Friday, January 30, 2015

Across a Green Ocean

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Across a Green Ocean by Wendy Lee A journey through the past This charming novel by Wendy Lee opens with widow Ling Tang contemplati...
Saturday, January 24, 2015

Review of Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology volume 6

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This is the sixth anthology of stories published from stories submitted to the Bristol Short Story Prize. This is an an annual internationa...
Friday, January 16, 2015

From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant

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The late Mavis Gallant's stories are beguiling to read The late Mavis Gallant’s stories are beguiling to read – they creep up on y...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Mrs Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing

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Mrs Stevens ...  Its homosexual revelations  were considered  scandalous  when  first published  Mrs Stevens Hears the Mermaids Sing...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Stuff South African White People Like

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It’s so often laugh out loud funny – but at the heart of the witticisms, there’s a ton of recognition and a truth that runs strong and cle...

The Road of Excess by Ingrid Winterbach

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The Road of Excess never quite gains the ground or follows the momentum of the previous Winterbach novels I've read in English  ...
Sunday, August 31, 2014

Arctic Summer

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Arctic Summer is a fictionalised biography of the novelist EM Forster Arctic Summer – a fictionalised biography of the writer EM Fors...

Ruminations on love and writing: interview with Athol Fugard

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Athol Fugard as Oupa in The Shadow of the Hummingbird “This is the smallest play I've ever written, but it has generated more noise...

Adults Only teaser: Q&A with Arja Salafranca

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Joanne Hichens – editor of the  Adults Only , the second annual  Short.Sharp.Stories Awards  anthology – interviews Arja Salafranca. Arja...