Could crime fiction be the new direction the "political novel" is taking in contemporary South Africa?
Irish sexual mores are notoriously conservative because of religious constraints, but a new book interrogates a more sordid side of the country’s past
We were not close friends — but his tragic death vividly brought to mind my last memory of him as a fine theologian.
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/ 11 December 2009
At 285 pages one cannot really call this a short book, and as that it purports to be a world history, it could be argued that this is all too short.
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/ 6 November 2009
Andrew Brown is a crime novelist admirably conscious of race and class, and his latest works illustrate this perfectly.
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/ 6 November 2009
With his new book, Intervention, Robin Cook moves, with mixed success, into the realm of Dan Brown.
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/ 6 November 2009
Nick Heller returns in Joseph Finder’s new thriller, <i>Vanished</i>, in which he investigates the disappearance of his brother Roger.
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/ 27 January 2009
Pippa Green’s biography of South Africa’s finance minister is a real page-turner, says Anthony Egan.
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/ 26 November 2008
Anthony Egan reviews New South African Keywords edited by Nick Shepherd and Steven Robins.