The Book Lounge in Cape Town is one of favourite places in the world and, not uncoincidentally, my homeground indie bookstore. I’ve debuted all my novels there since Moxyland and what I love about them is that they’re not only open to my weird ideas to do an unconventional launch, they […]
There’s a scene in Broken Monsters about an art party set in the real-life Powerhouse District in Detroit, but the secret is that some of the installations described in the novel are based on real pieces. Here’s the story behind one of them, that I saw at the first Zoo City art exhibition in Johannesburg […]
I’ve been so close to Broken Monsters for so long and it was such a fraught and difficult book to write, it’s hard for me to see it objectively or even clearly, which makes these amazing reviews particularly gratifying and humbling too. * “Never exploitative, never superficial, never uncomplicated: Beukes shows how horror can be the […]
Broken Monsters got a killer review in The Sunday Times (South Africa) today, along with Sarah Lotz’s The Three and Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon. Michele Magwood writes: “This one adds gasoline… Beukes has a way of inhaling cityscapes and breathing them onto the page… [the images are] hard to shake, intensely, viciously wrought.”