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Extract - At the Edge of the Desert

This entry was posted on 18 January 2021.
Within a few weeks I’d settled back into my old routine. My days began with cossie and goggles wrapped in a towel. I’d follow the road down to the Shark Island pool – a quick walk through Lüderitz – for a morning swim before returning home to edit my documentary. I spent my time attempting to make sense of South African prison gangs, struggling to decide if my film should focus on the men or their make-believe uniforms.

Memoirs, Mind Management & Miscellany

This entry was posted on 18 November 2020.

Our bookshelves are straining under the number of compelling and evocative non-fiction reads we've just released. 

 

From the latest edition of Ripley's Believe It or Not, bursting with the weird and unexplained, and a fairy tale from the master of trivia himself, Stephen Fry, to inspirational books from Seth Godin and Naomi Klein. Take a look below and choose your favourite!

 

The lost art of letter writing

This entry was posted on 17 November 2020.

In Nine Letters, cynical lawyer Teddy Dickerson is awaiting a slow decline and a place at an old-age home. But life sometimes brings surprises. When his prickly Aunt Val dies, she leaves an unusual bequest: her task for Teddy is to post letters to eight of her friends around the world, a job that will take him on a journey into new and unexpected territory. We’ve asked John Webb, the author, some questions.

 

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