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Book Bites: 26 November
Published in the Sunday Times Origin **** Dan Brown, Bantam Press, R320 Fast-paced, action-packed, relentlessly informative, Origin is a riveting read from start to end. Dan Brown’s famous character,...
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A tough, nuanced read that raises uncomfortable topics – Margaret von...
Published in The Witness I must admit this novel was neither easy to read nor to review. Both subject matter and Joyce Carol Oates’s way of handling it can make a reader somewhat queasy, but there is...
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Book Bites (3 December)
Published in the Sunday Times My Absolute Darling ** Gabriel Tallent, HarperCollins, R250 It wasn’t the repulsive violence of this novel that defeated me. By now everyone knows that it features incest...
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“I’m not trying to do anything except make pictures that challenge Roger...
By Mila de Villiers Roger Ballen. ©Alternative Print Workshop. If you’re familiar with Die Antwoord, images of an anomalous Johannesburg, or raw photos of South Africa’s rural Afrikaans communities,...
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Our guide to the best holiday reads
Published in the Sunday Times So much to read, so little time … here are some good places to start, with an emphasis on excellent local authors BIOGRAPHY Khwezi: The Remarkable Story Of Fezekile...
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The best books of 2017
Published in the Sunday Times Looking for book recommendations? Who better to ask than the people who create them. Spoiler alert: The Nix gets most votes… Eusebius McKaiser (Run, Racist, Run) It is...
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The humble home: four books that celebrate simple and eco-friendly abodes
Published in the Sunday Times By Roberta Thatcher Simple Home: Calm Spaces for Comfortable Living By Mark and Sally Bailey Ryland, Peters & Small, R499 For Mark and Sally Bailey, British designers...
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A new year, a new pile of books to read…
Published in the Sunday Times A new year, a new pile of books to read. Here are some highlights to look forward to in 2018, as compiled by Michele Magwood. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin (Headline)...
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Book Bites: 14 January
Published in the Sunday Times Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore ***** Matthew Sullivan, Cornerstone, R290 Prepare to be thrust into the life of Lydia Smith, a clerk at the Bright Ideas Bookstore,...
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Man Booker Prize winner, Richard Flanagan, on his new novel
Published in the Sunday Times First Person **** Richard Flanagan Chatto & Windus, R290 Richard Flanagan has long been an eloquent advocate for the novel form. Soon after his sixth novel, The Narrow...
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Gossip, glitz and true grit: Michele Magwood reviews Tina Brown’s riveting...
Published in the Sunday Times By Michele Magwood The Vanity Fair Diaries Tina Brown Weidenfeld & Nicolson If you are of a certain age and a certain inclination – a lover of gloss and gossip and...
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Death, dining and dynamic women – here’s what Andrew Donaldson read this week
PACK PADKOS WHEN INVITED FOR DINNER AT 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE Years ago, in the mid-1990s, I was fortunate enough to meet (in a B&B in Melville, Johannesburg, of all places) Martha Gellhorn, one...
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Kim Scott’s Aborigine novels are about recovery – in the sense of healing and...
Published in the Sunday Times Taboo ***** Kim Scott, Picador Australia R400 Kim Scott writes tales about Australia’s indigenous history that resonate so deeply in the marrow you’re never the same after...
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Asymptote’s Winter 2018 issue celebrates the journal’s seventh year and 100th...
Via Asymptote Asymptote’s Winter 2018 issue celebrates the journal’s 7th year and 100th language! This edition includes a Microfiction Special Feature full of glittering allegory, along with...
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Start the year off celebrating three timeless and tasty works of fiction
Did you know that Jack London, James Joyce and Charles Dickens, who count among the world’s most iconic authors, would have celebrated their 147th, 136th and 206th birthdays respectively during January...
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Peter Carey’s novel about a motor race around Australia is not so much Mad...
Published in the Sunday Times A Long Way From Home **** Peter Carey, Faber & Faber, R275 There are some novelists who lift the heart through sheer...
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“Walters creates a sense of claustrophobia and fear which is compelling”–...
Published in The Witness, 12/02/2018 The Last Hours Minette Walters Allen & Unwin Minette Walters, better known as an author of psychological crime novels, has moved into new territory here – back...
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Alzheimer’s, guns, fantasy and hard rain are the subjects of the four...
Published in the Sunday Times Strange Weather ***** Joe Hill, Orion, R295 Joe Hill’s new collection of four novellas, Strange Weather, is a great one – and not only if you’re a Capetonian staring down...
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Vrydag 2 Maart WOMEN OF STEEL: THULI MADONSELA AND GLYNNIS BREYTENBACH In conversation with Marianne Thamm Presented by Pan MacMillan Marianne, a well-known journalist and writer, sits down with...
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Entertaining, yet saccharine – Margaret von Klemperer reviews Tom Hanks’s...
Published in the Witness (21/02/2018) Uncommon Type Tom Hanks William Heinemann Ltd TOM Hanks has what I hope is a deserved reputation as Hollywood’s Mr Nice Guy, making him probably the most unlikely...
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