Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Diary extracts (2008)

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Wednesday, April 9 2008 Aboard MV Mozart, Danube River Gliding through Europe on the MV Mozart, on the Danube, on another press trip. Ma...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Flash fiction

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100 Papers: A collection of prose poems and flash fiction by Liesl Jobson Botsotso Publishing, 2008 “A pale pink slug emerges from between ...

Bridget Jones in scrubs

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Karma Suture by Rosamund Kendal Jacana R130 It's the end of another long, tiring day for GP Sue Carey. She's wearing green surgery ...

Desert and desire become one

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The Impostor by Damon Galgut Penguin R163 This is a quiet, powerful story, a novel trimmed of excess, where every word means what it should...

A lengthy pursuit of redemption

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My Brother's Book by Jo-Anne Richards Picador Africa R158 This book contains the most original line of a novel I have ever read: "...

Foreign affair with China

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Drinking From The Dragon's Well by Alex Smith Umuzi R155 South African travel writing comes of age in this delightful, witty travel mem...

Old films hold a lost world

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You can't watch the Yiddish Film Festival without reflecting on what was to come and what was lost Watching Molly Picon in the 1923 Yid...

Debut effort heralds greater things to come

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Whiplash by Tracey Farren Modjaji Books R150 The cover of this debut novel leads you in. If covers sell books and attract readers, then ...

You're married, it happens

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Strange things happen when you go on leave. You come back married, with a brand new name and absolutely no idea who your new husband might b...