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Times Literary Supplement features Henrietta Rose-Innes’ Nineveh

Henrietta Rose-Innes’ Nineveh recently graced the pages of the Times Literary Supplement.

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Check out Penguin Random House SA’s book club selection for April

If you love to read and belong to a book club then this is where you can discover our latest suggestions. We pick the perfect book club reads; those books we know will delight and enthrall anyone who’s passionate about reading.

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Colson Whitehead’s tweet about winning the Pulitzer Prize is everything

Colson Whitehead won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction yesterday and reacted with, shall we say, refreshing enthusiasm:

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Read an excerpt from John Boyne’s new novel The Heart’s Invisible Furies

In this, Boyne’s most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man. The Heart’s Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit.

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Migrations: New Short Fiction From Africa

Short Story Day Africa’s 4th anthology of the best writing on the continent launches in Cape Town at the Book Lounge on Monday 10 April. Please come along and support this incredible project.

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Make Sherry Johnson’s damn fine cherry pie

Ever dream of sampling Twin Peaks’ culinary centrepiece? Well, now you can make it yourself.

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Rachel Dolezal is coming to South Africa

Rachel Dolezal, who is currently on a book tour, is coming to South Africa for a dialogue on race.

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“Since everything was suddening into a hurricane” – new story by Binyavanga Wainaina

There’s a new piece from the incredible Binyavanga Wainaina in the latest issue of Granta.

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The Baileys Women’s Prize Shortlist: ‘A Wonderful Liberation’

‘The constraint is a liberation,’ says film producer Tessa Ross, whose leadership of the Baileys judges for 2017 is honoring women fiction writers from around the world.

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2017 Hugo Award finalists announced

The finalists for the 2017 Hugo Awards have been announced.

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Is travel writing dead? Thoughts from Geoff Dyer, Colin Thubron and others

Granta’s latest issue includes some fifteen reflections on the question of whether travel writing still has relevance.

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Are indexers the “unsung heroes” of publishing?

Sam Leith considers the importance of indexers in a Google age. The best indexes, he writes, “are works of art”.

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“Visionary” Wolf Erlbruch wins prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

With his focus on “darker” subject matter, Wolf Erlbruch is an interesting choice for this year’s Astrid Lindgren memorial award.

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Diane Awerbuck shortlisted for 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

South African author Diane Awerbuck has been shortlisted for the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The shortlist includes 21 from stories, chosen …