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Books by Nobel Prize winner Nadine Godimer, Zakes Mda and other SA authors were allegedly “stolen” to help artificial intelligence to churn out text based on user queries.

SA authors’ books ‘stolen’ to train AI bots

'My Land Obsession: A Memoir' documents the author's life, those of her clients and others in attempting to regain what's theirs

The Sunday Times Literary Awards shortlist | Bulelwa Mabasa on 'My Land Obsession: A Memoir'

"I was researching something completely different when I came across the only surviving record of a witch trial held in England back in 1662"

The Sunday Times Literary Awards shortlist | Mark Winkler on 'The Errors of Dr. Browne'

We chat to authors who have been shortlisted in the fiction and non-fiction categories

The Sunday Times Literary Awards shortlist: Yewande Omotoso on the genesis of 'An Unusual Grief'

We chat to authors who have been shortlisted in the fiction and non-fiction categories

The Sunday Times Literary Awards shortlist: Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon on 'The Blinded City'

In partnership with Exclusive Books, the Sunday Times Literary Awards this year mark the 33rd anniversary of the non-fiction award and the 22nd year of the fiction prize. The winners will each receive R100,000.

The 2023 shortlists for the Sunday Times Literary Awards

'Breaking the Bombers' focuses on the police bomb squad that investigated the organisation, receiving nothing but heartache in return

BOOK EXTRACT | No acknowledgment for those who risked their lives against Pagad

The six titles shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize were announced on Thursday.

Booker Prize shortlist has two debut novels and marks a first for all six writers who made the cut

Writer Daniel Hawthorne is packing up his mother’s house in Johannesburg when he hears about the disappearance of Sam Webster, the beautiful daughter of his friend, the famous historian Bruce Webster.

EXTRACT | ‘The Ghost of Sam Webster’ by Craig Higginson

This week we feature the new Joanne Harris, a tribute that celebrates women and a must-read bio on Martin Luther King

BOOK BITES | Joanne Harris, Elizabeth Acevedo, Jonathan Eig

Ryan Blumenthal's latest book gives a new twist to forensic science, writes Gabriella Bekes

Death becomes us

Karin Smirnoff has given the iconic Lisbeth Salander a much-needed rejuvenation, writes Claire Keeton

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo returns in a gripping new book by Karin Smirnoff

Explore the behind-the-scenes process of creating Jonathan Ball Publishers' inaugural audiobook 'Children of Sugarcane' by Joanne Joseph.

LISTEN | Discussing a production journey and creative techniques

Rehearsals are in full swing and the countdown is on to the world premiere of the stage adaptation of Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-winning novel, 'The Promise'.

Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-winning novel comes to the stage

From personal experience Karin Slaughter is more than aware that the crimes she's writing about happen to real women every day, writes Bron Sibree

Bron Sibree interviews Karin Slaughter