Sunday Times Literary Awards winners

We at The Paperhouse Review would like to congratulate the winners of this year’s Sunday Times Literary Awards: the Alan Paton Award and the Sunday Times Fiction Prize.

Peter Harris received the Alan Paton Award for In a Different Time. The book is the true, harrowing and gripping story of the Delmas Four, as told by their attorney. The award is given each year to the author of a South African work of non-fiction, and has been running for 20 years this year.

Publisher: Umuzi / ISBN: 9781415200490 / Price: R185.00


Anne Landsman is the winner of this year’s Sunday Times Fiction Prize for The Rowing Lesson. The novel begins when pregnant Betsy Klein is summoned from New York to her father’s bedside. As she watches him, she imagines his life as a young Jewish man on the plattelande and weaves a story that traverses both their lives.

Publisher: Kwela / ISBN: 9780795702624 / Price: R175.00

The light side of books

If you are lucky enough to have cosy corner dedicated to your favourite pastime (and, you being a visitor of this site, we assume this pastime is reading) one important fixture will invariably be your reading light. We endorse the following quirky ideas:



This little fellow is from the Anglo Swiss Partnership of black+blum and will set you back £31.25 (R410).




For the more practical of readers, we spotted this on Apartment Therapy's sister site Unplggd.com. It is called the Book-Sensitive Reading Lamp and doubles as a page-holder. It was designed by French designers Jun Yasumoto, Alban Le Henry, Olivier Pigasse and Vincent Vandenbrouck. (No price available.)