A Writer’s Room – Louis de Bernières ‘Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you’ve got is the dough.’ ~Louis de Bernières Source for Image ~~~ Writers Write offers the best writing courses in South Africa. Writers Write – Write to communicate.
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“On the love and pain of 2012 – 2025” by Roar Sheppard (Kima Global Publishers) ISBN 978-1-920533-05-2 Roar Sheppard takes a bold step in addressing the damage we humans have wrought on our planet. From a spiritual and theological perspective, Sheppard discusses the way forward from 2012 both physically and spiritually. The Earth is running out
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by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya (Random House) R215 ISBN 9781781090039 This cleverly crafted novel is set in Afghanistan, but based on the play Antigone by Sophocles. The theme is about the conscience of the individual versus the conscience of the state. A legless woman arrives at an American military outpost to fetch the body of her deceased brother to
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by Michael Connelly (Orion Books) ISBN 9781409139485 Harry Bosch, LAPD Homicide Detective, is called out to investigate the body found in a drainage tunnel. On seeing the man’s face, he remembers Billy Meadows from long ago in another tunnel. He is led to believe the cause of death is a drug overdose but he has his
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by Dorothy Koomson (Quercus) ISBN 798-1-78087-497-5 The policeman at the door told her they were taking her husband away. Tamia Challey’s husband, Scott, is accused of something terrible. Mirabelle, his secretary, and Tamia’s best friend, accuses him of rape. Unsure what to think, Tamia is forced to choose who she instinctively believes. Should it be
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Robinson Jeffers was born 10 January 1887, and died 20 January 1962.
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Simone de Beauvoir was born 9 January 1908, and died 14 April 1986.
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