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Novels

The tragedies, trials and tribulations of being a teen today.
Article
/ 22 November 2013

The tragedies, trials and tribulations of being a teen today.

Young adult book lovers are in for a great reading summer.

By Pat Schwartz
Comfort is hard to find
Article
/ 22 November 2013

Comfort is hard to find

A poignant debut novel reflects on life and love in a conservative farming community in the Free State.

By Jane Rosenthal
Nadine Gordimer: Someone to accompany us
Article
/ 22 November 2013

Nadine Gordimer: Someone to accompany us

To mark novelist Nadine Gordimer’s 90th birthday, Craig MacKenzie celebrates how her work has astutely interpreted the tenor of our times.

By Craig MacKenzie
Boxed into dead-end despair
Article
/ 22 November 2013

Boxed into dead-end despair

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.

By Staff Reporter
Rekindling a love of storytelling
Article
/ 22 November 2013

Rekindling a love of storytelling

Donna Tartt’s epic of art and loss is an astonishing achievement, writes Kamila Shamsie.

By Staff Reporter
Davids is turning back on black
Article
/ 8 November 2013

Davids is turning back on black

A notable debut novel – "The Blacks of Cape Town" – ?explores how complex ?issues of race colour South Africa’s past, ?present and future.

By Percy Zvomuya
A fascinating tale of a life lived
Article
/ 14 June 2013

A fascinating tale of a life lived

All That Is is indeed about this, or at any rate about as much of life as we feeble humans are able to grasp.

By Jane Rosenthal
Skip the small talk
Article
/ 14 June 2013

Skip the small talk

JM Coetzee believes it has ‘artistic sensibility’ but Small Things is unsatisfactory on so many levels.

By Percy Zvomuya
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/ 5 July 2010

Storm rages as critic pronounces American novel dead

Book pundits in the United States are being urged to line up on one side or other: Is the American novel finally dead or not?

By Staff Reporter
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/ 16 August 2009

Hip Hop novels for a dime

Pat Hopkins decided to challenge the perception that black people don’t read and started a publishing company and writing apprenticeship programme

By Pat Hopkins
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