Authors & Events
10 Myths about Authors as Explored by ... an Author
06 June 2013
1. Being an author is glamorous.
Before I had managed to write a book, I had an image of what an author should be in my mind that was something akin to Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge; sitting down melancholically in the middle of the night at his type writer with the Eiffel Tower outside his window and, after a sip...
Talk by Chris Bradford, author of the Young Samurai series
03 June 2013
Date: Monday, 3 June 2013
Time: 5.00pm for 5.30pm
Venue: Novel Books, Hobart Grove Shopping Centre, Bryanston
RSVP: novelbooks@vodamail.co.za or 0114639320
Author photo by Rune Hallestad.
Talk by Chris Bradford, author of the Young Samurai series and Bodyguard: Hostage
03 June 2013
Date: Friday, 7 June 2013
Time: 2.00pm until 3.00pm
Venue: Central Library, Old Drill Hall, Cnr Parade and Darling streets, Cape Town
RSVP: booklounge@gmail.com or 0214622425
Q&A with Elif Shafak, Author of Honour
30 May 2013
What is your new book about?
Honour is about a family, mother-son relationship and how we, knowingly or unknowingly, hurt the people we love most. This is the story of a half-Turkish, half-Kurdish family in London in the late 1970s.
What or who inspired it?
Life.
What was the biggest challenge, writing it?
The central character, Iskender...
Morning Tea with Gareth Crocker
22 May 2013
Date: Friday, 31 May 2013
Time: 10.00am
Venue: The Crabtree & Evelyn Tea Room, Design Quarter, Fourways
Cost: R350 per person (includes a morning tea and a signed copy of Journey from Darkness)
Bookings are limited to the first 35 customers who confirm attendance with payment. Email info@crabtree-evelyn.co.za to receive bank details....