"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
~ Douglas Adams
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
~ Anton Chekhov
"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
~ Dr. Suess
A little over a month ago I interviewed Exclusive Books’ CEO Benjamin Trisk. He’s an amusing lunch and dinner partner and sniffs out good wines like a hungry terrier. But it wasn’t the wines or the food that interested me on this occasion. It was literature. Specifically, it was a conversation I’ve been waiting to […]
Star Rating: ★★★★☆ 4/5 We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo Vintage Publishing, February 2014 Online Price: R165 Leaving your country is like dying, and when you come back you are like a ghost returning to earth, roaming around with a missing gaze in your eyes In We Need New Names we meet ten year old […]
Africa Day is the annual commemoration of the 1963 founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), which was reconstituted as the Africa Union (AU) and re-launched in Durban on 9 July 2002. The Union, comprising 53 member states, enables its members to collectively address the challenges the continent faces, from armed conflict to climate […]
We are very proud to announce that we will be enjoying a stunning breakfast with esteemed author NoViolet Bulawayo in September. Bulawayo has been nominated for the Man Booker prize, and has previously won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Fiction. She has been nominated for the JM Coetzee prize as well. Win breakfast with […]
