Star Rating: ★★★★☆ 4/5 The Book of Memory Petina Gappah Faber & Faber, September 2015 Online Price: R302.00 The Book of Memory is the second work of fiction by Petina Gappah, a work that underscores why she won the Guardian First Book Award for her first, the short story collection An Elegy for Easterly. This […]
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Dear readers, There is a definite rise in South African superstar authors, and it is well deserved. With Lauren Beukes and Sarah Lotz securing mega-auction prizes for their books, it heralds a bright and intellectual chapter in South African literature. It is particularly gratifying to see the rise and rise of speculative fiction, an old […]
We caught up with new author and life coach Adele Green to discuss her book Can You See Me Naked? She offers her insights below. 1. Adele, you work as a coach-kinesiologist. What does that entail? My work as a kinesiologist-coach is for personal development in my private practice. Since 2007, I have been meeting […]
Here is a small fact – You are going to die. – Death 1939.Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her […]
Yesterday our good friends at Lazygamer.net announced that they are now officially the first ever media outlet in Africa to be affiliated with Metacritic.com! And we couldn’t be more proud of them. Lazygamer was started in 2007 by Gavin Mannion as a way to keep himself busy between work and study, but what started as […]
History . Solomon Tsekisho Plaatje was a politician, journalist, human rights campaigner, novelist and translator at the turn of the 19th century – one of the most gifted and versatile black South Africans of his generation. Plaatje devoted his many talents to one overriding cause: the struggle of the African people against injustice & dispossession. […]
History . Rian Malan (born 1954 in Johannesburg) is an author, journalist, documentarian and songwriter. He first rose to prominence as the author of the memoir My Traitor’s Heart, which, like the bulk of his work, deals with South African society in a historical and contemporary perspective and focuses on racial relations. Malan grew up […]
We recently sent out a Fanatics mailer with details of our amazing MasterChef competition. Unfortunately, the email contained the wrong ending date for the competition. The competition ends on Saturday 24th of November, not the 17th as advertised in the email. We apologise for the typo. You can click on the banner above to enter […]
History . Anthea Jeffery holds law degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand and from Cambridge, and a doctorate in human rights law from the University of London. Having lectured in law for many years Jeffery has developed wide-ranging expertise as a consultant on political affairs. Jeffery’s books include The Natal Story: Sixteen years of […]
The lover`s discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn`t physical. It was extreme because you felt it while in the company of the person you loved. It was extreme because it was in your head, the most solitary of places. – From The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides If […]