Pirate, merc and telepath – all female, but some less convincingly so than others, writes Gwen Ansell.
Pat Schwartz reviews ‘In Search of Happiness’ by Sonwabiso Ngcowa and ‘May I Have This Dance’ by Connie Manse Ngcaba.
Jane Rosenthal reviews ‘Dark Windows’ by Louis Greenberg and ‘Half of One Thing’ by Zirk van den Berg.
Brown links ongoing arms deals, drones and decades-old refugee camps in a plot that comes to seem less improbable and more believable as it unfolds.
It took Sarah Lotz just 30 pages to convince Hodder & Stoughton to make her an offer she didn’t refuse: a world-rights deal for her novel The Three.
Jane Rosenthal on the urban intelligentsia in new novels from Perfect Hlongwane and Thando Mgqolozana.
Justice: A Personal Account, by Edwin Cameron (Tafelberg).
UJ Prize winners Lauren Beukes and Dominique Botha have penned well-crafted novels that are innovative and refreshing reads.
In a compelling novel and an engaging memoir, Jane Rosenthal finds richly textured accounts of Muslim and Indian experiences in South Africa.
A new cook book is packed with nourishing Jewish, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean recipes.
An appreciation of the Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who has died aged 87, by American novelist Edmund White.
Inspired by hybridity, Karabo Poppy Moletsane combines freely from all of Mzansi’s identities.
Shaun de Waal speaks to Jade Davenport about her first book, "Digging Deep", on the history of mining in South Africa.
Jane Rosenthal assesses four novels that cast the country in very different lights.
Alan Wieder’s biography on Joe Slovo and Ruth First focuses on the couple’s relationship, their different personalities and opposing views.
The only book prize that celebrates works of ?fiction written in all of our official languages has been suspended.
Renowned author Stephen King has annouced the release of his second detective novel, Revival.
John Trengove’s movie "IBhokwe: The Goat" is touted as the first film to explore homosexuality within the context of traditional Xhosa initiation.
Book reviews: Fresh contexts for a veteran and a novice result in two very compelling and readable crime thrillers.
Book reviews: Gwen Ansell takes us through four interesting novels.
Being SA’s communications minister takes up a lot of Yunus Carrim’s time. But this is what he reads when he can.
In "Untitled", Kgebetli Moele brings home the travesty of the "respectable" men who destroy women’s dreams.
Apartheid-era regionalism is a pervasive and damaging mind-set among our current rulers, writes Rapule Tabane.
As technology makes book-reading a specialist activity, more should be done to keep literature at the heart of life.
From mine dumps to city skylines, four new books bring South Africa’s diversity into focus, writes Sean O’Toole.
Mariella Furrer confronts her demons in her book, "My Piece of Sky", as she untangles the horror of child sexual abuse. (Trigger warning)
The continent’s cities are built very differently to those in Europe, and a new book dedicates ?itself to these singular settlements.
Max du Preez’s new book "A Rumour of Spring" is an insightful look at where the country is today and how we got here.
Crime fiction continues to soar. Why this is is frequently debated.
Donna Tartt’s epic of art and loss is an astonishing achievement, writes Kamila Shamsie.
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.
The oldest winner of the Nobel prize for literature, Doris Lessing was seen as a visionary and pioneer ?of the feminist movement.