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Reeksboeke vir jong lesers te kies en keur: ’n Oorsig deur Mia Oosthuizen
“Baie vrae het al ontstaan oor die literêre waarde van reeksboeke. Volgens my is reeksboeke in Afrikaans, hetsy oorspronklik of vertaal, van ’n toenemend goeie gehalte wat sterk meeding met Engelse en...
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Sebastian Barry, Aminatta Forna and Raymond E Feist Among Authors Confirmed...
Alert! Eight international authors have been confirmed for the Open Book Festival 2014 and if this initial list is anything to go by it seems the festival is continuing to go from strength to...
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Mary Schingler Reviews Unquenchable Fire, Unequivocal Call by Flora A...
Verdict: carrot Unquenchable Fire, Unequivocal Call is a daughter’s intricate elegy for a community leader whose faith prompted him to work toward a better Ghana. Flora Trebi-Ollennu delivers a grand...
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Allan Mwesiga Reviews In the House of the Interpreter by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Verdict: carrot Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir, published in 2012 by Pantheon books follows on from Dreams in A Time of War: A Child hood Memoir. It covers the years at...
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Exclusive: Lin Sampson on Teaching Sexlish to Foreigners
The best way to teach English to foreigners is through sexy books. Lin Sampson discovers A Girl Walks Into A Bar. I am teaching English in Greece. My first pupil is Dmitri the chemist in Syntagma...
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Oriyomi Adebare Reviews One Man, One Matchet by TM Aluko
Verdict: carrot ‘In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is King’, so the saying goes. This statement is very apt in describing the situation in Ipaja land, the setting of Aluko’s book, One Man One...
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Marc Weingarten Reviews The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani
Verdict: carrot As a Nigerian who has lived long stretches in the UK, Los Angeles and Chicago and whose novel “Graceland” in part concerned itself with the allure and dangers of identity...
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Sunday Read: The Letters of Robert Frost to Challenge “Monster Myth” About...
Robert Frost’s poems have always had popular appeal – who hasn’t read “The Road Not Taken”? But a dark picture of the beloved poet as a monstrous megalomaniac emerged from Lawrance Thompson’s...
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Chris Abani, Dinaw Mengestu and Others Share What They’ve Learned About Love...
With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, The New York Times have asked 20 authors, including Ethiopian-born Dinaw Mengestu and Nigerian-born Chris Abani, to share what they’ve learned about love from...
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Book Bites: 9 February 2014
For the Fallen: Honouring the Unsung Heroes And Heroines of the Struggle Mzwakhe Ndlela (KMM Review Publishing) *** Book buff A select number of stories are meant to introduce and recognize the role...
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Avis Perks Reviews A Girl Walks into a Bar by Helena S Paige
Verdict: carrot “I’m prepping for an erotic fantasy,” I growled huskily, explaining to a friend why I couldn’t do tea. “But it’s Pensioners’ Wednesday and there’s free chocolate cake!” she squeaked....
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Celebrate International Book Giving Day on 14 February
International Book Giving Day is a great alternative for book lovers this Valentine’s Day. The idea behind International Book Giving Day is to get new, used and borrowed books into the hands of as...
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Fiction Friday: The Expedition to the Baobab Tree by Wilma Stockenström,...
For today’s Friction Friday we bring you another excellent excerpt from JM Coetzee’s English translation of Wilma Stockenström’s Afrikaans novel, Die kremetartekspedisie. Archipelago Books is set to...
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Sunday Read: First Two Chapters from The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
“I may have found a solution to the Wife Problem. As with so many scientific c breakthroughs, the answer was obvious in retrospect.” These are the enticing opening lines, which was described by one...
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Chasing Moby Dick: Michele Magwood Discusses Barracuda with Author Christos...
By Michele Magwood for The Sunday Times Barracuda Christos Tsiolkas (Atlantic) **** The author of the epic bestseller The Slap is back with a new novel, about swimming, shame and redemption. Christos...
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Dan Piepenbring Reviews A Girl Walks into a Bar by Helena Paige
Verdict: stick A few nights ago, I was in a world-class sushi restaurant, holding a radish shaped like a rose and contemplating my next move. Koji, the head chef, had carved the radish-rose for me...
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John Preston Lists the Ten Novelists that Have “Defined Africa” For the Rest...
Following the announcement of the shortlist for the inaugural Pan-African Etisalat Prize for Literature literary critic John Preston has listed the ten authors that “defined Africa” and “brought this...
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The Kitchen Dweller’s Testimony by Ladan Osman Wins 2014 Sillerman First Book...
Alert! Somalian writer Ladan Osman has won the 2014 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets for her collection The Kitchen Dweller’s Testimony. The African First Book Fund editorial board...
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Zoe Hinis Reviews The Three by Sarah Lotz
Verdict: carrot Please note this review contains spoilers. Sarah Lotz has an incredible gift for voices. She moves smoothly and seamlessly from voice to voice: from South African paramedic to Baptist...
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Programme for the Knysna Literary Festival 18-23 March 2014
Alert! The programme for the fifth annual Knysna Literary Festival 2014 has been released. The festival will be held from 18 to 23 March and will feature international best-selling Icelandic crime...
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