Authors & Events
Launch of What Hidden Lies at The Book Lounge
10 June 2013
Penguin Books and The Book Lounge take great pleasure in inviting you to the launch of What Hidden Lies by Michéle Rowe. Michéle will be in conversation with Mike Nicol.
Date: Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Time: 5.30pm for 6.00pm
Venue: The Book Lounge, 71 Roeland Street, Cape Town
RSVP: booklounge@gmail....
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...
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