Joanne Hichens interviews Dominique Malherbe, author of Searching for Sarah. Sarah Goldblatt was Dominique Malherbe’s great aunt.You have dedicated Searching for Sarah “to the…
An island is the story of Samuel, an aged man who lives alone on a small island off the southern African…
Fred Khumalo’s A coat of many colours, an edgy, compelling short story collection, is led by a cast of truly memorable…
These days the world is seen increasingly—by white right-wingers—as split between ‘those who belong’ and ‘those who don’t belong’. This…
In Natalie Conyer’s novel debut, PRESENT TENSE—the first book in the Schalk Lourens Mystery series—veteran cop Schalk Lourens wants a…
I forget sometimes that we’re still in a state of National Disaster, here in South Africa. At other times the…
“Mom,” said my teenage son, Al, on Saturday morning, “it sounds like a pre-teen party happening in the kitchen.” Listening…
As for losses, where do I start? My tendency is to drag along the losses like my own road-kill roped…
I stepped over the threshold. She was ready. Smiling. Her arms stretched out. I stopped, stood, petrified as a Pompei…
My head has been particularly ADD… flipping from one idea to the next… hardly finished typing a sentence before another…