All That Is is indeed about this, or at any rate about as much of life as we feeble humans are able to grasp.
Achmat Dangor’s tradition of looking below the superficial continues.
The story of a missionary in rural Venda is a South African narrative that hasn’t really been explored.
Liesl Jobson has been published in many short story collections and that this, her first solo collection, is a book worth reading.
Lauren Beukes’s latest novel, a nightmare tale of a time-hopping women-killer, is a publisher’s dream but leaves little in its wake.
This reads like a South African James Bond novel, but is more elegantly written and rather more serious.
South African literature has a long tradition of farm novels digging deep into the lives of people on these farms.
Insightful and controversial, Coovadia’s essays are a cracking read — even if they are in book form
Like a curiosity from another era, or even another universe, Peter Carey is still with us. He has won the Booker twice and for good reason.
Tan Twan Eng uses the concepts that underpin Japanese gardens and the ancient Chinese gardens on which they are based to construct this unusual novel.