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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
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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/ 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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/ 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.
Twelve-year-old Sarah Coppings speaks to children’s author Niki Daly about his latest book.
A romance novel about the child bride of the prophet Mohammed has been withdrawn because its publisher feared possible terrorist acts.
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.