Launch of What Hidden Lies at The Book Lounge
Penguin Books and The Book Lounge take great pleasure in inviting you to the launch of What Hidden Lies
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10 Myths about Authors as Explored by ... an Author
1. Being an author is glamorous.
Before I had managed to write a book, I had an image of what an author should be in my mind that was something akin to Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge; sitting down melancholically in the middle of the night at his type writer with the Eiffel Tower outside his window and, after a sip of absinth, typing the words ‘This is a story about love’.
Trevor Romain's Random Kak I Remember about Growing up in South Africa
Remember? When you wore bell bottoms and wound up cassette tapes with a Bic pen. When ‘The World at War’ was on TV and LM Radio played on the radiogram, and when there were call-up papers in the mailbox and 2 c stamps on letters. VW Beetles were everywhere, the Bay City Rollers were it, and the smell of Wintergreen filled the change rooms. On these pages, hundreds of the little things that made up the world for many in the 70s and 80s come to life in Trevor Romain’s whimsical drawings and laugh-out-loud commentary.
Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave: The Sci-fi Thriller of 2013
THE 1TH WAVE took out half a million people.
THE 2ND WAVE put that number to shame.
Introducing Michéle Rowe's What Hidden Lies
When Detective Persephone (Persy) Jonas is forced to work with retired criminal psychologist Dr Marge Labuschagne to solve the murder of a suspected sex offender, suspicion and distrust threaten to derail the investigation. Persy believes the killer is her childhood sweetheart, now turned vicious gangster; Marge is sure the answer lies in the victim’s shady past. As the women race against time and their own prejudice to hunt the killer, past and present collide, unearthing long buried secrets and lies.
Talk by Chris Bradford, author of the Young Samurai series
Date: Monday, 3 June 2013
Time: 5.00pm for 5.30pm
Venue: Novel Books, Hobart Grove Shopping Centre, Bryanston
RSVP: novelbooks@vodamail.co.za or 0114639320
Author photo by Rune Hallestad.
Tamaryn Watkins Reviews Thirty Second World
I absolutely adored it. I ploughed through it in one weekend. Emma van der Vliet has a very South African Olivia Goldsmith-ish way of writing, which I thought was simply superb. I didn’t actually realise that it was a South African novel (I didn’t read the back cover before I started) until I came across the word “kak”. Thereafter it was all references to Cape Town and the South African TV advertising industry, so it was undeniably local – but definitely of an international quality.
Talk by Chris Bradford, author of the Young Samurai series and Bodyguard: Hostage
Date: Friday, 7 June 2013
Time: 2.00pm until 3.00pm
Venue: Central Library, Old Drill Hall, Cnr Parade and Darling streets, Cape Town
RSVP: booklounge@gmail.com or 0214622425
Q&A with Elif Shafak, Author of Honour
What is your new book about?
Honour is about a family, mother-son relationship and how we, knowingly or unknowingly, hurt the people we love most. This is the story of a half-Turkish, half-Kurdish family in London in the late 1970s.
What or who inspired it?
Life.
What was the biggest challenge, writing it?
Tammy February Reviews From What I Remember
One would think that, based on From What I Remember's cover, that the book is all cotton candy and fluffy goodness.
Well, you'd be right in a sense.
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