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Layered: Lebo Mazibuko’s novel Fabrics of Love came out in August. Photo: Thandukwazi Lungelo Gcabashe

Exploring the fabric of family and identity in Lebo Mazibuko’s Fabrics of Love

Lebo Mazibuko’s second novel, Fabrics of Love, looks at themes of family trauma, black womanhood, absent fathers and heritage

Always in the blood: Antjie Krog’s autobiographical novel Blood’s Inner Rhyme has just been published. Photo: Brenda Veldtman

Returning to the bones of home

Back in the Free State, a daughter rediscovers the textures of home, family and unspoken inheritances in Antjie Krog’s autobiographical novel

An explicit, ambitious debut novel that delivers on sensuality but struggles to balance story, substance and seduction

Sex, politics and very little else: A look at The Sweetest Taboo

An explicit, ambitious debut novel that delivers on sensuality but struggles to balance story, substance and seduction

Matt Haig’s new novel is a story too good to spoil

A moving, mind-bending journey of grief, hope and unexpected transformation

Spirit of debut novel will blow you away

Lindani Mbunyuza-Memani weaves a tale of identity, longing and the relentless pull of the past

Monster: Arvashni Seeripat’s The Story I Told Myself, set in India in 1887, involves a mother fleeing from a dark secret. Photo: Supplied

Excerpt: The Story I Told Myself

An edited excerpt from the historical novel by South African author Arvashni Seeripat

hile in prison, Yahya Sinwar wrote The Thorn and the Carnation. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The Thorn and the Carnation: A novel by a Palestinian leader during his incarceration in Israeli prisons

Yahya Sinwar writes that ‘despite tireless attempts to erase their Arab identity, Islamic faith and Palestinian heritage, they remain more steadfast than anyone could have predicted’

In defiance of loss, they love

A world-wandering love finds itself in music, in the harmonics of pain, and in the deep fullness of time

‘Gogo is too much’: Zukiswa Wanner is the author of several novels, including Men of the South, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.

Discover God’s gift to women

This is an edited extract from prolific writer Zukiswa Wanner’s new novel, Love Marry Kill