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An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States
04 March 2021
Michelle Obama’s Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations – and whose story inspires us to do the same. In the interview below, she talks about finding true passion, dealing with self-doubt and learning to let life lead.
What was unexpected about...
Inside the mind of a thriller writer
26 February 2021
How do you write a compelling thriller, that gets hearts racing? Bestselling author of The Burning Girls, CJ Tudor, weighs in with her advice, and shares with us her most creepy real-life story.
The trickiest part of writing a novel comes about 200 pages in.
I have no problem starting a book – that’s the best part....
Ways to remember...
19 February 2021
For most of his adult life he has known that Namibia had once been a German colony, writes author Basil Lawrence. Yet only when he began researching his book At the Edge of the Desert did he begin to grasp what this meant for Namibia’s colonised people.
My most startling discovery was that in 1904 the German army suffered what...
Getting to know Julietta Henderson
18 February 2021
Julietta Henderson was brought up in a book-loving family in the rainforests of North Queensland and has been writing professionally for more than 25 years. Having worked her way through jobs as diverse as a bicycle tour guide in Tuscany to an editor for a digital marketing agency, Julietta got serious about fiction writing when she completed a...
Ons gesels met die skrywer van Adder en Brandmerk
18 February 2021
Christelle van Rooyen-Wessels, skrywer van die gewilde Adder, is terug met ’n tweede boek, Brandmerk. Penguin Post het vir haar ’n paar vrae gevra.
PENGUIN POST: Hierdie is jou tweede boek. Hoe het jy die skryfproses hierdie slag ervaar? Het dit baie van die eerste ronde verskil?
Christelle van Rooyen-...
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