Anthony Egan

A journalist with first-hand knowledge spins a tale that would do justice to a Grisham novel.

Irish sexual mores are notoriously conservative because of religious constraints, but a new book interrogates a more sordid side of the country’s past

Nick Heller returns in Joseph Finder’s new thriller, <i>Vanished</i>, in which he investigates the disappearance of his brother Roger.

Anthony Egan reviews Bill Nasson’s <i>Springboks on the Somme: South Africa in the Great War 1914-1918 </i>.

Ordinary people, given the right motivation and circumstances, can easily make the jump to suicide bomber, writes Anthony Egan.

Historian Jeremy Krikler provides an in-depth account of the white miners’ revolt and subsequent racial killings in 1922, writes Anthony Egan.

In his debut novel, <i>The Native Commissioner </i>, Shaun Johnson shows us the corrosive and evil side of apartheid, but without bashing us over the head with the obvious, writes Anthony Egan.

Jeff Guy delves into the 1906 Zulu uprising and the murder of two colonials in his new novel, <i>The Maphumulo Uprising: War, Law and Ritual in the Zulu Rebellion</i>. Anthony Egan reports.

Although the subject matter is grim and a sense of outrage at the neglect of sick people frequently surfaces, Johan Steyn’s first novel, <i>Father Michael’s Lottery</i>, is not an angry novel, writes Anthony Egan.

Israeli Jew Susan Nathan’s decision to move into an Israeli Arab village in 2002 – and to write about it – might be considered a revolutionary act and it was certainly a radical step, writes Anthony Egan.

Does South Africa really need nuclear power to meet its energy needs? David Fig’s short book, <i>Questioning South Africa’s Nuclear Direction </i> is a systematic plea against the extension of nuclear energy in South Africa. Anthony Egan reports.

The book <i>SOUTH AFRICA’S 1940s: Worlds of Possibilities</i> deserves wide attention, both as a contribution to the study of a largely overlooked period of our history or the very high quality of its scholarship, writes Anthony Egan.

In <i>Indaba: Interviews with African Writers</i> Stephen Gray speaks to the various practitioners of African literature such as the revered Nadine Gordimer, Anthony Egan reports.

"I found myself asking, if I had been called up in the terrible 1980s, what would I have done?" This drew him to write <i>The Persistence of Memory</i>. Tony Eprile’s first novel deals with the experience of war veterans. He spoke to Anthony Egan.

Luli Callinicos’s biography on Oliver Tambo fills a much-needed void in the examinations of the lives of South Africa’s struggle icons.
Anthony Egan reviews <i>Oliver Tambo: Beyond the Engeli Mountains</i>.