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Watch MR Carey read Chapter 1 of The Girl With All the Gifts prequel The Boy on the Bridge

MR Carey has shared an excerpt from his new book The Boy on the Bridge, the prequel to his phenomenal word-of-mouth bestseller The Girl With All the Gifts.

Nathan Hill will be at Open Book this year – find out more about his debut hit The Nix

The Open Book Festival will take place in Cape Town from 6 to 10 September this year, featuring a number of exciting international authors including Nathan Hill!

Why South Africa ‘cannot go on like this!’ – Watch a lecture by John Kane-Berman

The breadth and depth of ideas and events covered in John Kane-Berman’s new book, Between Two Fires, are striking, and he is forthright about the threats to freedom, democracy, and growth in contemporary South Africa.

Video: Will Storr, author of Selfie, explains how we became so self-obsessed and what it’s doing to us

We live in an age of perfectionism. Every day, we’re bombarded with the beautiful, successful, slim, socially-conscious and extroverted individual that our culture has decided is the perfect self.

Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu chats about his book The Soweto Uprisings: Counter Memories of June 1976

When the Soweto uprisings of June 1976 took place, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu, the author of The Soweto Uprisings: Counter Memories of June 1976, was a 14-year-old pupil at Phefeni Junior Secondary School.

Watch a video of Sally Andrew reading from her second Tannie Maria mystery, The Satanic Mechanic

I was maybe too hungry for love and ended up with murder on my plate.

Listen to Arundhati Roy read from her long-awaited second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything .”

Video interview with Miranda Sherry, author of Bone Meal for the Roses

Miranda Sherry, whose latest book Bone Meal for the Roses is out now, was a guest on Morning Live. From YouTube: It’s …

Official book trailer for Veronica Roth’s Carve the Mark

Fans of Star Wars and Divergent will revel in internationally bestselling author Veronica Roth’s stunning new science-fiction fantasy series, Carve The Mark.