Annie Gagiano2014-04-29Tears of the Desert – A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir with Damien Lewis is a work of testimony and an important addition to the African archive.
Paul Murray2014-04-22Paul Murray teaches history and holds a DPhil in the historical sciences from the University of Pretoria. Read his review of this important book.
Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman, Naomi Meyer2014-04-17"When I see a spider, I want to kill it. Should I?" Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman answers Naomi Meyer's questions.
2014-04-17S'thembile Cele attended a book launch of Justice: A Personal Account and writes her contribution as part of a collaboration between LitNet and the University of Stellenbosch's Department of Journalism in 2014.
LAPA Uitgewers2014-03-25"On Saturday 29 March, journalist and radio personality Nancy Richards will be in conversation with four authors around the theme 'using the pen for justice, how writers transform society'."
Jonathan Amid2014-03-10Mark Winkler's An Exceptionally Simple Theory (of Absolutely Everything) is “an intensely absorbing and unapologetically apolitical tale”.
2014-02-18Exclusive Books Summer Sale has over 115,000 books, averaging at R60 a book. It will begin with a Fanatics-only preview at all stores from 5pm on the 25th of February.
Jonathan Amid2014-01-24“Five years later, in 2013, Hichens has once again edited and collected various storytelling voices under the title Bloody Satisfied: short.sharp.stories. The collection is the inaugural anthology produced in conjunction with the National Arts Festival. Will you be bloody satisfied after reading these stories?”
Rob Wood, Naomi Meyer2014-01-14Many books have been written about trees, but South African Flowering Trees – a botanical adventure through history makes a good effort at giving a complete picture.
Jonathan Amid2014-01-10"In Greek mythology, Persephone is the queen of the underworld. In the brilliant debut novel by celebrated scriptwriter and script editor Michelle Rowe, detective Persephone (Persy) Jonas ... is the plucky young woman tasked with navigating the underworld of a community where little is as it appears."
Jonathan Amid2014-01-03“Claire Robertson’s extensively researched debut novel, The Spiral House, comes after thirty years spent working as a journalist. The novel has garnered praise from various quarters, unsurprisingly, since it seems to engage every nerve and fibre of one’s body and mind, so absorbing is its arc.”
Jonathan Amid2014-01-03"If anyone dared to say that the burgeoning South African crime fiction scene was light on inventiveness, over-politicised, almost exclusively cornered by Cape writers and lacking in contributions from black female writers, then Angela Makholwa offers a decidedly tart response with her latest novel, Black Widow Society."
Annie Gagiano2013-12-18Chikwava’s Harare North ... presents readers with an evocation of conflicted Zimbabwean identities ... and with making lives for themselves in Britain, where so many of their compatriots have inserted themselves ... (T)hey have mockingly re-named London 'Harare North' (Johannesburg being known as 'Harare South')."
Franci Vosloo2013-12-04"The poet thus becomes the text, inhabits the text and becomes part of the articulations and rhythms of the text." Franci Vosloo discusses why Skinned is a good representation of Krog's oeuvre and the essence of Krog's poetics.
2013-11-28Participating European Union members and Jacana Media are delighted to announce Penny Busetto as the winner of the 2013 European Union Literary Award for 2013 .
Bill Nasson, Naomi Meyer2013-11-12"Some (black people) were loyal and trusted servants of Boer families, others were participants in the running of the camp system. You could say that there were divided loyalties. Or, that for some there were no loyalties – they were just doing their best to get through the war."