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Here be stories: childhood revisited
In lieu of the inaugural #18for9 campaign, we asked writers in our midst what their most memorable childhood reads were
Moguerane and Khan win 2025 Sunday Times Literary Awards
Khumisho Moguerane and Shubnum Khan were awarded the 2025 Sunday Times Literary Awards at Hill on Empire, with Moguerane winning the non-fiction prize for 'Morafe: Person, Family and Nation in Colonial Bechuanaland, 1880s–1950s' and Khan winning the fiction prize for 'The Lost Love of Akbar Manzil.'
Leaving Earth to survive
“I’m not saying Mars will be a utopia. It’ll create an opportunity to rethink the fundamental principles defining our society."
‘Flesh’ by David Szalay wins the Booker Prize 2025
Previously shortlisted for the Booker in 2016, Szalay's winning title is a spare but propulsive novel
Sunday Times Literary Awards shortlist: Beverley Roos-Muller talks ‘Hunting the Seven’
Q&A with author of ‘Hunting the Seven: How The Gugulethu Seven Assassins Were Exposed’ which is shortlisted for the Sunday Times Literary non-fiction award.
Sunday Times Literary Awards shortlist: Margie Orford discusses her memoir ‘Love and Fury’
We asked Margie Orford, author of Love and Fury: A Memoir (Jonathan Ball Publishers), some questions about the book, which is shortlisted for the non-fiction award.
Sunday Times Literary Awards shortlist: Lebogang Seale on ‘One Hundred Years of Dispossession: My Family’s Quest to Reclaim Our Land’
Sunday Times Literary Awards shortlist: Lebogang Seale answers questions on his book “One Hundred Years of Dispossession: My Family’s Quest to Reclaim Our Land”
The salt in De Vita’s soul
The author explains her passion for and the necessity of preserving the Deep Blue
























