Books and writers
Information about the latest books and the people behind them
Open Book Festival Report 3: A whale of a time
2011-09-22 Henrietta Rose-Innes’s latest novel, Nineveh, was launched in the Iziko Museum’s Whale Well on Wednesday afternoon as part of the Open Book Literary Festival in Cape Town.
Independent Publishers: How do they survive?
2011-09-20 Junkets Publisher started as a one-off. In 2005 I had written Rebel Angel, a novel based on the life of the poet John Keats. I didn’t offer it to any of the mainstream publishers because I believed that at that particular time they should be publishing South African material, not books about British poets.
Offspring of Paradise – a text strongly coloured by a young girl's fierce Afro-feminism and proudly Muslim convictions
2011-08-25 This powerful novel by a Somali woman presently living in Dubai might be described as a combination of historical novel, sociological study and thriller