Joanne Garland is another Writers Write graduate to win a fiction writing competition. Joanne won The Citizen Book Prize.
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by Paula Leyden (Walker) R95, 00 ISBN 978-1-4063-2792-2 The Butterfly Heart is a wonderful story based in Africa.This is the story of a girl called Winifred whose father dies. Her uncle becomes her new father and she is forced to marry her uncle’s friend. Her two friends, Madillo and Bul-Boo and the Snake Man Ifwafwa,
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The Life and Times of a Forensic Scientist by David Klatzow (Zebra Press) ISBN 9781868729227 “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King Jr.David Klatzow is South Africa’s foremost expert in forensic
What are the 5 senses? We talk about the power of the 5 senses in stories and why they are important in the books you write.
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by Melissa Hill (Hodder & Stoughton) ISBN 978 0 340 99335 4 The first third of this book had my eyes rolling back in my head – such sugary sweet characters, with predictable traits and such corny thoughts and conversation! I declared it a whole lot of fluff and did not want to read any
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by Peter Ginn and Geoff McIlleron (Struik) R75.00 ISBN 978-1-77007-862-8 This little book on identifying birds is a beginner’s gem. Clearly photographed and labelled, it means you too can join in the fray when everyone is shouting, “I think it’s a shrike”. They turn the pages of their heavy books to identify the said bird. I
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by Liezl Thom and Laurie Pieters (TCB Publishing) ISBN 978-0-620-51152-0 After witnessing the media frenzy surrounding Cezanne Visser (or the more famously nicknamed, Advocate Barbie) for the last 9 years or so, I was curious to find out more about the events that led up to her eventual fall from grace. The first time we
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The Burning Wire by Jeffery Deaver (Simon & Schuster) ISBN: 9781439156339 After writing more than twenty novels, Deaver is better than ever. The Burning Wire is the ninth in the Lincoln Rhyme series. Rhyme, a quadriplegic criminologist, and Detective Amelia Sachs, were immortalised on screen by Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie in The Bone Collector. (Terrible casting,
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The Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane (Little Brown) ISBN: 9781847444752 Private Eye, Patrick kenzie, found Amanda McCready when she was reported missing as a four year old. The case almost ruined Patrick. He took the child from loving caregivers who had tried to rescue Amanda from her nightmare of a mother, Helene, and returned her to
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The Hummingbird and the Bear by Nicholas Hogg (Corsair) ISBN 9781849016476 ‘I never understood why men went to war, why men would die in the corner of a muddy field…until I saw her at the wedding.’ Sam Taylor has escaped a childhood hell by the grace of his intelligence, his sporting ability and his capacity to
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