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This week. Literally.
20 February 2014
How many times have you heard the exclamation ‘Can you believe it’s already Friday?!’.
At the Penguin colony, it feels like the weeks just fly by so, in order to keep track of what’s going on in the world, we’ve decided to start a new column, This Week. Literally.
Our...
Cry Baby by Lauren Liebenberg: A Review by Belinda Mountain
17 February 2014
You know how sometimes it’s great to watch movies or read books that are set in a place you’re familiar with? Because you recognise the landmarks, the stereotypes, the atmosphere of a place? Cry Baby made me feel a whole lot of those things, but not necessarily in a warm and fuzzy way.
It made me uncomfortable –...
Senior Afrikaanse redakteur by Penguin
16 January 2014
Penguin Books Suid-Afrika kondig die aanstelling van Melt Myburgh as opdraggewende redakteur aan.
Myburgh het op verskeie terreine reeds diep spore in die Afrikaanse letterkundige wêreld getrap. Hy kom na Penguin van Naledi-Uitgewers waar hy redaksiehoof was. Voorheen was hy verbonde aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch waar hy...
5 Things You Never Knew About Apple's Jony Ive
08 January 2014
1. Jony is Dyslexic
Even so, he got three straight As at A-Level, good enough to get him into Oxford or Cambridge. Instead he went to Newcastle Polytechnic, one of the best places to study industrial design in the world. Later, he’d team up with another famous dyslexic: Steve Jobs.
2. His first car was an orange fiat...
A bookseller's review of James Oswald's Natural Causes
12 December 2013
Secreted in the basement of a crumbling Edinburgh mansion, sealed in a bricked-up chamber, a girl’s body is discovered nailed to the floor in what appears to be a sadistic, ritualistic killing.
Mutilated, defiled, her corpse bears the hallmarks of a sacrificial offering, her death protracted, tortured. Yet while an intricate...
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