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After-school activities: Author of the Spud series John van de Ruit has brought out a new book in the series called The Reunion.

Superfan or groupie? John van de Ruit on passion, humour and the phenomenon of Spud

Author John van de Ruit is back with a new book in the popular series

Passages of mind: Lesedi Molefi’s memoir Patient 12A explores his battle with mental illness.
Photo: Thabiso Molatlhwa/Richart Productions

Lesedi Molefi’s Patient 12A is a whirlpool of consciousness

Lesedi Molefi’s memoir Patient 12A explores his battle with mental illness.

X marks the spot: American author Ben Mezrich uses his access to South African-born billionaire Elon Musk’s closest associates to bring readers the inside story in Breaking Twitter. Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Toe-to-toe steers ‘Chief Twit’ from the brink

This is an edited extract from Ben Mezrich’s new book called Breaking Twitter

Take our word for it: Among Joburg’s most interesting secondhand bookshops are James Findlay Collectable Books and Antique Maps.
Photos: Delwyn Verasamy

More black fiction writers need to be published in South Africa

Publishing diverse voices could prove to be a source of domestic and global success for local publishers

Happy Sindane’s body was found a few hundred metres from his home in Tweefontein, Mpumalanga on Monday, 1 April 2013. A family picture of Happy among his adopted family. (Madelene Cronjé)

From Ebbie to Happy Sindane

Our society remains carved up because differences are viewed as weaknesses

The Blessed Girl by Angela Makholwa

The pitfalls of becoming a #blessed one

In Angela Mokholwa’s book, the price of obtaining an Instagrammable lifestyle proves to be too high

Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie after a reading of her book ‘Americanah’ in Lagos in 2013.

New African literature is disrupting what Western presses prize

Books like Adichie’s “America​nah” and Gyasi’s “Home​going” have confounded neat divisions between Western and African literary traditions.

Rights to Mandela book stirs up Frankfurt fair

The Frankfurt Book Fair got a buzz on Thursday from news that rights to Nelson Mandela’s work Conversation with Myself were on the market.