Books
Five new local cookbooks that promise to be perfect Christmas gift
New local cookbooks, a handful of authors and a stocking full of easy crowd-pleasing ideas.
By Hilary Biller
Here are the winners of the 2025 Sunday Times Literary Awards
Khumisho Moguerane and Shubnum Khan were announced winners of the 2025 Sunday Times Literary Awards, in proud partnership with Exclusive Books
Kate Burnie talks to Gareth Crocker about his second Ruben Ellis thriller - ‘Now You Bleed’
Nail-biting knockout.
Emile Joubert on his book ‘Meerlust: Beyond the Rubicon’
The author explores the legacy of Meerlust’s winemaking prowess.
By Emile Joubert
Leaving Earth to survive
“I’m not saying Mars will be a utopia. It’ll create an opportunity to rethink the fundamental principles defining our society."
By Mila de Villiers
South African author Imraan Coovadia wins sci-fi award
Coovadia’s short story titled 'Vast and Cool and Unsympathetic' awarded at the International Science Fiction Literary Awards: Future History.
By Isaac Mahlangu
Dr Kopano Matlwa writes, rewrites and reclaims womanhood
The inimitable author returns to fiction with ‘Bosadi’, a haunting novel that examines love, identity and the cost of being seen
Sunday Times Literary Awards shortlist: Beverley Roos-Muller talks ‘Hunting the Seven’
Q&A with author of ‘Hunting the Seven: How The Gugulethu Seven Assassins Were Exposed’ which is shortlisted for the Sunday Times Literary non-fiction award.
By Mila de Villiers
Shhhhh ... the rise of the Silent Book Club
How a ‘happy hour for introverts’ became the world’s quietest social movement — now booming in South Africa
By Gill Gifford
‘After The Fires’ is a moving synthesis
Nozipho Tshabalala's latest offering reflects her growth since 'Liberation Diaries' and reveals that strength, if it is to be sustainable, must make room for softness.
By BUSANI NGCAWENI
A harrowing memoir
'All the Way to the River' details Elizabeth Gilbert's obsession with and the pain and confusion caused by her lover Rayya Elias
By Staff Writer
Jo Harkin’s ‘The Pretender’ raises fascinating questions about a royal identity
The novel shifts from raunchy to funny to bleak to disturbing, and certainly works as a page turner
By Margaret von Klemperer
A fun interactive guidebook brings South Africa’s Mother City to life for children
'Kids’ Cape Town: Guidebook and Activities' is a vibrant new guidebook designed to engage children in exploring the wonders of Cape Town.
By Theresa Gibbon
EXTRACT | ‘Pillow Talk’ by Nivashni Nair Sukdhev
Pillow Talk is the first of a series set in the fictional town of Rally in KwaZulu-Natal from the new queen of South African romance.
By Jonathan Ball Publishers
