Book review: ‘Night Journey’ by Roderick Mackenzie
South African author Roderick Mackenzie spoke at Daunt Books in Hampstead about the launch of his first novel 'Night Journey'
View ArticleBook review: 'Beyond the Malachite Hills' by Jonathan Lawley
Jonathan Lawley paints a positive picture of the Africa he knows and grew to love, from a childhood spent in Zimbabwe through to five decades of life and work in Zambia, D.R. Congo, Mauritius and a...
View ArticleBook review: 'Melancholia of Freedom' by Thomas Blom Hansen
In Melancholia of Freedom, Danish anthropologist Thomas Hansen maps the scars that more than a century of mistrust and misunderstanding has left on African-Indian relations in KwaZulu-Natal.
View ArticleOriginal ‘Invictus’ author signs Oscar Pistorius book deal
John Carlin, author of Playing the Enemy which was adapted into the Clint Eastwood film Invictus, is to write the Oscar Pistorius Story. The book will detail the rise and fall of Pistorius, with...
View ArticleReview: The Lion Sleeps Tonight and other stories of Africa, by Rian Malan
I have been waiting for a long time for a follow-up to Rian Malan's extraordinary first book, My Traitor’s Heart, and this is it.
View ArticleBook review: ‘Relish’– by Prue Leith
It soon transpired that being a strong South African, which I always knew, was the impetus – but being the best person she could be was the true motivation behind Prue Leith's success.
View ArticleBook Review: ‘The Imaginist’ by Elizabeth Glanville
'The Imaginist' is Elizabeth Glanville's first novel. It was long-listed for the 2010 Sony Reader Award for Unpublished writers.
View ArticleCult South African author Lauren Beukes launches new novel
Lauren Beukes, award winning novelist of 'Zoo City' and 'Moxyland', has just released her latest novel, 'The Shining Girls', a nail-biting, heart-racing, time-travelling thriller. Sandi Thompson caught...
View ArticleSA crime writer Margie Orford to talk in Cambridge and York
Margie Orford is an award-winning journalist and author of the Clare Hart series of crime novels set in South Africa and Namibia
View ArticlePublished after 50 years: Enigmatic SA lensman’s Cape Town photos
Little known late South African photographer Brian Heseltine's photos of people in neighbourhoods such as District Six have been published for the first time in a new book 'People Apart: 1950s Cape...
View ArticleAn expat’s daughter goes in search of her mother’s mysterious SA past
Book review - 'She Left Me The Gun - My Mother’s Life Before Me': The title alludes to the small pistol Emma's mother took from South Africa to Britain at the bottom of her chest with other bizarre...
View Article‘C’est la Vie’– Lanie van Reenen se Afri-Frans droom
Lanie van Reenen is een vrou wat goed geverf is met alles wat seermaak en taai is in die lewe. Met die grootste kwas. Drome wat suur word; liefde wat draai – catastrophique. Dat die vrou nie rasend mal...
View ArticleBook Review: “Songs and Secrets” by Barry Gilder
Former ANC spy Barry Gilder provides an insightful personal account into his espionage days under the oppressive apartheid regime in South Africa.
View ArticleCathy O’Dowd’s extraordinary Everest adventures released as e-book
Cathy O'Dowd, the hugely successful South African mountaineer, has recently re-released her brilliant book Just for the Love of it in e-book format with Crux Publishing.
View ArticleBook review: City of Blood by South African crime writer MD Villiers
The debut novel by South African crime writer MD Villiers was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger and is a compelling read.
View ArticleBook Review: JM Coetzee’s ‘The Childhood of Jesus’
Nobel-winning South African writer JM Coetzee has produced a puzzling novel in ‘The Childhood of Jesus’.
View ArticleSouth African book review: Apocalypse Now Now
Set in modern-day Cape Town, Charlie Human's debut novel 'Apocalypse Now Now' will grab you by the hair and drag you headlong into a world you have never seen before.
View ArticleDie ‘nou’ Suid-Afrika – mooi maar vol letsels – in Brynard se ‘Onse Vaders’
Karin Brynard het ‘n talent om van die lekkerste van woorde te neem en soos ‘hundreds en thousands’ hul met opwinding op die koek uitstrooi.
View ArticleNoViolet Bulawayo becomes first Zimbabwean shortlisted for Man Booker Prize
NoViolet Bulawayo's novel 'We Need New Names' has been shortlisted for the £50,000 literary award from the most 'wonderfully' diverse longlist
View ArticleBook review: Jane Raphaely Unedited
Jane Raphaely brought world-class writing and glossy advertisements to a rather restricted and parochial South African audience and influenced younger editors and entrepreneurs like Khanyi Dhlomo
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