Extract: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The glorious new novel from the international bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six
Saturday, August 27, 1983
7:00 a.m.
May 2021
Extract: Limerence by Vincent Pienaar
Warm-hearted and funny, Limerence is a tale guaranteed to lift the spirits of even the sourest of exes.
“NOT FOR CLARISSA THE PADDING AROUND THE HOUSE IN SLIPPERS, dressing gown and kopdoek, chasing down some elusive creative thought before it slithered into the shadows. She wasn’t one for the anxious cups of too-strong coffee, followed by frantic clacking at a keyboard.
Q&A with Scorpion author Christian Cantrell
Christian Cantrell is a software engineer living outside of Washington, D.C. His self-published fiction has sold more than a quarter of a million copies, and three of his stories have been optioned for film or TV. Beyond his writing, he leads a team of designers and engineers who prototype the future of creativity at Adobe.
In Conversation with Limerence Author Vincent Pienaar
Just like Vincent Pienaar’s novel Too Many Tsunamis, Limerence is a warm-hearted and funny tale. The Penguin Post spoke with Vincent about getting limerenced, dark humour and the person who inspired the scoundrel Scout.
One Minute with Daisy Jones & The Six author Taylor Jenkins Reid
Jenkins Reid’s new novel, Malibu Rising has the same evocative sense of period and place, combined with a fantastically flawed and relatable heroine, that made her 2019 novel, Daisy Jones & The Six a bestseller. Here, she chats about ‘80s music, her love for Malibu and the enigmatic Riva family.
Extract: Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
This monumentally powerful epic weaves together the astonishing lives of a daredevil female aviator, and the Hollywood rebel who will play her on screen.
Los Angeles, December 2014
Extract: Blues for the White Man by Fred de Vries
A fascinating, insightful journey through time and space, Blues for the White Man is a celebration of multiculturalism.
Extract: Unbecoming by Joanne Fedler
“LIZ THINKS. ‘I’M SORRY I HURT THEM. It would probably have been
better for everyone if I’d never had kids.’
I’ve never heard such a candid expression of remorse, the kind
whispered at confession, if at all. Procreation is exclusively a liturgical
Extract: Death on the Limpopo by Sally Andrew
Tannie Maria might be the Karoo’s favourite agony aunt, but when it comes to matters of her own heart, she doesn’t have all the answers.
Extract: Tannie Maria and the Satanic Mechanic by Sally Andrew
Everybody’s favourite agony aunt and crime fighter Tannie Maria needs some counselling advice of her own. Lingering troubles from a previous marriage still sit heavy on her, while fresh worries about Slimkat, a local man whose fight for his people’s land threatens his life, keep her up at night. Tannie Maria seeks out counsellor, jokily known to all as “the satanic mechanic”.
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