What an honour to get such a great review from Publishers Weekly: In this intriguing and all too timely near-future thriller from South African author Beukes (The Shining Girls), human culgoa virus, “a highly contagious flu that turns into an aggressive prostate cancer in men and boys,” kills more than 99% of the world’s male […]
Steph Auteri over at Book Riot drew up this list of, as she calls it, books to read while the world is falling apart. The itinerary includes Before She Sleeps by Bina Shah, the comic Bitch Planet, and my forthcoming world-without-men car-chase thriller, Afterland (originally titled Motherland). Steph writes: And because our appetite for these types of novels will […]
Elle put together this great list of books they’re looking forward to in summer 2020. I’m thrilled that they included my forthcoming car-chase-across-America baby, Afterland, alongside books by Akwaeke Emezi, Lit Hub editor Emily Temple, legend David Mitchell, and others. Lauren Puckett writes: In Afterland, the world is run by women. A mysterious pandemic—agh, that word again—has […]
Comedian Samantha Irby spoke to Vulture about some of her favourite books, and I’m super flattered that Broken Monsters is one of them! There are some other really cool books on the list, including Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, The Oracle Year by Charles Soule, and Stephen King’s The Outsider. Samantha says: Terrifying. Horrifying. So good. I […]
The Johannesburg Review of Books has published an exclusive extract from my new book, Afterland. You can read it here – and there’s also an audio version if you’d prefer to hear me read it aloud. The ebook of Afterland is out now in South Africa, and the physical book-book will be in shops as soon as […]
I’m delighted that Popsugar included Afterland on their round-up of 35 must-read books by women published in 2020. Afterland is in the incredible company of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins, Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh, Elisabeth Thomas’s Catherine House, and N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became, which has been my favourite book this year […]