This selection will brighten up your festive season
If we are not thinking of a quill, when we say someone has “penned” a book, are we thinking of a standard ballpoint pen?
Carastavrakis wants to help others and give them the benefit of his experience
In the mid-2000s, Matthew Buckland took over the M&G’s website, and gave it a new lease on life. First, though, he had to fight an ownership battle
Yusuf Daniels, a former auctioneer, describes himself as someone who became an author by mistake
‘Perhaps the best thing about joining the library is the deadline for finishing a book’
Nal’ibali, South Africa’s reading-for-enjoyment campaign, is giving away 20 mini-libraries containing 30 to 40 books for primary school children
Kate Rogan of LoveBooks has a special place for books for her younger readers across all age groups. Here she gives recommendations for 2018
Author Mohale Mashigo speaks to the M&G about her writing process, early reading habits and she shares her challenge to her readers
Author Kazuo Ishiguro is the new winner of the Nobel Literature Prize for his renowned novel The Remains of the Day
‘Part of the disconnect between writers and white publishers has been ingrained in this belief that a certain demographic of people does not read’
The Caine Prize winner is writing a film script and would love to see his work screened at schools and townships.
Authors Megan Ross and Sibongile Fisher talk about the challenges of maintaining a balance between work and family.
A new book allows insights into the lives of the first inhabitants of the Bitterpits, the Karoo’s harshest region, through the stories of the /Xam.
Nigerian writers’ colonial and contemporary stories have created much-needed literary legacies
Bob Dylan’s Nobel prize for literature speech was read by Azita Raji, the United States ambassador to Sweden
Catholicism and political intrigue mix well in ‘Conclave’, a new book by Robert Harris, which follows the election of a new pope.
This unflinching description of slavery reminds us that the ugly underbelly of the US is still alive.
From fantasy to wildlife, Mail & Guardian books editor Darryl Accone picks his great summer reads.
Only Eastern Cape reports some matric literature books to be delivered in January.
‘Did any of these authors realise they were borrowing from André Brink when he gave his 2003 novel that title?’
Read Tate’s two ‘Flyboy’ books sequentially and it will be obvious he is now more consistent, and humble, in his brilliance.
Winning works in the UJ Prize for South African Writing in English ranged from reimagining the plaasroman genre to poetry word-paintings.
Spiritual maverick 10Dollar appears convinced that his unorthodox ramblings on religion will be snapped up by impressionable earthly beings.
Restless subjects, abstract constructions and potent words underpin the writer and her short life
Power, revenge and metaphors fan the flames in Nnedi Okorafor’s superhuman novel
Her book has been rejected because readers will shy away from its honesty, one shouldn’t admit such things and only apartheid’s victims can speak
Thami Mnyele could have been a lost page in S.Africa’s cultural and political history book but for a hunt for his work, an exhibition and now a book.
Shifting between different worlds and characters, the novel looks at the country’s concerns through the eyes of its protagonist, Memory.
The Lists were compiled by Friday contributors Natalie Dixon, who wrote on decolonising design and Percy Mabandu on Henri Matisse in this week’s paper
Ameera Patel has produced a book that reads like a fast-paced thriller but it has real depth.
The writer’s humane spirit shines through in a reissue of her novel that was closest to her heart: ‘From Man to Man’.