Toe Eugène Marais deurtrek van malaria en morfien by ’n vreemde plaashuis in die Waterberg ingeneem word, verander daardie huishouding heeltemal. Twee vroue ding mee om sy aandag – Maria, die huisvrou, en Jane, ’n jong meisie onder die gesin se sorg. En op hulle beurt is daar twee jaloerse mans – Gys, die eggenoot, en hul seun, Adderjan.
Simple & Delicious (available in Afrikaans as Heerlik & maklik) is a collection of recipes from the heart. These are dishes which Alida Ryder – a food stylist, photographer, blogger and busy mother of twins – serves to her family.
Human emotion and animal instinct meet poignantly when two six-week-old leopard cubs become the charge of 22-year-old game ranger Graham Cooke at Londolozi.
Staying with the cubs in an unfenced bush camp surrounded by lions, hyenas and other leopards, he must first gain their trust before he begins to guide them towards release in the wild. It takes weeks of patience and gentleness for Graham to be accepted into the cubs’ small family unit and to find ways of communicating with the young leopards as he slowly begins to introduce them to their new environment.
Penguin Books and The Book Lounge take pleasure in inviting you to the launch of Thinking Up a Hurricane. Martinique Stilwell will be in conversation with Alison Lowry.
Date: Friday, 7 September 2012
Time: 5.30pm for 6.00pm
Penguin Books and The Book Lounge take pleasure in inviting you to the launch ofCrossbones by Nuruddin Farah.
The launch will take place on Tuesday 4 September at 5.30pm for 6pm.
Date: Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Time: 5.30pm for 6.00pm
An ageing Jeebleh has returned to Somalia to visit old friends in his beloved Mogadiscio. He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region’s ongoing turmoil. Instead of the chaos, however, the two are greeted by an eerie calm, enforced by white-robed figures bearing whips. Soon, Malik’s brother, Ahl, arrives in Puntland, the region notorious as a pirates’ base. Ahl is searching for his stepson, who has vanished from the States, apparently recruited by an imam allied to Somalia’s rising insurgency.
On 27 August, Rosemund Handler, author of Us and Them, will be in conversation with SAfm's Nancy Richards. Join them at 8pm at the Marais Road Hall (opposite Marais Road Synagogue) in Sea Point, Cape Town.
Read about Rosemund Handler's approach to novel-writing here.
Your first two novels, Madlands and Katy’s Kid have a strong focus on characters, whereas your third, Tsamma Season, is predominantly a novel about place. Could you elaborate on your previous titles and your approach to novel-writing in general?
To celebrate the release of the fourth and final Spud book, Spud – Exit, Pursued by a Bear, John van de Ruit conducted a live Twitter chat on 7 August. Fans followed #Spud4, the official hashtag for the book, and tweeted their questions to John at @johnvanderuit.
Here are a few highlights:
@johnvanderuit: Welcome to the twitter chat. Remember to use #Spud4 to join. Coffee up, scrape the snow off your boots & fire away