Rarely do I read books as devastating as ‘The Scattering’, but surely if real people lived through it, and Lauri Kubuitsile could stand to write it, I should be able to read it just fine. ‘The Scattering’ by Kubuitsile was…

If you’ve ever spent any time on any book-related social media platform, you would have seen the constant criticism often directed at the publishing industry. Whether it is about gatekeeping in the industry, manuscripts by minority authors being ignored, TikTok’s…

South African journalist, activist and crime writer Margie Orford officially launched her memoir ‘Love and Fury’ last Tuesday at the Goethe-Institut in Windhoek. The memoir, published by Jonathan Ball Publishers last month, chronicles Orford’s life, through memories of marriage, motherhood,…