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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-...
Two competing visions of wealth... one will keep you poor
15 February 2021
In the cult-movie The Matrix, Neo is offered two pills. Take the blue pill, he is told, and life goes back to the status quo: predictable, familiar…and a lie.
Should he take the red pill, his eyes will be opened. In a rush of revelation, he will be exposed to a whole new set of answers, then forced to confront the...
Q&A with Barack Obama
15 February 2021
In his own words, Barack Obama tells in A Promised Land the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency – a time of dramatic...
The lost art of letter writing
17 November 2020
In Nine Letters, cynical lawyer Teddy Dickerson is awaiting a slow decline and a place at an old-age home. But life sometimes brings surprises. When his prickly Aunt Val dies, she leaves an unusual bequest: her task for Teddy is to post letters to eight of her friends around the world, a job that will take him on a journey into new and...
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