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Margie Orford Talks About the Evolution of Her Protagonist, Clare Hart 27 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
Margie Orford spoke to Margaret von Klemperer about her latest novel in the Clare Hart crime series, Water Music. Orford said that Clare “has wised up and learnt some lessons along the way — I think w...
Anthea Jeffery: The Property Valuation Bill Threatens South Africans’ Property Rights (Podcast) 26 Aug 2013 | 05:47 pm
Earlier this year Anthea Jeffery, author of Chasing the Rainbow: South Africa’s Move from Mandela to Zuma, wrote a column for Business Day about the “draconian measures” of the Expropriation Bill. She...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Feminism and Whether the Danger of a Single Story Has Been Overcome 23 Aug 2013 | 06:07 pm
Belinda Otas interviewed Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about her famous 2009 TED talk, titled “The Danger of a Single Story”, and a more recent TEDxEuston video in which she said that, “We should all be fe...
Join Jessica Pitchford and Derek Watts for the Launch of Carte Blanche 23 Aug 2013 | 05:59 pm
Exclusive Books invites you to the launch of Carte Blanche by Jessica Pitchford. Pitchford will be in conversation with Derek Watts, Bongani Bingwa and Devi Sankaree Govender. The event will take pla...
Jessica Pitchford Shares Stories from Behind the Scenes in Her Book Carte Blanche 22 Aug 2013 | 12:39 pm
New from Jonathan Ball, Carte Blanche by Jessica Pitchford: The programme Carte Blanche burst onto the scene in 1988 as a genre never before seen on South African television: a trail-blazer, a blend ...
Margie Orford Discusses Her Interest in SA’s “Underbelly of Unresolved Rage and Conflict” 21 Aug 2013 | 06:35 pm
Margie Orford spoke to Sue Grant-Marshall about her latest in the Clare Hart crime series, Water Music. Grant-Marshall writes that Orford “has finally made friends with her main protagonist”, who she ...
Podcast: Barbara Mutch Discusses The Housemaid’s Daughter with Sue-Grant Marshall 20 Aug 2013 | 06:01 pm
Barbara Mutch was in studio with Sue Grant-Marshall for her Reading Matters show on Radio Today to discuss The Housemaid’s Daughter. Mutch said that it took her six years to research and write the boo...
Jonathan Ball Authors at Open Book Festival 2013 (7-11 September) 20 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
The 2013 Open Book Festival is being held in Cape Town from Saturday 7 to Wednesday 11 September. Jonathan Ball authors to look out for include Deon Meyer, Helen Moffett, Paige Nick, Hlumelo Biko, Mar...
Lewis Pugh Explains Why the Cape of Good Hope is His Favourite Place on the Continent 19 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Lewis Pugh was asked by Country Life to write about his favourite place in Africa and Pugh has shared the feature he wrote, which was on the Cape of Good Hope. Pugh writes that “The fact that the Cap...
Margie Orford Discusses Water Music, the Fifth Book in Her Clare Hart Series 16 Aug 2013 | 12:53 pm
“Each book is an exploration of what happens to vulnerable people in violent places,” says Margie Orford about her Clare Hart series in an interview with Andrea Nagel from Times LIVE. Orford has just ...
