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TOTEMS: Lauren Beukes shows off her original My Little Pony and bronze key. Picture: TREVOR SAMSON

Time travel and the tricks of marketing

The Shining Girls author Lauren Beukes was ‘paying the bond out of the bond’ before selling her latest novel, writes Penny Haw

BOOKS: On a literary speed date with Granta

Sarah Hall writes luminously in The Reservation, another novel excerpt, which follows an Idaho-based conservationist on a trip back to Cumbria to visit her dying mother.
12 day(s) ago

After a year of whittling down candidates, the literary quarterly Granta has announced its latest list of Britain’s 20 best novelists under 40, writes Lorien Kite

BOOK REVIEW: A Good African Story

12 day(s) ago

Andrew Rugasira’s book is a personal account of his struggle to convince overseas retailers to take on Good African coffee — the first African-owned coffee brand, writes Stephen Timm

BOOK REVIEW: Ghana Must Go

12 day(s) ago

Taiye Selasi’s feted debut novel Ghana Must Go is a tale of emigration, return and families left, writes Fatima Bhutto

In Other News

Getting the aggression out of the system

CRIME PAYS:  Lisa Gardner has written 28 novels, including several bestsellers and two series, although she does not consider herself a true series writer. Picture: MARTIN RHODES
19 day(s) ago

Some of crime writer Lisa Gardner’s early characters were inspired by her bosses, but she’s over that now, writes Lauren de Beer

BOOK REVIEW: Back to Blood

19 day(s) ago

If Tom Wolfe has not lost his mojo, he’s definitely lost his steam, writes Sue Blaine

BOOK REVIEW: Angels Of Mercy

19 day(s) ago

Rather than again focusing on the men of the Anglo-Boer War, this book features the stories of some of the many foreign women who came to SA to assist, writes Penny Haw

BOOK REVIEW: The Grower’s Cookbook

30 day(s) ago

This recipe book has practical advice on how to get started, keep going and make the most of whatever you grow, writes Penny Haw

The job of post office and travel agent

DON’T CRY FOR ME: Former opposition leader Tony Leon in Argentina, where he spent three years.
33 day(s) ago

Tony Leon puts his skills as a raconteur to good use writing about his time as South Africa’s ambassador to Argentina, writes Sue Grant-Marshall

BOOK REVIEW: The Pirate Organization

33 day(s) ago

Rodolphe Durand and Jean-Philippe Vergne find a common link between pirates in various industries, who they see as an essential part of any dynamic capitalist system

BOOK REVIEW: The Secret Race

33 day(s) ago

Tyler Hamilton, Lance Armstrong’s right-hand man on the US Postal team, takes us inside cycling’s 'brotherhood of silence', writes Tammy Foyn

BOOK REVIEW: The Wrong Man

33 day(s) ago

David Ellis’s legal crime thriller is a multifaceted gem, writes Helmo Preuss

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