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/ 20 December 2008
Matthew Krouse looks at a spate of new titles about the city.
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/ 26 November 2008
Barbara Ludman reviews <i>The 19th Wife </i>, <li>Wounded</li>, <i>Master of the Delta </i> and <i>The Chatham School Affair</i>.
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/ 25 November 2008
Barbara Ludman reviews <i >The Slaughter Pavilion</i>, <i>Thirty-three Teeth</i> and <i>Fear of Animals</i>.
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/ 25 November 2008
Thabo Mohlala reviews Yes We Can: A Biography of Barack Obama by Garen Thomas.
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/ 25 November 2008
Insomnia can be a wonderful thing, as Percy Zvomuya discovered.
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/ 20 November 2008
<i>Heartfruit</i> is a highly readable farm saga set in the fruit farming area of the Western Cape and extends through three generations.
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/ 20 November 2008
Zachariah Rapola’s Noma Award-winning short-story collection could be the beginnings of a dream literary life. Percy Zvomuya talks to its author.
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/ 20 November 2008
As the global financial crisis tightens its grip, sales of Karl Marx’s <i>Das Kapital</i> are booming. Stuart Jeffries offers this handy primer.
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/ 12 November 2008
<i>Wisdom</i>, by award-winning photographer Andrew Zuckerman, records the faces, ideas and ideals of 50 global icons over the age of 65.
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/ 11 November 2008
Such striking similarities between two books can’t simply be a case of intertextuality.
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/ 7 November 2008
Edyth Bulbring’s novel <i>The Club</i> examines the nefarious activities of a privileged section of South African society.
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/ 29 October 2008
A sequel to the novel co-authored by Bram Stoker’s great-grand-nephew will see vampire hunters under attack from the undead once again.
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/ 28 October 2008
Duncan Clarke’s account of the harsh realities of Africa’s oil industry is not for the faint-hearted.
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/ 17 October 2008
Book reviews: <i>The Eye of the Leopard</i> by Henning Mankell and <i>’Sister outsiders'</i> Devarakshanam Govinden.
Language guru David Crystal tells John Crace that txt spk is not responsible for bad spelling or moral decay.
A raunchy novel with a dauntless heroine has transformed the lives of a 93-year-old author and three of her friends who were living in nursing homes.
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/ 24 September 2008
Maureen Brady reviews a fascinating volume about the history of the Cradle of Humankind.
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/ 17 September 2008
Not all academics are pointy-heads aloof from the world. Henry Trotter converted his PhD into the page-turner <i>Sugar Girls & Seamen </i>.
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/ 16 September 2008
Alaa Al Aswany, author of <i>The Yacoubian Building</i>, has a new novel,<i> Chicago</i>. He speaks to Maya Jaggi.
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/ 11 September 2008
Jonny Steinberg’s new book takes a look at South African policing from the back of a cop van. He spoke to Shaun de Waal.
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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.
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/ 10 September 2008
Barbara Ludman reviews <i>Six Suspects</i> by Vikas Swarup.
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/ 9 September 2008
Chris Thurman reviews Alex Smith’s literary example of a sub-sub-genre — South African language teachers in China.
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/ 9 September 2008
Wicomb’s latest short-story collection is an indispensable addition to the bookshelves of serious lovers of South African fiction.
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/ 9 September 2008
A feast of new South African crime novels criss-crosses various genres, writes Barbara Ludman.
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/ 2 September 2008
When Vaclav Havel went from being a dissident to a president, "the arc of my story was completed in a way that was almost like a fairytale", he notes.
Michel Houellebecq may have just suffered the most hurtful jibe of all: he has been called boring. His cinematic debut has been given a thumbs-down.
A romance novel about the child bride of the prophet Mohammed has been withdrawn because its publisher feared possible terrorist acts.
Twelve-year-old Sarah Coppings speaks to children’s author Niki Daly about his latest book.
The commercial wizardry of Harry Potter has conquered new territory with a fillip to a type of book, <i>What’s Your Story?</i>
Percy Zvomuya reviews <i>Unbridled </i> the story of a Nigerian woman who moves to Britain thinking she has found true love over the internet.
Tracey Farren’s debut novel <i>Whiplash</i> is the redemptive story of Tess, a Muizenberg sex worker. This is an extract from the book.