Stories in English (2015)

Book Reviews

• Book Review: Pretty Is by Maggie Mitchell

• Book Review: The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton

• Book Review: When the Moon is Low by Nadia Hashimi

• Book Review of One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

• Book review: The Mirror World of Melody Black

• Book Review: Miss Carter’s War

Interviews

• Ari Sitas Answers 5 Questions about From Around the World in Eighty Days (Plus: His Favourite Poem)

• A South African Migrant’s Search for an Indian Ancestor – Rajan Soni Talks About Looking for Lakshmi

• The Daveyton Book Club: Empowering the Youth of Ekurhuleni One Book at a Time

• “I’ve Been Wanting to Write this Story for a Long Time” – Gareth Crocker Chats About The Last Road Trip

• “In Our Safest Places We Aren’t Safe” – Joanne Macgregor on the “Intimate Violence” in Skadustemme

• “If You Want to Know the Truth About a Society, Read its Crime Fiction” – Joanne Macgregor Chats About Dark Whispers

• “The Apartheid Sword has Cut too Deep in Us”: Mathews Phosa Discusses His Lost Poetry Collection, Chants of Freedom

• Fred Strydom on Writing: The Rules of World-building, Escapism and Committing to the “What-if”

• Fred Strydom Talks about The Raft, Identity and His Secret Love Affair with The Far East

• Secrets and Make-believe Family Trees: Mark Winkler Chats about His Gritty New Novel, Wasted (Part 1)

• Mark Winkler Interview Part 2: “Writing Isn’t so Much About Place as It is About State of Mind”

Book Events: Launches, Fairs and Festivals

• Seline and Leandri van der Wat Share Recipes, Anecdotes and Words of Wisdom at the Launch of TWO

• “Racism is a Big Challenge; It’s Even Bigger than We Think” – Eusebius McKaiser Launches Run Racist Run

• Presenting the Winners of the 2015 Sunday Times Food Weekly Cookbook Awards

• Zapiro Discusses His Favourite Cartoons (And One He Regrets) at the Launch of Rhodes Rage

• High Buns and Suzelfies – A Warm Welcome for Suzelle at the Joburg Signing of SuzelleDIY: The Book

• Eusebius McKaiser Fires 5 Questions at Kabelo Mabalane at the Launch of I Ran For My Life

• Deon Meyer Chats to Michele Magwood on Becoming a Writer: “It Went Way Beyond Anything I Ever Imagined I Could Be”

• “I was Interested in the Things I Couldn’t Find in the Archives” – Saskia Goldschmidt Chats About Her Work at Open Book

• What is a Terrorist? Asne Seierstad and Masha Gesson Discuss the Norway Massacre and Boston Bombing with Jonny Steinberg

• How to Get Published – Mark Winkler and Louise Grantham Share Tricks of the Trade at SABF 2015

• SABF Day 1: The Ins and Outs of the Publishing Industry, How Dictionaries are Made, and the Launch of Soccer Secrets

• A Thank You to Those Who’ve Stood Their Ground: Wayne Duvenage and Angelique Serrao Launch The E-Tolls Saga

• We Need a Service Delivery Protest Directed at the Question of Writing – Mandla Langa on the #LitApartheid Debate

• “I Do Feel Like a Bit of an Askari Sometimes” – Thabiso Mahlape on Being a Black Publisher in a White World

• All the Highlights from the 2015 Kingsmead Book Fair in Joburg

• FLF 2015: Why the Question “What is an African?” is Inherently Flawed

• 21 Quotations to Remember Andre Brink, Who Would Have Turned 80 Today

• “Every Child Deserves a Dictionary”: Oxford University Press SA Launches Exciting Centenary Campaign

• Khaya Dlanga Tells Emma Sadleir About “The Woman Who Didn’t Know Her Place” at the Launch of To Quote Myself

• Hlubi Mboya Reads “Tender” by Nozizwe Cynthia Jele at the Launch of Long Story SHORT

• A Future Jozi – Three Science Fiction Authors Launch Their Books by Candlelight at Wolves

• Highlights from the First Annual Indie Book Fair and the Launch of African Narratives

• Flame Series Launched with Ari Sitas, Rajan Soni, Belinda Kruiper, Alan Weinberg and Keyan Tomaselli

• Cherryl Walker and Ben Cousins Launch Land Divided, Land Restored with Nomboniso Gasa at WiSER

• Barbara Kingsolver Tells Ben Williams about Her Life as a Writer, Hillbilly, Literary Muso and Zakes Mda Fan

• The First Times Talks Event of 2015: Jodi Picoult Chats to Michele Magwood About Leaving Time

Sunday Reads and Fiction Friday

• Sunday Read: Meet the Real Lady in the Van and Listen to an Excerpt from Maggie Smith: A Biography

• Sunday Read: China Mieville is Back with a New Book, and a Nod From Ursula K Le Guin

• Sunday Read: Meet Joss Whedon, Writer of Avengers, Buffy and Firefly and Creator of the “Whedonverse”

• Fiction Friday: Read Excerpts from Nigerians in Space and We are the Olfanauts by Deji Bryce Olukotun

• Sunday Read: How an Item of Clothing Caused a Swift Divorce in “Lederhosen” by Haruki Murakami