Bookmark these: 10 books for the holidays
From history in technicolour to a dystopian wake-up call, David Gorin rounds up his 10 literary picks for the holidays (and beyond)
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BOOK REVIEW: Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
Loved or reviled, four years after the 2016 US general election, Hillary Clinton remains a figure around whom so many contradictions and divisions coalesce
BOOK REVIEW: Philippe Sands’ The Ratline
The Ratline is a meandering biography only partly about a man who deserved his painful demise. That he lived in terrible times was a tragedy for millions of ...
The secret life of books
A story unfolds and it’s not on the pages — it’s about the pages, writes Luke Alfred
Wattpad: reading the future
This is the tale of how Wattpad is changing the world of storytelling one upload at a time. Jo Buitendach braved the new digital frontier
SARAH BUITENDACH: When lockdown bites, we’re in need of comfort
Sarah Buitendach looks at how escapist reading and other pleasures can lighten the emotional load of Covid-19
Eddie Jones autobiography: the best sports book in a while
What does it take to write a good rugby book? Eddie Jones and Donald McRae show how it’s done
BOOKS: Pile these up next to your bed
Kate Rogan, owner of Joburg’s beloved Love Books, on what she recommends you should start your reading blitz with
BOOK REVIEW: When the ox wagon was king of the road
One tollgate recorded 4,500 ox wagons a year travelling from the Cape to the interior
BOOK REVIEW: Nechama Brodie’s Three Bodies
The follow-up to her 2018 fiction debut, Knucklebone, it is another tale that delves into the crimes Reshma Patel and Ian Jack investigate in and around Gauteng
Waiting, and more waiting, for the Anglo Boer War siege of Mafeking to end
Skilled riflemen turned a train into a mobile fortress, but before the British force in the town was relieved in May 1900 ammunition was getting scarce and ...
When movies drew in the crowds
The 1950s produced some powerful films, many still seen as classics today
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BOOK REVIEW: Dance of the Trillions
Dance of the Trillions leaves many mysteries about global capital flows unexplained
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PODCAST | ‘Thuma mina’ was meant for Jacob Zuma
Sunday Times journalist Qaanitah Hunter tracks the genesis of ‘thuma mina’ and how it became the tagline of Cyril Ramaphosa’s presidency
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a flying saucer?
Numerous reports of mysterious flying objects were reported in the aftermath of World War 2, and rumours compelled officials to issue statements denying that ...
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Books: ’Tis the season to get reading
David Gorin rounds up the top novels and nonfiction, as well as a collection of short stories, to add to your summer break must-absorb list
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France’s final blow in the Far East
After a 55-day siege, on May 7 1954, a small French-held stronghold fell to Vietnamese troops. The colonial power’s empire in the region was no more
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