‘Tell our stories" went the post-apartheid creative mantra in film and literature. A golden age beckoned, unfettered by censorship.
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/ 4 February 2009
Darryl Accone rounds up the hottest reads on China as the Year of the Ox yokes up.
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/ 25 December 2008
There’s a move afoot locally to hustle crime fiction into the thriller category. Evangelisers of this new gospel say crime is a reminder of SA reality
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/ 26 November 2008
Darryl Accone reviews <i>Stone the Crows: Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang </i>, <i>Foyle’s Philavery</i> and <i>Gallimaufry</i>.
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/ 7 November 2008
Darryl Accone breaks down Exclusive Books’s list of recommended summer reading.
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/ 17 October 2008
Ion Trewin, literary director of the Man Booker Prize, talks to Darryl Accone on the eve of the 40th Booker.
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/ 11 September 2008
China-watching has never been so popular — or lucrative. Publishers can’t get enough of scholarship, punditry and fiction about China.
Alexander McCall Smith, creator of the peerless Mma Ramotswe, talks about hs new adventure, <i>The Miracle at Speedy Motors</i>.
It is a brave new world that the third edition of the Cape Town Book Fair, subtitled <i>Words Create Worlds</i>, encounters from June 14.
The second Cape Town Book Fair, an event about letters and words, seems — in its official media releases at least — to be obsessed instead with figures and numbers, writes Darryl Accone