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Congratulations to Shubnum Khan and Khumisho Moguerane, our winners of the 2025 Sunday Times Literary Awards!
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The research and the writing once again showed me what a personal thing wine is, that the end result might be a bottle of wine, but it represents the personality, being and soul of the person that created it.

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Just like real people, the club and their merry cast of cohorts are capable of growth. They learn and they change, which is part of what makes them so irresistible. Also, they are very, very funny.

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With exceptional plotting and a real sense of Joburg, and the just ever so slightly hammered circumstances our police force have to work under, this book is a tour de force and I don’t say that lightly

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Kiran Desai’s new novel explores belonging, exile and inner alienation, writes Margaret von Klemperer

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Jemimah Wei's debut novel is a complex tale of messy family dynamics, sibling rivalry, affection turning to resentment and, above all, perceived betrayal.

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It is time to cancel hustle culture | Nabila Mayet-Cassim reviews 'Why Am I Like This?' by Qaanitah Hunter

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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.”

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We encounter politicians as one-dimensional characters and I have tried to portray them with all their sensitivities, as fallible people

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Previously shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2016, David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ is a spare but propulsive novel

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How a ‘happy hour for introverts’ became the world’s quietest social movement — now booming in South Africa

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‘One Call Away’ is a meditation on life, death and the question of existence

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One thing Wynn-Williams makes abundantly clear, even if it was suspected already: Facebook/Meta is certainly not a benign and idealistic organisation, whether or not it once was.

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I was thirty-four years old when I first presented the idea for the World Wide Web. At the time, I was working in Switzerland as a programmer at a particle accelerator. No one was asking for the web, and almost no one expected anything to come from it.

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With 'Bosadi', Matlwa returns to fiction with her most haunting and human work yet

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“Decades later, I decided to hunt down the full truth, for there are many ways of describing a narrative. I had met their families before and at the funerals, and knew that the story we had been fed was fake.”

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“‘The Creation of Half-Broken People’ is about these women, or, rather, it is about my journey towards discovering these women. It is about learning how to love instead of fear the one who began and begat it all: Gagool. The genesis.”

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“I hope that we can reflect on the Molemas’ conviction that conversation is the only way to live with hope, not because we always agree, but because dialogue belongs to the set of moral practices that make us human beings.”

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“I believed I had an interesting story that had come from some of the lowest moments of my life and I knew I had a house and characters that deserved to be in the world.”

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“Most people, including friends, say they did not actually know me until the memoir, that it reveals the truth in ways that makes it their truth as well. THAT is the best compliment I could possibly receive about the book.”

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