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/ 17 September 2010
The bookazine concept aims to "make reading cool" by blending the features of magazines with quality writing while telling South African stories.
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/ 15 September 2010
The first National Book Week suffered a strike-induced hitch on Monday when attendance of school children dropped dramatically on its final day.
Authors such as Iain Banks and Martina Cole are increasingly supplementing book releases with digital media apps full of bonus material.
As a bookshop chain grows bigger, the more it seems to lose its soul. <em>Stuart Jeffries</em> asks what effect this has on publishing.
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/ 24 December 2009
Darryl Accone tracks the simulacrum of fact that gained prominence in the Noughties.
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/ 15 December 2009
Some books are lazy, languid affairs and some are page-turners — forcing you to finish them in one go. Our top 10 reads of the year.
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/ 25 November 2009
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> is running a series of interviews with South African authors. Angela Makholwa talks to us.
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/ 23 October 2009
South African crime fiction is developing a unique sense of place, but this alone will not generate a selling spree,
writes Margie Orford.
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/ 23 October 2009
Crime is central to South African life, and to its genre fiction. Three local thrillers had Jane Rosenthal riffling and reflecting.
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/ 8 September 2009
Reif Larsen’s first novel is an impressive piece of work that deserves a special place on your bookshelf.
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/ 5 September 2009
In her latest work, <i>The Children’s Book</i>, AS Byatt gives a charged account of the perils of artistic creation that chills.
The Exclusive Books at Maponya Mall in Soweto is different from its older siblings in the suburbs.
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/ 2 September 2008
How big is the market for a multimedia story — and can a phenomenon be conceived by a publisher?
Would you like to read more but can’t find the time? If, after work, you slouch dog-tired in front of the TV then a book club could be for you.
SA publishers will be out in force at the Cape Town Book Fair. But what are the challenges behind the covers of their final products?
Teenagers are notorious for giving their parents a hard time — so apparently are countries.
Could the cellphone novel be the next big thing in publishing?
Postcolonial novels dominate the judges’ selection of some of the most revered novels of the past 40 years, writes Charlotte Higgins.
But there’s no shortage of cookery books, writes Darryl Accone.
Ike’s Books and Collectables still has stalwart supporters among bibliophiles, writes Niren Tolsi.
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/ 25 January 2008
Khotso Sethuntsa is the subject of The Extraordinary Khotso. Felicity Wood, writer of the book, reflects on her search for him.
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/ 25 January 2008
A recent book by an international photographer takes a fashionable look at township life, writes Matthew Krouse.
SOUTH AFRICA’S book of the year has to be Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom.