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Great reads to look forward to
Theresa Mallinson selects 20 you should pick up — and won’t want to put down — to be published over the course of the year
CSA: A bee in my binnet
Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, the Official Proteas Supporters Club emailed its fans
The city wins — but Egypt loses
A novel inspired by Arab Spring activists is brutally honest about what happened — and what keeps happening
Pikoli’s Fish out of water
‘Born Freeloaders’ seems like a light read but under that is a layered look at post-apartheid privilege
Slice of life: Life’s hard but ‘tomorrow’s a new day’
For a young man from a poor family, post-revolutionary Egypt did not provide many opportunities
Storytelling is in her blood
Evading gatekeepers helped the author write the African stories she wanted to read
The inconvenient truth about ‘sir’ Geoffrey Boycott
Beating up a woman is no impediment to knighthood
Tall inside, but not short of opinions
Navigating the world as a little person is no big deal. But it can be exhausting when other people feel entitled to comment on your height
Vignettes on our lives and dreams
The Jamaican-Nigerian writer explores living between cultures in her first short story collection
Words that shatter the silence
The author writes from experience about Australia’s inhumane refugee policy and offshore prisons