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Author Profile: Edyth Bulbring

History . Edyth Bulbring is a seasoned journalist, former political correspondent and news editor for the Sunday Times.[1] Bulbring is the author of two children’s novels: The Summer of Toffie and Grummer and Cornelia Button and the Globe of Gamagion published in 2008. She also published a young adult novel titled The Club in 2008. […]

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Paula McLain on Fact vs Fiction in The Paris Wife

Paris Wife

Penguin Books South Africa and Little Brown in the UK graciously allowed us to publish the following article written by Paula McLain about fact vs fiction in her book, The Paris Wife, which explores the relationship between Ernest Hemmingway and Hadley Richardson. In Ernest Hemingway’s introduction to his memoir, ‘A Moveable Feast’, he writes, “If […]

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