Hi Amanda,
have organised a website to show the 6 books I wrote in French. At least it is an easier way to be read than to try to have anything published in France. The site should be ready in a few weeks.
I have noticed that the French publishers are only publishing either books written by [...]
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Date: 7 August 2008
Place: Nice, Parkhurst
Book: Penguin Dictionary of South African Quotations
1. Who is your favourite hero of fiction?
Atticus Finch
2. What is your most treasured possession?
My photographs
3. Which living person do you most dislike?
The bully boys of the world
4. What is your greatest fear?
Spiders
5. Who or what has been the love of your life? [...]
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The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce by Paul Torday (Weidenfeld & Nicholson) ISBN: 978-0-297-85293-3
Paul Torday’s debut novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing. It was serialised on radio, and appeared on many UK lists of summer reads, including the coveted Richard and Judy endorsement.
Readers expecting more light comic [...]
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by Stephen McGinty (Pan MacMillan) 978-0-330-46121-4
The Greatest, or perhaps only Great, Briton of the last century was said to have smoked 200 000 Cigars in his life.
Many of these in a time when a less courageous soul would have been chewing on his nail instead. From a coal mine in Johannesburg; on a train [...]
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Alex Smith’s Top 26 Books
Blank. On Sunday afternoon, I left the book fair briefly to do an interview at SAfm with Karebo Kgoleng. I’ve never done a live radio interview before. Karabo was great, all went fine (I hope, although I’ll never actually hear it to know for sure), except when I went blank over [...]
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Isabella Morris selects her Top 26 Books
a. The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha
b. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
c. The Reader by Bernard Schlink
d. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
e. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
f. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
g. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
h. A Map [...]
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Last month I published my list of Amanda’s 26 Top Books of All Time and asked you to send me yours so that we can share and compare and start a discussion. Today we have the very interesting and eclectic lists of Michelle Moss and Amy Langenveld.
Don’t you agree, this is getting really interesting. Why [...]
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Question:
What epitaph would you write on your own gravestone?
And the winner is…
Rita Houghton
“Ever in our thoughts. Here lies Rita Houghton, writer. Finally, an original plot.”
Top Ten Entries
“I wanted to be cremated” – Mary Mestre
“Email postfromtheghost.com” – Terry Levin
“God had a plan when he made Jan.” – Jan Fitzgerald
‘Dolphins, unicorns, angels, Islands, Oceans, Full moons, Candles, [...]
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There are books you read and enjoy and books you just skim through. Sometimes you pick up a book and your eye-hand co-ordination isn’t fast enough to put it down without dropping it on the floor.
But then there are books like these 26 (and a few more…) that you treasure forever. Why 26?
Why not – [...]
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