Authors & Events
2021 Booker Prize Winner Damon Galgut's Non-advice to Aspiring Writers
04 November 2021
‘Let me start my advice to aspiring writers by saying that my advice won’t help you’. Well, at least novelist Damon Galgut is honest. Galgut is the author of nine novels, including the Booker Prize shortlisted, The Good Doctor and In a Strange Room, and 2021 Booker Prize winner, The Promise.
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Beachcombing offers so much more than just seashells and driftwood
30 September 2021
Beachcombing is more than a healthy exercise, writes Rudy van der Elst, author of Beachcombing in South Africa. It stimulates curiosity, improves scientific understanding and often presents the beginning of an exciting adventure or investigation.
“AS A MARINE BIOLOGIST I have been fortunate to have had access to some...
Q&A with Rationality Author Steven Pinker
30 September 2021
Steven Pinker, the great defender of human progress, having documented how the world is not falling apart, now shows how we can enhance rationality in our lives and in the public sphere. Rationality is the perfect toolkit to seize our own fates. In this Q&A with Pinker, he goes into more detail about the book, and rationality itself....
Jamie Oliver Talks About His Brand New Cookbook, Together
25 August 2021
Together takes the stress out of cooking by teaching you hacks to get organised and get ahead. Inspirational but practical, Together is about comfort, celebration, creating new memories and, above all, the sharing of mouth-watering food. In this interview with Jamie, he speaks about family, off the cuff hosting and his favourite...
Q&A with A Slow Fire Burning Author, Paula Hawkins
25 August 2021
Paula Hawkins is author of the runaway bestseller, The Girl on the Train, and her new thriller, A Slow Fire Burning, is equally as gripping. She chatted to The Penguin Post about bad crime writing finding inspiration and being an author during a pandemic.
PP. You’ve said that Miriam’s story is a twist on something you read in...
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