SNEAK PEEK: Read an extract from Lesley Pearse’s SURVIVOR
As the release date for Lesley Pearse’s new novel Survivor draws closer, we thought we’d share an extract from the eagerly anticipated third book in the Belle trilogy.
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This week. Literally.
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.
Cry Baby by Lauren Liebenberg: A Review by Belinda Mountain
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.
Senior Afrikaanse redakteur by Penguin
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 projekbestuurder van die Woordfees was en in die departement Afrikaans en Nederlands gedoseer het. Sy ervaring in die boekewêreld het beslag gekry toe hy van 2007 tot 2010 meningsbestuurder by LitNet was.
Win tickets to the exclusive Joburg screening of 12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave, the movie adaptation of Solomon Northup’s harrowing memoir of slave life, opens in SA cinemas next Friday.
5 Things You Never Knew About Apple's Jony Ive
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 500
A bookseller's review of James Oswald's Natural Causes
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.
Sweetie, darling...it's arrived!
Jennifer Saunders’ memoir has finally arrived in South Africa, how absolutely fabulous!
'As the steady march of time takes its toll on my memory and the vultures circle, I thought I should have a stab at recollecting how it all happened ...'
Are you a moody foodie?
Are you a moody foodie?
Create a food mood board on Pinterest using the hashtag #AlidaRyder, showing us what food you cook from the heart, for a chance to win a R2000 Le Creuset voucher!
Coming home, the Ultimate Braai Master blog tour
The final stop on the blog tour for the new Ultimate Braai Master cookbook, Roads Less Travelled in which Justin, Bertus and Marthinus share their top braai tips.
Justin Bonello on the braai:
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