesh, Rowan Whiteside The complete shortlist for the awards in the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize have been announced. Two of the four authors...
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Bruce Dennill reviews Steven Boykey Sidley’s latest novel Free Association
Published in the Sunday Times Free Association Steven Boykey Sidley(Picador Africa) **** Steven Boykey Sidley has, over the course of his three previous novels (Entanglement, Stepping Out and Imperfect...
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UJ Prize for South African Writing shortlist announced
The University of Johannesburg has announced the shortlist of its annual literary award. Approximately 60 works were submitted, from which the following books were selected for the shortlist: Main...
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Naomi Alderman wins Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
British author Naomi Alderman has been awarded the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her science fiction novel The Power. The Power is the first science fiction novel to win this prestigious...
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Electric feminist fiction: Efemia Chela reviews Naomi Alderman’s Baileys...
Published in the Sunday Times – 12 February 2017 Naomi Alderman imagines a world in which girl power is actual high-voltage current, writes Efemia Chela Naomi Alderman (Viking) The Power **** Naomi...
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Four must reads for this week: Book Bites, 11 June 2017
Published in the Sunday Times Unpresidented Paige Nick (N&B Books) **** Book fun Novelist, columnist and advertising copywriter, Paige Nick demonstrates her unique talent for taking the pulse of...
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David Grossman wins Man Booker International Prize
A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman was announced as the winner of the 2017 Man Booker International Prize on Wednesday 14 June. The novel was translated by Jessica Cohen and is published in...
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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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Book Bites: 18 June 2017
Published in the Sunday Times Right Behind You Lisa Gardner (Hodder & Stoughton) Book thrill *** Profilers Pierce Quincy and Rainie Conner have fostered a troubled youngster, Sharlah, who is...
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An inconvenient woman: Michele Magwood interviews Arundhati Roy about her...
Published in the Sunday Times The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Arundhati Roy (Hamish Hamilton) Two decades after her debut novel won the Man Booker prize, Arundhati Roy has finally published a second....
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Book Bites: 25 June 2017
Published in the Sunday Times The Fall of the House of Wilde Emer O’Sullivan (Bloomsbury) Book real **** This biography on one of the 19th century’s most prolific playwright’s family history is an...
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Twelve Quick Questions with Patricia Scanlan
Published in The Sunday Times What is the strangest thing you’ve done when researching a book? I went for brunch to Norma’s at the Le Parker Meridien Hotel in New York City. It’s the place to have...
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The illumination of truthfulness: Zakes Mda’s Sunday Times Literary Awards...
Published in the Sunday Times The Sunday Times editor, Mr Bongani Siqoko, tells me “illumination of truthfulness” is the main criterion of the Alan Paton Award, which was established in 1989 for...
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