What kind of a book would the biography of the leader of Winterveldt, arguably the largest informal settlement in the southern hemisphere, make?
Biography of Nat Nakasa provides an incomplete picture of the maverick Durban-born writer who killed himself in New York at the tender age of 28.
A new biography fails to capture the turbulent life and death of one of South Africa’s most distinguished authors.
When an English journalist’s mother dies, she unearths some extraordinarily painful secrets that have been buried for years, writes Charles Leonard.
Forthcoming movie about likely 2016 contender’s early life is already causing controversy.
The iconic hip-hop group has a deal with publisher Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House, for an illustrated oral history.
That a book about his life has just won a Pulitzer is surely proof that Malcolm X’s redemption in mainstream America is near complete.
Two hundred years after Charles Dickens’s birth on February 7 1812, his energetic, blazing life still fascinates us, writes <b>Jenny Uglow</b>.
