Q&A with Peter Piegl and Sean Newman, Authors of Glenn Agliotti
After writing Lolly Jackson: When Fantasy Becomes Reality, what made you decide to turn your attention to the infamous Glenn Agliotti as the subject for your next book?
Archive - Jun 2013
June 12th
June 11th
The Biography of One of South Africa’s Most Infamous Characters - Glenn Agliotti
A magistrate put Glenn Agliotti among the ‘snitches, pimps, rats who would sell their soul to evade a long prison term’. The press called him a drug trafficker and a drug dealer. He was. He’d admitted to these crimes and signed a plea bargain to grass on an associate. He was also known as the Landlord, which made him sound like a mafia boss.
Giovanna Fletcher Presents: A Day in the Life of Me ...
Every day varies, but my writing days are a fairly consistent array of distractions that I struggle to knock on the head before getting on with the pressing task of writing.
June 10th
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
June 6th
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’.
Launch of Random Kak I Remember about Growing up in South Africa
Meet and chat to Trevor Romain via Skype and get signed copies of his new book, Random Kak I remember about growing up in South Africa. Phone 011 640 1480.
Date: Sunday, 9 June 2013
Time: 3.00pm until 4.45pm
Venue: Knot 2 Shabby, 1 Durham Street (Raedene Corner)
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.
June 5th
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.
June 4th
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.
June 3rd
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.