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It’s been 20 years since Arundathi Roy’s The God of Small Things. Here she discusses her new novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, the themes of injustice in her work, and the power of fiction.
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Paula Hawkins, author of the best-selling The Girl on the Train, discusses her new novel, Into the Water, the significance of water, family relationships, and writing relatable characters.
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American novelist Paul Auster on his latest epic novel, 4 3 2 1, the unexpected, human possibility, autobiographical references in books, and the adventure of the unknown when writing fiction.
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John Boyne’s new novel The Heart’s Invisible Furies chronicles the life of a gay man in Dublin. Here he talks about the hypocrisy of the Catholic church, his determination to write strong female characters and how his deadpan humour serves the story.
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Debut author Fiona Melrose talks to Michele Magwood about her heartbreaking novel Midwinter and how her dyslexia shaped her ear for dialogue.
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Phil Collins looks back on an astounding career in his autobiography Not Dead Yet, from a dull suburban upbringing to the rare heights of superstardom.
He’s a surprisingly humble man:
I’m a musician. I got a chance to play with a few great people and that’s all I wanted to do. To play. Whether I was a pop star or not was irrelevant.
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I write the kind of book that I would like to read.
- Karin Brynard
Karin Brynard talks about her book Our Fathers and the crime writers she admires, from Agatha Christie to Mike Nicol.
Brynard’s first two novels, Plaasmoord and Onse vaders, took the South African market by storm, becoming instant bestsellers. She has won numerous literary awards, including the UJ Debut Prize for Creative Writing and two M-Net Awards.
Our Fathers is out now.
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I constantly and publicly thank Bob Marley and marijuana for helping me escape a brutal, dull and claustrophobic world.
- Marianne Thamm
I chatted to Marianne Thamm about her new book Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela And Me: A Memoir of Sorts, growing up in Pretoria and her difficult relationship with her Nazi father.
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Kenneth de Kok visited the studio to chat about Going Back to Say Goodbye: A Boyhood on the Mine, his finely observed memoir of growing up in Stilfontein in the 1950s.
“I hoped that any emotional impact would be subtle,” he says, “that it wouldn’t be a sad or overly happy story, that it would just be.”
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Years ago a Johannesburg man set out to recover the art stolen from his family by the Nazis.
Degas’ Dust: Joburg Maverick’s Quest to Regain Nazi War Booty is the story of Carnie Matisson’s quest: a vivid tale that veers wildly from his rough childhood to the glamour of 1970s Hillbrow and the worlds of art and classical music, a story peopled with strippers and art dealers, sanctions-busting pilots and Mossad agents.
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