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[Sponsored] ‘I receive the things my grandmothers left for me’—Siphokazi Jonas introduces her debut poetry collection, Weeping Becomes a River

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[Sponsored] ‘Politics and poetry don’t go together’—Read an excerpt from At Fire Hour, the unforgettable and deeply moving novel by Barry Gilder

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[Sponsored] ‘A nice white racist who grapples with apartheid training that can never be undone’—Find out more about Jane van der Riet’s debut novel How to Hide Inside a Three

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[Sponsored] Apartheid’s Black Soldiers: Un-national Wars and Militaries in Southern Africa by Lennart Bolliger—a unique analysis of apartheid military culture

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[Sponsored] ‘The impulse to write often strikes when I’m observing someone else’—Ayobami Adebayo chats about her new novel A Spell of Good Things

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[Sponsored] ‘I swear you can’t make stuff like this up’—Read an excerpt from Tshidiso Moletsane’s Sunday Times Fiction Prize-winning novel Junx

Penguin Random House has shared an excerpt from Junx, the debut novel from Tshidiso Moletsane, winner of the 2022 Sunday Times Fiction…

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[Sponsored] ‘Hearing that collective clamour for change reminded me that I did not walk alone’—NoViolet Bulawayo chats about her Booker-shortlisted novel Glory

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[Sponsored] ‘What do you do if you suspect your husband is planning to murder you?’ Maggie O’Farrell introduces her new book The Marriage Portrait

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