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Just My Luck

Percy Zvomuya reviews Song for Night, a novel by Nigerian writer Chris Abani.

Not untrue & not unkind

Not Untrue & Not Unkind, the memoirs of a foreign correspondent in Africa, has its own unique grace and authority.

Weaving the mythical and the real

Percy Zvomuya ponders whether this multilayered account of Zimbabwe's recent past should be considered as fact or fiction.

Go big or go home

Black Jerusalem is a great snack read, but you could find yourself unfulfilled at the end.

A delightful collection of oddities and asides

Reif Larsen's first novel is an impressive piece of work that deserves a special place on your bookshelf.

Howling to be a Beat

Stephen Gray asks if Sinclair Beiles was SA's overlooked poet or just a con man.

Bildungsroman out of Africa

Jane Rosenthal finds liberation, hope and thoughtfulness in three accounts of traumatic childhoods.

The Chimamanda collection

Percy Zvomuya reviews The Thing Around Your Neck, the new collection of short stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Her dark materials

In her latest work, The Children's Book, AS Byatt gives a charged account of the perils of artistic creation that chills.

Mixed masala

From an intellectually gripping tale to a new character who's likened to Harry Potter, there seems to be a breath of fresh air in Sci-fi writing.