Inside the mind of a thriller writer
How do you write a compelling thriller, that gets hearts racing? Bestselling author of The Burning Girls, CJ Tudor, weighs in with her advice, and shares with us her most creepy real-life story.
February 2021
Ways to remember...
For most of his adult life he has known that Namibia had once been a German colony, writes author Basil Lawrence. Yet only when he began researching his book At the Edge of the Desert did he begin to grasp what this meant for Namibia’s colonised people.
Getting to know Julietta Henderson
Julietta Henderson was brought up in a book-loving family in the rainforests of North Queensland and has been writing professionally for more than 25 years. Having worked her way through jobs as diverse as a bicycle tour guide in Tuscany to an editor for a digital marketing agency, Julietta got serious about fiction writing when she completed a novel writing course in 2013. Now a full-time freelance feature and travel writer, Julietta divides her life mainly between Melbourne and the UK.
Extract - The Promised Land by Barack Obama
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
Extract:
Two competing visions of wealth... one will keep you poor
In the cult-movie The Matrix, Neo is offered two pills. Take the blue pill, he is told, and life goes back to the status quo: predictable, familiar…and a lie.
Should he take the red pill, his eyes will be opened. In a rush of revelation, he will be exposed to a whole new set of answers, then forced to confront the prospect that everything around him was artifice, and nothing was ever what it seemed to be.
Q&A with Barack Obama
In his own words, Barack Obama tells in A Promised Land the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency – a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
International film rights acquired for The Scattering
Lauri Kubuitsile’s award-winning novel about the Herero genocide is envisaged as a European/southern African co-production.
Extract: The Push
About the book:
What happens when your experience of motherhood is nothing at all what you hoped for, but everything you always feared?
'The women in this family, we're different...'
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