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/ 6 November 2007
The MD of Struik, Steve Connelly, was quoted by Celean Jacobs in her very
interesting article (No woman, no cry, Sunday Times, June 11 2006) as
saying that their new imprint of Oshun, "wanted to access the book-club market, which is mainly women". And, he continued, "… trying to create an environment where authors who happen to be women are writing for readers who largely happen to be women".
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/ 26 October 2007
Jane Rosenthal reviews Clive Algar’s <i>Journeys to the End of the World</i> and Kelly Fletcher reviews Kathy Reichs’s <i>Bones to Ashes</i>.
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/ 12 September 2007
Yasmina Khadra has written a heart-stinging and challenging successor to previous novels The Swallows of Kabul and The Attack. Set mainly in Iraq, it goes straight to the crucial issues and moral debates of our times, which most of us manage to ignore. It begins with violence against the innocent in Iraq and ends with similar violence planned against the perpetrators where, once again, the innocent will be most affected.
Male novelists represent the internal lives of women, writes Jane Rosenthal.
Jane Rosenthal reports on the winners of the M-Net Literary Awards for 2007.
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/ 17 November 2006
David Mitchell’s previous novels have been characterised by elegantly complex plots and wildly zany imaginative writing, but <i>Black Swan Green</i> is a straight story, writes Jane Rosenthal.
Jane Rosenthal reviews Margaret Atwood’s collection of oblique and bizarre essays.
”Despite the sombre subject matter of this finely written novel, it remains in the mind as an easy read. A second reading reveals how delicately made it is, how deceptively light.” Jane Rosenthal reviews the debut work of new South African writer Troy Blacklaws.
‘Redirecting the gaze” from the United States and Europe back to Africa is one of the aims of this collection of writings by diasporic Africans, writes Jane Rosenthal.
A two-day talk shop will celebrate the linguistic links between the Netherlands and her former colonies, writes Jane Rosenthal.