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This week. Literally.

It’s been another busy week and here at the colony we’re looking forward to a lazy book-filled weekend! This week’s literary round-up combines some of the week’s hard-hitting stories with a bit of sports and culture and of course, the books to match. Enjoy!

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.

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

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February 28th, 2014

This week. Literally.

February 27th

SNEAK PEEK: Read an extract from Lesley Pearse’s SURVIVOR

February 20th

This week. Literally.

February 17th

Cry Baby by Lauren Liebenberg: A Review by Belinda Mountain

January 16th

Senior Afrikaanse redakteur by Penguin

January 10th

Win tickets to the exclusive Joburg screening of 12 Years a Slave

January 8th

5 Things You Never Knew About Apple's Jony Ive

December 12th, 2013

A bookseller's review of James Oswald's Natural Causes

November 20th

Sweetie, darling...it's arrived!

November 12th

Are you a moody foodie?

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