Authors & Events
Launch of The Cutting Room at The Book Lounge
02 April 2013
Penguin Books and The Book Lounge take great pleasure in inviting you to the launch of The Cutting Room by Mary Watson. Mary will be in conversation with Emma van der Vliet.
Date: Monday, 8 April 2013
Time: 5.30pm for 6.00pm
Venue: The Book Lounge, 71 Roeland Street, Cape Town | Map
RSVP: booklounge@gmail.com or...
Q&A with Jacques Magliolo, Author of Richer than Buffett
28 March 2013
What do you hope to achieve with your series of books?
To hit home the very simple fact that trading in equities, futures or other securities is not a get-rich-quick scheme. It takes dedication, knowledge and discipline to succeed as a day trader.
How does Richer than Buffett differ from some of your other books? This book is a revised edition...
Q&A with Emma van der Vliet, Author of Thirty Second World
25 March 2013
It has been six years since you released your first novel. Why has there been such a long break between books?
I was still working full time as a lecturer for the first few years after Past Imperfect was published, and I also popped out a third child and a PhD. Oh, and I did a teaching degree. So it was hard to find time to write in that mix! A...
Q&A with Anthony Schneider, Author of A Quiet Kind of Courage
20 March 2013
Tell us a little about where your ideas for your characters and their stories come from.
The book started with geography – a man born in one country, who moves to another country, then is forced into exile from the place he calls home. That idea then led me to history as I discovered Henry – grumpy octogenarian and idealistic younger...
Q&A with Paul Myburgh, Author of The Bushman Winter has Come
13 March 2013
Having already made a documentary on the People of the Great Sand Face, what made you decide to write a book?
Sometimes it is life that decides what must be done, and one simply listens to what is asked.
Even while making the film, People of the Great Sand Face, all those years ago, I was acutely aware of how much more there was to say, how much...
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