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News24’s free audiobook for subscribers this month is Wisani and the Bafokeng Brothers by Thandi Moagi.

29 Aug

The love-hate debate: Paige Nick and Charlotte Bauer square up for a read-off

02 Aug

Book of the Month | ‘Worth the Fight’ by Jonathan Jansen: Teaching hope on the Cape Flats

31 Jul

REVIEW | Jim Crace retells the old Garden of Eden myth in ways that resonate with us today

REVIEW | Jim Crace retells the old Garden of Eden myth in ways that resonate with us today

08 Aug 2023

EXCERPT | Hollow City: Back to the future at 96 End Street and one of Joburg’s hijacked buildings

EXCERPT | Hollow City: Back to the future at 96 End Street and one of Joburg’s hijacked buildings

05 Aug 2023

REVIEW | Ozark Dogs: Eli Cranor’s adrenaline-fuelled novel is Greek Tragedy meets Deep South Crime

REVIEW | Ozark Dogs: Eli Cranor’s adrenaline-fuelled novel is Greek Tragedy meets Deep South Crime

04 Aug 2023

REVIEW | Abraham Vergese’s watery Indian world makes a wonderful read

REVIEW | Abraham Vergese’s watery Indian world makes a wonderful read

02 Aug 2023

REVIEW | Bristow-Bovey entwines Shackleton story with memoir, natural science, philosophy and life lessons

REVIEW | Bristow-Bovey entwines Shackleton story with memoir, natural science, philosophy and life lessons

01 Aug 2023

OBITUARY | Tributes paid to Dan Sleigh, who illuminated SA’s colonial history in his epic novels

OBITUARY | Tributes paid to Dan Sleigh, who illuminated SA’s colonial history in his epic novels

31 Jul 2023

REVIEW | Digital anonymity vs fame forms core of Gail Schimmel’s domestic thriller, Little Secrets

REVIEW | Digital anonymity vs fame forms core of Gail Schimmel’s domestic thriller, Little Secrets

30 Jul 2023

Virginia Woolf’s copy of her first novel was found in a University of Sydney library

Virginia Woolf’s copy of her first novel was found in a University of Sydney library

27 Jul 2023

EXCERPT | Small Business – Big Plans: How to use digital marketing to help your South African business thrive

EXCERPT | Small Business – Big Plans: How to use digital marketing to help your South African business thrive

26 Jul 2023

EXCERPT | Risking Life for Death: Lessons for the Living from the Autopsy Table by Ryan Blumenthal

EXCERPT | Risking Life for Death: Lessons for the Living from the Autopsy Table by Ryan Blumenthal

25 Jul 2023

REVIEW | Kerry Hammerton’s fourth volume of poems deals with spatial transformation – and the consciousness of animals

REVIEW | Kerry Hammerton’s fourth volume of poems deals with spatial transformation – and the consciousness of animals

21 Jul 2023

Murder mysteries offer dancing cops in Blackpool and endangered species in Zululand

Murder mysteries offer dancing cops in Blackpool and endangered species in Zululand

20 Jul 2023

EXCERPT | The Most Evil of Them All: From narcissistic personality disorder to serial killer

EXCERPT | The Most Evil of Them All: From narcissistic personality disorder to serial killer

19 Jul 2023

WATCH | Sindiwe Magona launches I Write the Yawning Void, the News24 Book of the Month for July

WATCH | Sindiwe Magona launches I Write the Yawning Void, the News24 Book of the Month for July

18 Jul 2023

Ama Ata Aidoo: the pioneering writer from Ghana left behind a string of feminist classics

Ama Ata Aidoo: the pioneering writer from Ghana left behind a string of feminist classics

17 Jul 2023

Cecile Pin's Wandering Souls transcends the limits of historical fiction to offer hope for future generations

Cecile Pin's Wandering Souls transcends the limits of historical fiction to offer hope for future generations

15 Jul 2023

Maye! Maye! is an inspired account of cultural memory and 'subversive economic order'

Maye! Maye! is an inspired account of cultural memory and 'subversive economic order'

14 Jul 2023

10 QUESTIONS | I was rather taken with Medusa, says Dazzling author Chikodili Emelumadu

10 QUESTIONS | I was rather taken with Medusa, says Dazzling author Chikodili Emelumadu

13 Jul 2023

Satire and poetry: Milan Kundera took on life's absurdity

Satire and poetry: Milan Kundera took on life's absurdity

12 Jul 2023

REVIEW | Christianity's critical but paradoxical role in shaping intimate relations of black people

REVIEW | Christianity's critical but paradoxical role in shaping intimate relations of black people

12 Jul 2023

Francis Gerard: Why I wrote The Arrival of the Drakons

Francis Gerard: Why I wrote The Arrival of the Drakons

11 Jul 2023

EXCERPT | 'Frozen in place': Darrel Bristow-Bovey revisits great survival story in Finding Endurance

EXCERPT | 'Frozen in place': Darrel Bristow-Bovey revisits great survival story in Finding Endurance

08 Jul 2023

REVIEW | On That Wave of Gulls: Vernon Head's novel will leave an indelible impression on readers

REVIEW | On That Wave of Gulls: Vernon Head's novel will leave an indelible impression on readers

07 Jul 2023

Magic and Resilience: Two football coaches' stories inspire, inform in equal measure

Magic and Resilience: Two football coaches' stories inspire, inform in equal measure

06 Jul 2023

I Write the Yawning Void by Sindiwe Magona is the News24 Book of the Month for July

I Write the Yawning Void by Sindiwe Magona is the News24 Book of the Month for July

05 Jul 2023

'Heaven knows where it comes from': Michiel Heyns on writing his new novel, Each Mortal Thing

'Heaven knows where it comes from': Michiel Heyns on writing his new novel, Each Mortal Thing

04 Jul 2023

EXCERPT | Elon Musk’s father responds to claims made in local book about his famous son

EXCERPT | Elon Musk’s father responds to claims made in local book about his famous son

30 Jun 2023

Republished Stray anthology raises money for charity that helps distressed animals

Republished Stray anthology raises money for charity that helps distressed animals

30 Jun 2023

SA fiction is having a surge right now – here are 13 titles to take note of

SA fiction is having a surge right now – here are 13 titles to take note of

29 Jun 2023

REVIEW | Karen Lazar's insightful novel of the transforming city is a tale told (partly) by a hadeda

REVIEW | Karen Lazar's insightful novel of the transforming city is a tale told (partly) by a hadeda

28 Jun 2023

REVIEW | Birdsong colours Megan Choritz’s novel of trauma and revelation, Lost Property

REVIEW | Birdsong colours Megan Choritz’s novel of trauma and revelation, Lost Property

27 Jun 2023

Sharp knives, theft and brutal games: 3 rip-roaring reads to warm you up this winter

Sharp knives, theft and brutal games: 3 rip-roaring reads to warm you up this winter

23 Jun 2023

REVIEW | Walter Meyer’s brother tells a sad story of the great painter of desolate places

REVIEW | Walter Meyer’s brother tells a sad story of the great painter of desolate places

23 Jun 2023

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