I’m super excited that my new novel Afterland comes out in July (it’s available for preorder on Amazon!) and Lit Hub has listed it as one of their most anticipated books of 2020, in the incredible company of Zora Neale Hurston, N K Jemisin, David Mitchell, and Awkaeke Emezi, among others. Lit Hub’s senior editor, […]
Hugely honoured that Paste magazine included The Shining Girls in their Best Books of the 2010s listicle (under the Best Horror Novels category) in the very good company of Samanta Schweblin, Carmen Maria Machado, Stephen King, and others. Paste’s Steve Foxe writes: The Shining Girls is a serial-killer novel unlike any other, as Harper Curtis discovers […]
Thank you, Tochi Onyebuchi for recommending Zoo City on Electric Lit, as a part of their awesome Read More Women series. Honoured to be listed alongside the likes of Akwaeke Emezi, my friend Nnedi Okorafor, Werewere Liking and Namwali Serpell. Tochi writes: The setting is Jo’burg. Our protagonist: a recovering journalist and former addict named […]
After the publication of a list of 100 best crime novels that had only 28 female authors, the wonderful people at The Guardian published a list of 50 great thrillers by women. To quote from the Guardian article: When the Sunday Times picked its 100 favourite crime and spy novels published since 1945 last weekend, only 28 […]
Lovely review of my short story collection, Slipping at South African lit blog, Worlds in Ink ! Snip: “Her fiction manages to deal with real issues in unusual and disconcerting ways; Beukes is not afraid to shine a light into the darkness we wilfully try to ignore in order to expose the hard truths hidden in the nooks and […]
A pair of fresh reviews for my recently released debut collection Slipping: Stories, Essays, and other Writing. For Locus Online, Paul Di Filippo praises the book. First, while the Big Five have more or less abandoned story collections, Tachyon continues to promote this essential variety of book. Lauren Beukes’s debut assemblage is a fine example. Coming […]
I love, love, love this review of my debut collection Slipping: Stories, Essays and Other Writing, from Metaphysical Circus Press’ lit review blog, See The Elephant: Here’s a snip: “Lauren Beukes, judging from these tales, is one of the best fictional chroniclers of modern life per se. If many of the stories use science fiction tropes, it’s with a […]
My debut collection Slipping: Stories, Essays, and Other Writing will be out on the 29th November (you can preorder it from Amazon or find your nearest local US independent bookstore via Indiebound) It’s getting some lovely reviews already, including this one from This Ain’t Living. Read the full thing here, and here’s a snip: “The stories range from […]