Literature

The novel idealizes a starkly different idea of education; something transformative, perhaps even spiritual.

Set in Tobago, Defoe's utopian vision vanishes abruptly, like the novel’s famous footprint in the sand.

Set in South Africa, this crime novel flits between five characters, each with their own baggage.

Mantle Arts & Culture Editor Aria Chiodo features in Rankin's book, part of the Words of Change series.

Has human depravity usurped the digital space or is it the other way around?

Aimed at teen readers, this graphic novel is a call-to-action for anyone living in today’s social climate.

Stitch's novel is a mind-boggling pastiche of literary tropes and analogies that takes the absurdist satire to its logical extreme.

Fitzgerald brings universal issues to the fore in the novel, which still resonates a century after it was first published.

It is unimaginable to not admire Yeats’ remarkable, unswerving fidelity to his craft.    

A new collection of narrative nonfiction and formidable writing by emerging Cameroonian and Nigerian writers.